How To Create & Take Meeting Notes
Taking better notes is a key business skill that will improve your communication with coworkers and clients while also creating a meaningful record of knowledge for yourself and others. Whether you are taking notes for [...]
You Can be a Coworking Nomad
Imagine a utopia where working professionals are no longer tethered to one main location and office space and aren’t limited by distance. For many entrepreneurs, this type of working life is a reality. So, how can more workers make this their everyday life? Working remotely has become more and more popular and has opened up doors for many different types of professionals. Whether you’re trying to start your own business or simply make money while exploring the world, choosing the digital nomad route might be for you. In this guide, we break down how you can become a remote worker in a way that fits your lifestyle. What is a digital nomad? Sometimes, the word nomad can have a certain connotation. However, in terms of being a digital nomad, this means professionals go from location to location and stay connected digitally. Digital nomads use modern technology and communication to perform […]
The Many Benefits of Virtual Offices
Virtual offices provide flexibility to remote workers and employers by performing various business tasks and functions. They’re a cost-effective and flexible way for professionals to work from wherever they want while having a business address at a central location. In this guide, we outline the top benefits of virtual offices. Cost effective A traditional office space can quickly put a dent in your wallet. Whether you lease or purchase an office, the expenses will still generally be higher than a virtual office. One of the many benefits of virtual offices is there’s zero investment or risk involved. Skip the rental or lease agreements and office setup and enjoy the extra money on a monthly basis. Professionalism Depending on the type of business you run, listing your home address on your website, brochures or stationery can appear unprofessional to your clients. One of the many perks of a virtual office is […]
Everything you need to know about flexible office spaces
Flexible office spaces are taking the world by storm, and it comes with no surprise since it has countless benefits to offer. In this article, we will explore Telsec’s flexible and collaborative workspace options to [...]
Working From Home can get Very Lonely, so how can you Fight it?
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the number of people working from home has skyrocketed. While the number of individuals working from home was on the rise even before the pandemic, these numbers have only continued to grow since. One of the biggest complaints from people who work from home or from home-based small businesses is loneliness. Studies cite loneliness as one of the key psychological issues people face when working from home. This is often due to the fact that many people who work from home and those who start small businesses from home are unprepared for an isolated working environment. In this article, you will learn more about the effects of working in isolation and how to combat loneliness when working from home. What is Working From Home Loneliness? Working from home loneliness refers to a gradual onset of feelings of loneliness that people experience when they’ve worked in […]
Building More Influence on Social Media
Building greater influence on social media is more about giving back to your customers than promoting your product or service. It’s about building relationships and showing potential customers that you are providing them with more than just a product or service. You need to show them that you want to help. Helping your potential clients does not always mean finding ways that your product or service can assist them. It can be as simple as sharing business, marketing, or online expertise that has nothing to do with what you sell or promote. It’s about building brand loyalty and trust between your customers and yourself. Doing this can put your brand at the top of their mind when they are looking for the types of products you sell or the services you provide. Telsec Business Centres rarely creates posts about its office space options or its virtual office products. Nevertheless, it […]
The Advantages and Disadvantages of Co-working Offices
Over the past number of years a new office trend emerged. Well, not exactly a new office trend, just the renaming and modifying the concept of the shared office or hot desking. This new trend is called CoWorking office space
An entrepreneur’s glossary to some common business terms
We at Telsec have compiled a glossary of common business terms and acronyms related to entrepreneurship and small businesses. Some of this business terminology may be familiar to you while some you may have only heard in passing without knowing what it meant. Whatever your experience level or familiarity with these business terms–whether you use these terms on a regular basis, heard them used without knowing their meaning, or you’ve never heard of them at all– our business terms glossary covers the most commonly used business terms and their definitions. So without further ado, here are some business terms every professional should know. Advertising A form of marketing that captures the attention of the public and raises awareness for a product or service through paid announcements on electronic media such as radio, television, or internet PPC (pay per click), as well as on print media such as billboards, posters, newspapers, […]
How to Onboard New Staff Remotely
When new hires receive proper employee training from the beginning, they have more chances of becoming successful in their position. However, as most managers know, training employees online can be stressful to say the least. [...]
