Top 4 Virtual Solutions

1. Virtual Office

Most people assume that virtual office is just an address where your office is registered. However, virtual office can be much more than that. A virtual office can also be a real office but with out all of the associated costs. For example if you wish to meet a client then you can usually book a meeting room and a day office. The meeting room gives you the professional look you need when meeting your client and a day office simply makes it look like it’s your office. All of these services are paid for as you use them rather than lengthy contracts. Depending on which service you use, you can even use conference facilities if you’re looking to meet more than one client.

2. Virtual Assistant

This is a new innovation in the Virtual office world. There are many PA’s, secretaries and assistants sitting at home and looking for work that suits their time scales. As long as you’re not after someone sitting in an office then a virtual assistant can do all the normal secretarial work you need. The only difference is that they work remotely, do it within your time scales, but only charge you for the time it took them. This is a great money saving option if you need letters dictating, report typing up, travel arrangements organising, meetings scheduled etc, allowing you more time to concentrate on the operation of your business.

3. Virtual Reception

A virtual reception is a great compliment to a virtual office. A Virtual Reception is when a client is looking to get hold of you, they dial your number and would be greeted by a receptionist, who would then attempt to transfer your call or take a message. They would answer the phone in your business name and would give the impression that the caller has come through to the company receptionist. Again you would pay a nominal monthly fee and then a small amount for each call transferred there after. This is a great feature if you have 2 or 3 employees within the business and your all working either from home or on the road. The business appears to be a lot bigger to the outside world and no one knows where you are. This service is usually very flexible and there’s a varied range of services from just answering the phone to full outbound telemarketing.

4. Virtual PBX

Virtual PBX works in many different ways. For example if you have 20 people working globally for you, but you want to advertise 1 number, the pbx system will divert all calls as required and in some cases VOIP is used which keeps the cost to a minimum. Again no one ever knows where the team is based and gives your company the unified look. A lot of businesses use this facility not only because of the unification but the cost savings on a VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) system. This system work in the same way as skype Voice where you can call people over the internet either on their internet system, Mobile phone or Landline.

Written By Richard Smith