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.
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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.
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For 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.
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As I was driving into my Toronto office space this morning, I heard a radio announcer trying to say Kung hei fat choi, but his pronunciation sounded a little off, it sounded like he was saying “Gung Hei Fat Choy “. So I asked one of the Mandarin speaking office space Toronto clients what the proper pronunciation was. He told me that neither was the Mandarin way of saying Happy New Year (not an exact translation). It seems that “Xin Nien Kwai Le” is the Mandarin way. He went on to tell me that his wife is from the Philipines and her family is from the Fujian province of China, where they speak a Chinese-Filipinos dialect called Hokkien. The Chinese-Filipinos say Kiong Hee Huat Tsai.
He also informed me that much to many North Americans’ dismay, Kung hei fat choi (in Cantonese), Xin Nien Kwai Le (in Mandarin), and Kiong Hee Huat Tsai (in Hokkien [Chinese-Filipinos dialect from Fujian province]), do not mean “Happy New Year”. But instead, they all refer to the same set of 4 Chinese characters (农历新年) that literally means “Congratulations and wishing you prosperity!”
The client had to leave for a meeting, so our conversation was left at that. I decided to do some more research. I found out that Cantonese is one of the 9 other groups of dialects in China and is most commonly spoken in Hong Kong, Guangdong and Macau, but Mandarin is the most largely spoken dialect in mainland China. What was more interesting is that regardless of the dialect spoken there are two written forms of Chinese – Traditional and Simplified characters.
This got me to thinking, how would one say office space Toronto in Chinese? So, I turned to the internet to find some answers. As it turns out, Simplified Chinese characters were more commonly used in business on the Internet. A quick translation from Google let me know that “office space Toronto” translated to 多伦多办公室空间 in simplified Chinese characters.
When I mentioned the research I had done to one of the Telsec staff, she told me that Telsec actually had a few Toronto virtual office clients that were located in Hong Kong. So I went back to Google to find out what the simplified Chinese characters were for virtual office Toronto. I found out that the translation was多伦多的虚拟办公室.This did not look the same as my previous translation, so I tried translating Toronto virtual office and found that the Simplified Chinese characters 多伦多 turned out to be Toronto. Regardless of the order I asked for the words to translate, Toronto seemed to be the first. I had to find out more, so I asked Google to translate “downtown Toronto office space” and got 多伦多市中心的办公空间 , the characters多伦多 were still the leading characters. One last experiment, what if I left off the capital letter T in Toronto? Turns out is still put those same three characters at the beginning.
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The receptionist at your branch office in Toronto
Having a branch office in a city that you are just begging to service or sell into can often sound like an expensive proposition, but it does not have to be. Opening a branch office in Toronto can be easy and inexpensive when you select the right office space or virtual office space location.
The first step in finding the right branch office in Toronto is to determine your branch office needs. You have to consider if you require physical office space in Toronto and how much Toronto office space you will require. Should the office be located in downtown Toronto? How many employees will be working in your Toronto branch office? What office equipment will they require (photocopier, fax machine, network printer)? Will they need telephone and Internet services? Will your office require a boardroom or Toronto meeting rooms? Will you require a live receptionist to answer telephone calls and route them to the right person? There are many other things to consider when looking at traditional Toronto office space for your branch office.
Many businesses that are looking for the most cost effective ways of opening a branch office in Toronto do not realize that opening a branch office in Toronto can be easy and inexpensive by moving into an office business centre like Telsec. Office business centres offer you a variety of choices when it comes to the types and sizes of Toronto office space. Telsec offers private executive window offices, private office space, semi-private offices, shared offices and team space for 5 to 50 workers.
When you open a branch office in Toronto at Telsec, you not only get quality office space at a prestigious business address, you get a whole lot more. You get a fully furnished office with modern office decor, personalized telephone answering by a professional receptionist, free access to meeting rooms and boardrooms, access to photocopiers and network printers (both black & white and colour), free incoming faxes, access to two kitchens with complimentary coffee, tea and filtered water as well as access to many on demand services like word processing and administrative support.
