tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45996391922738432382024-03-05T23:51:56.560+00:00Business Mailing ServicesAdvice on picking the best mail service for your small or home business.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00272844734484765244noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4599639192273843238.post-35840529716891409672013-01-12T19:43:00.002+00:002013-01-12T19:43:27.860+00:00Widespread Concern over Royal Mail's Privatisation Moves<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>MP's in several British parties have requested government ministers guarantee any movement towards the privatisation of the Royal Mail.</b></div>
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Rumours state that the Royal Mail could be sold off to a private company within the next year, worrying residents in remote locations who believe they will end up paying more for deliveries. Current a Universal Service Obligation prevents this becoming a reality and an early motion has been issued by MP's stating their concern over the issue.</div>
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The main concerns are over the equality of pricing and the impact it may have on commercial and personal interests. Some believe that if a private company take over they may limit the deliveries to rural areas or charge more money. The move may also result in widespread postal service redundancies a further blow to an already struggling economy.</div>
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These problems further underline the reasons that people are currently moving on to privately hosted mailboxes that offer a far better price on a more flexible contract. Whether the days of the Royal Mail are gone is debatable, but it seems like they may never regain their previous hold on certain areas of the sector.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00272844734484765244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4599639192273843238.post-25552492692921508082012-11-04T11:49:00.001+00:002012-11-04T11:49:07.068+00:00Starting a Mailbox Rental Business<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mailbox Rental Businesses can be both risky and rewarding investments.
On one hand many successful parcel delivery companies and nationwide mail
services already offer mailbox <a href="http://www.royalmail.com/">options</a>. However, with low associated overheads
these ventures can also be extremely profitable and there are numerous reasons
why clientele may choose your service over a more traditional company. For
instance you may offer added incentives like unbeatable prices, 24 hour parcel
access or security or maybe even additional services such as fax to email.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first step on your business venture should be
putting together a detailed and well thought out plan. Many people don't properly consider the range of factors needed in a detailed plan, but remember
- this document will shape your company's approach, your goals and your
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A good plan will consider both internal factors and
a business’s external environment. For instance your plan should include
detailed plans for the company’s financial overheads, earning projections,
staff structure, earning structure, advertising and marketing and corporate
culture. As well as external factors such as analysing your main threats in
terms of your competitors, their strengths and weaknesses and possible
opportunities (gaps in the market) you can <a href="http://smallbusiness.chron.com/use-swot-analysis-five-forces-analysis-enrich-strategic-planning-process-23739.html">exploit</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The primary overheads you will have to consider are
the price of the basic equipment you'll need, such as mailboxes, security equipment,
computers, phones, electricity and other utilities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next you will need to consider the cost of a
company’s formation and other legal requirements, such as contracts and terms
and conditions. In addition advertising will also be a factor meaning you will need a website, business cards, brochures and more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 15.6pt;">The first area for
evaluation should be your competitors. Firstly you want to see how many there
are in the local area against the possible clients. You may need to be willing
to move your business near a town or city that </span><span style="line-height: 20.78333282470703px;">isn't</span><span style="line-height: 15.6pt;"> too saturated with other start
ups. A</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15.6pt;">dditionally you will
want to study their pricing structure and see if you are able to compete. If
you choose to set your prices lower than your competitors, you will have to
consider whether how many clients you will need to gain a profit and whether
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 15.6pt;">Additionally if your
core mailbox business is not going to be profitable enough, </span><span style="line-height: 20.78333282470703px;">you'll</span><span style="line-height: 15.6pt;"> have to look into
what other services you can offer, i.e fax to email services or mail
forwarding. Another option would be to let companies use your address as their
registered business address and charge an additional fee for the privilege.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another possibility is to simply purchase an established business that
someone may be looking to <a href="http://uk.businessesforsale.com/uk/search/Mail-Box-Businesses-for-sale">sell</a>. This may be the better choice as some of the
work will be done for you and the company may have existing clients. However,
