- How business mail forwarding helps you outpace your competition
- How business mail forwarding eases your stress
- Your mail forwarding options
- Modern tools to use in conjunction with business mail forwarding
Q: How can I use business mail forwarding to help my company? What’s the best way to sign up for business mail forwarding?
A: With business mail forwarding, your company can reduce the amount of required office space, improve efficiency, enhance flexibility, maintain professionality, and enhance security – not to mention it’s incredibly convenient. Alliance Virtual Offices provides mail forwarding add-ons of four various lengths to any entrepreneur that signs up for a Virtual Office plan.
During the pandemic, the number of remote workers increased exponentially due to stay-at-home orders, shoddy supply chains, and an overwhelming fear of infection.
As the pandemic continues to wind down, many larger corporations have realized that focusing on digital-first operations is an excellent way to keep their businesses flexible and successful.
For small business owners, the same is true. With the right tools, digital-first operations will position your company for long-term success, easy growth, and low operational costs.
Virtual Offices allow business owners to get the same benefits associated with traditional office space at a fraction of the cost. Alliance’s Live Receptionists allow business owners to fill phone-answering positions that, historically, would’ve required hiring another employee.
As you can see, the benefits of focusing on the digital world are far-reaching. That said, you must recognize how necessary these virtual tools are.
Business mail, for example, is something that several business owners don’t think about until that same lack of thought creates an issue that has to be dealt with.
If you’re worried about time-sensitive business mail, USPS isn’t going to go out of its way to ensure you have the documents you requested. This is why Alliance’s business mail forwarding service is so helpful.
Using traditional mailboxes or P.O. boxes for your business mail is an excellent way to lose documents, miss deadlines, and in some cases, frustrate your customers.
In this article, we’ll take a closer look at how mail forwarding helps you outpace your competition and ease stress, what mail forwarding options Alliance provides, and discuss other modern tools that can be used in conjunction with business mail forwarding.
So, instead of using a business mail list to determine when and where you need to pick up your mail, continue reading! The tips below will teach you how forwarding business mail can help position your company for long-term success.
- How business mail forwarding helps you outpace your competition
- How business mail forwarding eases your stress
- Your mail forwarding options
- Modern tools to use in conjunction with business mail forwarding
How mail forwarding helps you outpace your competition
In our increasingly digital world, your company must be able to outpace its competition. This means being as flexible as possible in as many areas as possible.
Fortunately, modern business owners have more options than ever before when it comes to retaining this flexibility.
Read more: Virtual Mailing Adress for Your Business
Instead of paying lengthy leases and monthly utility bills, many entrepreneurs are using Virtual Offices to get the same benefits associated with traditional office space at a fraction of the cost.
Business mail is no different. Through Alliance’s Virtual Offices, business owners can add our mail forwarding service to help ensure that they’re outpacing their competition.
The attention economy rewards the fastest-moving businesses. Therefore, the business that works the fastest – wins the market.
All too often, business owners confuse growth with scalability. Contrary to popular belief, you should be interjecting in your company’s daily operations as seldom as possible.
The idea is to create a self-sustaining business model that functions perfectly, regardless of whether or not you’re at work or in Hawaii. You can attain this model through delegation, decentralization, and providing flexibility for your employees.
For many business owners, this delegation is seen as a sign of defeat, when in reality, it’s simply the sign of a healthy business.
With the right business mail forwarding service, you can easily outpace and outlast your competition. Below, we’ve listed a few ways our clients have benefited from using Alliance’s business mail and mail forwarding services.
- Scalability
- Free time
- Cost-efficiency
- Professionality
Scalability
It’s easy to imagine that increased revenue equates to increased profits. Unfortunately, this couldn’t be further from the truth.
Instead, the more money your business can get out of every dollar spent, the better positioned your company will be to truly scale.
As e-commerce numbers continue to exceed expectations, the businesses with the healthiest infrastructure will succeed.
When you focus exclusively on increasing sales, you’re ignoring the nuance of your business infrastructure. The better prepared your business is to handle the higher volume, the more money you’ll make on these new sales.
Through your Virtual Office, you’ve already saved extensive capital by eliminating the need for a physical office space. In many ways, adding business mail forwarding to your Virtual Office helps reduce this need for extra space.
Additionally, adding business mail forwarding makes your business exponentially more flexible.
Because you can choose to have your mail forwarded to any location, you’re not constrained to any specific physical space. This means you can focus on researching new markets and true scalability instead of waiting around for your mail.
Outside of the more obvious scaling benefits, having your mail sorted and organized before it reaches your hands is streamlined mail management, which reduces the need for extra staff and helps you save time.
Free time
The longer you own your business, the more valuable your time becomes, and the more you realize that anything that can be done to save you time should be done.
Thanks to the free market and general economic vicissitudes, there are times when money is genuinely cheap. This means that if your business is around for long enough, you’ll undoubtedly experience times when interest rates are low and borrowing money is easy.
Unfortunately, there are no market conditions in existence that will ever make your time any less valuable.
