Your quotes, your invoices and your professional profiles don’t need to carry your personal number.
Get my work number
Quotes, profiles, clients: one number carries your work, and it isn’t the one your family calls.
When you work for yourself, your personal number becomes your business number by default. It goes out on a quote, it stays on an invoice, it ends up on a professional profile, and then in the contact list of a client who keeps it for three years.
Nobody really decides that this should happen. It is what comes of giving out the only number you had, once, because you had to answer quickly.
A separate number puts the line back. Your clients reach your work. The people close to you reach your life. And you decide which of the two rings on a Saturday night.
A business document travels much further than the person you sent it to. It gets forwarded, printed, filed, sometimes published in a call for tenders. The number it carries will follow you long after the contract ends.
Directories, freelance platforms, professional networks, a business listing: these pages exist to be found. A number posted there is public, indexed, and sometimes scraped into telemarketing lists.
A client calling at 9 p.m. isn’t being rude: they are dialling the only number they have. With a separate line, you choose what rings and when, without having to explain that your day is over.
A contract ends, and so does the relationship. The number stays. With a work line, the page turns cleanly: you keep in touch with the ones who matter, without dragging along everyone else.
You get a six-digit code and you type it in. No password to invent, no password to forget.
416 and 647 for Toronto, 604 for Vancouver, 514 for Montreal, 418 for Quebec City: take the one for the region your clients are in. Your number goes live.
Quotes, email signature, profiles, business listing. From then on, your personal number stops circulating.