this also requires significant investigation into the reason for sale and
factors involving the business itself, such as its profitability. Another
option is franchising, by opening your own branch of an already successful
company. This will give you a good insight into how the business is run and
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A review of the advantages posed by using a virtual office service for a new or
expanding business over a traditional office setup. Learn how to save your businesses
money and gain better flexibility both financially and in the work environment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are choosing to start out on your own or with other partners, starting a new
business requires a massive investment of time. Considerations include finding
the particular niche or strategy you are aiming to pursue, investigating and
analysing the competition, calculating expenses and profit margins and
organising your companies’ logistics. This last point is often ill considered,
with people not investing the proper preparation into how their business will
work together or flow. A business must be a well oiled machine and it is common
practice for new start up companies to discover mistakes in their business
model after significant financial investment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Start a Home Business<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A great way
to keep overheads low is to start a business from home. With the internet and
jobs that involve being ‘on location’ an office is often an unneeded necessity
anyway. In other circumstances an office may not be needed until the company
has progressed to a point requiring a larger number of employees. Working from
home allows a small business to ‘test the waters’ before fully committing,
avoiding inflexible overheads like lengthy tie-in rental contracts and the
expense of other office services.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">However,
starting a business from home does have its own problems. For instance people
are often wary about trusting businesses without professional sounding
addresses. Ask yourself who you’d trust more? The business with the city centre
address ending in ‘house’ or ‘suite’, or the one with a residential or flat
address? Trust is key in business, with many people letting their instincts
guide their decisions - residential addresses and PO Boxes often just don't cut
it in the corporate world and could be a severe hindrance to gaining new
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A great way
to present a more professional image is with a mailbox rental service. Unlike
PO Boxes, Business Mailboxes allow you to present a physical address in a non
residential sector or building. This can help give the impression you are
already have a large, established and successful business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Similarly
having an address in close proximity to the city centre can help attract new
consumers. Common keywords on search engines like Google show that people have
a tendency to search for their ‘keyword’ and nearest large town or city when
searching for a business. This approach makes perfect sense as you are more
likely to find what you are looking for in an area with a larger corporate or
commercial sector. By having a rural or residential address you could
potentially be missing out on business, especially if the consumers make use of
<a href="http://www.google.com/places/">Google Places</a>/ Google Maps and your business is one of the smaller dots in the
very outskirts of their search.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mailing services are also incredibly cost effective. PO boxes in the UK
recently went up in price to £185 per annum from £60 per annum within a few
years. In comparison competition means that some UK Mailbox Rental companies
are offering record low prices starting from just £5 per month. That’s a saving
of £110 pounds every year to invest back into your business with the additional
benefit of appearing more trustworthy. The small capital investment means that
these services are very affordable for businesses struggling to qualify for
bank loans in the current economic climate, or those who are looking for a
slow, steady and sustainable model of growth, over one based on rapid and often
foolish expansion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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advantage is the greater privacy these business address services offer to
consumers. Ask yourself do you want consumers to know where you live? And how
will having your work address as your residential address potentially affect
your home life? By investing in a business mailing address you can present a
clear barrier to alleviate the spatial tensions between home and work life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Office Address</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Often people
do not realise that a simple ‘whois’ search on a domain can reveal the
purchasers address. Business Mailboxes allow you to register your domain to an
address that is unlikely to affect your privacy, offering greater protection.
They also offer the ability to use the address as your registered office address. In the UK </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">every business
registered with Companies House must have a Registered Office at which official
documents can be served under the Companies Act of 1985 Section 287(1). A
virtual office is a cheap method in which to achieve this requirement.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Lastly using
a business address service allows you the freedom to move around unencumbered.
