Archive for April, 2008
Do You Need A Part Time Receptionist?
There’s more to your company’s virtual receptionist than meets the eye. She does far more than “just” answer your calls. When you think about it, she’s an incredibly important part of the success of your company.
Yes, answering company phone lines is a vital part of doing business, but when the calls aren’t coming in, the [...]
Virtual Assistants Can Help Lighten Your Workload
In many cases for a small business owner, there’s such a thing as being too busy. Too busy doing administrative tasks (inventory, ordering, invoicing, accounting) to focus on taking advantage of new business opportunities. That doesn’t mean the administrative tasks are any less important, or that they’re even unimportant in any way. But it does [...]
|Can a Virtual Office Space Work For You?
Perhaps you heard about the concept of virtual offices at a networking or business expo. Or maybe your best friend reports having great success running his start-up company out of virtual office space. Whatever the source, you’ve been curious about the virtual offices idea for a while, and have been wondering what it can it [...]
|Does Your Business Have a Dedicated Team of Professionals Backing It?
If you are the owner of a growing company just getting started, you might think it’ll be a while before you can afford to take advantage of new innovations in today’s business world, but you’d be wrong. A virtual office can provide a professional presence in a commercial environment at a very reasonable (and budget-friendly) [...]
|How Savvy Is Your Assistant?
If you’re a small business wanting to compete with larger businesses a virtual assistant may be an invaluable tool. Just about any small company can operate much like a larger company with the help of a virtual assistant.
If you’re answering your cell phone on the road while you’re running your business, you cannot give the [...]
Share Space & Equipment Costs via A Virtual Office
Turn on some old-school family sitcoms, and you’ll almost always see this family man heading off, hat on head and briefcase in hand, to his office. Yet picture this: the stereotypical man of the house from 1950s television not leaving his pleasant home each day to drive to an office and put in eight hours’ [...]
|Run Your Business From Anywhere by Utilizing Virtual Office Space
It’s a little startling when you take a good look at it. As many as 50 percent to 75 percent of the seats in today’s traditional offices are empty at any given time. Only 30 percent of planned meetings take place. Where do you suppose those companies have gone? We know: they’ve taken virtual office [...]
|Trade In Your Voicemail Auto Attendant for a Real Person
Did you realize that a single bad automated phone system with voice recognition software experience for your customer can do untold amounts of damage to your business relationship. It’s a commonly-known problem in the business world: many customers today dislike, no, hate automated phone systems. There are websites dedicated to sharing the secret code to [...]
|What Types of Business Can Best Utilize Virtual Offices?
While we believe that pretty much any business you could think of could benefit from working in a virtual offices setting, we should like to note that there are three clear-cut types of businesses that likely benefit the most when using virtual offices. Let’s discuss those businesses quickly.
Small Home-Based Businesses. Whether your home-based business is [...]
