It's that time of year again. What time of year are you talking about, you're probably asking yourself. Well, this March 7,
Bynes Transcript and Typing Services will toasting to another successful year working as a home based office support service. It's 13 years to be exact.
What makes this celebration so special is the fact that we're a virtual office supporter for small businesses. As I wrote above, we're a home based operation and have clients all over the world that run and maintain their back office tasks.
Some of these tasks include, but not limited to are:
- General transcription
- Contact management
- Billing and Invoicing
- Customer Service
- Word Processing
Start up businesses are the easiest to market to when we started out.
[We thought] We soon discovered that getting potential clients to understand the concept of working on a project remotely was a task in and of itself. Just the mere fact of someone or a team of people working for a company in a different location ironically scared people off as opposed to attracting them for future business.
UNBELIEVABLE.
I can remember a conversation clearly as if it happened yesterday. It was 2006, and I was in a post office, collecting mail. I was wearing a business T-shrt that said something to the effect of Virtual Office Support, contact us today....or something like that. A gentleman in line looked at my shirt and said,
"What the hell is virtual support?" Laughing to myself, I said,
"Virtual support or virtual office support is working with a client performing back office tasks from another location," or something like that. I vaguely remember word for word. Anyway, the guy continued to say,
"I don't get it. You mean to tell me that if I needed a secretary to help me with some office work, that she could do it from her office?" I was like,
"Yep." The guy was like,
"Get the hell out of here. Impossible."
Boy, did we have our work cut out for us. We really did. Then, something astonishing happened....in a short amount of time after we decided to form our company, the concept of working remotely was catching on. People were signing on all over the country to have an independent contractor take on their clerical projects while working from a different location. So, we continued to market our products and services and within the following year, we landed a few clients.
According to the website, The Workplace Analytics, and
based on the latest statistics on the
work-at-home/telework population in the U.S. based on an analysis of
2005-2015 American Community Survey...
Regular work-at-home, among the non-self-employed population, has grown by 115% since 2005, nearly 10x faster than the rest of the workforce.
And on the website, Gallup.com...
Thirty-seven percent of U.S. workers say they have worked from home, up
slightly from 30% last decade but four times greater than the 9% found
in 1995.
Keep in mind that this can easily include workers who chose to work from home as a small business.
Anyway, I just wanted to point out that we [Bynes Transcript and Typing Service] was onto something huge in 2005 and bit off a piece of the pie.
HAPPY 13 YEARS TEAM BYNES!!
