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  • 16May

    Google Maps To Visit Your Toronto Office Space

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    A few years ago Google Maps started offering Google Street View, to provide panoramic views at the street level, now Google is seeking to give Internet users a look inside of businesses. Using the same Street View technology used in streets around the world, street view can now be used for your business. You can create a high-quality, interactive, 360-degree experience for potential customers.

    Imagine being able to find a business on Google Maps and not only be able to go down and see the street view of what the outside of the business looks like, but also be able to see what it looks like on the inside. Some U.S. office space companies started appearing on Google Maps in this way back in January along with a number of retail stores and restaurants.

    Google currently has photographers in several Canadian cities taking pictures of companies interested in having the inside of their office space accessible through Google Maps. This does not mean you have to use one of Google’s photographers to allow visitors inside your office space Toronto, you can even create your own panoramic and upload it to your Google listing.

    Telsec’s Toronto office space is currently looking into having panoramic views done of its reception area, a few offices, larger and small boardrooms and meeting rooms, as well as the two kitchens. This will help potential tenants to see the office amenities that are offered.

  • 14May

    Office Space Trends And Why This Blog Was Created

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    Office space trends are always changing and sometimes the people who could most benefit from them are not the ones to find out about them. Since launching this blog in November of 2008, it has been our mission to not only inform followers of office space trends or the things going on at  Telsec office space Toronto, but to share other business news in regards to small business. Part of this involved watching and investigating office space trends in Toronto and other small business trends from around the world. We have talked about the virtues of having a Toronto virtual office for Toronto businesses and for businesses outside Toronto or even Canada that want a Toronto business presence. We have also done blogs on ways for small businesses to save money and be more productive. In one of our early blog posts we asked what the government were or were not doing for small business when they announced economic stimulus packages for big business. We followed up on this topic this year when an article would come out of the news stating that small business is the economic backbone of this country – and that many did not need bailouts because they were prepared for an economic slowdown. One thing we have also tried to do is to give our followers and casual readers is some humour mixed in with our messages. When we wrote about Zombies Invade Toronto, Jay Leno and the late night TV fiasco or even National Popcorn Day, we wanted to keep people engaged and informed about cost saving alternatives to the tradition office space. Even during the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, we blogged about each day’s highlights and still managed to entertain and inform blog readers. Why did I write this blog today? Is today a special day? Is today an anniversary or something? I wrote this blog today, because while discussing the Telsec office space Toronto blog with an acquaintance I was asked what my favorite posting was and “are you the only writer”? Answering what was my favorite blog to write was not that hard to answer, but it made me think for a bit about some of my favorite topics I have been blogging about. It was really fun to follow the Olympics and to find ways of tying in something about office space, virtual offices, shared offices, Toronto boardrooms and meetings, team space and even day office rentals. Other themes that I have had fun writing about were The Queen and her 22nd Royal Tour. What has been and continues to be a great inside joke between my friends is when I make references to or pay homage to the movie “Office Space”. They love it when I find a way to tie in jokes between my writing about office space in Toronto. The blog entry that I am most proud of and received the most attention for writing was one that I wrote on November 4th 2009. I opened my Internet browser and the first thing I noticed was a familiar pair of orange legs making up the l’s in the Google doodle. I learned that for the next few days leading up to November 10th, all of the Google doodles would be paying tribute to the 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street. I decided to challenge myself and find a way to incorporate this into my blog about Toronto office space and to wish a Happy 40th Anniversary Sesame Street and Happy Birthday Big Bird. In the days to follow, many of my friends sent me messages and told me how much they really liked that particular blog, particularly how I asked them to imagine the Count to do the “One – Two – Threes of Telsec”. As to the second question”are you the only writer”… No. There have been several blog postings that have been written by Tony Curcio and a few written by office space tenants at Telsec who chose to stay anonymous.  With the help of others, this blog will continue to find important information and facts, but will also continue to find ways of keeping followers or others who are interested in Toronto business centres engaged and sometimes entertained.

  • 11May

    France Risks Exodus of Wealthy Small Business Owners To Toronto Office Space

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    Team Office SpaceFrance may be the world’s fifth-richest country and home to some of the globe’s wealthiest people, but some argue that France does no celebrate its affluent citizens. Many are saying that France under President-elect Francois Hollande may see an exodus of many wealthy small business owners to Toronto office space. This is mainly due to the fact that Hollande, a Socialist that has publicly stated that he does not like the rich, plans to put a 75 percent tax on income of more than 1 million euros ($1.29 million). His stance has successful entrepreneurs in France contemplating a move, and European rivals are welcoming them.

    Real estate agents in Brussels have claimed they have taken several calls from French citizens seeking to lease office space in the Belgian capital after Francois Hollande defeated President Nicolas Sarkozy on May 6. Similarly commercial real estate agents in London, New York and Toronto have taken calls from French citizens looking to move their base of operations in favour of a better tax situation.

