Virtual Office Setup

Virtual Office Plans Available

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:40:20 +0000

Perhaps you need a full-time receptionist who can answer your incoming phone calls in a professional manner. Or you may want to enhance your business image by utilizing our professional address. You may choose one plan or a combination of plans to suit your needs.
Mailing Address Plan – Includes use of our business address, handling of your daily mail and listing on the building directory.
Telecommunications Plan – Includes full-time professional telephone answering and receptionist service as well as 24 hour voice mail service.
Part-time Meeting Room Plan – Included use of a furnished office or conference room. Our administrative support staff is available to cater to your every business need.

VIRTUAL OFFICES Las Vegas, NV

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:37:46 +0000

VIRTUAL OFFICE LITE PACKAGE Starting as low as $49.00!!!!!
• Prestigious business address
• Business license placement
• Mail collection and forwarding (postage not included)
• Professional Executive Assistant to greet your guests
• Access to Virtual Office and Conference Rooms at discounted Preferred rate
• Access to fax/scanner/copier (charges not included)

BASIC VIRTUAL OFFICE PACKAGE
• Prestigious business address
• Business license placement
• Mail collection and forwarding (postage not included)
• Ability to set up local phone number
• Professional Executive Assistant to greet your guests
• Call Redirection
• Voicemail to email or call in
• 2 hours of Virtual Office use
• Access to Virtual Office and Conference Rooms at discounted Preferred rate
• Access to fax/scanner/copier (charges not included)

EXECUTIVE VIRTUAL OFFICE PACKAGE
• Prestigious business address
• Business license placement
• Mail collection and forwarding (postage not included)
• Ability to set up local phone number
• Call Redirection
• Voicemail to email or call in
• Professional Executive Assistant to greet your guests
• 8 hours of Virtual Office use
• Access to Virtual Office and Conference Rooms at discounted Preferred rate
• Access to fax/scanner/copier at discounted Preferred rate

PRESIDENTIAL VIRTUAL OFFICE PACKAGE • Prestigious business address
• Business license placement
• Mail collection and forwarding (postage not included)
• Local telephone number
• Professional Executive Assistant to answer your phone and greet your guests
• Voicemail to email or call in
• 12 hours of Virtual Office use
• 2 hours of Conference Room use
• Access to Virtual Office and Conference Rooms at discounted Preferred rate
• Access to fax/scanner/copier at discounted Preferred rate

ADDITIONAL/INDIVIDUAL SERVICES AVAILABLE
• Mail scanning delivered to email/Mail Forwarding
• Local/800 telephone number
• Voicemail to email or call in
• Voicemail tree
• Executive Assistant to answer your phone/Call Screening Services
• Executive Assistant/Secretarial Services
• Marketing, Human Resources, Appointment Scheduling,
Follow-up/Return phone messages
• Black & White Printing/Copying/Scanning
• Color Printing/Copying
• On site Notary
• Incoming/Outgoing Faxes
• Courier Services
• Virtual Office and Conference Rooms

http://www.preferredlv.com/

Preferred Corporate Suites
8871 W. Flamingo Rd., Ste. 202
Las Vegas, NV 89147
702-522-6800
info@preferredlv.com – Put “ADJB202″ in Subject line to qualify for our current specials

Virtual Assistants – How They Can Help You?

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:33:34 +0000

Virtual assistants and the virtual secretary on the whole are making a field in the most common place. They are just gathering a helping hand and reliable hand in the home office. It is crucial to keep the economic cost low, and you can benefit by hiring one or more to manage on the terms, such that you can just concentrate on the business matters.

The virtual assistants and the secretaries work, when you want them to work, no more and no less. You will find it great that it will be enriching the financial benefit because you are already known with the requirements and budgets of the work that needs to be done.

You can also a hire a team of workers according to the size of your project. It is therefore; good to have a team comprising 5-9 workers if you have numerous works to do. It is the best way for the freelancers to earn the most. You will get paid what you work for, and you will not have any obligation to get paid for more than what you need.

Virtual assistants are the business of their own. They are well equipped with the elements that are required to sustain themselves. They keep themselves well communicable in order to find them easy even from the remote locations. They always make the communicable elements and technologies up to the date and very well balanced, for the person who wants to access with them.

