Building the first Virtual Offices in the world for TaxConnections members and bringing them to life has been very exciting. The opportunity to advance the professional lives of our tax, accounting, finance and legal members by providing them all the tools they need to operate in the cloud is now a reality.

You may hear the word Virtual Office and wonder, “What is that? How will a Virtual Office affect my business and my career?” TaxConnections Virtual Offices provides every resource you need to operate your tax reputation and business in the cloud. Business is evolving in ways that make you no longer wed to an office building, lengthy lease, or the same location. Business professionals can move about the world more freely with a Virtual Office.

Many companies are no longer leasing large commercial office spaces anymore because they want to reduce overhead. For instance, companies like Amazon have been building distribution centers and not walk up stores for their products. Remember all the book stores you could walk into before Amazon started selling books in the cloud? You can remember the Big Four firms for implementing an innovation called hoteling. Hoteling is a method of office management in which consultants schedule their use of workspaces such as desks, cubicles, and offices in advance. Each consultant reserves a workspace before they come to work in an office. There are changes everywhere in the way people look at office space these days. They are using it less and less, particularly when they can work from home and go out to meet with clients with their laptop in tow. TaxConnections Virtual Offices removes the need for physical office space to an office in the cloud. With a TaxConnections Virtual Office, you can meet a client at their business or in the lobby of a nice hotel and reduce expensive overhead costs.

What would you need to run your business out of a Virtual Office? The first thing you need is an online identity that people can trust. People hire tax advisors they trust. Now more than ever, you must build a personal brand online. Every great company understands they must build a brand people trust. Trust is built over time, so we have built personal branding features into TaxConnections site. We provide you the tools that improve your trust signals greatly. For instance, our members build trust through their profile when they answer a tax question submitted by one of our visitors, post a blog, promote a webinar or book, and engage with one of our referral partners. TaxConnections built extraordinary tools and features to market your tax reputation worldwide and sets up your business in a way that significantly reduces your overhead costs. In building Virtual Offices, we support you throughout your entire professional career. Having your own Virtual Office, gives you a dominant business edge and this is precisely why the time to get started is now.

Today is the day you have the opportunity to control a postal code. Type in your postal code and see if anyone is featured. With 16,000 members and growing we know there are many opportunities for you to control the #1 spot for your postal code. Registering for your Virtual Office today will be one of the smartest business decisions you ever make for your tax professional career.