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Individual CPAs, as well as CPAs working for accounting firms, can take full advantage of a virtual office setup. Here’s how Office Alternatives is perfectly suited for a CPA on-demand office this tax season and beyond.

Office Alternatives provides a practical, professional space for CPAs. First and foremost, Office Alternatives provides physical office space in a great location at a fair price; CPAs only would pay for the space and time they actually use. Commercial leases often require long-term commitments at steep prices, but a virtual office delivers a flexible solution for savvy CPAs who know what they’re looking for.

Our locations are equipped with all of the modern tools required for business operations. From office furniture to premium telecommunications service and more, Office Alternatives provides the resources for CPAs to host customer meetings and manage workloads – all while reinforcing your professional image to customers and prospects.

Office Alternatives gives CPAs the flexibility needed for an unbalanced schedule. Tax season, which traditionally runs from January through April, creates a hectic schedule for CPAs. For many CPAs, such a schedule requires additional resources, including office space and assistants. We even have “Pay per Click” copy, print, scan and fax services less expensive then big box retail. Office Alternatives’ services are on-demand, which means you only pay for the services you need, when you need them. When tax season rolls around, you know you’ll be more than prepared with Office Alternatives.

The terms Virtual Office,” “Virtual Reception,” or “Virtual Mail” can be confusing in today’s age. What does “virtual” mean? Is there an actual office? A real receptionist or a robot? Is real mail involved with Virtual Mail? Office Alternatives would like to outline 6 Benefits of Virtual Office Services helping New Mexico Small Business or Independents grow and succeed.

Here are six things you didn’t know about virtual offices.

Virtual offices are real. A virtual office is a physical, brick-and-mortar location that features all of the modern amenities of a typical office, including professional on-site staff. Virtual Mail affords you to use this professional address as if it’s your company’s place of business when you might actually work out of your home. This becomes important when you’re setting up Google My Business (a must do!) and a geographical presence to be used with all online advertising. Google will not take a PO Box and why would you want your personal home address publicized and associated with your professional business? Office Alternatives has 2 physical locations providing business owners with day-to-day infrastructure and mail packages allowing the small business owner to expand the geographic reach of their business. OA will have a 3rd Uptown location soon to launch in 2019 and plans for Santa Fe in the next 2-3 years.

Virtual offices hourly conference rooms can be rented for as few as 30 minutes. One of the primary benefits of using a virtual office is the low level of commitment. Gone are the traditional leases and overhead associated with a traditional office infrastructure. Whether you need a long-term home for your business or a short-term site for an emergency meeting, virtual offices are an efficient solution. Office Alternatives rents meeting, conference, boardrooms and even training rooms as few as 30 minutes and as low as $10 an hour for members. Virtual offices are designed to be flexible tools for businesses. It’s space when you need it and no cost when you don’t.

Virtual offices offer full-service administrative services. All Office Alternative locations have on-site staff that greet and accommodate you and your guests, offer free coffee with ceramic mugs and real half and half. Most importantly, our trained receptionists offer billable administrative assistance services billed by the minute not hour such as printing, copying, scanning, and mail-forwarding.

Virtual offices offer reception services. All Office Alternative locations have on-site staff that greet and accommodate you and your guests, offer free coffee with ceramic mugs and real half and half. Most importantly, our trained receptionists offer billable administrative assistance services billed by the minute not hour such as printing, copying, scanning, and mail-forwarding.

Virtual offices can prevent missed sales and missed $$$ Business owners often feel like they can’t step away from their business duties to answer phones. Yet every missed potential client is a missed sale. If a business owner makes $75-$100 per hour, one missed client is missed revenue. What if you missed 1 client per day? Statistics show 89% of all potential clients move the next company on the Google or Bing listing if they do not get a live answer. Virtual Receptionist Phone service, by Office Alternatives, provides the big-business infrastructure that allows business owners to have live-answer phone service even when on vacation. From answering phone calls and taking messages while you’re gone, and even scheduling appointments, customer interactions will be professionally handled with your specific instructions.

Virtual offices allow business owners to go on vacation. Business owners often feel like they can’t step away from their business. Virtual Receptionist Phone service provides the big-business infrastructure that allows business owners to take a break. From answering phone calls and taking messages while you’re gone, customer interactions will be professionally handled with your specific instructions.

Virtual offices are full-scale, professional facilities. The benefit of being a virtual office customer is the ability to conduct business at prestigious upscale full-service offices as if the infrastructure was your own company’s entirely. Office Alternatives’ locations include professional lobbies, meeting rooms, executive day offices, break rooms, conference equipment, high-speed internet, and more. Our locations are equipped to meet the unique needs of every business for a fraction of the cost of other long-term solutions.

