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With back to school coming, are you planning to start a new business?

By |2023-12-14T14:52:24-05:00August 11th, 2016|Growth & Innovation, Mail Forwarding Service, Virtual Office|

For students across the country, the lazy days of summer are coming to a close and a new school year is right around the corner. As an entrepreneur thinking of starting a new business, where to begin can be your biggest obstacle. In our previous blog Getting the Kids Back to School is a Reason to get Serious About Business, we talked about how many parents start thinking about their business when their children’s summer is about to end and the are going back to school. But what about those stay-at-home parents who do not yet have a business? Maybe it is time to start a home-based business that allows you to send the kids off to school and be home when they return from school each day. So where to begin in starting a new business? Do your homework No small business is guaranteed to be successful. One way that will improve […]

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How to Gain Trust for Your Home-Based Business

By |2023-12-14T14:31:02-05:00July 19th, 2016|Boardrooms & Meeting Rooms, Growth & Innovation, Mail Forwarding Service, Virtual Office|

As we mentioned in our previous blog “How to Gain Trust for Your E-commerce Business,” trust, in general, is the key to the success of your business. You not only have to build and maintain trust with your clients, customers and vendors, you need to have the trust of employees and freelancers. Some say that if you lose that trust, you may just as well pack up your business and go home. But what if your business is a home-based business? How do you gain trust? As business owners and marketers, the assumptions you make about your target customers and the purchasing motivations you think they may have, will have a powerful affect on the health of your business. As a small business owner, your reputation means everything and you cannot afford to damage your personal brand. But trust is also very fragile. If you lose it, it’s very difficult, […]

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Office space versus a virtual office: Which is best for you?

By |2021-06-30T09:44:29-04:00July 12th, 2016|Office Space, Shared Office Space, Virtual Office|

There is no reason not to have an upscale professional business address. But you do not necessarily need to have a physical office at that particular location. Sometimes a physical office space is important to your business, but what if it is not? Let’s talk about the best options for your small business. There are a range of business address options to choose from, including traditional raw office space, serviced office space and virtual offices. But which one is the most flexible and cost-efficient fit for your small business? Many small businesses owners and entrepreneurs may not have the financial capacity to lease traditional physical office space and pay for the infrastructure that type of space requires. The cost of office furniture, telephone systems and other office equipment such as photocopiers adds up. This has caused serviced offices and virtual offices to increased in popularity, because small business owners want […]

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Why a Business Centre is the Best Solution for Opening a Canadian Branch Office

By |2023-12-14T11:48:13-05:00June 21st, 2016|Growth & Innovation, Office Space, Virtual Office|

Opening a branch office or other corporate or legal Canadian business type in Canada is much like starting your business all over again! You have an expansion plan; researched the best business “entity” for your business and decided upon whether to have a virtual office from your home or rent office space, warehouse or storefront. Then you have to set up a legal entity to do business under and to carry out setting up the business. All of these activities will require a Canadian address. Without a Canadian address, you are in bureaucratic ‘quicksand.’ The Virtual Office Options There is not much to consider when deciding whether a P.O. Box is appropriate over a virtual address because a P.O. Box is not a legal address for the purposes of incorporation or almost any legal business entity that a U.S.-based or foreign company can use. A Business Centre’s virtual office and office space services provide your business […]

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Virtual Office Services Provide the Perfect Corporate Image

By |2021-11-05T16:43:34-04:00June 14th, 2016|Office Space, Virtual Office|

When you are starting a new business, you want to establish yourself with as much credibility and present the most professional image for your new business. Have a professional business address is one of the first steps in building your brand. Even if you cannot afford to rent office space when you first start out, a virtual office service can be a great place to start. Simply put, using a home address or a P.O. Box as your business address does not help in establishing your professionalism. These days, people are very weary of doing business out of a P.O. Box, because they worry that the business might disappear overnight. When you are trying to obtain business credit for your new venture, banks and other lenders will be more likely to take your application more seriously if they see that your business has a professional address. If you work from […]

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How to use Offshore Resources

By |2021-11-05T15:53:30-04:00June 2nd, 2016|Growth & Innovation, Virtual Office|

While there is an abundance of outsourcing companies and freelancers in North America, sometimes, for more economical quality work, you may find your small business considering offshore contractors to fill your needs. When choosing to do business offshore, you need to consider the public relations implications. Some of your customers may find out that you use offshore resources, and this may in turn cause them to reconsider doing business with you. Whether it is having your website designed and built overseas, or having your call centre located in places like the Philippines, Jamaica or India, the cost savings for you and the customers you are serving can be great. Choosing the right provider in the right country is important, because some of the traditional offshore providers are no longer the least expensive option – and could even end up costing you more than what it would in local or other […]

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A Guide to Virtual Workplace Technology

By |2021-11-05T16:41:27-04:00May 31st, 2016|Virtual Office|

In today’s business climate, a lot of companies are looking to save money on renting office space and have employees work from home or remote locations that are not situated in prime real estate areas. The head office or primary work location may be at a prestigious address, but all the workers do not need to work from there. To successfully have remote workers, just having them working from home is not enough. You need technology to help manage a virtual workplace. You have to decide on which technologies you’ll want to use to help your virtual workforce communicate, hold meetings, share documents, manage projects and track progress. The best virtual technologies are “cloud-based” services. So, you do not need your own servers, and your workers can connect from anywhere and often from any type of computer or mobile device. As well, because the data is stored remotely, there is […]

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Is a Virtual Company the Best Option for Your Business?

By |2021-11-05T16:17:07-04:00May 18th, 2016|Growth & Innovation, Virtual Office|

There are very few people who will tell you that they enjoy the morning commute to their office and the late afternoon or evening commute home, but what is the alternative? What about an office commute that’s as short as the walk from your bedroom to your home office? The idea of having a virtual office for a “solopreneur” is not a new one. For years entrepreneurs who wanted to work from home or on the road have used virtual office solutions to maintain a professional business address. Virtual office providers are not just a prestigious address and mail-drop location; they are, in fact, a professional image provider! When the professional live receptionist at your virtual office provider answers your phone number (as your company name), the person who is calling knows they have reached your office. Depending on the nature of the call, the receptionist can transfer the call […]

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Suggestions on managing the virtual office revolution

By |2021-06-30T17:59:46-04:00April 26th, 2016|Growth & Innovation, Office Space, Virtual Office|

In a previous blog Ways grow your Small Business quickly, we mentioned that one of the fastest ways to grow your business is by hiring virtual office staffers that you do not need to create office space for. To some companies this might be easy; but others have the fear of losing the ability to track employee progress. The trick to making it work is by having the right tools and constant communications with the remote team. Implementing a remote-workforce team allows you to source talent from any location, meaning you have access to the smartest, most capable workforce in your industry. This means that not everyone on your team needs to live within driving distance of your main office. In most cases, you will want a new hire to spend their first weeks at your office for training and meet the rest of your team in person. This not […]

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Creative ideas for Home Offices

By |2023-12-21T16:18:28-05:00January 26th, 2016|Virtual Office|

Telecommuting and operating out of a virtual office has become more and more popular with businesses today – especially for small businesses who cannot afford the monthly cost of a long-term lease in a traditional office environment. Finding creative ideas for home offices is important not only for function, but for style. For those who work for a business or even own a small business, finding that space or extra room for a home office is not always easy. Having to find or take up space that is already designated for another function requires getting creative on how the home office blends with the rest of the room or space. It might seem easy to find a nook to put a desk, but upon second consideration it might not fill your home office needs. You have to think of the other things you need for an office that you can […]

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