When it comes to first starting out in business then investing in office space is one of the first and biggest hurdles to overcome. Many small businesses often just start out with one person, and at the start office space can seem an unnecessary and often unsustainable overhead for a small business. It can often not seem viable to take on a large office space that you may grow in to in a years time, but when you are starting out all you might need is one or two desks.
When you are starting out you may just need someone to take telephone calls when you are busy, and deal with day to day mail handling and basic admin. Yet justifying leasing office space for one person to do those tasks is still not viable, so what can you do?
Well you could look into using a virtual office company. A virtual office company offers all of the facilities of a normal leased office space without any of the overheads or hassle of hiring staff.
They offer a wide variety of office services from simply acting as your registered company address, and as your mailing address (which immediately makes your business look more credible than using a home address would do), through to answering your phone calls in the name of your business.
Yet the services they offer go far beyond this, as a good virtual office company will now also offer scalable office services that can help you manage your business as it grows up until the stage that you can afford your own office space and staff.
They can provide anything from typing services, to providing translation services, PA's to minute business meetings, and meeting rooms to hold such business meetings in (They rent them by the hour, half day or day, and can provide full drinks and catering services). They can also provide fax, photocopying and printing services.
Some also offer "Hot desking" services whereby you can rent short term desk space varying from an hour to a full day or more. Some virtual office companies also now offer larger areas of short term office space, which is ideal for when your business has grown to the size that you need to be taking on office staff to help run your business, but are not quite ready to lease your own offices yet.
So as you can see there are many reasons why you should look in to using a virtual office company to help develop your business as it grows.