Office Alternatives is a growing New Mexico company with two locations in Albuquerque, NM currently and a 3rd coming in 2019. We can provide virtual telephone reception to any company in the Mountain time zone currently even outside of the state. Call us Monday-Friday at 505.796.9600 for a free consultation.

If you are a small business owner, you wear many hats. In addition to being the owner you may also act as your own salesperson, webmaster, accountant and marketer. You are busy doing what you do best…… and you don’t want to also be your own receptionist or worse, miss important potential clients. Having someone to answer the phone when a current or potential customer calls is critical to keeping and landing new clients. One easy solution is to use a live answering service also known as “Virtual Telephone Reception Service” for small businesses. Unlike traditional phone answering services, Virtual Receptionists act as they are part of your face to face team and never say “we’re just an answering service.”

There are 3 top reasons to get a Virtual Reception Service today:

1. Never Miss a Call: An answering service means you are always open for business – even when you are in client meetings, on the road, or attending to the million and one small tasks that go along with running your own business. If you hire a virtual reception service, they will politely and professionally answer your calls, forward them directly to you (if that’s what you choose) or take a message. The alternative is missed calls that go straight to your voicemail. Unfortunately, recent studies show that almost 89% of callers hang up when they reach voicemail – meaning unless a business owner is available to answer every call as they come in, he or she is losing out on a lot of potential customers.
2. Save Money: Some small business owners have already realized the importance of not missing a call, but struggle with finding the budget to hire a receptionist to work at their office, if they even have a physical office due to all the costs involved. Hiring a full-time staff member to answer the phone will cost a typical business $2,500 – $3,500 a month in salary alone if not more. Any extras, such as a desk, phone, computer, etc. will add more to that cost. Small business answering services like our Office Alternatives’ Virtual Telephone Reception service offer reasonable rates starting at only $149 monthly, which makes hiring your own virtual receptionist one of the easiest decisions you will ever make as a business owner. If you think about how much
   one missed client or sales costs you on average, it’s a no-brainer to get this valuable service.
3. Project an Image of Professionalism & Success: Many small business owners frequently run their business from their smart phone – making and receiving calls, answering emails and checking their calendar to see where the day will take them next. They need to answer calls wherever they receive them – which could be while driving, running errands or heading into or out of a meeting. As a result of not always working at a traditional office, they may not always be able to convey a sense of professionalism due to background noise or other distractions. a Virtual Reception service solves those problems. The dedicated virtual receptionists are fully trained on your company and will answer calls promptly and politely from the quiet of a physical office as “part of your company’s team.” A Virtual Receptionist will also give the appearance to the caller that they are actually sitting at your place of business when they answer the phone. This instills confidence in the caller that they have reached a successful, even larger than reality, business, and will make them feel comfortable working with your company. Lastly, the receptionists are able to “screen” your calls and when you’re not wanting to talk with a particular person, you can instruct them to tell the caller a very calculated and reasonable “excuse” that softens the blow of not taking the call. For instance, you may say, “tell him I’m in meetings all week and to call me next Monday after 10:00” instead of what would happen without the receptionist: repeated voicemails to your cell phone which makes you appear rude.

If you are ready to boost your business all the way around, give Office Alternatives a call today at 505-796-9600. Signing up is simple, quick and affordable. Month to month commitments with no long-term obligations.

The terms Virtual Office,” “Virtual Reception,” or  “Virtual Mail” can be confusing in today’s age. What does “virtual” mean? Is there an actual office? A real receptionist or a robot? Is real mail involved with Virtual Mail? Office Alternatives would like to outline 6 Benefits of Virtual Office Services helping New Mexico Small Business or Independents grow and succeed.

Here are six things you didn’t know about virtual offices.

Virtual offices are real. A virtual office is a physical, brick-and-mortar location that features all of the modern amenities of a typical office, including professional on-site staff. Virtual Mail affords you to use this professional address as if it’s your company’s place of business when you might actually work out of your home. This becomes important when you’re setting up Google My Business (a must do!) and a geographical presence to be used with all online advertising. Google will not take a PO Box and why would you want your personal home address publicized and associated with your professional business? Office Alternatives has 2 physical locations providing business owners with day-to-day infrastructure and mail packages allowing the small business owner to expand the geographic reach of their business. OA will have a 3^rd Uptown location soon to launch in 2019 and plans for Santa Fe in the next 2-3 years.

Virtual offices hourly conference rooms can be rented for as few as 30 minutes. One of the primary benefits of using a virtual office is the low level of commitment. Gone are the traditional leases and overhead associated with a traditional office infrastructure. Whether you need a long-term home for your business or a short-term site for an emergency meeting, virtual offices are an efficient solution. Office Alternatives rents meeting, conference, boardrooms and even training rooms as few as 30 minutes and as low as $10 an hour for members. Virtual offices are designed to be flexible tools for businesses. It’s space when you need it and no cost when you don’t.

