After finishing massage therapy school in 2021, she began working with a massage therapy business but soon realized she wanted to go out on her own. Fast forward to 2024, she learned about Office Ours and decided to take a chance working for herself by leasing her own office suite. She had planted the seeds for Breathing Room Massage Therapy to grow and was ready to execute. 

Ginny wants to provide a space and service where clients can come in, relax, and reset their nervous system. She often finds that people can be intimidated by massage therapy or think it is an expensive luxury service. In reality, regular massage can be a practical part of maintaining overall health and well-being. By creating a welcoming environment, Ginny helps clients feel at ease from the moment they walk in. 

After moving into her own office at the Garner Office Ours location, her business began to grow. She utilized the Garner Chamber of Commerce, located next door to Office Ours. She became a chamber member and started meeting other business owners in the area. Her business has grown due to the chamber’s support, which has empowered her to talk to more people and network. 

Ginny enjoys having her massage therapy practice at Office Ours because of the great location. The building is highly visible and easy for her clients to find. She enjoys talking and networking with other small business owners in the building. She also finds that when a problem or maintenance issue arises, it is addressed and resolved quickly. Office Ours has given Ginny the tools to keep growing her business in Garner.

Ginny is a part of the LaunchGarner entrepreneurial cohort, which is a course for new business owners in Garner. She also teaches massage therapy courses at WakeTech, the same place she was a student just a few years ago. In addition to offering massage therapy at her 500 Benson Road office in Garner, she also provides chair massage for community events. 

Learn more about Breathing Room Massage Therapy and schedule an appointment:

www.breathingroommassage.com

breathingroom.nc@gmail.com

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To stay in compliance with the standards of the local and federal governments, there are specific rules and regulations that home healthcare companies need to operate. Here is a link to the North Carolina NC DHHS agency for licensure requirements. There are office requirements to get an Acute and Homecare Licensure and Certification license. Each home healthcare business requires a professional physical office space to conduct business according to 10A NCAC 13J .0903 A. In addition, a sign is needed on the exterior of the building, along with a sign on their office door (10A NCAC 13J .0903 A (c)). We offer some helpful features at Office Ours that would give a company the upper hand in the home healthcare industry.

All Office Ours locations have an exterior building sign near or on the building, where businesses can list their names. There is also an interior sign next to each office door with the business name.

Our phone systems are a professional solution to field incoming calls, communicate with your team, and work with clients. Each office suite includes the first Small Business Service phone line with a phone number. For home healthcare companies expanding or moving, we provide the option to take the phone number with you and continue to use our phone service wherever you end up.

To accommodate HIPAA laws, we have taken the initiative to provide extra security for home healthcare companies by giving them secure access to our copy center and shredders. Our printers and copy centers require member badges to release a printing job, making your client’s information safer and more secure. Our shredders are also HIPAA-friendly for client privacy.

Conference rooms are available at all Office Ours locations and are a favorite feature of our members, especially our home healthcare members. Every location we service includes small to medium-sized conference rooms for staff meetings, which can be easily booked through our member portal. We also have a large conference room with furniture that moves to meet the needs of your event. This large space at our Midtown location is excellent for trainings and staff meetings. The two whiteboards and large-screen TV make it an effective tool for teaching classes.

Since Office Ours was founded, we’ve been listening to the feedback from our customers on which amenities and services they need to be more successful. This feedback has helped us tailor our business products to meet the needs of home healthcare businesses and many other industries. With private offices, conference rooms, and printing services at your fingertips, Office Ours is the perfect place for home healthcare professionals to call home.

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Food items can be dropped off at any Office Ours location in the kitchen area. Use the links below to find the most needed items, find the nearest Office Ours location to you, or make a virtual donation. Thank you for your support of the Food Bank this holiday season!

Most Needed Items

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Office Ours locations don’t share parking lots with big box stores, grocery stores, or malls, so they have plenty of parking close to the building. You will always be able to get in and out quickly. A perk of a virtual office is the easy parking and access to other amenities in the building. Do you need to check your email or a place to eat lunch before heading to a meeting? Need to drop off outgoing mail? Office Ours mailboxes have outgoing mail slots. We will deliver it to the post office for you…let us deal with the post office traffic instead of you. 

Office Ours locations are kept clean and tidy, and hand sanitizer is available inside the front door of every location. It is reassuring to know that when you pull into an Office Ours location, you will have a place to park, a clean building to walk into, and office amenities at your fingertips. Not only do virtual offices have easy parking, but they also give you a membership to access printing and conference rooms at any Office Ours location. Our virtual office members also receive a monthly credit to cover some of your conference room time and printing costs. When was the last time you saw a printer at the post office that didn’t look like it stopped functioning in the 1990s? 

A virtual office at Office Ours goes beyond what a PO Box can do for you and your business. On top of all the other benefits, during the holidays, it saves you from anxiety, headaches, frustration, and, most valuable of all, time. Who wants to deal with a busy parking lot, long lines, crowds, and facilities that are dirty or out of order? At Office Ours, we don’t want you to deal with any of these holiday headaches either. Instead, enjoy those few moments of checking your mailbox by waving hello to our friendly staff and your fellow members while inside our warm and calm buildings. Expect more from your mailbox.

So, where would you rather pick up your business’s mail?

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After receiving her associate’s degree in science, Carolina began working for a large massage therapy company. She watched as the owner grew the business quickly after starting it alone. Now, the owner has an entire building dedicated to her massage therapy practice. After working for this company for a few years, Carolina decided to make the jump and start her own massage therapy business.

