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The 82nd Academy Awards were held Sunday night, but overnight ratings are not expected to be good.  This is due in part to declining ratings in past years and the show running an hour past prime time.  This is also due to the fact that people are losing interest in the show.

These days there are more choices when it comes to TV viewing, there are more channels, there are more programs and there are on-demand and DVR’s. The Oscars had there heyday when there were few networks and fewer channels. Polls on the Internet are showing that more people will not be watching the Oscars than will be watching.

Even those people who are interested in the Academy Award results, can find those results on the Internet, seconds after they were announced. or wait until after the show to get the full results. See the bottom of this blog entry to get the Academy Awards results.

Just as there are so many television options as alternatives to the Ocars, Telsec has many options for Toronto office space solutions. At Telsec, you can choose shared office space, semi private office space, team space, executive office space, city view office, lake view office and even a corner office. The choices of office options do not end at physical office space, as Telsec also offers Toronto virtual offices. You can choose to have Toronto mail service at a prestigious address or mail and telephone answering service Toronto where your calls are answered by a professional receptionist who handle your calls to your instructions.

Before I give you the Academy Award results, I should mention that when you choose office space Toronto from Telsec, you are not only getting a great office space, but you are also getting a great downtown office location that offers easy access to public transit and plenty of inexpensive parking.

Now “The Oscar goes to”:  (well just the top searched Oscar results)

BEST PICTURE – The Hurt Locker
BEST DIRECTOR – Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
BEST ACTOR – Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
BEST ACTRESS – Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – Mo’nique, Precious
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY – Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY – Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE – Up
CINEMATOGRAPHY – Avatar Mauro Fiore
COSTUME DESIGN – The Young Victoria Sandy Powell
FILM EDITING – The Hurt Locker Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
MAKEUP – Star Trek Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
ORIGINAL SCORE – Up Michael Giacchino
ORIGINAL SONG – The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)

In closing, I also have to send a compliment to the organizers and staff of the Toronto International Bicycle Show for a fantastic job they did this past weekend.  I was not only entertained, but I found some amazing deals.  A new feature to this years bicycle show was the 24 hour spin. Hundreds of cyclists rode stationary bikes over the coarse of 24 hours to raise money for children with cancer.

Another Gold medal for Canada’s women’s ice hockey team, they defeated a very tough USA women’s team 2 to 0, to take their third straight Olympic Gold medal. What made this Gold Medal sweeter was to take this one on home ice in front of not only a hometown crowd and the Prime Minister, but the greatest player who ever played the game who was seated next to Stephen Harper, Wayne Gretzky.

While it was widely publicized that the team had spent weeks leading up to the Vancouver Olympic Games playing practice games against boys midget hockey teams . Thanks to an innovative strategy by Alberta Minor Hockey League, the boys teams’ games against the Canadian women even counted in the league standings, giving these teenagers more motivation for pushing the women’s team to improve.

What many people did not know about was “Operation Aquarium”. It seems that in a covert move, they arranged two more practice games against Major Midget League teams, this time in secret. They let everyone believe they were taking a team activity to the Vancouver Aquarium, meanwhile they were off to play the Vancouver North West Giants of the B.C. Major Midget League at the Burnaby Winter Club. These games were played before family and friends and kept secret, even the opponents were asked to not talk about the games until after the medals were won.

One of the other amazing Bronze Medal stories is Joannie Rochette. Only four days after her mother unexpectedly died following a heart attack and a heart-wrenching short program with a gutsy free skate won Olympic Bronze for her near-flawless skating. In the hearts of Canadian Joannie’s efforts were a Gold Medal effort.

While the Canadian women’s hockey team had “Operation Aquarium”, your Canadian small business can have “Operation Telsec”. Your company can have a virtual office Toronto with a prestigious business address, while operating your business from wherever you like.

With a Toronto mail service or a Toronto telephone answering service and mail service, your company can give a professional business image to your clients without the cost of a physical office space Toronto. With a telephone answering service Toronto plan, your calls are answered by a professional receptionist who handles your calls to your instructions. You could be working from your home, on the road or even at your cottage, your calls can be answered by your receptionist and transferred to wherever you chose.