You will find that there are number of companies who provide their staff with modern skills and make them well competent and suitable to work under any circumstances. These companies develop the ideas of solving the problems with better professional ideas and with more and more developed innovative skills. They also enable to one to be a highly enthusiastic worker and make sure of the fact that all the activities are done correctly and in a due time period.

Protypists.com enables its worker to work collectively for the client, and successfully completes the work. So it will be great if the client stands successful, because we will be successful then. Here they believe that two or more heads are much better than one, and you can simply develop and enrich your skills here. All the personal reasons are backed and people can deliver the completed assignment to the client in a timely manner.

Here you can even find that all the virtual assistants are making their own time, and they can work more around the clock. In this way, they can really develop the ideas of working hard, and can meet-up the essential requirements. Here, you will also find ongoing support continuously in order to complete the project.

The company also helps in obtaining more and more projects for the employees, such that they don’t run shortage of projects anytime. If you are a starter, then you should join these companies in order to develop your skills and professionalism in the field. I am sure it is going to help you a lot.

Virtual Office Video

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:28:54 +0000

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The Virtual Office

admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:42:50 +0000

So while Washington DC witnesses history being caught in a record breaking snow blizzard with most offices being closed it spawns the necessity of the existence of a virtual office setup. It has been reported that 3.5 days of federal offices being shut in the capital, so far has cost the government around $350 million. This could turn out to be a 5.5 day shutdown, which translates to a $550 million loss, considering that this part of the world is not equiped to handle a snow shower of this magnitude and reviving the city to its usual glory would take about that much time.

The best part is that this figure is just the loss that the government would be facing because federal offices are shut down. A tally of the amount of money that would go to remove the snow from the streets, get the power back and get the public transportation system up and running is an entirely new budget. That being said, let me get to the importance of a virtual office setup and how most of this money could be saved if everyone was working from home.

The model is simple, have all your information on the internet, virtual offices on the net, meetings held through the internet and phone lines to fall back on. Considering that I am part of such an office as I type and considering that I have been exposed to such an environment, the whole concept in itself is quite interesting and intriguing to me. Ofcourse it is a feeling that is hard to grasp unless experienced. Just imagine if everyone from your CEO to your intern is working from home with just a laptop, a reliable power line, the mother of all gifts/discoveries, the internet and a phone connection.

The virtual office setup is based on cloud computing and its the whole value add to such an organization. So snow storm or not, federal closures or not, you’r travelling around the world or not, you still have the flexibility of being in the thick of it all and work goes one as it should. This with a combination of services such as the gmail corporate account and the loads of goodies that come about with it, more importantly free, is a potent combination to the existence and survival of any low investment small business enterprise.

Google corporate mail has almost all the features as the general gmail. This means one to one meetings can be held through video chats. Meetings can be minuted/edited and shared realtime using the google document. Projects can be managed using the google excel documents. Though dear google, to further enhace the current setup here is a list of potential additional features you can incorporate to tap into the small business enterprise market going forward, after all President Obama has declared that SBE’s are the way out in the furture -

1. Gtalk should have a facility to accomodate more than two people, a conference of sorts.
2. A tweak-able dashboard feature within your existing igoogle or google documents would be very effective.
3. Some kind of a project management tool embeded within the google documents structure would be the ultimate gift for any manager.
4. Some kind of a time site entry tool would also be great.

There should be more integrable features for various other departments in a SBE, such as the accounting and human resource but I’m still figuring out the challenges in that part of the world, so maybe I’ll update my list as and when I figure out the requirements. But if this were to be implemented within the google corporate email workframe imagine the amount of money Google could make and imagine the amount of savings each of the SBE’s could make!

I am not sure how effective such a setup would be for a large organization though but for all your budding entrepreneurs who give that ‘company of yours down the road’, a serious thought, this is indeed the most viable, relieable and cost effective setup to run your organization.

In addition to this with “real time” being the buzz word in todays age any step towards providing data, reports, dashboards, project status, public transportation timings, exam reports and scores on a real time basis would give your organization the much needed boost over competition, the typical “one small step for man and a giant leap for mankind” scenario in the information age.

Ofcourse there are sides to this setup that still need to be addressed, such as:

1. What happens if there is a power failure ?

2. How would you still manage to keep the receptionist at the front desk functional in a virtual office scenario ?

3. How to extend this concept to labs, maybe impossible though. Example, hardware testing or automobile assembly. Which goes to say this concept is only good for software related work.

