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Office Answers Blog Articles
Office Answers have been providing virtual receptionist, automated answering, and virtual office services since 2004. We have spoken with thousands of small business owners and many have similar questions. That is not surprising as they all face very similar challenges when trying to get their business started and when it starts to grow. The blog articles below have been written to expand on the questions we typically get asked.
I hope you find them useful.
Ian
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Ian M
Aug 23, 20192 min read
Virtual Receptionist Services - the four most frequent questions
The four most frequently asked questions about virtual receptionist services.
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Ian M
Jul 23, 20192 min read
How many people work from home in the UK?
A report from the National Office of Statistics shows interesting trends in self employment rates and how many people work from home.
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Ian M
Jul 23, 20193 min read
How to the choose the best virtual assistant
Many start-up companies and small business owners like to outsource work to virtual assistants.
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Clare M
Jun 28, 20193 min read
Mums in Business
How virtual receptionist services help mums juggle running a business and motherhood.
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Ian M
May 17, 20192 min read
Virtual Receptionist misconceptions
Think a virtual receptionist or professional answer phone system isn’t for you – think again As we’re celebrating 10 years of providing...
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Ian M
Apr 17, 20191 min read
Virtual Receptionist for small Healthcare clinics
Setting up a small business as a Healthcare Professional is a natural progression for many people who have experience in the Healthcare...
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Ian M
Feb 19, 20192 min read
Don’t give up the day job
I recently read a good article in the Sunday Times business section with the title "Don't give up the day job ..." and it really rang...
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Ian M
Aug 15, 20163 min read
The benefits of having a virtual office
If you are the owner of a small business that you run from home then you may benefit from outsourcing your admin work to a virtual office...
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Ian M
Mar 15, 20162 min read
Self Employment – pros and cons
There are many positive aspects of turning to self employment and much has been written encouraging people to take the step. We would...
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Ian M
Sep 7, 20153 min read
What is an IVR system? Interactive Voice Response
As your business grows, new services and facilities will probably be needed in order to cater for increased activity. And as more and...
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Ian M
Mar 17, 20153 min read
Sage Backup and Error Checking – why it is important
I have used Sage Line 50 for ten years. it is not my favourite software but it does the job and I guess I had become a bit complacent...
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Ian M
Mar 17, 20151 min read
How to set the next invoice number in Sage | Small Business Advice
We use sequential invoice numbers for our invoices which happens automatically in our Sage Line 50 package but sometimes you may need to...
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Ian M
Jan 30, 20152 min read
03 Telephone Numbers Tariff for Business Call Handling
For many years lots of organisations used 08 telephone numbers, typically 0870 and 0845 numbers. They were widely used by call centres ...
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Ian M
Jul 23, 20143 min read
The benefits of automated call answering
As a small business owner, it’s important that you spend your time doing what earns your company money to survive and thrive. Telephone ...
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Ian M
Jul 23, 20143 min read
How a virtual office can help with local SEO
Introduction Search Engine Optimisation is all about increasing your presence on the market, making sure you come up as top of the list...
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Ian M
Apr 7, 20143 min read
Virtual receptionist v In-house receptionist
Many businesses are choosing to outsource their administration work to virtual receptionists, rather than hiring in-house receptionist...
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Ian M
Apr 22, 20131 min read
Sage Settings to access printer are not valid – Solved
We use Sage shared between two computers and suddenly I started getting the message from “Settings to access printer are not valid”. See...
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Ian M
Apr 22, 20133 min read
How a Virtual Office will Help you Cut Down your Costs
The banks have tightened their lending criteria making it very difficult for small businesses to secure the capital they need in order to...
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Ian M
Mar 22, 20133 min read
Training for Customer Service Excellence
Customer service is an area where more and more value is placed on having a highly performing team. In a competitive market where costs...
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Ian M
Feb 27, 20132 min read
Divert Skype to a telephone number (landline or mobile)
We have some customers of our virtual receptionist service who have a telephone number with Skype and want to divert this SkypeIn ...
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