Surprisingly, it’s not difficult or expensive to start a virtual office for a real estate agency

Starting an online virtual pbx to host your virtual real estate agency, you can manage the entire office online from anywhere where there’s an internet connection.

Selecting your virtual phone number is the first step you take in the creation of your virtual real estate office. With your phone line up and running, you can then assign extensions to departments you want callers re-directed to.

As an example, set-up one extension to represent your appointment desk where calls are taken to book real estate viewings. You can have another extension up and running for generic information, such as address, fax numbers and email addresses, as well as an extension for the accounting number. You can also create a dial-by-name directory for callers to get directly through to the sales rep they’re looking for.

With an internet connection, the beauty of this system is the complete online management capability from anywhere in the world where there's an internet connection. If you have a small office and one person handles several departments, that person can log-in online to get all messages from anywhere, even from home.

Another perk with this system, is that the extensions you create can be set-up anywhere. Lets say you have an Accounting Department that is essentially one person, your bookkeepper, and that bookkeepper does not physically work in your office, you can set-up an extension at his or her location. You can do this a number of ways such as fowarding calls to him/her, or by an actual physical extension dedicated to that individual. You can also re-direct calls to any phone number you assign like cell phones, home numbers etc.

On the flip side, if you have a larger accounting department, no problem, simply set-up extensions for each person in the department. Voicemail, call forwarding, and caller greetings can be set-up by each extension.

There are numerous other features that come with this full virtual phone system, features such as music on hold, outlook expresss integration, call forwarding, and more. A brokerage looking for a modern way to manage calls by integrating it’s usage with the Internet will find the virtual office for a real estate agency affordable and very functional.

by Barbara Cipak, My-Telework-Tools.com