To be filed with other posts about something I’ll have no need for until the day I really do comes this good short article on quickly setting up a virtual office system, in less than an hour even. Suggestions and links to help you in finding, hiring and training a virtual receptionist or assistant, getting a mailing address and virtual phone system, etc.
If you’re a one-man show, a virtual office is part of what makes the barriers to entry into business for very small companies low enough that they can be viable, and small businesses routing lots of infrastructure-type functions to virtual assistants no longer seems radical. With it you have a large office’s ability to handle extraneous specialized tasks without needing the scale of all those full-time employees…. A virtual office helps the talent (in this case: you!) keep their noses to the grindstone. (Now I just need that great idea…)
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Making use of a virtual office or virtual assistant is a great way for small and medium business owners to cut out unecessary overheads, especially when your business is still in its infancy or struggling – as many are in these trying financial times…