It doesn't seem too bad for small home based businesses that don't want to use their home address as their physical address. Also, it beats paying for a full time office. Any of you using this? Any recommendation on good virtual office providers?
a quick google search found these: http://www.londonpresence.com/ http://www.swindonvirtualoffice.co.uk/ http://www.yourcityoffice.com/ I suppose it depends on your business, personally not something i would pay for but i suppose the receptionist alone would cost more than wht some of those charge
when some one finds more information on this inform here I would like to second this thread, what the heck is a virtual office ..
Virtual Office: The company has a physical location, but employees have no assigned offices. Employees may have lockers and "check out" a desk for the day, they may set up an "office" in their hotel, etc. This term is distinct from "Virtual Company" which refers to companies that have no one physical location at all, no collection of inventory that's held by the company, etc. (Concept) A Virtual Office is a location which allows many people doing business to share an office address and business machines. The facility often includes mail support, telephone banks, fax machines, copiers, computers, and sometimes even answering services.
I use a couple for my smaller businesses some companies are great, some not so great... just do some research and read reviews... but all in all yeah they are worth it especially when you are just starting out
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From what I can tell it is essentially a receptionist that is available to take calls for your company. They are not necessarily tied to your company alone and may support numerous companies therefore lowering the expense to you but still giving you the service you need. Sounds pretty nice for smaller businesses that don't have the money to hire someone to do the work, but yet busy enough to justify having a receptionist.
Hi I'm not strictly using a virtual office if you call a friends place an office but I am using one of these VOIP DID features. I believe Yahoo has them now as well where I can have my office mobile if you will, and have my calls from London redirected to me, I have to admit the service is good. Call rates are good and the quality is great.
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