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Our Partnership with Alliance Virtual Offices

Alliance Virtual Offices has been our partner since 2019. Here is what that means for members who need live reception.

·2 min read·Lobi Space team

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Our Partnership with Alliance Virtual Offices

Alliance Virtual Offices has been a Lobi Space partner since 2019. If you are a member here, that partnership is the reason you can add live reception to a virtual office without us pretending we answer phones around the clock ourselves.

Who they are

Alliance was founded in 2010 and built its business on flexible office and virtual office services, expanding internationally from 2013 and earning a place on the Inc. 5000 list in 2015 on the back of that growth.

Their focus has stayed narrow and useful: professional business addresses, live receptionists, and the phone infrastructure that makes a small company sound like a staffed one.

What the partnership gives our members

The honest version is that no single workspace can be excellent at everything. We are good at a physical building in Pilsen — mail handled by people you have met, meeting rooms, studios, offices, notary at the desk. We are not a 24-hour call centre.

Alliance is. So members who need calls answered live, in their company name, get a service built for exactly that rather than a compromise built by us.

That is also why they appear in our vetted resources directory with their pricing and our honest assessment of who they suit.

Who live reception is actually for

  • One-person businesses where a missed call is a missed job — trades, consultants, legal and medical practices.
  • Teams who are on site, not at a desk, and cannot answer during the working day.
  • Anyone whose competitors answer the phone. In several industries that alone decides who gets the work.

If you take fewer than a handful of calls a week, you probably do not need it. A virtual phone number with voicemail to email will do the job for less.

How it fits with a Lobi membership

Your address, mail and workspace stay with us. Reception runs through Alliance. One building, one team who knows your name, and a phone service that scales past what we could staff ourselves.

Ask us for the current partner rate before you sign up anywhere — that is one of the practical benefits of the relationship.

Compare our plans or talk to our team about whether live reception is worth it for how you actually work.

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