- Is your business truly flexible?
- How mail forwarding unlocks full flexibility
- The benefits of mail forwarding
Q: Can a business have mail forwarded?
A: Yes, a business can and should have mail forwarded. This is especially true of remote businesses, as they thrive on flexibility. Your remote business can’t truly be remote without adding mail forwarding to your Virtual Office plan.
Why start a remote business if you’re not going to enjoy the freedom it grants?
While many business owners operate remotely, not all business owners set their businesses up to truly enjoy full flexibility with their schedules and locations.
One of the biggest mistakes we see is when business owners forget to add business mail forwarding to their Virtual Office plans.
This might seem like a triviality. But without mail forwarding, you can’t unlock the full freedom your Virtual Office has to offer.
This article explains why.
What Are the Benefits of Operating Remotely?
One of the main benefits of a remote business is the ability to hire top talent from anywhere in the world.
This means that companies can tap into a global pool of qualified candidates and build diverse, multicultural teams.
Additionally, remote work allows for greater flexibility in scheduling and can lead to increased employee productivity and job satisfaction.
This includes yourself. We’ve noticed many of our clients decided to start their own businesses for the freedom that it grants them over their work, schedule, and location.
Being your own boss means you’re free to set your own hours.
More importantly, it means those hours can be spent anywhere you choose.
You can work from home, a coffee shop, a library, or anywhere else you think might support your productivity.
Another advantage of a remote business is the cost savings. Companies can save on overhead expenses such as office rent, utilities, and supplies.
This can allow for a more streamlined and efficient business model.
But this can be taken too far. Some business owners start focusing on reducing their costs as much as they possibly can.
As a result, they free up small amounts of money in exchange for large amounts of time and freedom.
Is Your Business Truly Remote?
You may think that adding a Virtual Office address to your business and working from home are the hallmarks of a truly remote business.
While this is undoubtedly an important element of being a remote business, they aren’t enough on their own.
A true remote business is fully flexible, fully free to operate from anywhere without having to give any consideration to location.
Your business might be far freer than a traditional office-based business, but if you’re still picking up your mail, you’re not entirely remote.
You still have to worry about your business mail. Your business mail can contain a number of absolutely crucial documents or correspondences.
As a result, you need to have consistent access to it. Otherwise, you might face serious issues down the line that can end up costing you money and opportunities.
Ignoring your business mail is out of the question.
That means that, without business mail forwarding service, you’re stuck driving to and from your Virtual Office on a routine basis.
This eats into your time, manipulates your schedule, and holds you back from experiencing the total freedom of a truly remote business.
You don’t work for USPS or Canada Post, but you’re stuck delivering your own mail.
As your flexibility diminishes, so too does your productivity.
You’re not able to take full advantage of the freedom over your schedule. You have to start factoring in commutes to your Virtual Office center again, the very thing you started a remote business to avoid.
Of course, you could simply make the trip at the end of your work day. That would mean sitting in a pile of traffic for longer than intended, costing you time and energy that you could spend on your business or with friends and family.
How Would More Freedom Benefit You?
For business owners, more freedom often leads to more creativity.
Creativity is a mysterious thing. It doesn’t come from a consistent, rigid routine, but from a combination of idle time and novelty alongside discipline.
We’ve noticed that many of our clients choose to work remotely because of the freedom this gives them to embrace their creativity.
And this isn’t just because creativity feels good. Creativity is one of your most potent weapons as a business owner.
Innovation and growth come from breaking the mold, from starting something new and catering to segments of the market that are underserved.
But to do this, you need to bring fresh ideas to the table. Truly remote work helps you do that by giving you complete flexibility to fuel your creativity.
Additionally, your creativity can help you come up with new ideas for marketing campaigns.
Marketing is often most effective when it breaks with convention.
People have seen the same tired advertisement strategies over and over.
What makes a lasting impression is when a business offers up something totally new. Businesses that do this stand out, helping them boost sales in the long term.
All of this is deeply creative. It’s no wonder that so many business owners choose to go fully remote to boost their creative output.
But going fully remote requires mail forwarding. If you don’t have mail redirection to your home, you don’t really have the ability to work from wherever you want.
You have to stick close to your Virtual Office. Depending on the situation, you may need to pick up mail every day.
That just isn’t very flexible.
Additionally, mail pick-up is only available during center operating hours.
This means you have to work your trips to the center into your day during a specific time frame.
This complicates your work day. You have to find time in the middle of your busy day to drive down the center.
At best, this is annoying. At worst, it interrupts your most creative moments, leaving you with incomplete projects and a lack of enthusiasm that wouldn’t have been there had you been able to work freely.
How Business Mail Forwarding Unlocks Full Flexibility
Adding business mail forwarding to your Virtual Office plan unlocks total flexibility by allowing you to work uninterrupted from wherever you choose.
When you add mail forwarding to your Virtual Office, you allow yourself the freedom to truly work whenever and however you want.
You no longer have to worry about driving to the center in the middle of your work day to pick up mail. You can work uninterrupted from home from the moment you wake up to the moment you clock out.
