PO Box or Residential Address

[cliveant]

In two minds over this ....as neither is ideal.

I am sending out some promotional material to potential trade customers. I do not have trade premises so the image I need to portray is not as professional as I'd like.

Do I print a PO Box address as my base or my residential address.....as neither is ideal. Or does anyone know of another option for me. I have to give some contact details for my place of business and need the most professional I can get.

 

[Giggleberries]

You may want to consider renting a local virtual office address if your business is something you plan on being around for a while. They don't cost that much.

Also, you will find that if you have a website for your business you have to publish your business address on it somewhere and it is illegal to use a PO Box address, or at least it is for a ecommerce site.

Hope this helps

 

[ChrisBD]

You may want to consider renting a local virtual office address if your business is something you plan on being around for a while. They don't cost that much.

Also, you will find that if you have a website for your business you have to publish your business address on it somewhere and it is illegal to use a PO Box address, or at least it is for a ecommerce site.

Hope this helps

Echo this; there has been much debte here recently about this.

A Google search will often throw up local business centres with a virtual office service; although it can be a mine field making sence of all of it - different firms all advertising the same thing and place.....

Mail Boxes Etc; are a high street franchise that do just this and more, could be the easy solution you want.

I personally found an office online through a bg London letting firm (in my local Cotswolds market town!), but they kept fobbing me off; turns out they were just a sub agent f a sub agent of a sub agent.....anyway, a quick scan in the post office saw a post card advertising the same facility, off I went direct and hey presto!

 

[Officebird]

Obviously I sell this service so i am biased (although I only have one address so it probably wouldn't suit you) Using a PO Box is not a good option as it makes you look a bit fly by night imo. It also isn't good enough for websites etc under the new rules. The residential address could be ok if you could disguise it: Unit 4, drury Lane, London for example sounds better than 4 Primrose Terrace.

A mailing address would be the best option, just look around as a lot of companies like to include call answering and time in a meeting room in with the deal (and therefore bump up the price). If you literally just need an address I would seek out something a lot more locally based and independently run.

 

[tiggohandbags]

P.O box address for sending your promotional materials,you'd better include your name card where you should mention your virtual office address

 

[BankruptStockBargainsUK]

PO BOX or Virtual office is the best route to take.

With the virtual office you can get some really good addresses as well that will make you look a bigger company than perhaps you actually are

 

Obviously I sell this service so i am biased (although I only have one address so it probably wouldn't suit you) Using a PO Box is not a good option as it makes you look a bit fly by night imo. It also isn't good enough for websites etc under the new rules. The residential address could be ok if you could disguise it: Unit 4, drury Lane, London for example sounds better than 4 Primrose Terrace.

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Not since the advent of google street level.

Earl