As your company grows and you need physical Toronto office space or even Toronto shared office space, Telsec can help you upgrade without having to change your telephone number or your prestigious business address.

One of the big benefits of being a shared office Toronto client or a office space Toronto client is that you have access to meeting rooms and boardrooms absolutely free. Even Toronto virtual office clients have access to meeting rooms and boardrooms at a very nominal fee.

Canada has won Gold in Vancouver, 2 Gold Medals on Cypress Mountain and now Canada has finally won Gold in Whistler. Tonight Canada’s Jon Montgomery took gold in men’s skeleton at the Whistler sliding centre. This means that Canada has now Captured Gold at all three venue locations.

Canadian ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are  just over one point back from first-place Russians Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin after the compulsory dance. The ice dance competition continues Sunday with the original dance and wrap up Monday with the free dance, Virtue and Moir are expected to make the podium.

The non Olympic sport story of the day was that Tiger Woods publicly apologized for repeatedly cheating on his wife. He did say that while he intends to return to professional golf, he did not say when that would be.  Woods also mentioned that he had undergone 45 days of therapy since the revelations of sexual affairs. This does put to rest the rumours of him hiding in places everywhere from Arizona to South Africa and even that Tiger was holed up somewhere in Toronto and had a Telephone and Mail Message Service at Telsec Business Office Centres.

When your company needs a Toronto virtual office to give you a prestigious address and a professional receptionist answering your Telephone calls, Telsec has one of the most well known addresses and some of the best prices for Toronto mail service and Telephone answering service Toronto. When your company grows and you need a physical office, Telsec can offer you office space Toronto, without having to change your address or your telephone number.

Google Celebrates 40th Aniversary of Sesame Street

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street. While the 40th anniversary show does not air until November 10th, Google is celebrating today by having Big Bird’s feet as its latest logo doodle. It took a while, but I noticed that the doodle looked a bit different than there usual themed doodles. Usually the letters are in the google themed order – blue, red, yellow, blue green red – but not this time, all the letters are yellow in honour of big bird (whose feet are part of today’s logo).

If it was not enough for First Lady Michelle Obama to appear in the first episode of Sesame Street’s 40th season? Even United States President Barack Obama will be opening the show with a brief video. According to one news source I read, he will say the something like “Todays Sesame Street is brought to you by the number 40″.

Like many of the people reading this blog, I grew up with Sesame Street. I learned some very valuable lessons. We all have our favorite characters, for most it is Big Bird, for me It was the Transylvanian Count von Count.

In Honour of Count, I am going to leave you these points about Telsec. I hope I get the Transylvanian accent down good. Ok accents do not translate well in the written word, so you will just have to go back to your childhood and imagine Count Von Count saying this.

Ooonnne good address at the number one address on Canada’s most famous street, 1 Yonge Street.

Twooo Great Virtual office packages. Toronto mail service and Telephone answering plus mail service.

Threeee, large large boardrooms, That are free for office clients to use.

Foour … I do not have anything for Four, so I will skip to ten.

Ten, With over ten different Toronto office space packages, finding one that suits your needs should be very easy.

With all the talk about the H1N1 virus (swine flu), many people are concerned what they are going to do if they are too sick to go into the office.  Besides not wanting to go too far from home, many do not want to spread the virus and make others sick. Even if it is not the flu, when you are under the weather it is not actually working that you do not want to do, but it is the commute to get to the office that you are not up for.

Sometimes staying home and not working is not an option, especially if you are the only one working in your office.   Why not consider telecommuting?  Telsec serviced office centres can change how your calls are handled and forward them to your home without your clients knowing you are not working in your Toronto office space. If you need to be able to work on files from your office computer, there are services you can use like GoToMyComputer that allow you access to your office computer from any computer that you have access to. Setting up a service like this is not only beneficial when you are sick, but telecommuting software allows for the ability to work anywhere such as a home office, in the car, at a coffee shop or even while on vacation.  But nothing beats working in your serviced office space Toronto. Continue reading »

Toronto Mail Service

When you open a Toronto mail service account or a virtual office Toronto account that includes a prestigious mailing address in a Downtown Toronto office space building, your mail is held for you or redirected to you on a weekly basis.