    Many are saying that the relatively young French entrepreneurs who have an amount of assets, will be tempted to move to the England, USA or Canada in order to open an office space and continue to develop their business. Some of the older wealthy business people will most likely retire to Switzerland because there is no estate tax, and then to move to Belgium when they’re looking to sell assets with no taxes on their gains.

    Telsec currently has two clients that are Toronto branch offices for businesses whose head offices are located in France. One of them is a technology company that has indicated their head office is considering moving their entire operation to Canada. They have indicated that they would like to discuss using Telsec’s team office space as its base of operation, until they are able to find a permanent office situation. This will not be the first time a foreign corporation has taken office space at Telsec while they find and establish a presence in Canada.

    Their many reason for considering Telsec is that, while all their staff speak French and English, some of the Telsec’s staff are fluently bilingual in French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. In fact one of Telec’s staff is fluent in four languages (English, French, Portuguese and Spanish).  This is also why more companies feel at home with their office space Toronto at Telsec.

  • 10May

    More Office Space Coming to Toronto

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    A few years ago, I read that Toronto’s office space market was in a stable, tenant-favouring situation (according to one office realtor’s GTA office-space report). They claimed that the average vacancy rate had continued to hover at approximately 6.5 per cent while average asking net rent was declining. They even went on to say that the Toronto office space market absorbs the new supply of office towers, and with no major new supply anticipated in the near future, the company forecasted a reverse trend towards a landlords’ market by 2011 or 2012.

    It was interesting that they did not mention anything about office business centres in Toronto; they only talked about office space for lease in Toronto. With the last downturn in the economy, it seems that smaller businesses were starting up and growing faster than bigger businesses. Many smaller businesses that are looking at Toronto office space are beginning to shy away from traditional office space and instead are looking at renting serviced office space at office business centres that take the risk out of leasing office space.

    Then I read an article today that says Toronto’s downtown office space market appears poised to explode again with construction, as the commercial office space real estate industry is waiting for that one spark to kick-start the office leasing sector.

    This recent article puts its credibility behind rumours of continued speculation that a major office space developer will begin a new round of aggressive building in the country’s largest office-for-rent market. The speculation was that that it will go ahead with the second tower for another project that provided much of the stimulation for a round of construction when its first tower was announced back in the mid-2000’s. Another development in the downtown core may not attract the higher-end tenants who are looking at lower-priced space outside the core.
    It is not surprising, with office rents in the core of the Toronto financial district remaining high, that many office space for lease seekers are now looking outside the core for a better deal in a newer office building development – or in a lower-priced office space that already exists downtown.

  • 07May

    Having An Office Space near Toronto’s Port Lands is becoming popular

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    While Toronto’s Harbourfront has been developing for many years, it has only been in the past few years that developers have started looking at the Eastern Port Lands. It began when Toronto Port Lands Company (TPLC) decided to develop the first building directly on Toronto’s waterfront to achieve LEED certification. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification consists of a suite of rating systems for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings, homes and neighborhoods. The new building was to house the radio and television studios and office space Toronto for primary tenant Corus Entertainment.

    Right next to Corus building, TPLC is constructing a new campus for George Brown College. Another Port Lands office space development is set to break ground this summer. The primary tenant has still not been announced. Most suspect that it will be a company looking for a building with not only the cool address, but a building that is state-of-the-art and green-friendly.

    Some of the companies who were looking to move their Toronto offices space downtown are now looking more closely at the opportunities that the Port Lands offer. One of the biggest pluses for being south of the railroad tracks and the Gardiner Expressway, is the quick access to the highways out of downtown.

    Even companies who want to be close to the Port Lands and do not want traditional office space Toronto have a great opportunity by renting Toronto serviced office space at Telsec Business Centres. Telsec’s location on the 18th floor of 1 Yonge Street offers the convenience of the Port Lands and breathtaking views of the Toronto harbour and Lake Ontario. They also offer views of the downtown core to the North, Harbourfront to the West and the Port Lands to the East. Most importantly, not only has the building been retrofitted with Green technology, but Telsec Business Centres does its part in being Green-Friendly at work.

     

  • 03May

    Calling My Friend Rocco at His Toronto Office Space

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    I got an email yesterday from a friend who moved to Michigan last year. His email asked about some website programming work we had been talking about. In his signature I noticed that he had a 416 area code phone number where he could be reached (416 is a Toronto area code). To me, this meant that his office space was in Toronto.

    So instead of emailing him back, I decided to phone him at his Toronto office space and meet up for lunch. When I called the number on his email, I was standing at the elevators of my office space Toronto about to go out for lunch. The call was answered by a familiar voice and I also thought I heard that same voice answering the call not far from where I was standing… But I did not think about it.