If you are looking to open a branch office in Toronto, but do not want physical office space or full time office space, there is always Toronto virtual office packages that may be a great answer for your branch office. A Toronto virtual office will give your branch office in Toronto a prestigious business address that is located right downtown, at a fraction of the cost of a physical branch office. The great part of a virtual office at Telsec is that when you need a have a meeting, you can arrange to use one at the same branch office address as your clients see on your business cards or website. When your branch office requires physical office space Toronto, you can easily upgrade to an office space, without having to change your address or telephone number.
Now you can see that opening a branch office in Toronto can be easy and inexpensive, so why not call Josie at (416) 363-9035 and find the right branch office in Toronto – the best solution for your business.
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In business, there are two basic ways to improve your bottom line: Increase sales or reduce costs. For many companies, because of the current global recession, increasing sales is becoming more and more difficult. Therefore, these companies are looking for innovative ways to reduce expenses. One way popular way is to have a Toronto virtual office that incorporates Toronto telephone answering service and Toronto mail service – two basic components of any traditional physical Toronto professional office space. These are some of the best Toronto virtual office options.
The cost savings of having a Toronto virtual office are self-evident – no physical space rented so there is no monthly invoice. Choosing the best Toronto virtual office options will save you literally thousands of dollars over the course of a fiscal year. But the absolute ideal scenario (especially if you need to meet with clients face to face occasionally) is also to have use of the physical facilities and amenities in the same building where your Toronto virtual office is located.
These additional amenities could include the use of meeting rooms and boardrooms, high-speed internet, video conferencing and teleconferencing, colour and B&W photocopiers and printing services, etc. as well as perks such as coffee, tea and filtered water. There are many Toronto virtual offices out there located within upscale buildings that offer some of the best Toronto virtual office options. These normally include Toronto telephone answering service and Toronto mail service.
Perception is everything, especially in business. So imagine having the luxury of directing all your business (or personal) mail to one convenient, prestigious downtown Toronto location! The best Toronto virtual office options also provide you with outgoing mail service as well as the re-directing of mail and incoming faxes to a location (your home?) of your choice. And, you can go to the next Toronto virtual office level by including professional, personalized telephone answering with incoming calls handled according to your specific instructions. You can also add 24-hour voice mail service if you like.
Bottom line: A professional Toronto virtual office set-up in an upscale downtown building that also offers Toronto mail service and Toronto telephone answering service (as well as use of its physical facilities and services when needed) is the best choice when searching for the most cost-effective and the best Toronto virtual office options. You’ll be viewed as professional, you’ll sound professional, and you’ll only pay for the services you need. No wonder companies are now choosing a virtual office Toronto.
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For many home based businesses that do not require a full time office outside of the home, but they do need a professional look by having a prestigious business address. Without the need for a full time office space Toronto, many of these businesses look for a virtual office Toronto on a budget. The days of using a post office box as a business address are long over, because business savvy customers are weary of doing business with a company that works out of a post office box.
When you are looking for a virtual office Toronto on a budget, there are many factors to consider:- Price – What will it cost you to use this prestigious business address?
- Location – Is the virtual office Toronto location easy for you to get to if you have to have a meeting?
- Meeting rooms – Does the virtual office Toronto on a budget offer meeting rooms and boardrooms a-la-cart?
- Personalized phone answering – When your client or customer calls your phone number, does the receptionist answer and handle your call the way you wish her to?
- Access to other business centres when you travel – Are you able to use the facilities of another affiliated business centre when you are traveling and working in another city?
Price – A number of providers of virtual office Toronto on a budget claim to have low rates, but they fail to tell potential clients of all the hidden costs and extra fees. Before accepting the price and choosing a virtual office location based solely on price, be sure to ask about any hidden extra costs or fees. A good virtual office Toronto solution provider will let you know all of the potential extra costs up front or will include them in the quoted price.
Location – While you will not be traveling to your virtual office Toronto on a budget very often, you will sometimes want to be able to pick up your mail and courier packages that are urgent. Some virtual office locations will only re-mail your deliveries or are not easy to access when driving. Chose a Toronto virtual office provider that has a prestigious address and is easy to access.
Meeting Rooms – Most office business centres that offer virtual office Toronto on a budget have meeting rooms and boardrooms, but many reserve those meeting spaces for only office space tenants. Other business centres that offer office space Toronto and virtual office services will allow virtual office clients to use the meeting rooms and Toronto boardrooms on an a-la-cart basis for a lower rate than non virtual office clients.