Once you’ve realized this, the benefits of business mail forwarding are excruciatingly clear: time spent pouring over your mail and identifying important documents is time that could be better spent on market research and forging new connections.
To outperform your competition, you need to designate as much free time as humanly possible.
This isn’t to say that a staggering majority of this “free time” won’t be spent on your business; contrarily, it’s saying that the more time you can spend on your business infrastructure and positioning for true scalability, the better off you’ll be.
Cost-efficiency
Similar to the argument presented for your mail forwarding’s scalability, adding this service to your Virtual Office will help you save considerable capital.
Many mail forwarding providers charge one high, flat rate, regardless of how much mail you get.
With Alliance, you can pick the plan that works best for your business, adding more mail-forwarding capabilities as necessary.
This way, you save as much money as possible at every stage of your business’s growth cycle.
Read more: Identify Your Business Growth Stage to Maximize Profits
Professionality
A large benefit of using a Virtual Office is the ability to register your business to a professional and well-known address in the heart of almost any city’s central business district.
When you add mail forwarding to your Virtual Office, you’re able to ensure that your street address is the same as your mailing address.
This shows potential clients and investors that you have a cohesive vision for the future and that you’re professional enough to keep your virtual business under one centralized location.
How mail forwarding helps reduce stress
Mail forwarding will help you outpace your competition and better position your company, but not worrying about your business mail also does wonders for stress reduction.
Many entrepreneurs are terrified to start a business because of all the steps they assume they’ll be forced to take. In reality, starting a business has never been easier.
Read more: A Complete Guide to Starting a Business Using a U.S. Mailing Address
With the tools that you have at your disposal, there’s never any reason to stress about the tasks you feel are overwhelming – because there’s always a way to streamline those tasks.
Essentially, business mail forwarding through your Virtual Office is one of these streamlined methods of reducing stress.
Whether it’s fewer to-dos, more flexibility, or simply less to think about, business mail forwarding through your Virtual Office will help you attain a perfect work-life balance for you and your employees.
Below, we’ve documented a few ways that using our business mail service will help you reduce stress.
- Fewer daily tasks
- Professionality
- Security
- Flexibility
- Simplified remote working
Fewer daily tasks
As you can imagine, when someone else is worrying about your business mail forwarding, you have fewer daily tasks to worry about.
Having a daily routine is great, but perusing through your business mail every single day is just wasting time that could be better spent on market research or other avenues of growth.
Professionality
One of the biggest benefits of using one of Alliance’s Virtual Offices is the ability to register your business with a well-known and professional street address.
When you add business mail forwarding, you can use that same address for all your business mail needs. This means you won’t have to hand out business cards or send emails with multiple business addresses listed; instead, you have one central location where all your business-related needs are handled.
Besides providing a dedicated business address, getting organized and codified business mail will help you show that same professionalism within your business.
The more professional your business appears, the more relaxed you’ll feel.
Security
Similar to professionality, the more secure your business is, the less stressed you’ll feel.
Through Alliance’s business mail forwarding, your mail is being securely handled exclusively by professionals, ensuring that any confidential, sensitive, or valuable documents are taken care of.
One of the biggest issues you’ll encounter when using a public P.O. box or similar service is that your mail isn’t held in a secure location.
Boxes at USPS and UPS locations could easily be damaged. Sure, this isn’t something you can plan for, but through Alliance’s business mail forwarding, you aren’t leaving your mail in an easy-to-access public area.
Overall, Alliance’s business mail forwarding increases your security by guaranteeing the safe handling of your mail, providing alternative methods of accessing your mail, and safe storage.
When you aren’t worried about who may or may not be looking at your mail, it’s considerably easier to relax.
Flexibility
The more flexible your operations are, the better prepared your business is for any trials or tribulations it might experience.
Flexibility is the keystone of success for any long-lasting business in the modern, digital-first world. To succeed in this market, you need to be able to make fast and succinct decisions from anywhere in the world.
With your Virtual Office, you can already work anywhere. Adding business mail forwarding means that not only can you work from anywhere, but you can get mail anywhere as well.
The ability to work from anywhere and respond to business mail from anywhere will quickly show how important flexibility is for your operation.
When you aren’t stressed about little things like scheduling your life around business travel and making daily trips to the post office, it’s much easier to relax and let the stress roll off of you.
Simplified remote working
The biggest stress reliever you’ll find as a small business owner is any method that simplifies remote work.
Running a digital business requires serious planning, a dedicated team, and a robust business infrastructure. With mail forwarding, you’re helping build that infrastructure while planning for the future.
If you’re working from home – you can have your business mail forwarded to your home.
If you’re working from an Airbnb in Delaware – you can have your business mail forwarded there.
It doesn’t matter where you are, on vacation, on family trips, etc.; if you need your mail, Alliance ensures you get it.
Your mail forwarding options
As you can see, you don’t need a USPS-designed business mailbox to get the most out of your Virtual Office.
Alternatively, your Virtual Office plan comes with a variety of options for business mail forwarding.
