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  • 24Jun

    Toronto Seminar Training Rooms

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    Every month, hundreds of individuals, business professionals and companies browse the internet for an office for rent. Toronto and the GTA boast literally hundreds of executive-style offices for rent, but unfortunately, many are either well beyond an individual’s budget, or they lack accessibility or an upscale, convenient downtown location. Many of these office for rent Toronto seekers end up at Telsec Business Centres. There are several reasons for this. The first is an absolutely ideal location in many respects.

    Some things to consider when doing your research in to Toronto seminar training rooms: Who will be attending your seminar or training session? Are they local or from out of town? Will they require parking at a convenient location? Will they be traveling by public transit?  Once you have your answers to those questions, you can begin to search for the Toronto training rooms that best suit your needs.

    Telsec Business Centres office space Toronto is located at 1 Yonge Street, (Toronto Star Building) Suite 1801 (18th floor), in downtown Toronto. Since 1971, the Toronto Star Building has been a landmark in the downtown area. It’s close to a host of attractions, shopping, the entertainment district, Toronto Islands – you name it! The second is access. Telsec is just minutes away from GO, VIA Rail and subway transit. The Bay Street and Yonge Street buses stop right beside the building. Telsec is also close to the Toronto Island Airport and there is an express bus nearby that will take you to Pearson International Airport. Finding an office for rent (Toronto) may also require easy parking. Have you ever driven to downtown Toronto and NOT encountered excessive, aggravating traffic? Telsec offers fast, easy, affordable downtown parking underneath the building. Coming from the east or west? You can quickly drive south off the Gardiner Expressway or Lake Shore Boulevard and you’re there! Or, you can take a liesurely drive along a normally non-congested Queen’s Quay until you get to Yonge Street. If you’re coming from the north, just take the DVP southbound to Lake Shore Boulevard East and drive a few minutes west to Yonge Street.

    The next (and paramount) factor is cost! There are more than five separate, cost-efficient rental options available – from a Virtual Office and Mail Service plan for just $30 a month, to shared offices for only $225 per month, to semi-private offices for just $350 a month, to comfortable, elegant private offices (many with panoramic lake view or city views) decorated with quality furniture for as low as $495 per month. So when you think of an inexpensive office for rent, Toronto, think of Telsec. Finally, let’s look at perks and creature comforts. Telsec boasts state-of-the-art facilities and communications. It has an elegant, fully-staffed reception area, personalized telephone answering, 24/7 building access, free use of executive boardrooms for tenants, kitchen facilities, free tea and coffee, free daily newspaper and so on. Only a top quality office for rent in Toronto can include these types of upscale facilities and daily amenities. Just call (416) 363-9035 today for more information or to arrange a guided tour.

  • 02Jun

    Corporate Event Venues Toronto

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    Your company is holding an event that is bigger than your office space Toronto can accommodate? Why not look for corporate event venues Toronto? Many hotels and downtown Toronto conference centres have rooms of various sizes and optional setups.

    The key to a success or any event is finding the right corporate event venues Toronto that will work with you to find the best size room and the optimal room setup for the type of corporate event you are looking to hold. If you need to hold a training session, you do not want tables and chairs set up so that peoples backs are turned to you, you want the room set up as a corporate classroom.  When holding a large meeting, it is sometimes better to put tables in a horse shoe shape, rather than one long table where everyone cannot see each other.

    Corporate event venues Toronto can be found throughout Toronto and the GTA depending on where you want to hold your corporate event or training seminar. Businesses that are located downtown Toronto would probably prefer a central Toronto event venue, or an event venue Toronto that can be easily accessed by all participants. Other considerations to take into account when searching for an event venue Toronto are things like available parking, ease of access to public transit, amenities and convenience of access.

    Things that are often overlooked when searching for corporate event venues Toronto sometimes seem to be some of the important things that can truly make an event a good one. If your company is holding an all day corporate event such as a corporate seminar or product training event, you know that your participants will want refreshments. You want to make sure that the Toronto event venue you choose has these available.

    The last thing you may need to consider when choosing from corporate event venues Toronto is the technology they provide such as Internet access, projectors, LED or plasma TV’s, white boards, sound equipment or any other devices you may need to make your presentation or workshop viable. You may also have to find out if they provide these products and services as part of the event venue rental or if they charge extra. You also want to know if you can bring your own audio and video equipment into the event venue Toronto.