If it is convenient to visit the office once or twice a week, keeping up on your mail is easy to keep track of your mail. If you getting a large sum of mail on a weekly basis and have it re directed, it can become quite a chore to sort out.

Too often these days most of our postal mail is junk mail and un-solicited offers to do business. The mail we do want like cheques and  contracts seem to get buried in the pile of mail we recieve. While most of our mail is not of an urgent matter, often times there is mail we want ASAP.

When mail is delivered to Telsec’s Toronto virtual office, the staff sorts it into the appropriate mail slots for each client. Some clients choose to have all mail forwarded to them on a weekly basis, but others prefer to call in and see if they have mail. Then there are the clients who have chosen to use the secretarial services and have their mail categorized and even opened to check for contents. For a small nominal fee, they can have cheques forwarded on a daily basis and the remainder of their mail sent on a weekly basis.

Telsec works with their clients to find office service and secretarial packages that work best for the client. Even when a client wants a special service provided, there are no hidden fees, the price is provided to them up front.

When you call Telsec, ask one of their friendly and professional staff about the many secretarial and administrative services they provide to their clients.

Telsec has just created and uploaded its first video on YouTube. Over the coming weeks and months, more videos will be created and uploaded including videos about the Toronto training rooms, virtual office space, mail service Toronto, and other unique office solutions that Telsec offers its clients.

Toronto Small Business Offices – Office Space Toronto on YouTube

This video was created to introduce Telsec Toronto office space.

virtual office Toronto

While in a meeting this week, the conversation got side tracked and I jokingly asked, if people would use the city garbage service less, like they attended baseball games less after the strike of 1994 Major League Baseball strike? Well, obviously unless you have a Toronto office space that uses a private garbage collector, the garbage has piled up during the Toronto garbage strike.

Somehow the conversation came back around to baseball and the low attendance at Blue Jays games, even when they were doing well.  So when I got to my next meeting at Telsec, I suggested a promotion. Anyone who signs up for a Toronto virtual office package during the month of August, would be given a free set of Blue Jays tickets.

Yes, event when someone signs up for a $30 Toronto Mail Service virtual office package that inlcudes :

• Prestigious business address for your own use
• Incoming/outgoing mail service with free mail forwarding
• Incoming fax free
• Boardrooms available

They receive a pair of Blue Jays tickets, just for mentioning this blog.

The  $75 Virtual Office Toronto gets you:

• Prestigious business address for your own use
• Incoming/outgoing mail service with free mail forwarding
• Elegant reception area
• Personalized telephone answering (9am – 5pm) with your own dedicated telephone number
• Incoming calls will be handled according to your instructions
• 24 hour Voice Mail
• Boardrooms available
• Private offices available
• Much more

Whichever Telsec’s Toronto Virtual Office someone opens in August 2009, they get a free pair of Toronto Blue Jays tickets.

Telsec’s Virtual Office Toronto also gives their clients access to over 600 Locations available world-wide. The Boardrooms and facilities are available to Toronto clients in all these locations.

Day office Rental

I recently spoke with a business man who did a lot of travelling for business and had his office at home. He was considering a getting a Toronto Office Space, but thought he would almost never use it. He only meets with customers in Toronto about one or twice a month.

I told him that a day office rental would be a great solution for him. I told him he could have a well appointed fully furnished executive office or even a corner office. If he had appointments with customers, he could inform the receptionist that he is expecting someone. When the customer shows up to meet him, the receptionist would welcome the guest and call him to inform him that his customer has arrived at reception, just like she would do if he was a regular office space rental client.

After telling him the benefits and showing him the  daily office rental page at Telsec, he realized that he would also want to be an Toronto mail service client, so his customers would see that he has an office outside of his home.

The benefit of having the mail service was that he could have his mail forwarded to him anywhere, without having to go into the office. The other benefit to him was that as a monthly client, he got a better rate when he wanted a day office rental.

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