While social media marketing techniques and other marketing initiatives are a great way to increase revenue, building your business infrastructure through business mail forwarding is the perfect way to increase your company’s profitability.
Read more: Social Media Marketing Guide
Below, we’ve covered each of these plans in detail, using standard pricing. Keep in mind that the prices might vary slightly depending on the center you’re using.
- $10.00 per month for once-monthly mail forwarding (1 time each month)
- $20.00 per month for bi-weekly mail forwarding (2 times each month)
- $30.00 per month for weekly forwarding (4 times each month)
- $70.00 per month for daily forwarding (20-25 times each month)
Once per month
If you aren’t receiving a high volume of mail and can’t imagine needing access to that business mail, save for once a month, then this plan is for you.
At the beginning of your company’s life, there’s a great chance you won’t need frequent mail forwarding. This is because you don’t have the volume of mail necessary to feel obligated to look through it daily.
As your business grows, you’ll look back on the periods that required little mail forwarding oversight with fondness.
Twice per month
If you’re receiving a moderate amount of mail and once-a-month access just isn’t cutting it, consider our bi-weekly option that forwards your mail twice per month.
With this option, you’re spending next to nothing on the service but still enjoying the benefit of having your mail forwarded every two weeks.
So, if the once-monthly option isn’t regular enough and the weekly option feels like too much, the bi-weekly option is your best choice.
Weekly
Once you’re receiving a high volume of mail and finding yourself needing access to that mail than before, you can give the weekly option a try.
With the weekly plan, you get your business mail four times per month. This plan is reserved for individuals getting a considerable amount of mail but doesn’t feel obligated to check it more than once per week.
Daily
Daily business mail forwarding is reserved for business owners that are receiving a markedly high volume of mail each day and feel they need access to that mail as soon as it’s received.
Your company might not be in this kind of position yet, but eventually, the weekly option won’t be enough, and you’ll be in a position where daily mail forwarding makes the most sense.
While this option is slightly more expensive than the other plans, it’s by far the best value available.
Rather than spending $10 per day with the first two options or $7.50 per day with the weekly option, the daily option comes out to approximately $3.00 per mail forwarding day.
By providing four separate plans for Virtual Office users, Alliance is helping business owners scale at their own pace.
The longer your business exists, the more mail you’ll receive. As this business mail becomes more important, you’ll be able to easily adjust your plan to reflect how often you need your business mail forwarded.
Modern tools to use in conjunction with business mail forwarding
Forwarding your mail can free up significant time in your work week.
This is the double effect of allowing you to get more done and win more business while simultaneously reducing your stress. With our wide variety of mail forwarding options, there’s a plan to fit any schedule.
Outside of your Virtual Office and mail forwarding, Alliance provides several other tools built for the modern entrepreneur.
From Live Receptionists to Virtual Phone Numbers to designated Coworking spaces, Alliance has something for everyone.
Even better, Alliance’s digital services work perfectly with your Virtual Office and mail forwarding. This means that the more services you use to improve your business infrastructure, the better positioned your company will be for long-term growth.
With our Live Receptionist, you’re able to focus on the more nuanced aspects of your company.
Instead of trying to answer every phone call or hiring a new employee to handle the phones, consider using our friendly and professional Receptionists.
All your calls are personally screened and answered, your customers will have a friendly first impression of your business, and you can focus more heavily on networking and positioning your company for scalability.
Our Virtual Phone Numbers provide an easy way for you to keep your phone number and your business phone number separate – improving your work-life balance all around.
Not to mention, unlimited extensions provide a streamlined and effective way to onboard new team members. In addition, all of your new team members are afforded the same privacy.
With a designated business phone number and a designated business and mail forwarding address, it’ll be difficult to determine whether or not your business exists digitally or physically!
Working from the same place where you eat, sleep, and relax can become incredibly frustrating.
With an easily reservable coworking space, you can provide your employees with a physical place to handle their remote work that’s separate from their homes.
Through your Virtual Office, you can easily reserve space in any state you’d like, in just about any city.
As supply chains continue to cause problems for business owners and inflation concerns continue making everyone nervous, small business owners are in a position where preparation is a necessity.
If your business is prepared to last through tough economic times and general market downturns, you can make it through anything.
With the tools that Alliance Virtual Offices provides, you can easily create a robust business infrastructure ready to tackle any challenge. Whether it’s business mail forwarding through your Virtual Office, cutting down on hiring with our Live Receptionists, or simply breaking the monotony of your daily routine with a Coworking space – Alliance has you covered.
Further reading
- Virtual Mailing Address for Your Business
- A Complete Guide to Starting a Business Using a U.S. Mailing Address
- The Small Business Owner’s Guide to Social Media Marketing Costs
- Social Media Marketing
Alliance Virtual Offices helps prepare modern entrepreneurs for the trials and tribulations of running a modern business.
You can be a fledgling business owner without a clue in the world or a weathered business owner just trying to explore your digital options – it doesn’t matter – Alliance has something for you.
Contact us today to see how Alliance Virtual Offices can streamline your business mail forwarding, and be sure to check out our Virtual Office Blog!
