Virtual offices: your winning formula for success

In just one hour you can have your own upmarket, Collins Street Melbourne business address, phone answering, fax forwarding and professional reception services - all for less than the cost of a sandwich and coffee a day!

If you are serious about growing your business and attracting new clients, then one of the first issues to consider is your business image and how you look when compared with your competitors.

Does your current situation compromise you in any way when introducing your business to new prospects? Well, for most small businesses and especially single person entities, the truth is that they find themselves thinking small and thus ‘behaving small’ and more seriously, portraying themselves as a small business with often disastrous consequences.

A large part of this mindset is attributable to one’s office, location and support services. For example, working from home most often sticks out like a home address, which immediately says “I’m small” and if the prospect is a large organisation, they will initially tend away from developing such a relationship.

If you or your business partner is always answering the phone, then this will conjure up an image of a small entity in the minds of prospective clients.

However, if you offered a Collins Street business address (in Melbourne) which is arguably the country's most prominent, single business address with all the right connotations of size, credibility, well-established and the like, then half your battle is won.

Now multiply this wow factor by adding a professionally answered phone service, quality reception service to receive parcels or meet & greet your clients, fully equipped meeting rooms to use on an as needs basis for boardroom type functions, business meetings, training courses or lectures then immediately any negative aspects of your image will have been negated.

At Collins Street Business Centre we have been assisting others for over 15 years with a number of tailored business packages such as:

1. Rent a Virtual Office package so that you get to use our Collins Street Business Centre address for meetings and mail handling, plus we provide you with access to all of our business services on an ad-hoc basis and provision of your own unique phone number. The latter we answer in your Company’s name and handle messages via email, call transfer or SMS depending on your requirements. A voicemail system is included with the added options of automatic sending of messages via email with SMS notification of a voicemail message being received. So in summary you can portray yourself as a Collins Street based business, with professional phone answering and reception services.

2. Rent a Serviced Office to suit from one to ten people. This comes with all of the items listed in package one (above) as well as your own private office with furniture, phones and Internet access. Complete security for the Internet is included. You will also have direct network access to our colour, high speed printers, copiers and scanners. Online faxing is also included.

We highlight on our web site just how much money is saved when adopting a serviced office approach, versus trying to setup your own office, usually at a less impressionable address.

Complete access to our meeting rooms is available and this will help you to strengthen your own business image via your own virtual or serviced office presence.

So act now and give yourself and your business every available opportunity to grow and succeed.

Special promotion for Flying Solo readers

Collins Street Business Centre are offering a special discount for Flying Solo readers of 10% off for the first 3 months for a serviced office rental or 10% off over the first 6 months for one of our phone answering or virtual office packages. Please mention this when making any enquiries either via our website at or on 03-8601-1100.

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