These are a few hrudles I can think of right now, but going further I may just update more.

Google has quite a few interesting applications and they are definetly on a roll with far more innovative applications that seem to be converging various apllications into one compact “gmail” setup. Having said this, it is note worthy that I had written this post just to promote their Buzz. I was awestruck at where technology is heading (or rather converging) that I thought it was worth while to bring a few interpretations, if you may, on my side of the world to the rest of the world.

Our Serviced Offices give you more than just quality office space.

admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:38:16 +0000

Total business support.

WSpace is just the beginning when you take a serviced office with Avanta, wherever you join us in London or around the UK.

We’ve looked in-depth at what businesses need, from the right, fully serviced office in the best location, to a complete support package accessible as you want, for a fixed monthly price.

Everything about our business centres, including our ICS accredited staff, is set up to make accommodating and running your business easier, more efficient and more cost effective.

If you want a Blue Chip quality office at a cost you can confidently budget, Avanta is the partner you need.

Hiring a Virtual Office Assistant

admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:32:26 +0000

Personal virtual assistants have received a lot of attention during the past few years. Much of this attention has come from the success of Timothy Ferriss’ book The Four Hour Work Week. In the book, Ferris outlines strategies to eliminate one’s daily busy work by outsourcing tasks to a low-cost virtual assistant, or VA. Business executives can use personal virtual assistants to handle tasks such as, web design, web edits, blog installations, posting, and maintenance, accounting and bookkeeping, telemarketing and appointment setting.

While much of the book’s ideas have merit, there many areas that just aren’t realistic. Here are some basic guidelines to follow to ensure your virtual assistant outsourcing project will be successful.

1. Define the duties you feel would better be completed by a Virtual Assistant (VA). Ideal services would be repetitive, time consuming, tasks that don’t require your personal expertise. Ideal projects to outsource to a virtual assistant can include things like data entry, telemarketing, and appointment setting. Things to avoid would be one-time tasks that would take less time to do yourself than it would to explain to a third party.

2. Compose a detailed description of the tasks at hand, and a step by step guide your virtual assistant can follow to properly execute them. Specifically outline:

Exactly what it is you are looking for. Do your tasks require voice related skills, writing skills, or both?
What schedule you need your VA to work. This is particularly important if you are outsourcing to a different country.
Communication. Would you rather correspond with your assistant via phone or email?

3. Browse the web to find the personal assistant that would be best for you. Ask around to see if anyone in your network has employed a virtual assistant and solicit their input. If nobody you know has used a VA, try the following:

Google
freelancer websites such as elance or guru
Craig’s List

4. Request price and service quotes. Learn about the management of the company that employs your assistant – after all, the management will be responsible for ensuring your VA’s attendance and effectiveness. Look for professionalism and quick response time.

5. Choose a virtual assistant services provider. Once you’ve narrowed down your search to a handful of sources, set appointments to speak with the virtual assistants and their managers. Many call centers will allow you to do a paid trial in order to get to know how you will work together. This is an important period in the relationship and will lead to a better understanding of whether your styles mesh or not.

6. Lock them up! Agree to terms and conditions with your outsourcing services provider that will define:

Confidentiality – This can be important, as you don’t want confidential information to be used for unintended purposes.
Virtual Assistant Status – Be sure to clarify that your VA is not an employee. This will help you save money on taxes and other requirements.
Payment terms – Define the frequency and method of payment.

7. Keep in touch. Check in with your personal assistant at predefined intervals to monitor her progress. If applicable, request reports from your service provider listing daily phone calls, or any other metrics you find important.

Now that you have followed these steps, you should begin to experience the benefits of a more productive work week!

What is a Virtual Office?

admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:30:24 +0000

The concept of a virtual office is not one that is difficult to understand. Typically, the best way to define virtual office involves the concept of home-based work. Individuals who work from a virtual office market products or provide services to clients from a remote location rather than from a traditional office building or store front. Virtual office workers can be self-employed, or they may work for companies that hire home based workers to provide various types of services.

Virtual offices typically have much lower overhead than traditional offices. Rather than having to pay to rent office or retail space, individuals are able to work from their homes using square footage that they are already paying for. The idea of saving money on rent is very appealing to entrepreneurs as well as to established businesses seeking ways to minimize overhead expenses.

