What Content are you Creating and What Content are you Sharing?
Creating new content for your blog or social media followers is not always easy, but it does not have to be hard either. The more you get to know your target audience, the more you will find out what types of information they are seeking and what they expect from you.
A Look at Some of the Popular CMS Platforms
Let’s look at some of the popular CMS platforms that some of our office space tenants at our business centre, as well as some of our virtual office clients, use as their CMS website platform. WordPress is currently one of the most popular CMS platforms and it was originally developed as a tool for blogging. While its main function was to provide an easy and fast way for users to write and publish new blog content, the functionality of WordPress has grown so significantly that it is now used to power millions of very different personal and small business websites. WordPress now offers the main function of a CMS with complete control over creating, modifying and publishing content. Having the ability to create static pages and e-commerce on the same platform as a small business blog, gives businesses a single place manage their web presence. Another popular CMS is Drupal. […]
When Foreign Businesses See 3 Canadian Cities in the top 3 in the World, They Will Follow the Real Estate Investors!
If you had read our previous blog “When Foreign Real Estate Investors See 3 Canadian Cities in the Top 3 in the World, More Will Follow“, you will recall that we mentioned that some foreign investors may not want to open a traditional office while exploring the market, but still want to have a visible presence in Canada. This is why they choose a serviced office or a virtual office in an upscale business centre. A serviced office means a foreign investor can have a physical office for his or her local representative without the need for capital investment into such things office furniture, telephone systems or business equipment – like photocopiers and fax machines. These investors also do not need to hire a receptionist to answer calls or support staff to help with secretarial services or office management. At a business centre, office management is taken care of and […]
Office Space Sedentary? There is an App for That!
As we continue this week’s theme of discussing “Sitting is the New Smoking,” through our research we are uncovering more information that we wanted to share with our followers. It is most interesting that the battle against a sedentary lifestyle has even reached the app world, and developers keep finding new ways to keep people active and productive while at work. While for awhile there have been apps to help those who want to stay active and stay fit, the newest apps for increasing mobility in the office space have names like “Office Fitness”, “Office Fitness Free”, “StandApp”, “Limitless”, “Health Time Pro”, “Health Time LT” and “Sedentary work PRO”. These apps can range in price from free to $3.99 – but even at a higher price they would be a great investment in your health. Then there is “SmartMove” , USB rechargeable insoles, which can go in any shoe. The […]
Stay Active Even While Sitting
In our previous blog “Sitting is The New Smoking,” we talked about the health problems associated with working all day sitting down. One of the options we told you about was to work standing up. When publishing that article we fully understood that working standing up may not always be an option for you in your office space. However, you can still exercise at your desk! Here are some ways you can get exercise while working at your desk. One of the best ways to take on the sedentary effects of sitting all day is to make a point of standing up every 20 to 30 minutes, even if is to just take a stretch or to read a memo – or try standing while on you are the phone. Keeping note of how long you have been sitting is also very important. Another way to stay active while sitting […]
Virtual Offices Attract the Attention of the Technology Sector
Now, more and more start ups and even established small businesses are re thinking their office needs and looking more closely at virtual office solutions for their business.
Tracking Your Online Marketing
It is great that you are now marketing your product or service online, but what are you using to measure what is working?
How Can Small Businesses Deliver Bad Customer Service?
Bad customer service has the potential to cost your business customers before they even before the make a purchase.
More Customer Service Tips for Small Business and Entrepreneurs
In our quest to bring small business advice to our office-space tenants and virtual office clients, we have been publishing a number of articles on our blog to help them. One of our Toronto virtual office clients suggested we post about better ways to interact with your customers to improve customer service. So here is more advice….. Decide who supports who and don’t overwhelm your staff with the number of customers they support. Your clients in a business-to-business relationship want to know who they deal with and how easy it is to get in touch with that person who personalizes their sales and service. Assign a rep to each client and give them a back-up rep they can contact in the event of a problem. Each type of business has different personalization needs between customers and the business, so overwhelming a staff member with more clients than he or […]
Customer Service Advice For Small Business
Providing good customer service is a key factor in customer retention, building a reputation of quality service and good customer service is almost more important for small business owners and entrepreneurs.
