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It all started with a snore. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz In the early 1990s, our founder and president, Andy Owens, was involved in developing and managing medical practices and diagnostic clinics in Dallas, Texas. One of these clinics was a sleep clinic, where people were tested for sleep problems, mostly snoring problems. Since the clinic was serving mostly the public, and advertising directly to the public, Andy wanted an easy way for people to remember their phone number, so he decided to try to use the tollfree vanity number 1-800-Snoring. After a lengthy process, the number was finally ringing to Sleep Center of Texas, and right off the bat, patients and other clinics alike were calling the number, without even the first ad dollar being spent! The problem was, lots of these people were in areas the clinic didnt serve, so Andy was in the quandary of deciding how to help these people, share the number and generate some income, all at the same time, hence the concept of shared use tollfree vanity numbers came about, at least in his mind. What Andy didnt know at the time was that he wasnt the first to think of this concept, the idea of businesses across the country sharing a great number, because they all concentrated on and served a local client base. No one would go to a sleep lab in Detroit if they lived in Dallas, right? Also, he noticed that whenever other local labs advertised their local, forgettable telephone numbers, the 1-800-Snoring line would ring off the hook, even if he had no ads running at all. Being the obsessive ADD, type A personality that he is, of course Andy became immediately obsessed with building his inventory of other great vanity numbers to share with other like minded businesses across the country. In the process of this obsession, he became very well versed and connected with many phone companies and other people who were working on the same concept, shared use vanity numbers. As more and more ad agencies, pharmaceutical companies and such became aware of his talents at finding and ...