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Are Bad Reviews Really Bad? Practical Advice on Managing and Responding to Customer Reviews

When you make an online purchase or look for a a vendor, product or service, you likely first go somewhere to read online reviews. Any time I’m shopping on Amazon for a new product I often sample both the 5-star and 1-star reviews. I guess I’m a sucker for the extremely positive and extremely negative, […]

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Jeremy Watkin
Jeremy Watkin  ·  August 19, 2026  ·  10 min read
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How To Port Your Skype Number: A Step-By-Step Guide

Microsoft announced that they were ending the famous Skype calling service on X. (Or at least, free and paid Skype accounts — “Skype for Business” will remain alive, more on that later.) Given the sudden shuttering of the virtual phone number service, you might be scrambling to know what to do with your Skype phone […]

Alan Lopez
Alan Lopez
Apr 30, 2025
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Where Are the Best Baseball Players of All-Time From? The Top MLB Players Ranked by Area Code

“Take me out to the ballgame.” It’s an American classic as iconic as the game itself. Baseball. An American pastime. But what’s the story behind “American baseball?” Baseball is a sport that (roughly) dates back to 1871 (according to Baseball-Reference, our primary baseball stats source for this piece), and coincides with the nation’s development. As […]

Alan Lopez
Alan Lopez
Apr 21, 2025
⏱ 11 min read
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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 […]

Melana Preston
Melana Preston
Apr 18, 2025
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Phone Number Parking 101 (What Is it, and How Does it Work?)

Raise your hand if you have an irrational fear of parallel parking. Now, whether or not you know that “number parking” even exists, good news: it’s about a million times easier than parallel parking! What is ‘number parking’? “Number parking” is a service where you get to keep a specific telephone number you already have, […]

Alan Lopez
Alan Lopez
Apr 16, 2025
⏱ 7 min read
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Why Do Calls Get Dropped? And How Do I Fix It?

Is your carrier or VoIP number dropping calls? Take it from someone who’s both used old phones and also lived out in the country — there’s nothing more annoying than your phone calls not working! But what can you do when you get a dropped call?  Well, like most things, persistent dropped calls mean it’s […]

Alan Lopez
Alan Lopez
Apr 14, 2025
⏱ 9 min read
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How Do I Get a Phone Number?

There are lots of reasons to get a second phone number. Maybe you want to forward a publicized number to your private number. Maybe it’s for your solo business. Or maybe you’re getting a lot of spam calls and need a change, but don’t want to have to ditch your classic digits. Whatever the reason, […]

Alan Lopez
Alan Lopez
Mar 31, 2025
⏱ 10 min read
By The Numbers

Top NBA Players By Area Code

Truth be told, hardly any force in the world is as powerful as basketball homecourt pride.  Whether it’s the shaking rafters at Allen Fieldhouse during a Kansas’ playoff run, pick up games at Venice Beach, or a young Michael Jordan practicing free throws in his driveway, protecting your home turf is everything. Which begs the […]

Alan Lopez
Alan Lopez
Mar 28, 2025
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Melana Preston

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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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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.

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Alan Lopez

Alan Lopez

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.

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Will Fulton

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.

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Mariana Camacho

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.

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Ella Delancey Jones

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.

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Collin Czarnecki

Collin Czarnecki

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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