Virtual office, possibly real office needed Southsea Portsmouth

[colinbythesea]

I am looking for a virtual office or telephone answering service. It may seem daft asking if anybody is based in Southsea or Portsmouth for a virtual office but I would like to keep things local to me if possible, especially any address.

Along with this I may need a real office. It needs to be nice enough to have meetings with customers and because business could grow I don't want to enter any leases preferring a weekly rental so I can expand easily. Again in Southsea or Portsmouth.

Any thoughts or recommendations welcome.

 

[FirstClassVirtualOffice]

Try local serviced offices; they tend to have virtual office services within them.

 

[TheEngineer]

Slightly off the island but you could use the Regus offices in North Harbour (next to the IBM offices). Impressive location and easy to get to for clients outside the area.

No connection etc

 

[frenchlondoner]

Hi,

What are the best value for money serviced offices in Central London ?

 

[Jet Virtual]

Try typing in google 'virtual offices in Portsmouth' and see what shows up.
Regarding a Telephone Answering Service you don't necessarily need one that is local to you. Best is to go for a Professional Answering Service that has a good reputation.

Let me know if I can help ...

Daniel

 

[JasonGomez]

You could try with these guys, they offer virtual offices everywhere
davinci.co.uk and they have a location in Portsmouth

 

[cjd]

Do be careful when you sign up to a telephone service using a virtual office or virtual assistant. You will almost certainly want to keep your number when you move on or grow bigger so make sure the number belings to you, not the office or service.

The simplest way to do this is to use a VoIP service so that your number is your own and can be used anywhere.

You may find this useful when choosing a VA.
http://voipfoneuserforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=3869

 

[GeorgeM]

Various providers offer a virtual office, with a mailing address, and drop-in meeting areas. This option is cheaper and more flexible than renting your own physical office - unless you want to store stuff there. Telephone answering can be taken separately. I've used such arrangements and they work very well.

You may well find providers for all the above on UKBF.

 

[Stef27]

GeorgeM is very correct in his response.
All providers of office space (Virtual, conventional, serviced) are keen to get you into their buildings and make you happy you used them. This is even more relevant now while we are in a recession.

My advice to you is to draw up a list of your needs, and how often you will need them, along with how much flexibility you need around those needs, and then put your request for a quote together and put it out to tender. You should get a very favourable response from many of the office brokers.

Best of luck

 

[AdamStevens]

We used Regus at North Harbour for a year or so, with both a real office and then the virtual office plus service. It's quite expensive if you don't take advantage of all the other services that are included. (you probably won't..)

Since leaving Regus, (Jan 2012) what we have found is that they are absolute bargains to be had when it comes to private office space. We now have an office twice the size of the Regus one and it came in at well under half the price. There was some haggling but it's a buyers market completely.

Agree with getting an outsourced phone answering service, there's so many now, and so many decent ones that the cost is buttons.

Best of luck with it.