Personalized phone answering – Having someone answer your calls with your business name is one thing, but having your phones answered in a personalized manor with your company greetings is more impressive to your clients. It makes your clients believe that the person answering your calls is on your staff and not a generic call centre. Sometimes you want to have your calls re-directed to your home office or your cell phone; other times you may want the receptionist to say you are in a meeting and send the call to your voicemail. The sign of a good provider of virtual office Toronto on a budget is that you can change how you want your calls handled any time during business hours.
Access to other business centres when you travel – Business travel can be an important routine for you, but meeting a client in a hotel room is not always the best way to present your business. A few office space Toronto locations that offer virtual office Toronto on a budget offer you a place to touch down in other cities. Only one office space Toronto offers you a place to hold meetings in over 650 locations world wide in independently owned business centres that are part of the Alliance Network. Telsec is affiliated with the Alliance Network and is able to offer its office space Toronto and virtual office Toronto clients access to Office Business Centers around the globe.
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While the current rotating postal strike has not had a very large impact on the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) or most mail service Toronto locations, some people who do depend solely on Canada Post – such as those who use post office boxes, publishers of magazines and newspapers, retailers and other businesses fulfillment companies – are feeling the stress. For example, community newspapers, magazines and other periodicals, as well as retail flyers promoting specific product discounts, are usually time-sensitive. If they’re dealyed for even a week, they may be rendered outdated or totally useless. These companies are also on the hook for initial printing costs. For them, Canada mail service must be dependable. For them, “Canada mail service you can trust” really means “uninterrupted mail service you can trust.”
Fortunately, there are many alternatives to getting the best mail service Toronto can offer. The internet, of course, is still a great choice for Canada mail service you can trust. There are dozens of libraries and internat cafés in downtown Toronto and surrounding areas. If you must send paper copies or printed versions of your messages, many local printing shops, variety stores and virtual office locations offer inexpensive fax services comparable to Canada Post’s existing mail rates. Courier companies are also a viable alternative. Large or small, they can deliver letters and parcels often the same day or overnight to or from any home or prestigious business address across Canada. However, in general, their prices cannot match those of Canada Post.
So what are your best options? Well, all of the above actually! It really depends on your (or your client’s) budget, urgency of the mailing piece, speed and type of service required. Today’s modern business centres Toronto do offer most of these alternatives to Canada mail service you can trust – internet, fax service, couriers, mail metering and more. One such Toronto business centre listing that is located in downtown Toronto at One Yonge Street (Toronto Star Building), a prestigious business address, is Telsec Business Centres. It offers high-speed internet, mail metering and handling, affordable outgoing fax service and free incoming fax service. You’d be hard-pressed to find any business centre that features no-charge incoming fax service. You can even get inexpensive, dedicated fax service in your own private office! And when you add Telsec’s mass mailing capabilities and quick-printing services, you can indeed reap the benefits of Canada mail service you can trust at a prestigious business address in downtown Toronto. Visit Telsec’s website at www.telsec.net
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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.
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.
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For many businesses a Toronto virtual office is the best way for them to have a prestigious business address at a fraction of the cost of a traditional office rental. If this is what your company needs, be sure to find the best virtual office provider that works for your business. One way of doing this is to find a Toronto virtual office that allows you to personalize your Toronto virtual office to suit your needs and project the image that works for your business.
How can a provider personalize your Toronto virtual office? First you want the receptionist to answer your calls with the greeting that you can customize, so they feel like they are contacting your business and not an answering service who handles many other customers. Another way to personalize your Toronto virtual office is to decide how your calls are handled on a daily basis. Some days you may want your calls sent to your home office, your cell phone or even just straight to voice mail, but you want the flexibility to change that when you need to. The most important way you can personalize your Toronto virtual office is in selecting the virtual office package that suits your needs. Some clients only need a Toronto mail service, some want a Toronto message and mail service, others may want a bit more. Some clients will rent a day office or a meeting room for half a day to meet with customers in person at the same address that is on their business card.
Telsec Toronto Business Centre offers virtual office solutions that allow you to personalize your Toronto virtual office. Located at One Yonge Street on the 18th floor of the Toronto Star Building, they have the number one address on Canada’s most famous street.
Would you rather have a cookie cutter virtual office Toronto or would you like to personalize your Toronto virtual office?
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