Mail Forwarding – A First Class Service
Filed Under: Registered Agent
Tags: Mail Forwarding
Harvard Business Services, Inc. has anticipated and served the needs of business owner’s for almost 30 years. From Incorporation to Qualification – our specialty is quality service backed by unmatched customer support. One of our most popular services through the years has been our Mail Forwarding. Many domestic and international clients utilize these services and for some very good reasons.
Convenience: We offer a valid business mailing address – not a PO Box – with full mailroom and staff to offer support. First Class Mail is received and sent to you in convenient bundles with all Third Class materials discarded. This means that you will never receive “junk” mail through our service! Clients simply offer their company name with our address and the mail is sorted accordingly by company name and account and mailed to you in our mailing package – it’s not actually forwarded. From a cost standpoint – streamlining mail efforts can sometimes also offer savings to the company in labor and infrastructure.
Privacy: All mail services are confidential and address information is never shared with any third party or made public. Since only the company name is offered; individuals are offered anonymity from postal and delivery perspectives. Utilizing our address is sometimes much more secure than offering a home address for business functions.
Perception: Many domestic and international clients favor the perception of a Delaware business mailing address to go along with their Delaware incorporation or LLC. Delaware is home to some of the most prestigious companies in the world and sometimes we are judged by the company we keep.
Flexibility: Several levels of service are offered to keep the cost down for those clients who may not expect much mail – and unlimited service is available for those who need full service year round with a high volume of mail. Delaware offers many benefits to those who register their assets in Delaware – our FAA Package offers a service well suited to handle mail for airplane ownership and registration. This service can also be fitted to apply to vehicle and yacht registration as well.
Cost: If you consider that we include all postage in our package costs and keep in mind the current rate for first class mail (44 cents per letter) – our unlimited package will handle an unlimited number of pieces over a full year for less then one dollar per day!
If your business correspondence is a concern – let the professionals at Harvard take the hassle and “junk” out of your mail situation! For details on all mail services – please use this link: http://www.delawareinc.com/ourservices/mailfwd.cfm or call 1-800-345-2677 to start your first class service today!
Secret Agent Fees
Filed Under: Registered Agent
Tags: Incorporating, Registered Agent
You may call me a bit old fashioned or somewhat idealistic; but I still believe that success can be achieved through honest business practices and by dedication to providing your clients with a good value at a fair price. On top of that, a friendly relationship with competent staff is essential to getting an A+ in my book. At Harvard, we strive to offer service which is best described as professionally personal.
I am very fortunate to represent a company that truly “gets it right”. Harvard Business Services, Inc. is a small enterprise that has flourished for more than a quarter of a century by offering a product and a level of service that exceeds the clients’ expectations and sets the standard in the industry, for others to follow. Our daily interaction with hundreds of clients by phone and email is inspiring to witness and to be a part of, especially when we know that our clients can order our service directly from the website without talking to a person. I have the enviable position of the front phone man in sales and I hear over and over how happy our clients are and how they feel each transaction is a pleasure.
So what’s the dark side? What about these “Secret Agent Fees”? Well, my friends, everyday we get angry feedback from clients who have had negative experiences with some of our competitors. My intention for this blog is not to badmouth our competitors, but rather to offer information and support to those who may be considering our services but are confused by the offers of our competitors, particularly regarding their registered agent fees. Confused? Or Misled? Registered Agent fees offer a tangible way to compare Harvard to the others.
The most common tactic applied by some of our competitors is to entice the prospective client with a price for company formation which appears almost too good to be true. One even claims to offer a “free” corporation, which, of course, isn’t FREE at all. That is the bait….here is the snafu: once they have hooked you in as a client, their Registered Agent fees are designed to milk your company for as much as possible. Some clients have reported that certain other agents have failed to disclose clearly that your initial Registered Agent fee will increase dramatically to as high as $340 per year in the near future.
At Harvard, we guarantee that your annual registered agent fee will remain FIXED at $50 per company per year so long as you pay promptly and keep your company in Good Standing.
So, for those of you who chose another registered agent and are now looking at an invoice for $169 or $250 or $340 to renew your company for the next year’s agent fee, what are your choices? Well, you may want to consider switching agents to Harvard. SWITCHING!!! Yes! For only $89 per company which INCLUDES the first year’s agent fee from Harvard Business Services, Inc. The BEST name in the business established in 1981, top in the field and Number One in SERVICE!
But don’t take my word for it…here are the facts: This data is based upon current advertised levels for a basic DE filing – LLC or INC. Legalzoom’s first year’s agent fee is $149.00 (a price that is offered as a FIRST YEAR SPECIAL) and then increases to $159.00 for the second year and every year after. The Company Corporation is a real value at $100.00 for your first six months and then it goes beyond the stratosphere to a level of $269.00 PER YEAR!!! My Corporation offers an annual rate of $169.00 per year….period. Good Luck finding these prices, they are well concealed. However, when a client visits www.delawareinc.com – the $50.00 Agent Fee Banner is bold, front and center.
The home pages for many of our competitors’ web sites neglect to mention the agent fee – let alone admit that it increases rapidly. If you stay in business for 3 years (and what business plans to fail?) you can expect to pay from $400 to 500 MORE for the same service we offer with excellence.
