Your Office PA

“Missing Calls Could Be Costing Your Business £1,000’s”

If there’s a possibility that your business could be letting calls go unanswered then you could be losing money hand over fist. The problem is you just don’t know how much. Why? Because if you don’t have someone taking your messages then you’ll never know how many people hang up rather than leaving one.

Even if you already employ a receptionist you could still be missing calls. What happens when they’re already on the phone, away from their desk or off sick?

So what’s the solution?

Employing someone to answer your calls will be expensive and an added responsibility for your business.

Here’s A Low-Cost Alternative To Employing A Receptionist

From as little as £15 a month your business could benefit from the services of an experienced PA who’ll handle your calls and relay your messages to you immediately. And the great news for you is that you can test our Telephone Answering Services completely FREE for 14 days with our no strings attached trial.

Unique 8 – Point World Class Service Guarantee
We believe our Telephone Answering service is the best in the UK. To prove this we offer all customers a unique guarantee which ensures we always delight and amaze you and your callers.

We GUARANTEE ...

• To answer all your calls within 15 seconds
• Your messages will be relayed to you immediately
• You will always be on the most cost effective call package
• That there’ll be no hidden charges
• Not to charge you for wrong numbers
• The accuracy of the information in your messages
• Your calls will be answered by the same team of UK based PA’s
• We’ll answer all your calls in your company name

Your Office & PA’s service is flexible to suit the needs of each customer. Our PA’s can answer your calls, relay your messages, manage your diary, chase up invoices and send letters and brochures out on your behalf. We have monthly packages as well as Pay-As-You-Go services, that offer an affordable service for businesses of all sizes.

To find out more about our 14 day free trial, please call Sarah or Gordon on 01928 508800 or visit our website.

Search Office Space

A virtual office provides you with a prime local business address and a credible, risk-free base for corresponding with clients. From the most respected business addresses in the world, answering service professionals handle your day-to-day details so you can concentrate on running your business.

Features of Virtual Offices:
• Professional business address, in well known cities globally
• Associate business with local market
• Somewhere to send mail correspondence to
• Phone and fax numbers
• Professional answering service
• Message taking facilities
• Option to rent meeting room space at short notice

What are the benefits?
• Extremely low overheads
• Professional business status instantly
• Credibility with customers
• On demand facilities to impress clients
• Appear to have secretarial staff
• Re-route correspondence from home address
• Flexible terms and rates
• Options to expand and take physical space

All of the major operators offer virtual office facilities at various locations around the globe. As there is no physical location required it is more common to have virtual offices available in the well known prestigious financial and ‘down-town’ districts of the major cities. The more desirable the address the higher the premium generally.

Thanks to our 16 years experience, we will be able to get you the best price available for your virtual office, anywhere around the globe with some of the most prestigious operators!

Get your free quote today on 08007408080

Target Space

Our virtual office service is the ideal solution for a company that doesn’t necessarily need a physical base, but who needs all the business services an office provides.

Typically services offered by virtual offices centre around handling your phone calls, both incoming and some outgoing for basic sales follow ups and customer enquiries. Important messages are passed to you by email or text message, or by calling you and introducing the caller. This can be a good way to cut the number of unwanted sales calls you get.

You can go further, getting them to handle email and ordering systems, and deal with your post. Some virtual offices also offer full secretarial services such as typing, transcribing audio, diary management and event co-ordination. And increasingly they are offering basic bookkeeping services such as invoice management, supplier management and payroll.

Callers dialling your phone number are greeted in your company name, with messages passed on instantly. If someone wants to book an appointment to see you, your virtual office can access your live diary and update it, meaning you can see new commitments instantly (including away from the office if you have a PDA or BlackBerry).

Because the services offered are fairly easy to provide there is plenty of choice in the virtual office market, and that is keeping prices low. But before you find one to help your business, here are a few things to consider:

How much are these services worth to you?
Don’t look at the price of the service. Instead work out how much is an hour of your time worth. How much money can you bring in to your business with an uninterrupted hour of selling or providing your product or service? If you can sell your time for £50 an hour, surely it is worth outsourcing an hour of admin for £20?

What are the core skills of your virtual office?
Many virtual office services are based round particular core skills, with other services bolted on. For example, a former PA now working from home may be an exceptional audio typist, and only offer call handling as an extra service. It may be more sensible to use that service for typing, and find a different provider with better infrastructure for call handling.

Are they big enough to cope?
There are a lot of one man bands out there providing these services. There’s nothing wrong with a one man band, but you need to be confident they can successfully handle your business. If they have just one person answering the phones for 10 different clients, what happens when three people call at once? It’s an easy way to lose a sale. Ask difficult questions of your potential suppliers and visit their premises to see for yourself.