Virtual offices offer full-service administrative services. All Office Alternative locations have on-site staff that greet and accommodate you and your guests, offer free coffee with ceramic mugs and real half and half. Most importantly, our trained receptionists offer billable administrative assistance services billed by the minute not hour such as printing, copying, scanning, and mail-forwarding.

Virtual offices offer reception services. All Office Alternative locations have on-site staff that greet and accommodate you and your guests, offer free coffee with ceramic mugs and real half and half. Most importantly, our trained receptionists offer billable administrative assistance services billed by the minute not hour such as printing, copying, scanning, and mail-forwarding.

Virtual offices can prevent missed sales and missed $$$ Business owners often feel like they can’t step away from their business duties to answer phones. Yet every missed potential client is a missed sale. If a business owner makes $75-$100 per hour, one missed client is missed revenue.  What if you missed 1 client per day? Statistics show 89% of all potential clients move the next company on the Google or Bing listing if they do not get a live answer. Virtual Receptionist Phone service, by Office Alternatives, provides the big-business infrastructure that allows business owners to have live-answer phone service even when on vacation. From answering phone calls and taking messages while you’re gone, and even scheduling appointments, customer interactions will be professionally handled with your specific instructions.

Virtual offices allow business owners to go on vacation. Business owners often feel like they can’t step away from their business. Virtual Receptionist Phone service provides the big-business infrastructure that allows business owners to take a break. From answering phone calls and taking messages while you’re gone, customer interactions will be professionally handled with your specific instructions.

Virtual offices are full-scale, professional facilities. The benefit of being a virtual office customer is the ability to conduct business at prestigious upscale full-service offices as if the infrastructure was your own company’s entirely. Office Alternatives’ locations include professional lobbies, meeting rooms, executive day offices, break rooms, conference equipment, high-speed internet, and more. Our locations are equipped to meet the unique needs of every business for a fraction of the cost of other long-term solutions.

Office Alternatives is a growing New Mexico company with two locations in Albuquerque, NM currently and a 3rd coming in 2019. We can provide virtual telephone reception to any company in the Mountain time zone currently even outside of the state. Call us Monday-Friday at 505.796.9600 for a free consultation.

A virtual address is a professional business address for you company to use to receive mail/packages, list on Google/Bing and other sites, list on your business’ marketing collateral and give out as a place to meet clients by the hour.

Prestigious Business Address

A virtual address is a real, physical business address – a formal notice of the location of your business operations. But a virtual address is more than just a practical tool. It’s a strategy for boosting your business image.

A virtual address from Office Alternatives gives you access to a Commercial Class A or B building without the costs and commitment of a long-term lease and without using a Box number like the mail stores provide. Instead of using your home address or not listing a location at all, this option boosts your professional image and establishes credibility and trust with your clients, prospective clients, vendors and business partners.

A virtual address comes with the use of a private box number internally used to keep your mail private, safe and secure. Office Alternatives provides different sizes of mailboxes, depending on your shipping and receiving needs. We can even forward mail out of state so it looks like your business has a New Mexico location but you really don’t. Each private box comes with its own key, and optional 24/7 access allows you to pick up your mail on your own schedule.

Professional Receptionists Receive Incoming Mail, Packages, Pickups, Dropoffs

Office Alternatives’ locations are staffed with professional receptionists who handle incoming and outgoing mail and packages. These professionals ensure the security of your deliveries, and also solidify relationships with existing customers who are dropping off or picking up items.

Online Visibility

A virtual address can allow a business to claim a Google My Business listing, which isn’t possible when using a home address. This is important as consumers increasingly turn to Google properties to get information about a business. When a local consumer searches for a service, a properly formatted Google My Business profile increases the chances that your business is the first presented by Google to the consumer.

Extend Business Presence

When it’s time to expand your business operations into new territories, a virtual business address gets your foot in the door. Subscribing to Office Alternatives’ two locations (two mail packages) affords you an opportunity to claim your business presence in NE Heights and on the West side. How many of your competitors can do that? An address allows you to claim territory while avoiding the high costs and long-term commitments of commercial real estate. As your business presence grows in your new area of business, the level of your virtual office services can increase as needed.

Package Confidence and Security

Highly trained staff, who are familiarized with clients through an extensive orientation, sort and handle your company’s mail.  From scanning and forwarding mail* to notifying business owners of important deliveries, you can be sure that your mail and packages are properly handled.

*small fee required