    As I was telling Rocco about the project I needed his help on, he told me that he had another call he had to take and that he would call me back at my Toronto office space in 15 minutes. So I went down to CafeOn4 to grab something for lunch and to see the smiley redheaded chef.

    When I got back to my office, I had just sat down when Rocco called me back. He told me that he was still in Michigan and that his new employer had him servicing Canadian clients. They set up a Toronto Virtual office for him, with a local Toronto telephone number. His clients would call his Toronto phone number and the calls would be answered by a receptionist who would forward his calls to his Michigan cellphone.

    So I asked him the name of the company and he told me the name of the company he was working for, but I wanted to know the name of the virtual office in Toronto. He told me that he did not deal with the virtual office company, but he knew that his office was on the 18th floor of 1 Yonge Street.  I started to laugh and he asked me what was so funny, I told him that was the same business centre where I had my Toronto office space.

    Today while I was talking to Rocco again, he mentioned that he was talking with someone from his head office in New York and they told him they had found his Toronto virtual office because of the www.telsec.net website. In fact they also found about their other virtual office locations through the Telsec website.

    Rocco told me that his company wanted him to come up to Toronto for a few days to meet with some of his clients who he would normally talk to over the phone or through a video conference. His company wanted to keep up the appearance that he had an actual Toronto office space, so they got him a Toronto daily office rental at Telsec. I told him that he would be better suited to rent one of the large Toronto boardrooms that had a 50-inch LCD screen for his presentations. The bonus part was that as a virtual office client at Telsec, he would get a better rate than a non-client would get.

  • 30Apr

    Maybe It is Time For the Royal Family to Have a Toronto Office Space

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    Toronto office spaceFor the fourth time in four years, Canada will be hosting royalty. I heard someone say with the news that this spring Prince Charles and Camilla will be visiting Toronto, that maybe it is time for the Royal Family to open an office space Toronto to co-ordinate all these frequent visits. Some even say they should have their own merchandising department in Toronto to approve and collect royalties on the various trinkets, bobbles and replica Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medals that many enterprising Canadians will be selling during the Royal Visit.

    When Prince Charles and Camilla arrive in Toronto, they will be greeted by emergency response workers before viewing a Victoria Day weekend fireworks display over Lake Ontario. If they had a Toronto office space at Telsec, they could comfortably watch the fireworks from the 18th floor of the Toronto Star Building.

    While in Toronto the Royals will be handing out the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medals — awards created to commemorate six decades of Elizabeth’s reign. The Duchess will get her first chance to visit the Queen’s Own Rifles, a regiment for which she has just become colonel-in-chief. Also on Charles’ and Camilla’s itinerary in Toronto is a bicentennial commemoration of the War of 1812. With just those events alone, their staff will need a downtown Toronto office space to co-ordinate all their appearances.

    News of the Royal Visit overshadowed the fact that former Canadian and Member of the House of Lords Conrad Black, may not be allowed to return to Canada. Therefore, Lord Black will have to miss the Royal Tour visit to Toronto. This is mainly due to the fact he renounced his Canadian citizenship and has since acquired a criminal record for fraud.  The Canada Border Services Agency says most criminal convictions make people inadmissible to enter and stay in Canada. This is particularly true of non-citizens.

    So it looks like Prisoner no. 18330-424 (as Lord Black is currently known) may get out of prison this Friday, but he may have to wait 5 years until he is able to return home to Canada or rents a Toronto office space. It seems that people with “previous criminality” need to apply for a rehabilitation before they can be admissible for permanent residency to Canada – but they have to wait five years after the completion of their sentence. I am sure that he can open a Toronto virtual office and conduct business while living in the USA or Great Britain.

     

  • 27Apr

    The Grass is Always Greener When…

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    The grass is always greener when someone looks at your job and wants it. When you tell people that you are successful and make a decent living at a job you love, everyone wants it. They love that you have your own Toronto office space and you set your own hours. They become more excited to do what you do. The excitement ends when you tell them you are an entrepreneur working for yourself without a safety net. You do not have job security or a cushy pension. You are building your future on your own.

    When I am asked “How do you do it?”, I often tell people that having my own business is very rewarding in many ways, but having an office space Toronto in a location that works for my clients is what keeps me busy and gainfully employed. When I was running my business out of my home, customers did not seem to take me seriously. My downtown clients wanted to meet me at my downtown office, but my office was a corner room in my suburban home.

    When I first decided to take a virtual office at a downtown Toronto office space, potential clients started to pay more attention to what I had to say. When they wanted to have a meeting at my office, I was able to book a boardroom at a minimal price at the same address that appeared on my business card. No, I did not actually have an office there, but it was a place that my mail went to and my business calls were routed through.  My customers and potential clients did not know this, but they were impressed by the presence I had.

