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- [Instructor] Well, hey everybody!
This is Jaren with retipster.com
and in today's video, I wanna give an overview
of a mailbox solution that I found called Traveling Mailbox.
I wanted to figure out a 100% virtual mailbox solution
that was not location-dependent.
In the future, me and my family have hopes and dreams
of traveling quite a bit,
and the only real way to do that
while still running my land business full time
is to use a virtual mailbox.
So I did a lot of research.
I dug deep for you guys,
and I actually stumbled on Traveling Mailbox
and I've been absolutely blown away by their service.
So how traveling mailbox works at a high level
is that when mail comes in,
the company on your behalf will open it,
scan it, and then upload it to your account,
so you can see everything in PDF format.
What's really nice is when a new piece of mail comes in,
I get notified via email and then within that email
there's actually a screenshot of the front of the envelope,
so if it happens to be return mail
and has that yellow sticky note on it,
I don't have to worry about any of that,
so it's extremely easy to use.
I wanna go ahead and dive into the dashboard
a little bit of my account and show you around.
So this is my Traveling Mailbox dashboard.
As you can see, here's all of my mail.
The majority of the mail that comes in
are these returned addresses, return to sender
that were not opened, so I don't bother opening those.
If I were to give an example,
here is a piece of mail that looks like it's worth opening.
Just for sake of example,
show you what you do in order to open it.
So all I have to do is click this blue action button,
request action button here,
and then I'm gonna select open and scan.
And then within about 24 hours or so,
they're gonna open and scan it
and it's going to be available for me to view right here
as well as available in a designated Google Drive folder
that I've synchronized with my account.
And I'll dive into that in more detail here in a minute.
So to give an example of what a letter looks like
once it's opened and scanned, is it looks like this.
So it just has a scan of my blind offer template
and shows whatever they write.
It's very simple as you can see.
So I bet you're wondering what something like this costs.
What I love about Traveling Mailbox is its affordability.
As you can see here, there's three different plans.
This is the tier that I'm on.
It's 100 incoming envelopes, 80 page scans,
five mailbox recipients, and then free mail shredding.
And then there's higher tiers as well,
you can go up to 200, 180 page scan.
And then there's enterprise,
which are higher and higher tiers
based on your business needs.
For my business, this is all I really need.
There are some additional fees that I pay
for some of the added perks once I use them,
but those are all ad hoc
that's not an ongoing fee,
it's just here or there I might spend, like, $2.50 on
sending a check in the mail or something to that effect,
so it's pretty fantastic.
So next I wanna talk about addresses.
They actually have an entire tab dedicated to
explaining how addresses work.
What's really nice, again, is we get a street address
where we get our mail sent to.
It's not a P.O. box, which is awesome.
So they have several different markets
where they have addresses that you can choose from.
So how the addresses work is that they assign you
a unique number associated with
the particular address that you pick.
So this is a universal address, this is a universal address,
and so on and so forth,
but then when you actually sign up,
for example, my address looks like this.
501 Riverside Avenue Suite 700 PMB 92143
Jacksonville, Florida.
How I got around making this look a little bit more pretty
is I just say suite number 700, room number 92143
and it works like a charm.
Now going back to my inbox for a minute,
I wanna go and show you this particular package.
With this particular package I would select this
request action button if I wanted it forwarded
and then I would just simply select the forward button
and then I would then create new address here
and then I would put in my home address
or whatever address was most convenient for me
if I was, say traveling or what have you,
I would list that here and then I would hit create
and then once it was in the system,
I would select that address from the drop down
and if I wanted to do express or whatever I wanted to do
I could select those options.
The estimated cost is gonna change depending on
which option I pick and then I would say
ship this single item,
or you could add several items at once.
It's pretty awesome.
The next feature that I wanna show you
is underneath preferences, so if I go over here
and I select account,
and then I select this button preferences,
there's several different things that you can do
within the preference section,
but one of the things I wanna highlight to you guys
is this options for new mail.
This area right here.
You can actually set your preferences to have
everything that comes in automatically opened and scanned
and you can then go here to this integrations tab
and you can sync it to something like Dropbox
or Google Drive and have it automatically sent to
a designated folder within one of
those file storage softwares.
As you can see, there are several different softwares
that you can connect with.
There's Box, Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, OneDrive,
and I actually set up a Google Drive folder for myself,
so once you link your account, you would just set folder,
and then whatever you name that folder within Google Drive,
you have to actually set it up within Google Drive,
but once it's there, you can select any folder
that you have created.
And then you just select it, and then you hit set.
It's really that simple.
Now the last section that I wanna go over with you guys
is this tab here that's called Virtual Office.
This is the powerhouse of Traveling Mailbox.
Here I can do a lot of things.
One of the major benefits that
Traveling Mailbox provides us
is that if we wanna mail a letter,
instead of us having to actually print something out,
sign it, fold it, put it in an envelope,
address that envelope, put a stamp on it,
and get it into the mail,
all we have to do is have a PDF version saved of our letter
and then we can just go here, hit start now,
add the file, and then go through the process
of having it be shipped out.
They'll take care of everything for you.
They'll print it out, they'll put it in the envelope,
stamp it, et cetera.
It's pretty amazing.
They do the same thing with checks.
If you wanna actually have a check
send out from your business account,
you just select start now,
and I already have my business account
already synced to my account,
but what I have to do is I just have to go here
and then wherever I wanna send the check,
I just have to set that new address,
so I would just come here,
if it wasn't already in the system,
create this new address
and then select it from the drop down,
put the memo, put the amount, who it's payable to,
and they'll take care of the rest
and then I hit request.
I could also add a letter to the top of it if I want
and not only can you actually mail out a check
using Traveling Mailbox, but you can also receive checks
and have then deposit that into your account.
I don't know 100% how that works
because I haven't actually gone through that process,
but I know that they have an entire page
dedicated to explaining how this service works.
So they say here that once a new envelope arrives
and there's a check inside of it,
after viewing your scanned check,
you just simply complete the steps
within the online mailbox to issue a check deposit request.
Going back to our virtual mailbox,
another amazing thing is this shared fax line.
This is really awesome
because now when people fax in anything to me,
it comes into my inbox just like another piece of mail
and this is included in my membership.
I don't actually have to pay an extra penny
to have faxes comes in.
It does process as an envelope that came in
in something that is opened and scanned
based on how many I'm allotted per month
based on my membership,
but it's really awesome because I don't actually have to
pay somebody like RingCentral
or some other phone service provider
a number for a fax line.
I have it already here within Traveling Mailbox,
which is amazing.
And I can actually send out a fax
using their services as well.
The final thing that I'm going to highlight
is something called this ScanPAK.
This is actually a prepaid envelope
that they'll send you in case
you want them to scan and upload
several different loose paper documents,
whether it's closing documents, receipts,
things for tax returns,
instead of you having to go through the hassle
of scanning and uploading all those things
if you wanna have virtual files,
you can actually just mail it to them
and then they'll take care of it for you.
It's an amazing service.
So I just wanted to give you guys the overview.
This is a fantastic tool.
I hope that you guys have found this video helpful.
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