Should I use my personal phone number for a new business?
Mixing personal and business phone numbers makes it impossible to separate professional calls from private life. Setting up a dedicated business line, such as a Google Voice number, keeps your personal contact information private while organizing customer communications.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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- 1getting another line with your carrier using eSIMDid this help you?
- 2using Google VoiceDid this help you?
- 3creating QR codes in Canva or another free platformDid this help you?
- 4getting a secondary phone number via Google VoiceDid this help you?
- 5telling clients that the phone number changedDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I would rather them call the Google Voice number too, so I can separate work from my personal number.”source ↗
“I’m in the process of getting things set up for my business and one thing that always stood out to me is business cards with QR codes, so it’s a quick easy snap of a phones camera and bam- website, social media, etc info right at your fingertips.”source ↗
Where this came up
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