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Melana Preston is a Sr. Copywriter for NumberBarn and ClearHello. With her extensive background in marketing and humanitarian work, she loves working for “a company that truly values people and meaningful connections.” When she’s not pun-tificating clever copy or dad jokes, you can find her lost behind her camera lens capturing a mountain or sunset.

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2026 Study: Who’s Who of America’s Top 20 Area Codes of 2025-26

Who’s who for America’s hottest area codes? It’s time for the big reveal! We almost retired our study this year, but by special request, we bring you the nation’s Top 20 Area Codes of 2025. At NumberBarn, we sell tens of thousands of custom phone numbers a year. Since 2021, we’ve examined our own purchase […]

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Transfer a Number: How the Port Away Plan Works

Just passing through? We’ll help you make sure you’re on the right track with NumberBarn’s port away plan. Perhaps you’ve just found the perfect, catchy new vanity number for your brand or business, or you’re exploring how to get a second number or alternate number. Maybe you’ve stored your number with the Barn for a […]

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20 Ways to Build Your Small Business Communications

As a new small business, setting up your communications can feel daunting. From getting a business number to launching your website, you can get the basics of your business communications running perhaps quicker than you think.

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Area Codes That Spell Things (and Stuff): An A-Z Guide

Did you know that you can actually spell full words, like “F-U-N” with some area codes? Besides creating endless words and phrases with the letter combinations on your phone keypad, area codes that “spell things” can open the door to limitless possibilities to personalize or customize a phone number.  With the exhaustion of original area […]

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Phone Number Security – How to Protect Your Phone Number

Fasten your seatbelts cause it’s a wild ride out there! With phone numbers tied to virtually all of our personal accounts, logins, authentications, etc., protecting your phone number is more crucial than ever. Spamming, spoofing, smishing, phishing – we’re running out of phrases for common types of security threats bombarding from every angle.  So, how […]

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Meet Our Real-Human Sales Superheroes Who Can Help You Buy Or Sell Phone Numbers!

Introducing a few of the fine faces hiding behind the Barn doors! Our legendary Solutions Squad Experts bring extraordinary experiences to those curious about NumberBarn. (They’re also known as the Sales Team, and not to be confused with our Customer Support team. Those folks offer different solutions.)   If you’re interested in a specific custom phone […]

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Route Calls to Your Entire Team from a Single Business Number

Never Miss a Client Call Your company gets an after-hours emergency call, but where is the best place to send it when your team is off-duty or away? There are some scenarios where forwarding to one, single phone number is not enough. Here is where Business Line’s “simultaneous ring” feature can save the day. With […]

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Scary Good Ideas For Your Next Seasonal Marketing Campaign

Need to create a seasonal marketing campaign, yesterday? With new marketing and retail “seasons” like BFCM (Black Friday Cyber Monday – it now has its own acronym), Prime Day and countless others, there’s truly a “holiday” campaign for everything. And those who revel in the holiday spirit, (or perhaps spirits,) aren’t holding back. (Including us. […]

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Introducing NumberBarn Business Line

Big news from the Barnyard! Introducing NumberBarn Business Line! Access even more phone number flexibility and an expanded feature set that’s perfect for businesses of all sizes. Dial in your company communications with a virtual reception business phone system that effortlessly scales with you and your growing team.  For Any Gig, Get the Pig From […]

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What Happened to Texting? The Truth About 10DLC and All the Latest

As a company that strives for straightforward prices, plans and features, and also values transparency with our customers, it’s time to talk about the elephant in the room. At the end of last year, we paused our long-time outbound texting feature.  What’s Going on with SMS and Why? Inquiring minds want to know. (And so […]

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No Arguments Against Attorney Claudia Reeves’ Winning Strategy

It all started with a TikTok and a one-in-a-million, ten-dollar, “ten-thousand-dollar phone number.” (Yes, you read that right!) When the youngest personal injury law firm owner in the State of Arizona shared her hack for finding a truly “winning” phone number in a post on TikTok, we had to hear more. A simple repost of […]

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How To Buy a UK Phone Number

Do you want a number from the UK, but you don’t actually live in the United Kingdom? Perhaps you have a UK-based business and want to stay accessible to your local UK community and customer-base, but you currently reside in the United States. Or perhaps your grandma or aunt wants to stay in touch with […]

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Keep Your Skype Number by Transferring it to NumberBarn

The word is out, Skype is migrating to Microsoft Teams May 5, 2025. If you’ve been holding onto that special Skype number for ages, and want to keep it without moving it over to Teams, you’re in the right place! In most cases, you CAN port (transfer) your Skype number over to NumberBarn! The best […]

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Give the Gift of Identity and Family With DNAngels This Holiday

“She was a needle in a haystack—an availing effort to know and find her. A selfless woman I would only know in my mind, or so I thought, all in thanks to the DNAngels,” shares a DNAngels client in her stirring story of navigating lifelong questions and her journey to finding her birth mother. It’s […]