Carolina specializes in Thai massage and other modalities like barefoot or “back walking,” cupping, and Graston technique. These different types of massage help with pain management, mobility, flexibility, and overwell health and wellness. Carolina sees clients from all walks of life seeking her treatments to feel physically and mentally better. 

In December 2021, Carolina moved her massage therapy practice into Office Ours Garner location on Benson Road. She needed a private office space that was quiet and clean, which she had found with Office Ours. With easy parking at the front of the building and handicapped parking at the back of the building, Carolina can accommodate all of her clients. Safety was another concern that she does not have to worry about at Office Ours. With locked doors in the evenings and on the weekends and cleaning safety precautions in place, Office Ours provides their members with assurance. The lobby conveniently located at the front of the building provides a space for her clients to wait for their appointment as well. 

With Covid-19 in the rearview mirror, she is seeing an uptick in business and is excited to see where things will go. Carolina wants to continue to build her clientele and eventually hire some employees. Looking back, Carolina says she never thought she would have her own massage therapy business, making her success feel all the better. 

Learn More About 

Carolina’s Massage Therapy

Address: 500 Benson Road, Suite 111, Garner, NC 27529

Phone Number: 910-309-5577

Email: info@carolinasmassage.com

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Bleu Heavenly Touch Massage was started during a time when many businesses were still shut down. She was nervous about how Covid would affect her plans but moved forward into her own office suite at Office Ours in May 2021. She knew she was taking a risk but luckily, through word of mouth, her business grew. She credits her business’ success to specializing in a specific type of massage therapy that isn’t very common in the Triangle area which is providing relief to patients post-surgery. Post-operative massage helps with lymphatic drainage and swelling that is common after surgery for people who have had cancer, injuries, lymphodema, tummy tucks, and liposuction, to name a few. Bianca enjoys helping men and women who feel beautiful from the inside out while also helping them find relief after invasive surgeries.

After working out of her home and doing mobile massage therapy, Bleu Heavenly Touch Massage opened in 2021 with one office suite at an Office Ours location in North Raleigh. In 2022, Bianca expanded again into a second office after experiencing an increase in clients needing her services. She loves the professional setting and location central to many of her patients who come from as far as two hours away to seek her treatments. She also likes how safe the location is with security cameras and how there are other like-minded business owners at this location who also call Office Ours home. With wheelchair access to the building and a lobby, her clients are able to comfortably wait for their services. 

Bianca is excited to continue to grow her business by adding new employees and possibly expanding to other locations. She hopes to open satellite offices one day as well. She also wants to teach others to do this type of post-operative massage that is uncommon but needed in this area. She hopes that by training others, specifically women, to do what she does, she will inspire them to start their massage therapy businesses.

Learn More About Bleu Heavenly Touch Massage

Address: 4913 Professional Court, Suite 208
Raleigh, NC 27609

Phone Number: 910-548-4896

Email: bleuht19@yahoo.com

Social Media: https://www.bleuht19.com

          https://www.instagram.com/bleuheavenly_touch

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5. Estimates and Invoices

When you send a prospective client an estimate with your home address or no address at all, they may question the legitimacy of this business they are about to contact for a service. An estimate is that final step before a prospect becomes a paying client, so you’ll want to show them that you have an actual address for your business. After the work is done, you will send them an invoice that contains the place for the client to send their payment. Which type of address is more professional and credible, a commercial address or a residential address? 

4. Business accounts:

When it comes to business, you must learn to segregate your personal life and business life. There are mental health and mindset reasons for this. There are also legal and financial reasons to do this. For example, you need to segregate your personal bank account from your business bank account. If you don’t, there could be tax consequences with the IRS or liability consequences with a plaintiff quickly being able to pierce the corporate veil. You’ll also need separate insurance. Your personal homeowner liability policy doesn’t cover business activities. So why would you commingle your home address and business address? You need an address you can give your bank and your insurance broker to put on your policy. When you move residences, do you want to also change all your business addresses on all your business accounts? Financial institutions will look upon you more favorably if you are using a commercial property address and a business phone number that isn’t your cell phone.

3. Business cards: 

After meeting someone face to face and shaking their hand, the next tradition in the business world is to exchange business cards. Doing so gives each person the ability to remember your name and contact you after the meeting for a follow-up meeting. Your business card is the first impression they will get of your business. When someone doesn’t see an address on the business card, they might ask themselves, “what are they hiding?” Or, if they look up the address on Google Maps and they see a picture of a residential house, they may immediately ask, “Is this a real business?” The address of a commercial office on your business card shows that you are a professional.

2. Website:

For many people you haven’t met yet, your website is the first and only impression they will get of your company. When potential clients, partners, investors, and employees view your website and see that you don’t have a commercial address listed, they may ask themselves, “Do they not invest in their company enough even to have a professional business address?” This may be a reason why they decide to look elsewhere when choosing where to do their business. Having your virtual office address on your website will show that you have a credible company.

1. Secretary of state website:

When you file your incorporation, you have to give the secretary of state the address for your business. This address is public record. Do you want your home address to be listed as your business address on the internet? You want to separate your personal life from your business, and you don’t want anyone with access to the internet to find your home address. Having a business address to give the secretary of state for your business will provide you with confidence that your home life is separate from your business life. 

While other places like business directories are important to add your address to, the locations listed above are the most visible to potential clients and partners. When someone looks you up or searches for your business, you want to be prepared to give an excellent first impression. Whether you have an office suite or a virtual office, getting your business address out there and into the world will fuel your business.

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