    Over the years, I went from having a $30 Toronto virtual office location to having a window office that overlooks the Toronto harbour. Granted, my first office space in this location was an interior office that only cost me $495 per month, but I have since moved up to where I am now.

    My point is that business has only gotten better since I acquired a real business address in a professional business office space Toronto. The best part is that, unlike traditional office spaces, I can better budget my office expenses and not have to worry about maintaining or upgrading office equipment, they do that for me and I only pay for what I use.

  • 23Apr

    It Was a Rainy Day in Toronto, when I had to go into my Toronto office Space

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    I woke up this morning to wet and dreary weather. My plan had been to take the day off and to take some photos down along the beach, but the weather was not cooperating. I considered instead that I would go into my downtown Toronto office space and get some work done that I had intended to finish on Tuesday. Then I realized that I did not need to go into the office and could probably get more work done from home working remotely on my office computer via the Internet.

    A few hours into working on the redesign of a brochure for the bicycle show, I wanted to go for a bike ride (I felt like Pavlov’s dog). The rain had slowed down almost to a stop, but the roads were still wet. I got on my rain gear and decided to brave the colder weather and go for a ride anyway. My only problem was that I could not find the key for the bike lock. I must have left the key in the desk at my office space Toronto at Telsec. Determined that I was going to go for that ride, I jumped in the car for the quick ride downtown.

    As I was going through my desk looking for the key to the bike lock, my cell phone went off. It was a call from the Telsec receptionist. It seems that an unannounced client had stopped by the office and wanted to know if I was in. The receptionist knew that my calls were being forwarded to my cell phone, but had noticed that I had stepped into the office. I asked the receptionist if the lobby boardroom was available and if she could have my client wait in there for a few minutes. Luckily that boardroom was available.  I hurriedly took off my rain gear and went to greet this new customer.

    After a twenty minute meeting with the client, I returned to my private office space and continued to look for the bike lock key. No luck, it was not in my desk. I put my rain gear in a bag and decided to have some lunch at CafeOn4 before heading home. Just as I got on the elevator, I got another call forwarded from my office phone number. This time it was a photography customer who urgently needed a product photo taken for an advertisement that was going to the printer late in the afternoon. So I had to skip lunch and head home to get my photography equipment.

    So much for taking a Monday off work!

     

  • 20Apr

    The 1000 AWESOME Things Talked About Around my Toronto Office Space

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    The buzz around my Toronto office space on Thursday was how Neil Pasricha concluded his blog that was a list of 1000 things “AWESOME”.  It all began on June 20, 2008, when Neil set out on a mission to write 1,000 blog posts. Each of his weekday blogs was to chronicle of one awesome thing and count down until he hit #1.

    After launching “1,000 Awesome Things”, he started to get some attention from his friends and colleagues, but it really gained traction 20 posts in, when post 980 was linked to on a site called Fark.com. His blog’s popularity began to snowball further after Wired Magazine wrote about his blog and called post 980, which was titled “Old, dangerous playground equipment”.  Pasricha probably had no idea when he started his blog that it would lead to three books (two of which became international best sellers) and an app for smart phones. He even won a Webby award in 2009 for Best Personal or Cultural Blog.

    In hindsight it is hard to imagine that a blog about AWESOME would get over 30 million hits just for the topic of AWESOME.  I am sure many other bloggers are saying that they could have done that – they could have cashed in on the keyword AWESOME and wrote three books. The fact is they did not do it, Neil Pasricha did, while still keeping his Toronto office job at Walmart.

    In blog “#255 That guy who brings treats to work on Friday”, he talks about the 5 ways everyone in his Toronto office space finds out there are treats in the office. Unlike his office space, the treats in my downtown Toronto office space are not placed by a co-worker, but left out and announced by someone working for another company. When someone brings in treats they wish to share with other people who rent office space Toronto at Telsec Business Centres, they leave them in one of the two shared kitchens (where we all get our complimentary coffee, tea and filtered water) with a note telling people to share.

    Office space Toronto TimbitsAt my office space Toronto, there is one person who will randomly leave a fresh box of Timbits in each of the kitchens, but no one seems to know who it is and why. I have talked to the staff at the Tim Hortons on the fourth floor of the building to see who the mystery person is, but they are hush. They do not want to lose a customer. Yes, even with the AWESOME complimentary coffee and tea available in the office, some people are still drawn to get their Tim Hortons fix at the CafeOn4. I will admit that I often slip down to CafeOnF4 for lunch and sometimes I will go down there for an IceCap, when I am not in the mood for just my free Hazelnut coffee (Yes, I love my complimentary hazelnut coffee in my Toronto office space).

    My last comment is more of a question… How many things could people say was about their AWESOME Toronto office space?  I think I could list 20 or 30 and that is not including having the AWESOME address of 1 Yonge Street.

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