Perhaps, now the title of this blog has a little more meaning…however; less cloak and dagger – more bait, bamboozle and snafu. Hopefully, this information will help to expose such common but questionable marketing tactics and address the misconception that our costs for filing are higher than the other three registered agent’s prices listed here. Read the fine print, you can pay us a little now or you can pay them a lot later!!!
Below is a quick comparison of our costs vs. other agent costs.
1st year agent cost:
* Harvard Business Services: Free with formation package
* The Corporation Company: $100 FIRST SIX MONTHS
* Legalzoom: $149
* My Corporation: $169
2nd year agent cost:
* Harvard Business Services: $50
* The Company Corporation: $269
* Legalzoom: $159
* My Corporation: $169
3rd year agent cost:
* Harvard Business Services: $50
* The Company Corporation: $269
* Legalzoom: $159
* My Corporation: $169
Total cost after 3 years:
* Harvard Business Services: $100
* The Company Corporation: $638
* Legalzoom: $467
* My Corporation: $507
Anonymity – The State of Being Not Known
Filed Under: Delaware, INC Knowledge, Limited Liability Company, Q&A, Registered Agent
Tags: Anonymity, Delaware, Limited Liability Company, Privacy
When you go to your mailbox and retrieve the daily mountain of junk…do you ever wonder how those marketers got your information. When you receive junk e-mail…do you ever wonder how they got your address? When telemarketers call at dinnertime…do you ever wonder how they got your phone number? Typically, when you offer any private information to a non-secure source, they can sell or share that information to marketing companies and those groups will exhaust every viable approach in attempts to sell you products or services. The information super highway can be a great tool; but it can also lead to serious threats concerning privacy.
You may be thinking what does this mean for people who incorporate in Delaware? Delaware offers the most privacy possible. Delaware does not require members or managers of Limited Liability Companies to disclose their names and address information like many other states. In Delaware, each LLC must maintain a “Contact Person” which may be an agent. This means that only Delaware affords you the freedom of anonymity. If your LLC is NOT registered in Delaware, anyone who researches a company name in the state where it is filed can access private names and contact data.
The same method of investigation utilized by marketing companies can unfortunately be applied by crooks and con-artists. Most businesses, especially those who collect confidential information from their clients including credit card numbers, have a responsibility to keep their information private and secure. Obviously, where you file – and who you file with – DOES make a difference. At the very least, a private filing will avoid junk marketing attempts and at the very worst – a true threat to your identity. Your business is just that: “your business”. Delaware can help to keep it that way!
At Harvard Business Services, Inc. we have a very strict policy designed to keep your data secure and private. Our servers are secure and under constant observation for intrusion. Our firewalls are the most rigid and state-of-the-art. We backup and archive our data base with off site secure vaults and we train our people not to reveal any information about our clients to unauthorized callers. At Harvard, we respect your privacy, and protect your anonymity.
The Role of the Registered Agent
Filed Under: Registered Agent
Tags: Delaware, Registered Agent
According to law, each Delaware company must maintain a Delaware Registered Agent.
Registered Agents are not regulated by the State of Delaware. The legal requirements to be a Registered Agent in Delaware are to maintain a street address and office located in Delaware and be open during normal business hours for the purpose of accepting service of process according to 8 DEL.C. § 132.
Harvard Business Services, Inc. has been one of Delaware’s top registered agents for 28 years. Besides providing 50 state company formation service for domestic and international clients, We also offer full range of services for companies such as mail forwarding, obtaining an EIN number and retrieving certified copies of your documents when you need them. If you want to change the name of your company or declare more stock, we can help you with the paperwork and filing of the necessary documents. We’ll also help you file your IRS tax reports and/or your Delaware Franchise Tax reports.
At Harvard we employ 25 people and have specialists in formations, amendments, taxation and all areas of business start-up and maintenance. As a valued client of Harvard Business Services, Inc. you have lifetime support services at your fingertips by calling or emailing us with your questions. We currently represent over 29,000 companies.
For a complete list of the services offered by Harvard Business Services, Inc. follow this link: https://www.delawareinc.com/ourservices/
At Harvard we strive for excellence every day with every new company we form. Among our competition, we are proud that our reputation is that we have the friendliest people to talk to, and results so fast you’ll wonder how we can get it done so promptly! Call us or email us if you have questions about forming a company anytime.
This blog category will help you understand the workings and the importance of YOUR Delaware Registered Agent. We invite you to join the conversation by leaving a question or comment.
What is a Delaware registered agent?
Filed Under: Q&A, Registered Agent
Tags: Delaware, Franchise Tax, Registered Agent
Persons from outside Delaware who wish to form Delaware corporations must, as prescribed by Delaware law, have a registered agent within the state. The registered agent acts as the original incorporator, files the corporation and remains the registered agent for the life of the corporation.
You can count on us, as YOUR registered agent to send out your annual Delaware Franchise Tax Report, to help you compute your tax if necessary, to assist you when necessary in making changes in your corporation such as increasing the number of shares of stock or changing the corporate address, or just to answer your questions whenever they come up.
