September 24th, 2008 by Stacey Barrus
You’ve been cultivating a new client for months and they say to you, “sounds great, but let’s get together face-to-face and finalize this deal.” The only thing is, you run your small business on a laptop at a local coffee shop and clearly you’d rather meet your new client in a more professional environment.
This is […]
September 24th, 2008 by Stacey Barrus
An estimated 30 million (and growing) Americans are employees who spend significant hours each month working outside of a traditional office, and instead work via virtual office space.
What is the reason for these untraditional office workers who utilize virtual office space? Corporations are increasingly supportive of teleworking for reasons that range from saving notable money […]
September 24th, 2008 by Stacey Barrus
Although most of the time, people think “answering phones” when a receptionist job is mentioned, we’d like to point out that there’s actually more to the job than directing calls. When you think about it, virtual receptionists can have a huge and important impact on the marketing of an organization.
Maybe you’re shaking your head “no,” […]
September 23rd, 2008 by Stacey Barrus
If you are a one-person or one-office operation, how can you manage 24-hour telephone service, create and maintain a professional web presence, manage your e-mail, back-up your files consistently and safely, send and receive faxes—that is, operate as if you were a large firm with your own servers, intranet, and switchboard? The answer is simple: […]
September 23rd, 2008 by Stacey Barrus
Your business is doing very well in the big city. Your firm is busy, lucrative, and has a lot of potential growth. It’s all good news, right? Good, except for how life in the big city is costly and draining for you and your employees (and your families). You’ve talked about moving out to the […]
September 23rd, 2008 by Stacey Barrus
It’s an increasing trend in the service industry today that when customers call a doctor’s office, accountant, or other professional office, they are greeted by a virtual receptionist. The caller has no idea that this receptionist is not sitting at a desk in the front room of the doctor’s office, only knows that the office […]
September 23rd, 2008 by Stacey Barrus
Small businesses are finding that the professionalism, high efficiency, and significant convenience of virtual assistants is just too good of a deal to pass up. We know, you’re wondering what exactly can these virtual assistants do for you? After all, your daily workload is so diverse in its business tasks that it’s potentially dizzying just […]
September 23rd, 2008 by Stacey Barrus
Imagine if the typical man of the house from 1950s television didn’t have to leave his pleasant home each day to drive to an office and put in eight hours’ worth of work. Imagine that, instead, this TV dad could work out of his home office. He would have been there when the kids got […]
September 22nd, 2008 by Stacey Barrus
What many companies and employees alike are discovering about virtual offices is that it fits well with the careers of the twenty-first century. Companies of all sizes are discovering that the virtual office setup can be an ideal solution for them, offering cost-savings measures at the same time as opportunities to increase employee motivation and […]
September 22nd, 2008 by Stacey Barrus
In a virtual office setting, companies of today find that so much can be done quicker and easier than ever before. New employee recruiting can be done online, office supply ordering is done online, many companies utilize online bill paying capabilities, and of course email is a vital form of business communication in the […]