    When looking at corporate event venues Toronto, you may want to consider the corporate environment at Telsec Business Centres. Telsec offers meeting rooms and training rooms of various sizes and configurations, they can also configure a particular room to suit the needs of your Toronto corporate event. Depending on the configuration you want, Telsec can accommodate between 2 and 50 people in their various Toronto meeting rooms and conference rooms.

    Some of the medium size boardrooms at Telsec already come with large screen plasma TV’s or large screen TV’s. The larger seminar training rooms have large projector screens, but require you to either bring your own projector or rent one at a very competitive daily rental rate. Unlike other corporate event venues Toronto, Telsec gives you the option to rent or bring your own.

    Why is Telsec better than other corporate event venues Toronto? Telsec Business Centres is not a hotel or conference centre, Telsec is an office business centre that understands the needs of businesses and delivers their services in a professional business manor. Telsec offers corporate event venues Toronto that are in a corporate environment that is conducive to doing business.

    While Telsec is a business environment, they offer something that most corporate event venues Toronto do not, they offer Toronto meeting rooms with a corporate atmosphere. Additionally, as part of your Toronto meeting rooms rental, they offer complimentary coffee and tea along with unlimited filtered water. If your corporate event Toronto requires a lunch or light snacks, they can also help to arrange catering services from an onsite catering kitchen or a local restaurant.

  • 20May

    Toronto Meeting Rooms with a Professional Atmosphere

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    Toronto Meeting Rooms with a Profession Atmosphere

    Toronto Meeting Rooms with a Professional Atmosphere

    Meeting with clients at a coffee shop or in your home does not always help to deliver the message that your company is as professional as you say. When you meet your client at an office business centre Toronto Meeting Rooms with a professional atmosphere, your clients are assured that you are serious about the business you are going to conduct with them.

    Office space Toronto clients at Telsec enjoy free usage of the eight Toronto Meeting Rooms with a professional atmosphere. Each of the meeting rooms Toronto is equipped with white board, internet access, projector screens and audio visual equipment. Toronto office space clients simply go to the receptionist to see which of the Toronto Meeting Rooms with a professional atmosphere is available for the time and date of their meeting. Toronto Virtual office clients can also enjoy meeting rooms each month at the Telsec Toronto business centre or at one of 650 other business office locations around the world.

    Another way to have Toronto Meeting Rooms with a Professional Atmosphere without having an office space Toronto or a Toronto virtual office plan is to rent a Toronto meeting room for a full or half day at Telsec. Telsec offers small and large Toronto Meeting Rooms with a professional atmosphere at affordable rates. Telsec also has Toronto conference rooms that are large enough to be used as training and seminar rooms for groups up 50 people. Complimentary coffee, tea and filtered water are included with all meeting room and conference room rentals. Your clients are greeted by a professional receptionist who calls you when they have arrived, giving the appearance that you have an office at this location.

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    Toronto Meeting Room and Seminar Training Rooms

    Having a meeting, sales conference or a training seminar? Telsec has Toronto Meeting Rooms with a professional atmosphere that will fit your needs. If you are planning a full day meeting or conference and do not want to leave for lunch, we can arrange catering from simple sandwich trays to a full warm lunch.

  • 24Feb

    You Have To Try Stampede Bison Burgers

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    I do not get a chance to go for lunch with clients as most of the correspondence is done by email and phone. But today a client wanted to take me out for lunch to discuss a new project they want to get going. Instead of a fancy eatery, they suggested burgers and I suggested Stampede Bison Grill. This place I have come to love that is  located just off Queen St. West at 5 Brock Avenue that specializes in, you guessed it, bison burgers. The burger menu offers a nice variety, aside from the bison and roast bison specialties. You can get beef, chicken, club and even veggie, all made the way you like with custom toppings. My favourite is the Bison Poutine with shaved roast bison over top of poutine with a mound of “real Quebecois” cheese curds and fresh hand cut fries.

    The place has a compact menu of six burgers and sandwiches, two salads and the usual cast of side dishes and accompaniments, the most prominent item on the menu is, as would be expected, the bison burger. Lower in calories, fat and cholesterol than most other meats including lean meats like chicken and pork as well being high in protein, iron and vitamin B-12, bison meat is the new darling of carnivores across the land. Stampede’s menu touts the use of all-natural, Peterborough-raised bison meat reared with no additives, antibiotics, stimulants or animal by-products.

