Virtual Office & Virtual Assistant Services for Small Business.
How to use virtual office and assistant services to help you grow your small business. In this episode of The How of Business podcast we interview Tobie Beck, Executive Director at PrideGroupCo. They provide virtual assistant, virtual office space and physical office space for small business owners. In addition to traditional virtual office services, they also offer bookkeeping, payroll solutions like Cloudpay, project management, and much more.
Tobie has extensive experience supporting entrepreneurs, mid-level managers and C-Suite executives. Her experience covers a range of industries from insurance to non-profits to service organizations. Tobie supports PrideGroupCo clients with project management, marketing, social media and administrative needs. Tobie loves the variety of her job – doing something new every day – and the challenge of a project. Her official title is Executive Director, but she describes her role best as Chaos Management Expert!
Virtual Office & Virtual Assistant Services for Small Business:
- The types of virtual services available in the market today for small business varies greatly, ranging from virtual office services (having a formal business address separate from your home address) to back-office services like bookkeeping, payroll, human resources, and other services.
- Virtual office and assistant services are ideal for home-based businesses, solopreneurs, new business owners, and even businesses with physical locations that have limited space for meetings and other business events.
- It’s an opportunity to extend your brand, reach and professional image.
- Small business owners should consider outsourcing the back-office components of their business so that they can focus on growing their business.
- There are on-line virtual assistant services broadly available today, but the type of semi-virtual assistance offered by a local virtual office business like PrideGroupCo allows for a personal relationship which results is higher value and better results.
- Trying to do it all themselves, is a top common mistake Tobie observes with small business owners. It’s important to ask for help!
- Successful small businesses ask for and seek help. They focus on what they are expert in and what helps them grow their business, and they outsource or delegate the rest.
- It’s also important that you define your vision and mission for your company. This will help you with determining where you need to focus.
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