“RUN YOUR BUSINESS FROM ANY LOCATION”
by Contributor
(Mar. 2, 2020) — Thanks to continuous advances in digital technology and wireless communication, it has become much more common for people to travel for work, let alone to travel despite work. With the prevalence of freelance workers and business owners of various sizes, the high-tech world of the 21st century allows for many jobs to be comfortably performed from almost anywhere on the planet.
In other words, the traditional and mundane office job, which sometimes includes occasional traveling, is steadily being replaced by a nomadic work style, which affords people the freedom to create a greater balance between their work life and personal goals.
This modern form of worker had been called the ‘digital nomad’, meaning those who conduct their life in a nomadic manner by using telecommunications technologies to earn their living. These digital nomads generally do their work remotely, making use of wireless devices and services to utilize public spaces such as coffee shops, libraries, or co-working spaces; and who seamlessly continue this style when traveling to foreign countries.
Enter the Virtual Office Solution
Whilst 21st-century technology has in effect created the digital nomad, in making his lifestyle feasible, if not practical; the Virtual Office has arisen to truly facilitate this lifestyle from a business point of view.
In today’s business world, many entrepreneurs, freelancers, and small business owners are choosing to travel frequently whilst running their business: some strictly for business purposes, such as meeting clients who are located in other cities; and others purely for reasons of pleasure, if not leisure. For these traveling entrepreneurs and business people, the virtual office has proven to be a highly beneficial if not essential service.
Exit the Traditional Office Problem
Working from a traditional office makes it highly impractical if not impossible to travel regularly whilst maintaining your job: indeed, the traditional office effectively precludes the nomadic lifestyle.
For a start, obtaining a physical office space – either by purchasing or renting one – is an expensive affair not many can afford. For the traveling businessperson, such an expense largely becomes unjustifiable and therefore intolerable, seeing as they will be using the office quite infrequently, perhaps even rarely.
But offices are, however, an essential tool in the conduct of business, affording businesspersons the efficient performance of many crucial functions—and thus offices, in one form or another, are indispensable to the professional conduct of business.
A growing business, for example, requires the capacity to process phone calls and mail in order to attain and maintain clients, as well as sales and other business opportunities—a capacity that is inconceivable with an office. Additionally, the physical business address of an office signifies a professional if not successful business, without which the business could well have an unattractive image. And for meeting clients in person, an office is of course essential for presenting a professional image.
Traveling Benefits of a Virtual Office
Considering the restrictiveness of a traditional office in the context of a wireless business world, more traveling business people are adopting the virtual office solution, as it provides them with all of the benefits of a regular office no matter where they happen to be working at any time.
For traveling entrepreneurs, a virtual office proves to be a most cost-effective solution to their office needs, offering them the facilities of a traditional office for only a fraction of the usual cost. Not only does a virtual office provide business owners with a physical address for their business, which is where all their mail will be delivered; it also provides them with a business phone line whilst offering receptionist services to manage it professionally.
A virtual office thus allows the traveling entrepreneur to present a professional image whilst working from anywhere and everywhere—the alternative of which would be to cultivate the unprofessional image formed by the use of a home address without a legitimate business phone line.
Essentially designed to facilitate this traveling style of work, the virtual office allows business travelers to utilize physical office space as and when they need it. For a businessperson who travels most of the time, meeting with employees, clients, customers, and partners will of course be a necessity: hence the services of a virtual office includes access to meeting rooms of a professional standard, as well as serviced offices and other physical spaces—all available to be hired on the basis of ‘as and when’ needed.
Establish your Prime Business Location—and Run it from Any Location
When deciding to acquire a virtual office for your business, you will find that all the prime locations are available to choose from. If, for example, you want to establish your business in London, then acquiring a London virtual office will easily (and affordably) accomplish this—primarily because your business address will be registered there.
But of course, this prime location of your business is only one aspect of the virtual office advantage: for once you have established your business presence in the location of your choice, the various other services provided by your virtual office will enable you to run your business from any location, at any time.
As modern entrepreneurs exist in a potentially lucrative but highly competitive business environment in the globalized world of today, they must thus make the most of the opportunities available to them. Increasingly, this has come to mean the ability to effectively run a business whilst traveling on a regular basis, both locally and abroad.
For these nomadic businesspeople, the virtual office serves to facilitate this transition from the traditional office as a fixed place of work, to a remote work model that allows entrepreneurs to successfully run their business from any location in the world.
A virtual office thus affords traveling entrepreneurs an unprecedented degree of freedom and privacy in the running of their business: be it by working from home, or from hotels, or whilst on vacation; and yet without any concerns about damaging their business due to a lack of professional image or facilities.
…and whilst Running your Business from Any Location: Establish Another Business Presence
With the traveling work style afforded by the virtual office, entrepreneurs can maximize their capacity to create more business opportunities by directly making contacts in other countries. And a yet further advantage the virtual office affords such traveling businesspersons, is that they can capitalize on this increased business abroad by easily establishing their business presence there, i.e. if you come to do much business in a particular foreign country, then you can simply acquire a virtual office in that country too.
In this way, a virtual office facilitates the mobile and flexible business model perfectly suited to traveling entrepreneurs: by not only allowing them to establish their business in a prime location, with the ability to run it from wherever they please; but additionally, by allowing them to establish more business presence by acquiring locations in other countries.
To learn how Virtual Offices work and how you can take full advantage of them read the definitive Virtual Office guide.