Differences Between Coworking and Business Centre Office Solutions
The flexible workspace sector is home to different types of workspace accommodations. Within the flexible workspace sector, you will see coworking spaces and business centres. Although there are a few similarities between coworking spaces and business centres, the main differences can be seen in how they operate and the perks they can offer small businesses. The types of Office Space Business centre office solutions offer a wide range of office spaces for businesses to choose from. The types of office spaces can range from: Coworking spaces Private office rentals Daily office space rentals Meeting room and boardroom rentals Executive office suits Commercial office rentals Team spaces As you have probably noticed from the list above, business centres also offer coworking accommodations. Whereas a stand-alone coworking office will only be able to offer coworking space, and will not include as much variety for different types of office space. Cost and Hourly […]
How to start a home-based wholesale or manufacturer distribution business
Before explaining how to become a distributor from home, it is important to explain what a distributor is. Basically, a distributor is a middle person that serves to move products from the manufacturer to the market. While some distributors are retail and sell directly to end users, others are merchant-oriented and sell and move products from the manufacturer to wholesalers, that in turn sell to retailers. Understanding what is a wholesale business The practice of wholesale distribution is a true buying and selling game and can involve risk. It is a game that requires good negotiation skills, a nose for sniffing out the next “hot” item in the particular category you are known for, and good salesmanship to find the right buyers. The basic premise is to buy the product at a low price, then make a profit by tacking on a low enough dollar amount that it still makes […]
Virtual Assistant Services: Should Business Professionals Use Them?
Currently, many businesses use modern technology like virtual offices and telecommuting to get more done without physically being somewhere or meeting someone face to face. Small business owners and entrepreneurs can also take advantage of [...]
Virtual Telephone Services
If you find yourself dreaming of a virtual receptionist because you're staying glued to one location in order to avoid missing important calls – you may want to look into virtual phone services. They would [...]
Best Dining Spots for Client Meetings in Toronto
Lunch meetings help in building a positive relationship with your business clients. It is a semi-professional setting where you can discuss new business avenues with the client while building camaraderie. You may have seen Don [...]
Benefits of Virtual Office Space during the Pandemic
The pandemic has forced organizations and start-ups to move operations to the virtual world. This has increased the demand for virtual office spaces, especially in the start-up and small business community. Virtual office spaces have [...]
How To Handle Returning To Work
How do employees feel about coming back to the office? Nervous, excited, worried? What’s your plan for keeping people safe and keeping your business profitable? There is a divide between returning to the office and [...]
What is Coworking Office Space?
Coworking: The Who, What, Why & Where for Startups & Entrepreneurs As a marketer one of my prime resources for promoting all our products are the questions that potential clients ask about our services. Since coworking is a new offering in the flexible workspace category that we didn’t have a lot of questions about, I used a tool which identifies the questions in the suggestions that users get when they enter search terms into Google. The best content that I can add to a site is content that answers questions our website visitors may have about our offerings. Coworking: What Does It Mean? Easily the $64 question as even the spelling is disputed as to whether it is coworking or co-working. What it means depends on who you’re asking. To some users it means: All non-traditional office space (flexible workspace) A workplace design and environment Office space with themed […]
Why the Sudden Changes with the Web?
These might be the waning days of the new economy created by the digital communications revolution. For the better part of the last three decades every aspect of our culture has been altered, accelerated, surpassed, and often destroyed by the Internet and most importantly, by the Internet’s favourite four letter F word, F-R-E-E. It’s been a wild ride but it was never really sustainable. Along the way, we’ve devalued our recent cultural creations and made it far harder for artists to scrape out a semblance of a decent living. A recent story in The New Yorker magazine, “Who Owns the Internet?” outlined the experience of Levon Helm, drummer for the seminal rock group The Band. After The Band broke up and Helm retired from rock music, he was living a comfortable life on royalty cheques from the tens of millions of times The Band’s music was purchased, played on radio, […]
Electric and Autonomous and Barreling into the Ways We Do Business
There are a few baseline industries that are so critical to the overall infrastructure of a nation that any change in those industries can have profound effects on the overall economy. Home building is a well known example. Another is transportation and shipping. Even minor changes in either of these industries can cause unanticipated ripples to roll over other areas of productivity. Over the coming ten years, the Canadian logistics and shipping industries will change very quickly. These changes will, in turn, have remarkable implications on the greater Canadian economy. What will emerge will be a far more efficient, safe, and cost effective transportation industry but one that produces substantially fewer employment opportunities. This week’s public introduction of Elon Musk’s long distance electric transport truck, one that comes with a driverless option, alters a number of equations the Canadian economy is built upon. Minutes after Musk introduced the trucks, the […]
51% of Canadian Businesses Report Cyber-Security Issues
How secure is your business? What about the data you collect for business use, how secure is it? In the expanding digital age, the two questions are virtually one and the same. Most businesses are primarily made of data. Frighteningly, more than half of the 650 registered businesses surveyed by the Canadian Securities Administrators reported some sort of cyber-security incident in 2016. As an organization, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) has good reason to be concerned about the state of cyber-security in Canada. The CSA is made up of regulators from the 10 provincial and 3 territorial securities commissions. Their goal is to improve, coordinate, and harmonize regulation of Canadian capital markets, administration of which is functionally left to each province or territory. It’s a safe extrapolation the CSA is considering mandating federal regulations around cyber-security for businesses across Canada. The most frequent attack reported was phishing. 43% of respondents […]