Comments on: Owning a Small Business: The Office http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/12/16/owning-a-small-business-the-office/ Bridging the gap between saving money and investing Tue, 21 May 2013 11:58:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: damon http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/12/16/owning-a-small-business-the-office/comment-page-1/#comment-663696 damon Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:16:14 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/?p=5563#comment-663696 Great article!

I had heard of virtual office spaces before, but forgot about them.

Thanks for the reminder and it’s good to hear a customer’s point of view of them. It sounds like they would be a great opportunity for a lot of people.

]]> By: Nathan Jansch http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/12/16/owning-a-small-business-the-office/comment-page-1/#comment-661894 Nathan Jansch Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:53:10 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/?p=5563#comment-661894 As a virtual office provider in Denver, CO I am happy to hear that you have found a virtual office that meets your business’s needs. People in our industry are always singing the praises of virtual officing, but it carries a lot more weight when sung by an actual user.

Sadly, it’s not a surprise to hear that your commercial real estate contacts were not knowledgable of, or didn’t share information with you about, virtual offices. Commercial real estate agents make their living on commissions, so the less amount of money a tenant spends, the less the agent gets… So they have little incentive to stear you towards a low cost option like a virtual office. Fortunately for you, your baker friend certainly pointed you in the right direction.

]]> By: John DeFlumeri Jr http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/12/16/owning-a-small-business-the-office/comment-page-1/#comment-660595 John DeFlumeri Jr Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:22:47 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/?p=5563#comment-660595 I think it’s quite a fair arrangement when you’re starting up and need low overhead and ver little office usage.

John DeFlumeri Jr

]]> By: Daniel http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/12/16/owning-a-small-business-the-office/comment-page-1/#comment-660585 Daniel Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:49:43 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/?p=5563#comment-660585 What you really need is a HybridOffice-not completely green, but here to save you some. Use of a business address, and access to on demand meeting spaces. The rest of the time you work from home. Think of it as the meeting point between your home office and your clients office. How can you concentrate on your core business, when you are constantly thinking about recurring overhead.

]]> By: Ron http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/12/16/owning-a-small-business-the-office/comment-page-1/#comment-660542 Ron Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:28:09 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/?p=5563#comment-660542 Everyone needs a virtual water cooler from time to time, it get get lonely working from home! The virtual office option seems to be growing in popularity, thanks Dave!

]]> By: Gail http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/12/16/owning-a-small-business-the-office/comment-page-1/#comment-660519 Gail Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:52:36 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/?p=5563#comment-660519 David, your mentioning how the baker helps you reminds me of what I read in the book The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell. If you haven’t read this book yet, you may want to as it is very interesting and your baker sounds like the kind of guy that the author was talking about. The guy that knows everything and everybody and is glad to help you out just for the joy of doing it.

My hubby, who came from a family of self-employed uncles and his siblings are all self employed, helps me to have the confidence to dip my toe in the pool and then take the plunge. Very hard for me as I came from a family where I was always being told ‘you don’t want to do that’. Poor/low earnings jobs were fine, but to have a dream of doing better and making more was discouraged. So having someone to whom taking those chances that having your own business (no matter how big or small)entails and encourages me to try anyhow is terrific!

]]> By: Broken Arrow http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/12/16/owning-a-small-business-the-office/comment-page-1/#comment-660500 Broken Arrow Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:53:44 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/?p=5563#comment-660500 Oh, that is very interesting! Thank you for sharing this!

]]> By: joemicheal http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/12/16/owning-a-small-business-the-office/comment-page-1/#comment-660452 joemicheal Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:21:26 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/?p=5563#comment-660452 After reading your article, I suggest you to occupy your home space, renovate it (if necessary)and start your work from there.

For meetings to clients you can use skype and other messages tool who also provide an video conference facility. Save your earnings, it’s yours.

Another soultion is to join online market places where your clients already know that from where you are giving services to them.

]]> By: Rick http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/12/16/owning-a-small-business-the-office/comment-page-1/#comment-660412 Rick Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:39:40 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/?p=5563#comment-660412 Great Article.
We have many clients that use our service for basic office support.

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