Additionally, business mail forwarding makes it possible to access your business mail should you decide you want to go on an extended trip.
Digital nomads are on the rise, and many business owners want to join in.
But it’s hard to disappear to Italy or Spain for 3 months if you’re crucial business mail can only be accessed in person.
Mail forwarding allows you to forward your mail anywhere you might be, either directly through the center or through your home address using a business mail forwarding redirection form.
With mail forwarding, your Virtual Office can serve as your business address and get your mail to you from anywhere.
You’re able to go genuinely remote. You’re able to experience the complete freedom of your modern business.
How Much Time Are You Losing On Mail Pick-Up?
In addition to the locational freedom mail forwarding grants, it also gives you your time back.
Even if you live near your Virtual Office, commuting to and from your center can easily take 30 minutes round-trip.
Factor that in on a weekly basis and that’s 2 hours per month.
That may not seem significant, but how much is your time worth to you?
As a business owner, you don’t have someone paying you an hourly rate.
But your hours are still worth a certain amount.
We’ve found that most business owners value their time at between $50 to $200 or more per hour.
Even 2 hours per month means that picking up your mail costs you at least $100.
What’s more, that’s time spent doing a tedious errand you probably don’t want to do.
Getting in your car, driving to the center, finding parking, going inside to pick up your mail, then turning around and driving back home just isn’t fun.
By comparison, you could be using that time to brainstorm fresh, exciting ideas for your business.
Or maybe you’d rather just relax and recharge at the end of a long week.
Regardless of what you’d do with that time, the reality is you’re likely taking a net loss so that you can do something you don’t want to do in the first place.
With mail forwarding, you can reclaim your time, use it to build your business, and profit while enjoying greater flexibility.
Our Mail Forwarding Options
You can choose a mail forwarding option that is precisely attuned to your business needs.
We offer mail forwarding packages that range from monthly delivery to daily delivery.
This allows you to optimize every dollar you spend on mail forwarding. You can get your mail delivered when you need it without having to pay for more delivery than you require.
Our monthly mail forwarding plan runs as low as $10 per month.
Our next frequency is biweekly. This plan typically costs around $20 per month.
If you’d like your mail forwarded on a weekly basis, our centers provide that service at around $30 per month.
And finally, if you’d like your mail delivered to you every day of the week, we offer daily mail forwarding plans at roughly $70 per month.
Compare these figures to the value of your time and the cost of driving your car.
If you value your time even at $30 per hour, monthly mail forwarding pays for itself if you’d have made a single 20-minute drive to pick up mail.
And that isn’t factoring in the cost of gas and the depreciation and additional maintenance costs of driving your car to get it.
The Benefits Of Mail Forwarding
Mail forwarding is the key to getting the most value out of your Virtual Office.
Mail forwarding unlocks the full value of your Virtual Office plan.
Imagine you purchase a cell phone. Would you also purchase a cell plan to go with that cell phone?
Of course you would. Without the data and call ability, the cell phone isn’t nearly as valuable.
Not only are you not getting the full functionality of the phone without a phone plan, but the money you spend on the phone gets you less.
The item you’ve purchased is limited in its capacity, and as a result, each dollar you spend purchases less.
The same is true of a Virtual Office without mail forwarding.
Your Virtual Office is here to provide you with a professional business address while also supporting your flexible work style to the fullest.
One of its primary functions is to serve as a virtual mailing address for your business.
We want you to get the full value out of your Virtual Office, which is why we strongly encourage all our clients to mail forwarding.
In addition to increasing the value of your Virtual Office, mail forwarding also frees you up to build your business.
How much is an hour of your time worth? How much time are you spending picking up mail?
This isn’t just an abstract calculation. As a business owner, your working hours result in more reach, more sales, and more profit.
Your time directly makes you money.
Driving out of your way to pick up your mail wastes that precious time. It eats into your work hours, and as a result, your profits.
Finally, mail forwarding saves you the hassle of going out of your way to pick up mail.
Business owners are busy. You are responsible for so many things as it is.
Taking time out of your day to get in your car, drive through traffic, find parking, walk in, get your mail, and drive all the way home isn’t fun.
Mail forwarding frees you from the burden of worrying about that. You can relax knowing your mail will be directly forwarded to your home mailbox. You won’t have to lift a finger.
Wrapping Up: Does Your Remote Business Need Business Mail Forwarding?
Your remote business isn’t truly remote until you add business mail forwarding to your Virtual Office.
With business mail forwarding, you can reclaim your time and take back control over your schedule.
You’ll also free yourself from having to run an annoying and tedious errand each week.
Further reading:
- The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Offices
- How We’re Improving Mail Forwarding Standards, One Letter at a Time
- Starting a Business with a US Mailing Address
Perhaps more importantly, mail forwarding is the best way to truly become location-independent.
We want to help you make the most of your remote operations, which is why we offer a variety of mail-forwarding options for your Virtual Office.
Call, email, or chat with us to set up your mail forwarding plan today.
