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What are the advantages of having a virtual office?

Posted by Oliver Corrigan on Aug 10, 2015 9:20:22 AM
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Each business has its own working style. Luckily, there are many flexible and adaptable office solutions to choose from – whether it’s signing up for a long-term lease, sharing a co-working space or working remotely from a home office.

If you have chosen the latter, you might also want to look into supplementing your working situation by signing up for a virtual office. Here are just four advantages of a virtual office…


Advantage #1 – A prestigious business address

You may not be able to afford to lease prime real estate near to a thriving business hub like London, Leeds or Manchester, but you can afford to get a professional sounding postal address. As we mentioned in an earlier blog, this is possible by choosing a virtual office in a good location (i.e. based near a big city or a respected area for business). Having a company address in or close to a major city is likely to impress clients and do your credibility and professional image no end of good.



Advantage #2 – Improved SEO

At first glance, it might not seem likely that a virtual office can do anything to improve your search engine optimisation (SEO) or your position in Google’s search rankings. However, as our blog about virtual offices and SEO noted, you mustn’t forget about services such as Google Local – which you simply can’t access without a physical address. Google Local uses Maps to place your business and to help users search for businesses and services within their local area. Without a physical address, and one that is easily read by the search engine’s web crawlers, you could be missing out on a good chunk of local customers. With a virtual office, you can not only access this service and others like it, but you can also show off your new prestigious address to the world (rather than the home office in your basement on a residential street)



Advantage #3 – Being contactable, without being distracted

If you don’t have an office with a manned reception, you could end up spending most of your working day answering the phone. Needless to say, these constant interruptions can be hugely distracting and can massively affect your productivity. When it comes to receiving mail, correspondents will have to use your normal (home) address, which doesn’t look very professional – plus you’ll have to spend some of your valuable time sorting through the post. Solve all of these problems in one fell swoop by signing up for a virtual office, where you’ll not only get a professional address for correspondents to write to but also a professionally manned reception team to filter and answer your calls and receive packages on your behalf.

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Advantage #4 – Access to meeting, conference and other professional services

Working from home may suit the needs of your business quite well for most of the time, but there is likely to be occasions when you need to hold a professional meeting to win a lucrative new client or host a teleconference with business associates in different parts of the world. If you are signed up to a virtual office, you have the flexibility to access these very useful facilities. What’s more, instead of paying for these facilities all the time, you will only pay for them when you need them, enabling you to meet clients in professional surroundings and generally run your business in the most professional way.



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If you’re ready to get going with an impressive new postcode and a heap of other services and benefits, take a look at the range of virtual office packages available at Carrwood Park.  

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