The Virtual Company

While everyone was watching for the telecommuting trend to explode, something else exploded right next to it: The Virtual Company.

The business with no office to telecommute from.These companies give new opportunities to entrepreneurs to get started with no money down.

But a virtual business also gives people the opportunity to create the personal life they want.

The future is likely to be the age of virtual businesses, forget three guys in a garage -- that was your father's startup. Today it's three people spread out across the country or even across continents, each in their home offices or back porches with laptops, mobile phones, and WiFi."

Dennis Yang
Techdirt

A perfect storm of factors is converging to make virtual businesses more popular, and easier to run:

1. Workers will quit regular jobs to get control over their time. Both men and women are increasingly willing to leave the work force to create personal time and family time, according to Jacqueline Luffman, a labor analyst for the Canadian government. In light of that, a virtual office ends up seeming like a compromise rather than an extreme solution.

   

2. Technology levels the playing field. It has become so cheap and easy to use that someone who doesn't have a lot of resources can create a Web presence that looks established and professional.
3. Retail businesses can be virtual. Of course, there's always eBay. But you can also set up a shop with Amazon, where you create a storefront and Amazon handles all inventory and fulfillment issues -- and then sends you a check for the sales you make. Or you can work with a slew of smaller online whol esalers the same way. The rise of telecommuting.
4. Established companies such as Sun Microsystems realize that telecommuters are happy, appreciative, and cost-effective, so they encourage people to telecommute.
5. This trend means that it's easier for you to have a work life that you can control -- whether you're working at your own virtual company or at someone else's. The benefits are flexibility, efficiency, and little overhead.
   
   

Want to take your company virtual? Here's how:

1. Sign-up for a Press8 VoIP hosted PBX.
2. Set up your employees extensions in your control panel, record a main greeting, and decide how to route your calls.
3. Use your VoIP phones anywhere there is a High Speed Internet Connection (at home or on the road).
4. Use other hosted solutions like Centraldesktop.com for sharing files and Spark (free) to IM your employees.
5. Use our conference calling feature to setup a conference bridge anytime with email reminders and pin numbers.
6. Easily monitor your team through call reports and recorded calls right in your Web-based Press8 control panel.
7. Intelligently route call center calls using our call queue feature that route calls to the employee with the least amount of call time.
   
   

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