Why Officense is the Best Phone Answering Service for Startups

Starting a new business is thrilling but comes with challenges, including managing a high volume of phone calls. For small teams, this can be overwhelming. This is where Officense excels. We offer a professional phone answering service designed to meet the needs of startups. Our executive assistants handle calls promptly and professionally, ensuring important messages are relayed immediately. Here’s why Officense stands out as the best phone answering service for startups:

Professionalism: Officense enhances your startup’s image with a team of trained executive assistants who answer calls efficiently and professionally. This high level of service is hard to maintain with a small team juggling multiple roles. Our professionalism helps elevate your brand and demonstrates why Officense is a leader in phone answering services for startups.

Cost-Effective: Managing costs is crucial for startups. Hiring a full-time receptionist can be costly and often unnecessary. Officense offers a flexible, affordable alternative, allowing you to pay only for the services you use. This cost-effectiveness lets you allocate your budget to other vital areas of your business, reinforcing why Officense is an ideal choice for startups.

Customization: As startups grow quickly, Officense can scale with you. Our services are highly customizable, from basic call handling to more advanced needs like appointment scheduling, mail handling, or even a dedicated office space. We adapt to fit your changing requirements.

In summary, Officense is a valuable partner for startups, providing a mix of professionalism, cost efficiency, and scalability. By outsourcing your phone answering needs to Officense, you can focus on growing your startup and serving your customers effectively.

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Post-pandemic has everyone thinking about flexibility in their workspaces. This need for flexibility has more and more people exploring virtual office spaces for when you have office needs but don’t need a whole office all of the time.

Virtual Offices

Indeed describes it as an ideal solution for people who work remotely or those who want to possess a business address without renting a physical office space. 

A virtual office is a space that is a flexible workspace industry that provides businesses with any combination of services, space, and/or technology, without those businesses bearing the capital expenses of owning or leasing a traditional office.

How Can We Help?

At Officense we proudly offer more than just an address, we offer you a team to back you up. We’re in the professional image business. Whether it’s what your potential clients see when they look you up online, or their first interaction with your company on the phone, Officense ensures you are projecting a consistent, professional image at a fraction of the traditional costs.

On top of being in the professional image business, Officense is a comprehensive suite of business solutions. We are a full-service environment at your disposal, with friendly staff, professional address, administrative services, and reception courtesies available whenever you need.

We assist companies by offering flexible workspace solutions, live-answer phone services, and highly customized administrative services that go far beyond just office rental. Do you work from an office currently and how do you handle your client calls?

Shop our services and see what’s right for your virtual office needs.

The first step in establishing any business is getting a primary business address. A business needs an address to receive a license, have an SEO presence, and accept mail. You have several options such as using your home address, purchasing a P.O. box, or getting a downtown business address.

The Home Address

Option 1: You could use your home address, but who wants customers stumbling up their front steps at all hours of the day. Homes should be private sanctuaries to get away from work. What if you have a disgruntled customer or someone trying to serve your legal documents banging on your front door? Now, they know where you live! Finally, Google is no longer accepting home addresses as the business address for SEO listings.

The P.O. Box

Option 2: In some cases, a P.O. box can be used as a business address. However, your business may require a physical office to be inspected to receive a license. Additionally, you can only pick up your mail during the scheduled hours of your US Post Office. That is crazy and inconvenient with a business owner’s busy schedule! Finally, Google is no longer accepting P.O. boxes as the business address for SEO listings.

Is There A Better Business Address Option?

In today’s society, a business’s livelihood can hinge on its SEO presence. The costly solution is to go sign a commercial lease for office space that is going to lock you in for 5 years. Furthermore, it may not be in an ideal area due to budget constraints. This is where Officense saves the day! We offer a prestigious business address in a downtown location right along the Inner Harbor. Our primary business address package provides an SEO approved address, registered agent services, and 24/7 access to your mail.  Finally, we offer at gratis a fully staffed reception desk from 9 am to 5 pm to greet and assist your clients. This is all without you being in the office. Click to receive your quote for a business address today!
 

Anyone that starts a business obviously wants to see it grow. So have you taken the time to really think about how beneficial networking could be? I understand that finding the ability to network in your overly-flooded schedule can be challenging for any business owner. It requires a decent amount of free time – and money too – to go to networking events, schedule dinner meetings, or even to stop by a potential partner’s workplace. Co-working is the new networking!

Imagine this scenario:

You have to get A, B and C done for your company by the end of the week – on top of finishing X, Y and Z. You have a few meetings in the mix and now something else goes wrong along the way too. Maybe employees got sick so everyone thinks they have the coronavirus, or maybe people just show up not wanting to work. Now you have a plethora of tasks, and definitely no time for a networking meeting. Sounds about right for any company at any given moment.

