• Micah
• Coworking Spaces, Virtual Offices and Mailbox Services
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OfficeLOCALE offers virtual office and address services for those that need one. We have set up coworking spaces, meeting rooms, mailboxes, and more, so that you can have an address that you can use as your headquarters without having to pay for an entire office.

Still, at OfficeLOCALE, we want to be so much more than just an address. We want to make sure that you have all your need met, no matter what those needs may be. That is why we are also thrilled to be able to offer a wide variety of professional amenities, so that your “virtual office” is, for all intents and purposes, usable as an office.

Examples of Our Amenities

We have a growing number of additional services available for those that need it. Each of these is on an “as needed” basis, so you never have to pay for a service you are not using. Some examples of these services include:

• Shredding – We can provide heavy duty shredders to help not only shred your documents, but make it easier for you to do so in bulk.
• Passport Renewals – If you plan to travel – for work OR pleasure – we can support you with passport renewal services right here at our office.
• Notary – Rather than travel for a notary, we can have a notary come to you at the office. Make your documents legally valid when signed.
• Live Phone Answering – For small companies, hiring office staff is a challenge. We can essentially provide you with those as well, including live phone answering services.
• Printing and Signs – Though these do not take place at the office itself, we have the ability to print or otherwise craft business cards, signs, and much more, all from the office.

We can also provide fingerprinting, website design and hosting, and so much more, all from the office or in connection to the office.

You may not have an official storefront or office, but you have everything else you could possibly need from OfficeLOCALE – your business partner. Reach out today to learn more or sign up for any of our services right here on our website.

• Micah
• Coworking Spaces, Virtual Offices and Mailbox Services
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Many, many businesses now operate remotely. Even before COVID, many small businesses were using their homes as their home base and visiting customers or clients elsewhere when in-person work was needed. Since COVID, that has become even more common now that services like Zoom have become more routine.

Most of the time, this doesn’t create any problems. But it does with Google. “Google now features its maps listing right at the top of their search engines,” says Micah, owner of Great Leap Studios, a digital marketing agency, “if you’re looking for a service, the first results that show up are going to be local, and sometimes even based on distance from your location, even if you don’t require an immediately local company.”

If you don’t have an address, then you will not show up locally in Google Maps, which means that you are missing out on all the people that are seeking your services in your local area. “You can put your home address,” says Micah “but then people will have your home address. Many websites also use Google Maps data, which means your address will also be posted in other directories that may make it difficult to remove.”

Search and Near Me

When people use Google these days, they don’t just search for a word like “therapist” or “window company.” They usually add the words “near me.” They search for “contractor near me” or “dentist near me.”

Any time you do a “near me” search, Google Maps will always be the first to show up in a square in Google Search called “Places.” Google’s AI – along with other chatbots, like ChatGPT – also try to integrate location data into their response results.

You need an address, and ideally you need a professional business address you can use to:

• Get mail.
• Meet people.
• Share publicly with others.
• Change if you need to change it.

That’s our goal here at OfficeLOCALE in Thousand Oaks, CA. We provide you with a professional business address that also offers private offices, meeting rooms, storage, and more, so that you have an office without actually having an office – a virtual office in Southern California to manage your business’s requirements.

Our space has additional services as well, including printing, live receptionists, and more, but the primary goal is to make sure that you have an address that you can call your own for any need, and that includes your digital marketing and Google search presence.

If you are not yet ready for your own office building, but you need a professional address so that you manage your business, improve your Google search placement, and keep people away from your home address, you need OfficeLOCALE. Sign up today or contact us with questions.