Many types of work can be performed effectively from a virtual office. Common home based businesses include: consulting services, web design and development, virtual assisting, and freelance writing. Established companies often hire home-based call center workers, outside sales representatives, and computer programmers.

In order to successfully work from a virtual office, you will need to make sure that you have the equipment necessary to do business without a physical location. At a minimum, regardless of the type of work you are doing, you’ll likely need a computer and high speed internet access, basic office furniture, and a telephone line. The nature of your work will dictate the other types of office equipment and supplies necessary for you to set up your virtual office.

Working From a Virtual Office

Working from a virtual office is very different from working from a traditional business location. Instead of reporting to an office every day, your home will be your base of operations. Instead of visiting your place of business, when you have a virtual office, customers will interact with you via telecommunication technology or online. If face-to-face meetings are necessary, individuals who work from virtual locations either travel to where their clients work or meet them in public places such as restaurants, coffee shops, or other locations.

Working from a virtual office can pose unique time management and organizational challenges. It’s up to you to figure out how to organize your space and establish your schedule so that you are able to maintain an effective balance between work and life. When you establish virtual office space in your home, it’s important to separate it from your living area and to teach the other people who live in your house to adjust to the fact that you are now working from home. It may be a good idea to define what virtual office means to your family members at the outset of your new working arrangement to minimize confusion and frustration for everyone.

Actual Examples of How a Virtual Office Can Help Your Business Grow

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:07:42 +0000

How can a Virtual Office help grow my business?Have you ever asked yourself that question? We’ve posted a few case studies of clients who have used our New York Virtual Office service with immense success!Â The case studies shown will illustrate the significant positive changes in their business and the freedom that they have experienced since subscribing to our New York virtual office and business support service.

Case Study: James, His Law Firm and a NYC Virtual Office

Case Study: Donald, His Publishing Company and a NY Virtual Office

Case Study: Kris, Erica and a NY Virtual OfficeLeonard, Kiara, and Siobanne’s case studies will be posted shortly, so please check back for updates.If you are a past or current client and would like to submit a story, please email info@virtualofficefaq.com or leave a comment.Â All personal names and company names will be kept confidential.

A New York City business presence and office address may actually help your business grow – as illustrated in the examples above..Â Keep in mind that you can be anywhere in the world, a citizen of any country, and have a New York Virtual Office.Â By establishing a presence in what is undoubtedly one of the most renown cities in the world, you will enjoy a physical office address with an international flavor.

An executive office center can provide you with a professional physical office address. A brick and mortar presence in a professional environment will add credibility to you and your business; you can be working in a small town or a remote village and still have access to a prestigious business address in a world renowned City on a famous Avenue, such as New York City’s Broadway.

If you have yet to open your Virtual Office in New York, simply apply online today, complete your application, and in about a business day you can hit the ground running with a New York physical office address for as little as $25 per month.

How can VH International Business Solutions help you?

United Virtual Office Adds More Virtual Addresses in California

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:00:01 +0000

California based United Virtual Office announced the addition of more virtual addresses in California.

Jack Warren, executive manager at United Virtual said, “We are happy to announce more virtual office addresses in prime locations in California. Whether you are working from home or you have a start-up business, it’s time go virtual with United Virtual Office. Virtual offices save you money besides giving you the flexibility and the opportunity to be at home with your family.”

Virtual offices are in great demand with entrepreneurs. They give a professional look to the business and are affordable. These virtual business addresses can be used as mailing and shipping addresses and also on business cards along with a phone number. Some virtual offices come with a live receptionist too. It’s style in an affordable way!

United Virtual has office locations in the finest commercial places in California like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Long Beach, Orange County, San Diego, Beverly Hills, Tustin, Irvine and Huntington Beach.

About United Virtual Office

United Virtual believes in the philosophy that customers deserve a flexible alternative to the expensive traditional office space along with the same facilities or even more. Their virtual office packages deliver the critical efficiency required in today’s fast-paced business environment – without compromising the quality required to operate your business at the highest level.

Whether you are starting a new business, expanding to new markets or looking to give your existing business a more professional image United Virtual has a customized solution for you.

Our fully furnished offices and conference rooms are a professional, convenient and safe venue to conduct your business and meetings. And even with all this convenience and flexibility, our packages are more affordable than you might think.

Give us a call at 1-888-456-3342 and let us show you how we can help facilitate your business needs.