But are they too big?
Be careful about taking on a service that is nothing more than a call centre dressed up as a virtual office. If someone calls your business every day and speaks to a different person each time (with the usual noise of a call centre in the background), they will soon twig you are outsourcing. There’s nothing wrong with that, but most customers want to feel they are talking to someone who works for the company and can make things happen. How customers feel is more important than what’s actually happening in reality.

For full details of the virtual office for you visit: www.targetspace.co.uk

Regus

First impressions count. Be it first day at school, first date, first interview or first meeting with a prospective customer, studies tell us that subconsciously our mind is made up in the first few seconds of meeting someone and the rest of the encounter is then spent trying to find reasons to support that first image impression.

The same is true when people look at a company address – the amount of non verbal communication it sends out is immense.

Does it match your current and prospective customers aspirations for their business as much as it does for yours?

Projecting the right image is as crucial for the largest business in the world as it is for the smallest. Easy when you are a FTSE 100 perhaps, not so when you are a start-up or small business with resources that are, how shall we say, a bit stretched. The answer is to “Virtual Office” it. A virtual office allows you to work from any location – be it your spare bedroom, car or hammock – but give the impression you’re working somewhere else.

For just a few pounds a day that somewhere else could be an address in Berkeley Square or Covent Garden. All your post and inbound calls would be professionally and seamlessly handled and for a small additional cost, you could have by the hour access to top quality meeting rooms in which to meet clients to seal those deals. All Regus Virtual Office customers also have drop in access to everyone of Regus’ 1,000 centres worldwide giving even the smallest company a mighty global footprint.

We live in an age where image is often more important than the substance behind it. So, is image everything? Hopefully not, but get it wrong and you’ll struggle to turn that great idea into a great business.

For more information please visit www.regus.co.uk

Flexy Office

Flexy Office offers a complete business infrastructure under one roof in London’s Canary Wharf - home to the forthcoming 2012 Olympic Games. Established for 12 years Flexy provides clients with a Canary Wharf address for use on business stationery, web sites and branding. A central London 0207 telephone number where calls are answered in your company name, seamlessly transferred anywhere in the world or messages taken, and a range of meeting rooms seating up to 16 in comfort for your use – all under one roof.

The concept of a virtual office suggests something that doesn’t really exist. Not so with Flexy - we exist in a real building, with real staff and with real meeting rooms - in fact the only thing virtual about our services is client presence.

Most organisations pay a heavy price for their offices and staff along with the ongoing challenges associated with employment legalities, holidays, sickness and of course National Insurance contributions all of which can make running a business nowadays a daunting and expensive undertaking.

Flexy can take all these headaches away. Our clients pay a monthly fee that includes a fully functioning office, staff and infrastructure. Prices start from as little as £60 per month – with the average being around £100.

Many clients tell us that the time saved by not travelling to and from a London office is worth its weight in gold. It saves you the frustration of public transport which allows for a little extra beauty sleep - and perhaps most importantly, is better for the environment!

There is no need to pay ‘through the nose’ or enter into commitments for premises. An office at Flexy is exceedingly cost effective and arguably just as efficient. Existing clients such as solicitors, doctors, accountants and the like will testify to this.

Visit our website www.flexyoffice.com
Contact:0207 863 7500

Executive Offices Group

Virtual offices in some of the UK’s Most Prestigious Business Addresses

Whether you’re a start-up business, an established company seeking new markets or even an international organisation requiring a UK base, a virtual office could be an ideal solution.

Offering all the benefits of a serviced office, just without the physical space, a virtual office is simply the use of a business address with access to a wide variety of business support services including mail handling, telephone answering, hot-desking and meeting room facilities.

Key benefits of an Executive Offices Group virtual office, available from as little as £50 per month, include:

• A business address in a prestigious city location
• High quality properties with beautiful facades and no flags or signage
• Flexible, cost effective business services
• Telephone answering and mail handling by experienced professionals
• Access to superior, corporate Meeting Rooms (available by the hour) and Video Conferencing facilities across EOG’s portfolio of business centres
• Access to a range of touchdown areas with Broadband connectivity on every desk. Tea, coffee and mineral water are
also provided
• Business support services on a pay-as you-go basis
• Transparent pricing structure and simple monthly fees
• Set up within 48 hours

The simple, flexible and highly cost effective virtual office solution offers many companies a direct means to increased company profitability. It is a smart way of doing business and more and more astute business people have recognised that in recent months.

For further details about an Executive Offices Group virtual office please telephone 020 3008 8889, email enquiries@eogroup.com or visit www.eogroup.com