Someone asked me recently, what is the point of having a Virtual number. What good do they actually do?

My key point in response was this. If you live in London and are wanting to hire a company to do some work for you, or provide a service for you in some way, when looking for companies you are naturally going to be attracted to a London company for obvious reasons, mainly because they are local. But the company does not have to be from London, it is just a natural, inbuilt reaction that it should be.

Sorry Londoners, but London is ridiculously expensive. To rent or buy property there is unbelievable. The key benefit, using London as an example, of virtual London phone numbers, is that you can do business in London without being based in London.

Property costs are the biggest source of expenditure for a business. If we can reduce those, then there is more chance of a business not having to close and therefore of people keeping their jobs and not having to be unemployed. With the economy back in tough times, this is vital. So that is the point of virtual numbers.