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Many small businesses find it difficult to provide themselves with the office support and administration services they need to set up and perform effectively.
Ex-patriates working in a foreign environment, such as the Costa del Sol, find it particularly difficult due to the existence of more restricted services in Spain (e.g. mail), limitations created by the geography of the area (e.g. roads), language barriers and a lack of the familiar services they have access to at home. However, the option to ´outsource` this problem is now becoming very popular in Europe and has become a fast growing business sector. The Costa del Sol has very few office support facilities to meet the demand from an increasing number of new businesses setting up. A Virtual Office service is designed to support business people who require a flexible, low cost office facility. This is normally because they: - Do not have the resources to set one up on their own
- Do not require a permanent office set up
- Require a business ´presence` in a location which is different to their normal base of operations
- Are highly mobile and require office support whilst they are travelling
- Have a specific project of a temporary nature that requires office support for a short term
Examples: - A new business that wants to begin trading but do not have the financial resources to invest in a complete and permanent office premises.
- A business that by its activity does not need a physical location and only requires a facility to send and receive communications.
- A business that wishes to promote the fact that it has an office in an area for marketing purposes etc.
- A business whose employee/s work from home and/or travel a lot thereby needing a base for sending and receiving communications.
- A business is promoting a new product/service in a new area for a specific campaign period and need local resources for the duration of the promotion.
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