Latest responses to “Cheap and Affordable Ways To Create A Virtual Office For Your Small Home Business” Copyright 2013, MoneyBlueBook.com 408350 2009-09-28T16:27:41-07:00 Michelle I need a referal. I am building my small business from home and it is a virtual admin business. I need a professional business address that i can use for image purposes. Suggesstions anyone one! 408340 2009-09-25T09:33:02-07:00 Madeleine Nice article. One of my clients (The Belfast Business Centre belfastbusinesscentre.com ) offers an excellent virtual office service. We have found it very attractive for people who as you say value their privacy (what could be worse than clients calling randomly to your home) and those wanting to test a new market before they commit to setting up an office. The additional services e.g. admin, fax to email etc are available for those who need them. Some clients only use the service for telephone answering when they are on holiday. Generally virtual offices are affordable and a low risk option. 408330 2009-08-06T09:16:21-07:00 Tony Conz Cna any body help me? I am looking for a very simple auto attendant. I just want people to call in and be prompted to "press 1 for sales (and have the call go to my cell phone) or press 2 for your free consultation (an have the call go to my wifes cell)" I will even record my own voice. It seems like there should be a cheap easy option for this, I don't need voice mail (my cell has that) I don't need ANY other features! Why is everything so feature rich/expencive? 408320 2009-08-03T21:03:09-07:00 moussette In regard to UPS boxes being about $200/year, what year was that...1985? they are more like $40/month. I have gone in and asked. Maybe outside of New York, NY, they are that price, but here it's closer to $500 a year, my dear! 408310 2008-12-07T15:45:46-08:00 ABetterOffice I recently found that some of these least expensive virtual office providers are in New York City, but unfortunately for WALE, none so cheap as $10-15. The cheapest office address-only virtual option I have found is $75 per month. Regarding GrandCentral, I know a few people that have this and one of the great services it provides is sending voicemail to an email address. I find it quite a chore to listen to my voicemail, but if it was just an attachment in an email, I'll listen all day long. 408300 2008-10-14T10:05:20-07:00 WALE SIR, CAN YOU RECOMMEND A VIRTUAL OFFICE ADDRESS IN UK./US THAT IS NOT MORE THAN $10-15 MONTHLY? ONLY WHAT I NEED IS OFFICE ADDRESS..PLS HELP ME OUT 408290 2008-08-01T19:20:35-07:00 KAA I don't send or receive that many faxes. I have an Efax Free account for RECEIVING faxes and a Soho66 account for SENDING faxes, both via email. Unlike EFax Plus there is no monthly subscription to send faxes, you just add some credit onto your account and you are charged on a per page per fax basis, no ads. You can send faxes all over the world. If you choose to use Soho66 to receive faxes too the monthly subscription is ����2, much cheaper than EFax Plus. Here is the blurb from Soho66 website. Fax to Email and Email to Fax We provide fax to email (fax2email) and email to fax (email2fax) services. Email to fax allows you to send a fax to any fax machine, anywhere in the world, simply by sending an email. You sign up, add your email address as an authorised user for your account, add some credit (a minimum of ����2) and then you're ready to go. Outbound faxes costs 10.5p per page for UK faxes, can be sent anywhere in the world and we support Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Adobe PDF, Tiff, JPEG and many other formats as attachments for your Email to fax. Fax to email is our inbound fax service, which allows you to receive faxes from other people via email. We give you your own business fax number, or multiple numbers if needed. You tell us where to send faxes that arrive on that number to. When a fax comes in to your number, we convert it to an Adobe PDF document, add it as an attachment to an email and send it through to you. You can sign up for fax to email, email to fax, or both. Email to fax has no standing charges, for fax to email, we charge you a standing charge of ����2 each month for the inbound fax number and that's it. 408280 2008-07-11T13:59:16-07:00 Jon T. Great post. You may also want to check out (link) which offers free professional email accounts when you sign up for a domain name. For those who are unaware, a domain name is the ".com" (or other extension) which is the address for a website. Their domain registrations are only around $7 per year, as opposed to paying a montly fee. Also the domains come with a bunch of other free stuff, including an easy website builder with hosting included (if you don't mind a small ad placement), or without ads their hosting costs about 4 bucks a month currently. Having a website is also a must-have for any business, no matter what size. 408270 2008-04-06T15:28:20-07:00 Philipp Grunwald Hello Raymond, nice post. You mention the most important points. I just want to mention the differences here in Germany: What I'm wondering about, is the costs you have to calculate over there in the US for all the different solutions. The prices for (shared) offices are the same in Germany, but concerning telephony, I see especially SOHO-Users use a VoiceOverIP-Flatrate, as don't have a complex telephony system they might have to reorganize as big firms. These flatrates are often only provided including Internet (that's the matter of expense you didn't talk about ;)) and it only costs around 80-100 �������������� for SOHOS, sometimes you can even use the private offers for around 35 �������������� incl. www & VoIP flat. 2) Same goes here, there are several ad free virtual fax services for business professionals, some like sipgate you can even use without a monthly basic fee and they charge you only for the exact amount of sent faxes. So no need to buy a fax machine, which will be a hassle, especially if you buy the cheapest model. 3) Mailboxes: They are both used by businesses and private persons and go for a cheap 15 �������������� (~ US$ 27) installation fee and you're not charged a monthly fee! Although those don't include your packages. But for this, there is currently also service named "PACKSTATION" implemented by DHL. 4) Business E-Mail Addresses. Something that is so normal to me, that I have one since I'm 16. In this case, you go with DreamHost which is really the best and cheapest solution, as in Germany Webhosting on the contrary seems to be a little more expensive. But I would recommend everyone at least a professional e-mail address! Kind regards, Philipp Grunwald 408260 2008-01-03T22:59:26-08:00 Saul Thanks for the information. I have been wondering about free email to fax options. With my wife's business we have several faxes to send and receive and I just hate having the paper when everything else is in the computer. Another great technology is ooVoo, for whom I have been doing some work for. They offer free video-chat for up to 6 people (very cool for meetings) and several other features. I think that they are a good technology to integrate into the virtual office environment. I love the virtual office realm. No more commuting - yipee!!