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Statistical Data on Virtual Office Use

David Atkinson – CTO AnsweringService.com, Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Data for the increasing demand for the virtual office. Interestingly small businesses are not a more significant share of the market. Owners looking for cost effective outsourcing services should contemplate the benefits of implementing answering services into their future business operations.

Source :Simon Rattray, choregus.co.uk

Choregus has collected some really good statistics relating to virtual office.
They surveyed leading virtual office companies about the type of customers that use their virtual office services and which product packages that they choose.

Type of industry of Virtual Office customers:

• 40% – Banking and Finance
• 16% – Business Services
• 14% – Consultancy
• 7% – IT and Telco
• 6% – Media/Marketing
• 5% – Professional Services
• 2% – Entertainment and Leisure

Product Chosen by clients

• 57% – Full virtual office package
• 37% – Mail only package
• 6% – Phone answering only

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Cities in South Dakota

Located in the Midwestern region of the U.S.A., South Dakota is home to approximately 800, 000 Americans. The state capital is Pierre while Sioux Falls is the state’s largest city. South Dakota was carved out of the Dakota Territory and admitted to the Union in 1889. The Missouri River bisects the state, dividing it into two parts known as the as “West River” and “East River”. There are a variety of crops are grown in rich fertile soil in the east and ranching is predominant agricultural activity in the west. The Black Hills is of great religious importance to local American Indian tribes. Mount Rushmore is the states main tourist destination.

The state is situated in north-central United States but the U.S. Census Bureau considers it to be part of the Midwest. South Dakota is bordered to the north by North Dakota; to the south by Nebraska; to the east by Iowa and Minnesota; and to the west by Wyoming and Montana.

Humans have inhabited the area for several thousand years the first being the Paleolithic hunter-gatherers. Between the years 500-800 AD the semi nomadic Mound Builders lived in the central and eastern areas of South Dakota. By 1500 the Arikara had settled much of the Missouri River.

Europeans first came to the area in 1743 when Frenchmen the LaVerendyre brothers laid claim by bury a plate near the modern town Pierre. By the early 1800’s the Sioux were the dominant Native American group in the area.

When the United States government purchased the area from Napoleon Bonaparte in 1803 as part of the Louisiana Territory Purchase, the President Thomas Jefferson organized a group known as the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore the region. Continuous American settlement in the area started with a fur-trading post being set up in present day Fort Pierre in 1817. The Yankton Sioux ceded most of what is eastern South Dakota to the United States in the 1858 Treaty.

The Dakota Territory was established in 1861 which include North and South Dakota, parts of Wyoming and Montana. The increasing population saw the territory divided in half forming North and South Dakota in 1889. South Dakota became the 40th state admitted to the Union.

The states largest economic contributor is the service industry which includes the retail, finance and health care industries. Over 10% of South Dakota’s gross state product comes from government spending with Ellsworth Air Force Base being the second largest single employer in the state.

The key component to the state economy is the agricultural sector with the most valuable products being cattle, corn, soybeans, wheat and hogs.

The tourism industry is another important sector with many visitors attracted to the Black Hills region which includes the historic Deadwood and Mount Rushmore. The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is one of the largest tourist events on the South Dakota calendar.

Source: Wikipedia