Many people don’t realise that besides offering serviced office space here in Liverpool, we also offer virtual offices. We can already hear you thinking ‘why would anybody need a virtual office? Surely this defeats the object by not actually having anywhere to work from?’
But bear with us…
Many people use our serviced offices as it saves them having to commit to the burden of renting offices on a long-term basis. If you are a startup or a fledgling business, once you get to the point where you may need to expand your team, it can be very daunting working the logistics and finances of this out.
If you are not in the place where you need that extra space though, there are still benefits to renting a virtual office with us which you may not have considered.
Here are 5 benefits of renting a Virtual Office…
- It Allows You To Keep Your Address Private
If you are a registered company, it is a legal obligation to have a registered address on your company listing, which you can read more about here. Not everybody wants this to be a public address though – especially if your ‘office’ is also your family home. Using a virtual address will keep your personal space completely separate to your business address, which will appear on any of your literature or public websites.
Your mail can come to your virtual office, and even be opened, scanned and forwarded for you but you’ll not have the worry of your customers being able to turn up whenever they please!
- Location, Location, Location
With the huge growth of Google Maps, it is now very easy for your prospective customers when doing their due diligence, to check out the quality of your offices as this alone makes quite a statement. Even if you are amazing at what you do, some of your prospects may be put off by pictures of your supposedly professional office which turns out to be in the middle of a residential estate.
Being able to provide photographs of a very professional complex of serviced offices will add that extra bit of kudos to your business profile and back up your ‘pitch’ of being a professional affair.
- Manned Offices
When you are a new business it’s impossible to be everywhere at once. If you are waiting on a delivery, or documents which would need to be signed for or you don’t want to go amiss, having manned offices will facilitate this regardless of whether you are present or not.
This gives you some peace of mind that your deliveries aren’t going to go walkabouts when you have.
- A Long Term Fixed Address
If you happen to have naturally nomadic ways and move house fairly often, the last thing you want to be doing is trying to keep up with the change of address notifications which your customers would need. Having one fixed address which you can class as your head office, means that you have the flexibility to actually work from wherever you please and change that as often as you wish without the headache of changing your literature to keep up.
- Customer Loyalty
As crazy as it may seem, having a real address invokes faith from your customers as they like to see a physical address on your website. It gives them a sense of longevity which could sometimes be the difference between them choosing you or your competitor.
It’s a little bit like that old debate of whether to have a landline or just a mobile phone number on your website. There are many people who will seek much comfort in having a landline option to a business they are dealing with as opposed to only having a mobile option which could simply be terminated at any point.
So as you can see, having a virtual office could be more beneficial than you had possibly realised. Offering the stability of a mail forwarding service, the longevity of a fixed address, a professional appearance of well maintained serviced offices and the privacy of an address which isn’t your family home, all come together to offer you an attractive proposition which surprisingly only starts at £20 per month.
If you’d like to discuss how our virtual offices could benefit you and your business too, simply get in touch and any of our team (in our manned office – hint hint) will happily go through the options with you to work out the best solution for you.