This might be a simple as maintaining an office in a country in which you
regularly sell products but are not based.<a href="http://www.mailboxcsbs.co.uk/business-mailing-address.htm"> business mailing address</a> offer the
convenience of mail collection and mail forwarding. This can take the form of having
someone to sign for certified mail or overnight deliveries, or sort through
your mail and send you only the mail you really need. UK mail forwarding
services will almost always willing to forward mail worldwide. Some even offer
fax to email services where you can rent a UK fax line without the expense of
toner, paper and machinery – simply having the messages forwarded to your
email. Overall Virtual offices are the perfect way to expand into a new country
or grow your small business risk free.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Working from home can seem very appealing. Imagine just being
able to roll out of bed, have breakfast and work without all of that annoying
travel time. Yet there are also downsides to working from home that
aren’t considered. Working from home destroys the barrier you erect between
your domestic and work life and identities. This can take the form of working
late into the night, or dealing with customers at unsociable hours who can now
contact your 24 hours a day. The lack of privacy can also leave you open to
cold callers trying to sign you up to services you haven’t requested and don’t
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The traditional solution to this problem is to invest in a
small amount of office space. Yet this is often expensive and inflexible with
lengthy tie in contracts that are hard to get out of should you run into
financial difficulties. When you consider that almost half of<a href="http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/smallbusiness/a/whybusfail.htm"> new businesses fail </a>within three years this is a large risk to take when starting out. Also,
for many – such as those who work on the internet or in different locations –
office space is simply unnecessary.</div>
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A virtual office offers a number of benefits to the
traditional office environment. The lack of traditional overheads means that
you could save upwards of 80% on a physical location. Also they allow you to
create a presence in a new country, region or city without real expansion,
increasing your market opportunities. Similarly they allow you to recruit
qualified freelancers that may not live in your area of business. A virtual
office removes physical limitations and allows you to become a truly global
company.</div>
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Virtual Offices also allow you to appear like a more professional
company with a corporate sounding city centre address. Many people mistrust
home or PO box addresses, a mailing address service with a department name or
suite number will make you appear like a larger company and potentially attract
new business.</div>
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Another advantage is the speed at which a virtual office can
be setup meaning you can be operational more quickly and, if necessary, close
down more quickly. The greater flexibility offered by short virtual office
contracts mean that you can cheaply test out new markets before fully
committing to see if they are actually profitable. </div>
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Lastly Virtual Offices normally include a mail forwarding
service. This is perfect if you are always on the road as it allows you to have
important mail sent to you on demand. This can mean saving time sorting through
unnecessary junk mail. Mail forwarding services are also happy to sign for
packages that you can then pick up or mail that requires a signature. Mail forwarding can allow you to maintain a presence in the country and then have
your mail send worldwide.</div>
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<b>A straight forward analysis of the age old PO
Box or Mailbox dilemma. Are you starting or do you own a small business? View
the pros and cons of using each service.</b></div>
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Many small businesses use PO Boxes to separate their work
and domestic lives. If you run a small company from home you know the
importance of privacy in your home life – something a PO Box used to provide at
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PO Boxes cost just £62 pounds per annum in 2009 and were an
ideal solution. However in the last 3 years they have increased in price to a
massive £222 per annum, an increase of 350 percent! With the recent <a href="http://conversation.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/po-box-cost-royal-mail-price-increase/">price increases</a> PO boxes no longer seem the good investment they once did. Price
drops seem unlikely with the Royal Mail increasing the prices of stamps,
closing local branches, making record loses and receiving no relief from a
government implementing tough austerity measures.</div>
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<b>But Are Mailboxes
Really More Affordable?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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A quick search for UK <a href="http://www.mailboxcsbs.co.uk/">mailbox rental</a> showed that prices can
start from as little as £5 per month! That’s £60 a year, a saving of £162 for
your business. In such a tough economic climate savings such like this are
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Business mailboxes also give you the option of having a
physical address which seems far more professional than a PO Box Number or a
residential address. For example who would you trust? The business based at a
flat address or the one which is listed as being based in a busy inner city
commercial sector? Premium business address services also allow you to use
something like ‘department’ or ‘suite’ as your address – perhaps even the
building address itself— making you seem like a successful and large
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Also consumers often have more trust or search for
businesses close to city centres. Having a mailbox with a physical address near
a large town or city can potentially tap into a much larger client based then
one based in a small town or rural location.</div>
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