Want to kick off your business? But finding it hard to pick the best city to set up your company's registered address?
Business domiciliation refers to the tax and administrative address of the company.
This address is also your registered office address.
Its location, a real showcase for your company, plays a strong strategic role in addition to its practical role mentioned above.
Setting up your company's business address is the first step in creating your company and needs to be done carefully.
The ultimate decision, therefore, lies in choosing the city to set up in.
In Paris or the regions? In Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Bordeaux... And why not Marseille?
Marseille, like its metropolis but also its region, has recently been experiencing a real dynamic of development.
That's how many innovative projects like Smartseille or The Camp, which are very forward-thinking, got their start.
With no fewer than 94,000 companies within its Métropole, yet still young (dating only from 2016), 21,000 new entrepreneurs, including 8,800 for Marseille, and this for the year 2016 alone, the Cité Phocéenne is increasingly presenting itself as a leading city for entrepreneurship; business address services in Marseille are therefore a strategic choice for entrepreneurs!
The various administrative entities (City, metropolis, department or region) have decided to unite to promote business creation and support it in the long term.
As a result, Marseille today has a new business creation rate of around 15%, even though the national rate for 2016 is 12%.
The question also lies in the type of business address you choose. Each business address option has its pros and cons that should be considered in light of your project.
But choosing to register your company with a domiciliation company is becoming increasingly popular, whether in Paris or in the provinces!
Why this choice? What are the advantages? Let's dive in!
Unlike using your home address, a domiciliation company lets you have a prestigious address for your company's headquarters and keeps your personal and business addresses separate. Plus, they offer lots of custom services, all at a great price.
Using a domiciliation company means having many services at your disposal, including:
Firstly, the domiciliation company offers, in addition to a registered office address, a mail management service for your company.
First off, this keeps the entrepreneur's home address private, truly separating their professional and personal lives.
The mail received can either be picked up directly by the structure's manager or forwarded to another address at a frequency determined during registration. SeDomicilier offers free forwarding included with each subscription.
A mail digitisation service is also available. Mail is scanned in real time and sent directly to the manager by email.
- A telephone answering service.
You can also have a telephone answering service. This will boost your company's positive image and professionalism.
When a call is received, the manager's name and the company's name will be mentioned.
The call can then be redirected to their number, or a message will be received by a secretary and passed on to the manager later. This solution helps boost credibility and flexibility.
Also, a domiciliation company can offer the possibility of renting meeting rooms to carry out strategic meetings that are sometimes crucial for the future of your company.
These rooms are usually fully equipped to carry out all presentations successfully.
Therefore, managers who do not have premises or do not wish to welcome clients directly at home can often rent a meeting room by the hour, half-day, or day.
This is also very often a guaranteed gain in credibility for the company.
You often hear that 'everything happens in Paris.' That's far from true; major regional cities are bursting with many advantages that the capital doesn't have.
Above all, it's the assurance of saving a lot of money. Because yes, everything is cheaper in large provincial cities. Whether it's the price of premises for a business, salaries, the overall standard of living, your rent or the restaurants where you'll invite your customers...
Many budget items are sometimes a real shortfall for an emerging business.
Plus, local officials are often much more available and responsive to your requests. Because there's less competition and fewer businesses.
As a result, your relationship with the authorities is more effective. This reduced competition also leaves more room for start-ups or companies to make a name for themselves locally and thus develop more quickly on a national scale.
In conclusion, it is necessary for an entrepreneur to know their project well before deciding on the city in which to set up: it is often the latter that will determine the most suitable location.
Written by our expert Quentin Moyon
May 2, 2018
