A virtual office is just that: virtual. It is a permanent business address in a commercial office building that serves as a home base for your business. It s legal point of contact for your business. Customers and vendors do not need to know that you are not physically at that location. You can be in the next town or across the world and the office doesn’t move.
Working at home? Get a Virtual Office
The rise of internet-only businesses over the past several decades and the surge of working at home in 2020 has led many businesses to only work at home and not maintain a store or office. Sales are shipped, meetings are online, and the need for a place to ‘go to work’ has dwindled. Many small and micro startups are working out of their homes.
Keep Your Private Life Private
One of the main problems of having a home-based business is that your home address is on everything and becomes public information. Your customers and vendors can see that you are a home-based business and not a ‘real’ business with a ‘real’ office address.
A virtual office allows you to keep your personal life personal. You can use your virtual office for all business purposes and keep your home address safe, private, and not on public display. Do you really want upset customers banging on your door demanding a refund? Or people dropping by trying to sell you something?
Commercial Address
Another issue is that your home is a residential address and cannot receive commercial delivery from some carriers. Shipping prices are often higher to residential addresses.
Some small business owners try to solve this with a Post Office box or a local Mailbox Store. A PO Box cannot always be used as a legal address in the US. You cannot use a PO Box to open a bank account, register your business, or set up any tax accounts. You can use a mailbox store for this, but anyone who googles your address can see that you are working out of a mailbox store. That does not give you the image of permanence or credibility.
A virtual office gives you a suite number in a commercial office building. East Square Creative Offices is on the Historic Downtown Square in Fayetteville Arkansas, less than 30 miles from the headquarters of corporate giants Wal-Mart and Tyson Foods and on the campus of the University of Arkansas. We can receive all types of deliveries and legal service documents at a prestigious commercial address.
Never Pick Up the Mail Again
Another problem with PO Boxes and Mailbox Stores, you need to be there to pick up the mail. It takes time out of your day, day after day, week after week, to just drive there, park, and look in an empty box. If you go on vacation, you do not get your mail. If you want to go work from the beach for a week, you do not get your mail. If you want to move to another state, your business needs to move, too. With a virtual office, you never have to drive there or park. You never have to show up during office hours.
A virtual office offers you complete freedom. You never have to pick up the mail. Mail and deliveries that are received are scanned into the app for you to view. You decide whether to have them opened and scanned, recycled, shredded, or forwarded anywhere in the world. We can also assist in depositing customer checks and other basic office tasks like faxing or making copies You never have to ‘go get the mail’ ever again.
An Office for less than $10 / month?
Finally, a virtual office saves you money. Renting an office or storefront is expensive and risky. Then there are employees, insurance, and utilities. The costs grow and grow. A virtual office costs only a small fraction of a brick-and-mortar business yet it comes with a commercial address in a strategic location.
Save time. Save money. Maintain your personal privacy. Be free to work anywhere. Move your business to East Square Creative Offices today.
