Nov 17, 2011
Home-Based Business Survey Signals Virtual Office Advantage
Home-based businesses are the breeding ground of many ambitious, bootstrapping entrepreneurs. You can slash your startup budget with virtual office, especially when compared to renting traditional office space.
Beyond the dollars and cents, a home-based business also gives you the freedom to work when you choose and spend time with your family as you see fit. It’s the ultimate freedom, which is what draws many to choose a home-based business as opposed to a corporate career.
But just because you run your fledging operations from the home front with minimal expenses doesn’t guarantee success. Indeed, there are unique challenges that go along with home-based business ventures. For example, answering your own phone can be distracting, and even unprofessional if you have family around.
What’s more, managing high call volumes can cause you to fumble deadlines. Handing out your home address and phone number can cause privacy issues. And giving a P.O. Box address doesn’t display a professional image.
The good news is you can overcome many of those challenges with virtual office technologies. An Opus Virtual Offices survey of 20 successful home-based entrepreneurs offers a unanimous verdict: advanced technologies associated with virtual offices hold the key to overcoming obstacles, increasing productivity and boosting sales.
Virtual offices are an elegant solution to the downsides of working from home. With cloud technologies, virtual office providers are offering complete and robust virtual office solutions that address many of the practical and technology needs of home-based businesses.
Virtual office packages, for example, can include an impressive corporate mailing address, corporate phone and fax numbers, live professional receptionists answering calls and taking messages, premium call transferring, and voicemail and fax to email conversion. Some virtual office providers offer all of this for as little as $99 a month.
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