Paula: I am a consultant in the Workspace Industry & for a Virtual Office/Digital Mail Service Channel Partner and can tell you that I see pricing all over the place for mail service only (Virtual Office Clients) $9.99 - $149.99 per month. Sometimes the address pricing comes with additional perks like conference room time, coworking hours or directory listings added in, sometimes just straight use of address. A main pricing factor will be based on the location of your Center and competitive pricing in your area.
I can't really think of any Cons to taking on Virtual Office clients, just Pros. Especially if you do it correctly. You don't just sign them on as a Virtual and then forget about them. You need to include them as part of your community. A Virtual Client has been a potential Coworking Member, full-time Office Space client, Conference Room user & Event Space booking. You can offer ad-ons to the basic Virtual Client membership: conference room hours, directory listing, event space discount, digital mail service. The best part, besides increasing your revenue stream, is that you don't have to provide physical mailboxes so your potential to grow this area of your business is endless (you can keep mail in locked/secured filing cabinets in file folders). *With a staggering 540,000 new businesses being formed each month (69% of entrepreneurs start their business from home and 52% of small businesses in the US are home based),* *you can see the potential for an amazing revenue source*. If you are serious about wanting to build your Virtual Client base and take advantage of this growing revenue source, I would definintely recommend using Channel Partners to help increase your Virtual Base in additional to your own internal efforts. The Channel Partners can reach Virtuals that would probably never find your Center through your own organic efforts - most of the time from another area of the country or world. You do need to make sure that you have completed and filed a CMRA application (Commercial Mail Receiving Agency) with the US post office. And if you go in and they look at you like you have 3 heads, just ignore them and insist on speaking with a manager and insist that they file it. Sadly, the Postal System doesn't always know their own Rules & Regs. Also, you will need to obtain a Form 1583 from each Virtual Client in order for them to use your address. Again, these need to be filed with the Post Office but they may not even know what they are. Just insist on doing it and maintain documentation. If you don't follow the regulations, they could stop your mail delivery. There are specific Rules & Regs as to who needs to complete the 1583s when it comes to coworking, office memberships & virtual clients. Make sure you understand them. I hope this information was helpful to you. If you have any questions or need any additional help, please don't hesitate to reach out to me. Warmest regards- Lori Hamilton Hamilton Virtual Business Solutions/ Get Spaced, LLC (757) 694-1205 l...@hvbsolutions.com www.HVBSolutions.com www.iPostal1.com On Friday, January 18, 2019 at 7:48:46 AM UTC-5, pa...@soarco-working.com wrote: > Do you sell a mailbox service including your business address as a > stand-alone service to non-coworkers? If yes: > 1. Your price point? > 2. Pros? > 3. Cons? > > Thanks in advance for sharing your experiences! > > Paula Blair > SOAR Co-Working Inc. > www.soarco-working.com > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