    One thing this place is, it is not fast food. Once we submit our order, we probably wait a good 10-15 minutes for our meal – but it was completely worth it!!

    My client loved the place and asked me about any other food places that were hidden gems. I told him that I do not get out much for lunch and often have lunch downstairs from my downtown Toronto office space in the 4th floor Toronto Star Cafeteria. This is true of a number of the other office space Toronto clients I know. There are plenty of restaurants near the Toronto Star Building, this one is the most convenient and the food is really good, besides being priced well. A few times that I needed to have a catered lunch in one of the Toronto meeting rooms, I was able to arrange catering through the Toronto Star cafeteria.

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  • 02Feb

    What Happened to This Epic Snow Storm?

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    For days the media has been talking about a major storm that was heading our way. They were promoting this storm like it was going to be the biggest storm to hit Toronto this millennium. School closures were planned before the first snowflake fell, even the Toronto District School Board offices were scheduled not to be open today. Colleges and Universities cancelled classes and programs, day care centres were not even going to open. All of this was in preparation for this epic storm that only delivered about 15 centimetres of snow instead of the 30 or 35 centimetres that was forcast, and then it was of the light flakey variety at that.

    While many people like myself planned not to go into the office, I could at least make it look like I was in the office. Similar to how Toronto virtual office clients have their calls answered by a receptionist and transferred to the number of their choice, those clients with downtown Toronto office space at Telsec can also have their calls routed to wherever they are working.

    Around 11 am, I got a call transferred to my cell from a potential client. The potential client was in the city and had a few meeting cancelled, they wanted to know if I could meet with them today while they were in town. I called the receptionist at my office space Toronto and asked her if there was an open boardroom for 1 pm, she looked it up and indeed there was an available boardroom. While I was talking to the receptionist I asked if the office was quiet today, she said it was a little quiet but most were in and it was business as usual.

    It took me a few more minutes than usual to get into the office, but that was because I was stuck behind a row of snowploughs on the Don Valley Parkway. When I got to the office, I headed directly to the same place I do every day, the kitchen. As I was getting my cup of hazelnut coffee, a few of the usual suspects were also getting their second or third cup of the day.  The topic of conversation … What else… the storm that never came. The one woman was upset at the school closures, she remembered walking to school in blizzards when she grew up in Northern Ontario. Another person who runs a branch office for a Southern California company was experiencing his first taste of winter and was happy to see the snow. He got a few odd looks from us hardy winterized Canadians when he mentioned he was heading to California tonight.

    The meeting with the potential client went well and I counted on a slow drive home. To my surprise, the commute home was not that bad. The roads were clear and there were fewer cars than normal. I want the weatherman to make more storm predictions like this and keep more people off the roads.

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  • 12Jan

    What Are The Chances It Was The Same Bill Carroll

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    Listening to Bill Carroll at my office space TorontoYesterday I was getting a coffee in the kitchen at my downtown Toronto office space when Tim (the guy in the office next to me) started talking to me about some guy he had heard on the radio.  He had just returned from Los Angeles for a conference with other branch office mangers. While in Los Angeles he was driving a rental car and came across KFI AM 640 radio station and started to listening to some guy named Bill Carroll. He really liked this guy and what he had to say. For twenty minutes Tim went on to tell me how this guy Bill Carroll was just great.

    I mentioned that there was a guy I used to listen to in Toronto named Bill Carroll, before someone broke my car antenna and I was left with only my satellite radio. For the past few years my radio listening has been to Howard Stern and Bubba the Love Sponge.  So I went into my office and went on the CFRB website to see if the Bill Carroll I knew was still there. When I did not find him there, I Googled him. The first link I found was a Toronto Sun article from February 12, 2010, that said Bill was leaving CFRB for Los Angeles.

    Wow Bill Carroll is now on one of the top talk radio station in North America following Rush Limbaugh. I first listened to Bill over 25 years ago when he hosted Q107′s “Barometer”. When he left Q107 on the FM band to join its sister station  TALK640 down the hall, I followed him from FM to AM radio. He was also the same Bill that co-hosted the TV game show “Test Pattern” with one of his best friends, the late Dan Gallagher. A few years later, I followed him up the AM dial to CFRB 1010. It was not until my car antenna was broken that I was not able to tune in for my fix of Bill.