You’re frustrated while heading home, so you bring it up to your family at dinner. Then you bring it up again when you go out for drinks with some friends. And now your buddies, who struggle with business issues themselves, are also talking about the downfalls for everyones companies.

But what if you found something that would alleviate at least half of your current problems? What if it freed up some extra money for your business too? What if you had a mutual place to meet for networking discussions? Or better yet, what if you worked in a coworking office with some of your potential partners?

Now imagine this scenario:

You and your employees work in a coworking space, which is a shared office that would allow individuals from various companies to work independently or collaboratively. Coworking environments could really be a beneficial factor in a company’s expansion, and overall success rate. Like I said, it takes time and money to go out of your way for all of these networking meetings. If you relocated your business to a coworking space, your rent would be cut back pretty tremendously. In turn opening up funds for more business moves you want to make, such as making investments in networking campaigns.

Coworking spaces themselves also give the opportunity for networking, because you are in a space with people you otherwise wouldn’t meet in a regular workplace setting. As you are working in the same office suite as these other companies, you come to build a relationship with them. After all, you’re seeing them on a regular basis and learning what they do. Some business owners feel co-working spaces can be counter intuitive to what they are trying to accomplish. They feel employees will either be talking too much, or keeping headphones on all day, avoiding interaction with eachother in general. While that sometimes is the case, it’s not always true.

Officense is the answer:

Luckily, here at Officense we have a coworking space with individual offices. When you have your own office inside a coworking environment, it provides a sense of privacy you otherwise wouldn’t get in other open-floor plans to complete your work without distractions. All while still encouraging coworkers and other business owners who work in the space with you to step into your office and discuss collaborations and business opportunities (hence, the networking aspect you’ve been craving).

If you are meeting with a larger group, we have 2 conference rooms, equipped with a monitor for video conferencing as well. Even if you didn’t need a full-time office, you could always make it a part-time solution, as we have very cost-effective day rates for renting the conference rooms and offices only when you need it. Officense also offers around the clock access to the space we have provided for you. So even when your company doesn’t run 24×7, those late night conferences can still continue if you wish.

Another benefit to our coworking space at Officense is the ability to utilize our team of executive assistants to handle your receptionist work. You wouldn’t have to hire employees who don’t want to work anymore. Instead, you’d have us here ready to help you out with whatever you need. So stop being overwhelmed with stress and things to do! Don’t discuss all the things going wrong over drinks tonight, talk to your group about the perfect solution: contacting Officense!

Contact Us Today:

We’ll be ready to help with your coworking needs, so you can focus more on networking, and growing your business to it’s full potential. For more information, call Officense at 410-814-7500, email us at info@officense.com, or stop in for a visit. We are located at 300 E. Lombard St., Suite 840, Baltimore, MD 21202. We’ll look forward to meeting you!

FAQS:

Officense has been partnering with and assisting financial advisors for over 10 years, providing professional communication and administrative solutions. Our professional business address, private offices/conference rooms, call handling, and mail processing services lend instant credibility to any financial advisor. For example, customized scripts for phone answering provides full-time support while matching your call instructions. It gives you time to focus on your job’s additional responsibilities. And the best part about Officense’s services – you only pay for what you use.

PHONE ANSWERING AND MORE – ALL AROUND THE WORLD

Whether you work from home, or have to travel for business, important calls shouldn’t be missed. By choosing an office assistant with Officense, you get our exclusive, customized phone answering services. For instance, they can either run during regular business hours, or 24/7 with Officense’s HiLivePro. This means that we’ll forward calls according to your instructions anywhere in the world. For financial business leaders, assistants with phone answering services from Officense is the best solution for your business administration needs. We provide courteous, professional, customized services to maintain the corporate image you’ve built. Whether you need live call handling, consultation scheduling, custom call screening or more, we are the company to connect with.

While we offer outstanding phone answering services to financial advisors, Officense has many more solutions to assist your company in its success. Some additional services offered to business-owners are: on-demand admin support, appointment scheduling and management, bookkeeping and data entry, we even offer business consulting to those interested. To learn more about Officense’s phone answering and other custom business solutions offered, check out our page on Personalized Solutions for Financial Advisors.

REACH OUT TO US TODAY

Don’t hesitate anymore about this decision. Unlike other market trends, our Officense’s services remain constant. Email or call to speak with an executive assistant or sales coordinator at info@officense.com or 410-814-7500. If you’re thinking about dropping in to learn about our phone answering services firsthand, Officense is open Monday-Friday. Our office is closed on weekends, but you can submit a contact request or chat with us anytime via the link on our website. Officense is keeping everyone in our thoughts during this pandemic, and will be here ready to help your business along the way.