Small Business SEO Tips
Small business are always trying to find advantage over the big guys in terms of being found on the Internet. It used to be the company with the most inbound links were the ones who ranked the best on the search engines.
Virtual Office Tips
Companies who do not need a physical office space will often use a virtual office within an office business centre in order to have a prestigious business address to put on their business cards, letterhead, brochures and other business-related material. Some will choose to just have the mail service while others will choose the Mail and Telephone service to give them access to a live professional receptionist who answers their calls based on their instructions. Recently, Telsec introduced a new VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocols) that has an optional VoIP handset that can be used anywhere in the world (provided there is an internet connection). Here are some tips to help you use a virtual office service to its potential as well as some advice to help you find the right virtual office for you. Tip No. 1 – Don’t tell anyone it’s a virtual office. When clients call your […]
Global Entrepreneurs Week and Startup Weekend
This week is Global Entrepreneurs Week and there are more than 300 events planned by more than 150 organizations in the GTA. Global Entrepreneurship Week is an international movement designed to inspire millions (mostly young people) to embrace the concepts of innovation, imagination and creativity through entrepreneurship. There are various types of events going on around Toronto including networking events, meet and greets, training events, free seminars and other professional development events, plus a whole lot more. One of the larger events as part of Global Entrepreneurs Week is Startup Weekend, a global network of passionate leaders and entrepreneurs on a mission to inspire, educate, and empower individuals, teams and communities. This is the sixth year of Startup Weekend Toronto, but very first Maker-themed Startup Weekend Toronto. What is a Maker event? We were curios too. It seems that Maker events are are ones focused on building physical products during the weekend. […]
Who Uses Virtual Offices?
In our last blog we gave a refresher on what a virtual office is and how companies use them to save money on traditional office space. Whenever we post about virtual offices, the one thing we are asked it “who uses them?” There are various types of businesses with various structures that use virtual offices – from small one-man operations to large companies. The early adopters of the virtual office were small home-based businesses and companies who primarily worked on the road and needed to have a business address to better legitimize their operations by having a prestigious business address (instead of their home address.) Some had used P.O. Boxes, but learned that their customers did not want to deal with a business that supposedly operated out of a P.O. Box. Another group of individuals that have adopted the virtual office concept are entrepreneurs that are looking to get their start-up […]
A Virtual Office Refresher
Most people who have read our blogs or visited our website understand that a virtual office provides communication and address services that allow users to reduce traditional office costs while maintaining business professionalism. So we wanted to point out some of the reasons businesses choose a virtual office for their base of operations. The virtual office idea came from a combination of technological innovation and the emergence of the information age. The virtual office concept is often said to be an evolution of the executive suite and small office business centre industry. Just as the demand for low-cost business addresses spurred the executive suite industry (because of the inflexibility of a traditional office space lease), the desire to work away from the office and still have a business address helped spur the virtual office concept. The term “virtual office” implies space utilization, but most virtual office clients will not mention […]
The only Wrong Office Space for Rent Toronto Question, is the Question not asked!
People, by nature are often afraid to ask a question because they think their question is a bad question or a wrong question to ask. But if you listen to any public speaker or expert on any topic (such as office for rent Toronto) they will always say that the only bad question anyone will ask is the question that is not asked.
Ways of being More Productive in your Toronto Office Space or Virtual Office
One way to relieve yourself of the stress is to organize yourself to be able to have realistic priorities that you must accomplish and things you need to get done, but are not that high on your priority list.
Copyright Laws and your Business – are you on the Right Side?
Whether you know it or not, your copyright might be being taken advantage of or somehow you may be infringing on someone else s copyright
VoIP Service is also for Office Space Toronto Clients
while the VoIP virtual office service is being promoted as a virtual office plan, it is truly for any small to medium sized businesses that wants a Toronto virtual office or ones that want physical Toronto office space.
Telsec’s VoIP Virtual Office Solution comes with Telephone Hardware
When clients sign up for Telsec's VoIP service, they will be assigned a Mitel 5330eIP phone which is a full-feature, applications telephone that features a large graphics display with embedded gigabit support.