    At home last night I just had to look more into what Bill Carroll was up to.  Sure enough he is on Facebook and he accepted my friendship this morning. As I am writing this blog, I am actually listing to Bill via the Internet. The topics may be different, but he is the same Bill Carroll that I used to listen to. His Canadian accent comes through strong, but I really miss when he would do his impersonation of his Scottish father with his Scottish accent.

    When I get to my office space Toronto tomorrow, I will be sure to tell Tim that he can still listen to Bill Carroll on the KFI Website (www.kfiam640.com). I am also going to ask Tim if he uses the boardrooms at the many office business office centers locations just like the Toronto meeting rooms, that he has access to by being a tenant at this Toronto office Space.

  • 30Dec

    2011 is Almost Here

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    As I was working in my Toronto private offices the past few days, I noticed that it was much quieter than most weeks. I guess that some people had taken the time between Christmas and New Years as a vacation. It was then that I realized that 2010 is coming to a close. While I am looking forward to 2011, I am going to miss 2010.

    It is hard to believe that 2010 is almost over. In the span of the year things have really changed for me. I started doing more photography work for various clients. I got to work with some other very talented photographers by assisting them on their shots, I also got to do a very special shoot with a model from Detroit and had the assistance of a very well known artist setting up the model. I am getting more and more known for my photography and getting the recognition of my peers.

    2010 was also great because I met a very special lady that I call my smiley girl. She is almost always smiling and her smile is the first thing that people notice about her. We met at a party back in June and have been inseparable from that time on. On Boxing Day, we celebrated 6 months together.

    Back in July I moved from a main floor of a house in Scarborough to a place in East York. I moved into a smaller place, but one that was closer and more convenient to my downtown Toronto office space. Instead of a 30 minute commute, my commute takes me less than 15 minutes. Well, sometimes it is longer if I am driving in rush hour traffic, but because I set my own office hours I normally drive during off peak times.

    I also made another move this year, one involving me moving into a private office space. The Toronto shared office space that I was using for the past few years was great, but I wanted to have a private office that I could meet clients in any time I wanted without having to book a meeting room all the time. It also allowed me to make the space my own by putting up my own pieces of art. Don’t get me wrong, the modern furnishings and artwork are great and the newly decorated lobby is bright and welcoming. I like the fact that I can also personalize my private office space at Telsec.

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  • 29Nov

    Cyber Monday Deals

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    Cyber Monday is to online retailers what Black Friday is for brick and mortar retailers. This soon to be Hallmark holiday is where online retailers help kick off a season of sales. While most aren’t discounting products as low as they did on Black Friday, there are still plenty of savings to be found. Even Canadian online retailers jumped on board and are creating sale prices to stay competitive with their American counterparts, especially with a strong Canadian dollar that has shoppers looking for deals in the USA.

    Along with the great online deals also comes what the Internet security experts at McAfee calls “The Twelve Scams of Christmas”. The biggest scam is the iPad giveaway where people give their credit card number to purchase other inexpensive items to receive a free iPad. The problem is that neither the iPad nor the other products ever get delivered.

    The second scam is the ever popular “Help! I’ve Been Robbed” Scam that victims get through their email or social networking sites from friends of friends of friends, but no one seems to have really met this person. This is very similar to the “I need help with medical expenses” scam where people build up a network of friends on social networking sites with the eventual plan of parting them of their money.

    The third scam according to McAfee is the Fake Gift Cards, where you are offered gift cards for becoming a fan of a company on social media sites and taking some quizzes and surveys. These are not for market research purposes, but a method of gathering your information to steal your identity.

    The Holiday Job Offers are aimed at people seeking extra cash for gifts this holiday season, some scams offer dangerous links to high-paying, work-at-home jobs that ask for your personal information, such as your email address, home address and Social Security number to apply for the fake job. Other such job scams ask you to send a registration fee by online payment services as an administration fee.

