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 […]
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 […]
Debt collection calls are surging across America. As financial pressures continue to weigh on many Americans, some states and cities are seeing triple-digit increases in debt collection complaints compared to the year before. To better understand where consumers are facing the most debt collection calls, NumberBarn, a phone number management company and marketplace, analyzed the […]
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.
Despite feeling constantly connected, Americans are routinely letting calls go to voicemail, leaving text messages on read, or ignoring incoming calls altogether. Meanwhile, spam calls, robocalls, and promotional texts have made people more selective about who they answer and when they respond. In order to understand how phone avoidant people truly are, NumberBarn surveyed Americans […]
The Reuters Customer Service and Experience West conference made a return trip to San Diego, California on April 21 and 22 and I was privileged to attend with a couple of my NumberBarn colleagues. As far as conferences go, it was a fairly intimate gathering with a few hundred contact center and customer experience (CX) […]
Seattle didn’t end up with multiple area codes overnight. It just… kept growing. Tech companies moved in. Startups followed. People showed up from everywhere. And eventually, so did more phones than one area code could handle. (Yes, this is a story about phone numbers. Stay with me.) Today, Seattle uses three main area codes: 206, […]
After years of declining prices, mobile phone costs in Canada are starting to rise again. A new nationwide survey of Canadians from NumberBarn finds that costs are increasing for many households, while confusion around pricing remains widespread. While Statistics Canada’s Cellular Services Price Index has shown reported mobile prices falling for years, six in 10 […]
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Melana Preston
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.
Jeremy Watkin is Director of Customer Support and Experience at NumberBarn. Not only does he love serving customers, but he's a prolific writer and speaker on the topic and has been recognized numerous times for his thought leadership. Be sure to connect with him on Twitter. His handle is @jtwatkin.
Jenny Dempsey was Social Media & Customer Experience Manager from 2017-2020, bringing her extensive telecom industry knowledge to help build NumberBarn’s content-base while cultivating a positive & happy customer experience.
Joel Arnold is a Digital Marketer with diverse experience and industry expertise in telecommunications, real estate, travel, health & wellness, and content creation. When he’s not at home watching Survivor, you can catch him and his wife reading at a coffee shop or taking their family to the park.
Alan is a lifestyle blogger, marketing manager, and art director who has been covering electronics and media culture for so long, he remembers being disconnected from the internet whenever somebody would pick up the phone.
Will Fulton is a writer and editor who's covered technology, games, and theater for publications like Popular Science, Uber, Polygon, Lifewire, Digital Trends, and more. He's now mostly focused on helping his houseplants thrive and raising his chihuahua mix Charlie to be an upstanding citizen.
Mariana Camacho is a content strategist and communications specialist focused on brand storytelling, marketing, and creative writing. She works with international brands and founders across lifestyle, hospitality, technology, and social impact, helping them shape narratives that connect and genuinely impact the people they’re meant to serve.
Ella Delancey Jones is an award-nominated journalist and copywriter who began her career in tech and consumer PR in London before launching her own content business in 2018. Her writing has appeared in publications including Cosmopolitan, POPSUGAR, Insider, The Independent, and Grazia, and she has been featured on Sky News and BBC. Ella is known for producing clear, thoughtful, and reliable content across journalism and brand storytelling.
Collin Czarnecki is a researcher specializing in consumer behavior, public records analysis, and survey-based studies. He spent nearly a decade as a journalist and editor, publishing more than 2,500 articles for newspapers and digital news outlets across the Gannett network and Patch.com.
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