By the Numbers

Where Do New Businesses Actually Start?

More than 60% of US small businesses are home based, and for a new service business that is usually the right financial call. The trade-off is presentation. Customers calling a home based business reach a personal cell, cannot hear you over kids or pets in the background, or land in voicemail. On address, either you are advertising a PO Box or using your home address, neither of which screams professionalism.

What Do Customers Check First?

Customers check three things in about ten seconds. They look for a real street address, which tells them you are established and local. They listen for a person answering the phone, which tells them what your service will feel like after they pay. And they look for somewhere to meet, which matters for anything involving a contract, a document, or a decision worth real money. A website answers none of these convincingly on its own.

Start Here

The Phone Is the One That Earns Money on Day One

An address makes you findable and a meeting room makes you credible, but the phone is where revenue actually happens. It is the first live conversation anyone has with your business, and on day one there is no brand to fall back on. A person who answers, listens, and books the appointment converts the interest your marketing produced. Nothing else on the list does that.

On the Ground in Tucson

What a New Tucson Business Is Judged On

Tucson is an affordable place to start something, which is why so much of the local economy runs out of homes and trucks. It also means your competition looks the same on paper, so small signals separate you. A real Tucson address, a person answering during monsoon season when everybody is calling at once, and a meeting room for the customer who wants to sign paperwork somewhere other than a driveway.

The Solution

What This Costs to Solve Properly

Intelligent Office costs far less than an office and a hire. A virtual office bundles a real street address with mail handling and access to meeting rooms, and live phone answering puts a trained person on your business line from 8 to 5. Our receptionists answer your business calls, screen out solicitations, and can book the appointment when the customer calls. If your customers call in the evening, extended coverage is available as a paid add-on.

• A real street business address instead of a PO Box or your home
• A live person answering your business calls from 8 to 5
• Meeting rooms to reserve when a customer wants to sit down
• Mail handling, so business post stays out of your kitchen

Watch

What a Virtual Office Includes

This short clip walks through the Intelligent Office virtual office membership: the address, the mail, the meeting space, and the answering that goes with it.

Why Intelligent Office Tucson Is Built Around Real People

Intelligent Office Tucson gives a new business the three things customers check on day one. Our Tucson team is staffed by real receptionists who answer your business calls, we provide a real street address and handle your mail, and you can reserve a meeting room when a customer wants to sit down. The whole operation feels and looks established from the first week.

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Sources

Home based business share comes from the US Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy. Call handling figures come from published missed call research and TransUnion consumer phone channel research.