    “Smishing” is one that I have never heard called that before, but I have received phishing messages via SMS text messages on cell phones. These texts appear to come from your bank or an online retailer saying that there is something wrong with an account and you have to call a number to verify your account information. In reality, these efforts are merely a ruse to extract valuable personal information from the targets. These criminals know all too well that people are more vulnerable to this scam during the holiday season when many people are doing more online shopping and checking bank balances frequently.

    For a complete list of the “Twelve scams of Christmas” visit Twelve Scams of Christmas

    An acquaintance of mine is currently work shopping a seminar on how to avoid identity theft and online scams. He is creating his seminar less at consumers and more towards small and medium size businesses who do not have full time IT or Internet security person. As he was starting to ask me if I knew of a place he could hold his training seminars downtown Toronto, he could see that I was already formulating an answer for him. He stopped mid sentence and said “your Toronto office space has seminar training rooms for rent?” It seems that even my friends are starting to realize just how much I love my Downtown Toronto office space and how much better it is for my business and expenses than having a unserviced office rental.

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  • 06Oct

    Why all the buzz about some Facebook Event

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    For the past few hours I have been noticing Google and Twitter trends and the one that seems to be picking up a lot of steam is #Facebook Event.  I have no clue what this is, but it sounds like something big is about to happen with Facebook.  I guess I will just have to tune in and find out.

    I am happy that the Internet speed at my Toronto office space is fast.

    UPDATE

    What a bust of a news conference, it was just a whole bunch of buzz so Facebook could announce some new features. The problem was that with so many people logged into the live event, the video and audio was choppy and at time not understandable.

    The first things they were talking about were the launch of a service that would allow you to download all of your information stored on Facebook and keep a copy of it on your computer. I guess this is for people who want to keep it after they delete their account. The press conference really did not give any really good answers why people would want this, but I guess some do.

    The second part of the announcement was the introduction of Facebook Groups. This would allow you to create and invite friends to join groups of up to 250 people to talk and share thoughts, without having to share that info from the rest of the people on your friends list, unless they were invited to join the group. The idea behind this feature had some merit. According to their research only 5% of the over 500,000,000 Facebook users separated the relationship types they have with each of their friends or family (IE casual friends, high school friends, college buddies, co-workers, business aquaintances and so on). So these new groups will help people filter the information they want to share with certain people who have been invited by them or by another member of the group.

    All in all, these two announcements were nothing earth shattering in the world of social networking.

    Although, I can see it being useful for sharing social interests with my business acquaintances who are on Facebook. It could also help me to plan gatherings and networking events in the Toronto meeting rooms at my office space for lease Toronto.

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  • 02Oct

    Nuit Blanche-An All Night Art Exposition

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    Nuit Blanche is Toronto’s annual sunset to sunrise celebration of contemporary art. This year will be the fifth year or Nuit Blanche and it keeps getting bigger with over 130 installations.

    Nuit Blanche was originally conceived in Paris, France. The name is translated universally as  ’Sleepless Night’. The idea was to bring contemporary art to the masses in public spaces.

    Last night I went to Nuit Blanche pre-party for a Nuit Blanche installation that is not on the official guide. It was held at a friends photo studio with over 60 people in attendance. With that many people, many chose to hang out in the large common area of the studio complex. The common area of the studio complex has couches and chairs, but also a great view as the big garage door was open. A part of that view was another group from the next studio down, they were outside in the parking area putting the final touches on their mobile Nuit Blanche exhibit. They had built a platform that held a small band and was pulled by a bicycle.

    As myself and others watched them working away, I struck up a conversation with a woman who turned out to be an art dealer from New York City. She was in Town for Nuit Blanche looking for new artists to represent and was invited to come to this pre-party for Morpheous’ installation. As we talked, I learned that she came to Toronto on business 6 or 7 times a year.

    She told me most of her business is conducted in her hotel room and at the studios of the artists she was looking at. When she needed to meet with corporate art buyers, she found her hotel room to be too impersonal, so she would rent out a small parlour in the hotel. She had considered renting a Toronto office space with Toronto meeting rooms, it was not worth it for the few times she was in the city each year.  She did not need a virtual office or a Toronto mail service, as all her contracts and business dealings were done through her New York office space.

    So I told her about the Toronto meeting rooms at my office space Toronto and the fact they had several conference room rental options. I told her they had reasonable rates for full or half day rentals, even good rates for non virtual office Toronto or Toronto mail service clients.

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