In today’s economy, office business centers (OBCs) represent a viable alternative to commercial space for established organizations, professionals and entrepreneurs. Here are 10 facts you should consider in evaluating their relevance for your business.1. OBCs help you to focus on your core competency.
In competitive industries, time becomes a valuable commodity, especially for high-level executives. By using an office business center instead of commercial space, you can focus on critical business matters instead of office maintenance and infrastructure.2. By pooling resources, OBC clients can afford cutting-edge technology and services.
OBCs offer a myriad of high-end telecommunications and Internet options too expensive for most small businesses. For example, high bandwidth capacity, fiber optics, VoIP technology, high-speed printers and scanners are readily available. Videoconferencing, also available at most OBCs, can save a fortune in travel expenses.3. OBC clients include nearly every type of business.
Our clients include international organizations and entrepreneurs, as well as professionals such as accountants, lawyers, doctors and financial consultants.4. OBCs provide flexible working arrangements.
OBCs are perfect for flextime, a concept designed to escape the straitjacket of the standard 9-5 work week. OBCs offer virtual support and office space whenever you need it under a wide variety of terms. For international organizations, this includes support staff at nearly any hour.5. OBCs may be used for temporary staff or during office renovations.
Sometimes, your headquarters needs to be refurbished, and the displacement can affect your company’s productivity. OBCs provide office space for any length of time without the commitment of a lease.6. OBCs offer seamless integration with your company headquarters.
At an OBC, you can keep your email domain or main phone number (with new extensions). Through special technology, connection to your clients will be seamless, and customers will be unable to distinguish your OBC office from your main headquarters. OBCs can even incorporate your company’s I.T. security devices to protect your data.7. OBCs help you to learn from your neighbor.
Clients of OBCs can network with other occupants. Best business practices can be improved through this interaction giving clients a substantial advantage over the competition.8. OBCs can be customized for nearly any need.
OBCs let you customize your office instead of trying to fit into a cubic box with a desk and a phone. You can decide how much space to use and change that according to circumstances. You can decide what support structure you need and change that, too.9. OBCs provide office in elegant locations with multiple meeting venues.
OBCs offer a multitude of meeting venues including conference rooms of varying sizes, seminar rooms and auditoriums. Videoconferencing enables virtual meetings, saving both time and money. OBCs are typically located in upscale buildings with attractive grounds and amenities.10. OBCs are particularly valuable when the economy is volatile.
Though a valuable resource at any time, OBCs are particularly in demand during economic recessions or uncertain business environments. The items mentioned above become even more urgent when you are unsure what tomorrow will bring.
10 Facts About Office Business Centers
Online E-Commerce Websites – A Great Way to Make Money and Pad Your Resume With Work Experience
The worst thing about either being unemployed or without work experience, is trying to explain things to a prospective employer.Well I found the answer and its something that will cost you little to invest and will probably make you some money in the meantime. What I’m talking about is starting e-commerce websites which you can do without really any technical experience and relatively little money spent. I wish the Internet was around when I got out of school!Once you have any kind of presentable e-commerce website running, you can cover your butt and make yourself look good when accounting for time when you were unemployed or even never had a job in the first place by stating to your prospective employer that you owned and operated your own e-commerce business and show him the actual site(s). There is no way your prospective employer will be able to know how much you made with your e-commerce business and the chances are he will overestimate your revenue ten fold. It’s actually fun owning an E-Commerce website and you’ll learn things later later on through trial and error that you can apply to future jobs. You can actually develop good writing and business skills as its like operating your own business with hardly any investment!Here’s the easiest step by step method of owning an E-Commerce Store that I know of that I do myself:1. Decide on a specific product you want to sell.2. Come up with several Domain Names, as close as you can to the products name.3. Go to a Domain registration site and see if the domain name is available. I would recommend using a .COM domain and failing that a .Net or .Org. Almost all one word domain names are going to be taken so I would try to use the shortest three word domain name or possibly two if it was available. You may need to put a “Store” or My” with a 2 word combination to get an available domain name. Once you settle on a Domain name you need to register it, which will cost you roughly $8-$12 a year. Again try to get the shortest possible name that emphasizes the product you are selling.4. The easiest way I know to launch an E-Commerce site is through a program called “The Easy Store” of which I am a customer. This program is put out and installed by Zeus software and you basically don’t have to do much at all as they do almost everything. What Zeus does is put out an E-Commerce Website that sells all Amazon products and which Amazon is responsible for everything and you make a 4-6% commission for each sale from Amazon. Thus you are investing nothing on inventory, don’t process the order and aren’t collecting the money. Amazon does all that. Amazon then pays you for each item sold through your site. The Easy Store provides you with free web hosting for a year under one of their plans. Basically, if you sign up with the Easy Store, they will do all the entry work for you and walk you through things and give technical advice. You can contact them by phone if you have any technical matters. The Easy Store is not very expensive- note I do not have any financial interest in the company and I’m recommending it strictly as a customer who receives no benefit for recommending it. You do have to become an Amazon Associate which is free and takes less then a day to register. Listed below are two of my Easy Stores for example.5. Essentially the only thing you need to do is to come up with good Keyword descriptions that will come up high in search engines like Google which will draw a lot of your traffic for potential customers. You will also need to submit your domains to search Engines.6. The most important thing in an E-Commerce Store is that it looks professional. For another $80 or so, The Easy Store will custom design a logo for you. My Easy Stores which you can find below feature their custom logos.7. I would also join Google’s AdSense program which The Easy Store will put on your site for free once you register for AdSense. AdSense pays you a variable amount of money for each Google Ad on your site that gets clicked. Registration for AdSense is free. Do not click any ads yourself and do not have friends and family click, because if Google finds out, you will be banned from AdSense.8. Another way to get traffic to your website, is to write blogs and have them published online by different sites as well as your own.Keep in mind you won’t get rich quick and the rarer a product is, in all likely hood you’ll get more customers because there are many E-Commerce sites selling the same niche product. I can’t think of a better and cheaper method for gaining work experience for a future employer and making money at the same time.
Do Good Collagen Skin Care Treatments Exist?
Are you interested in the best skin care available? If so you need to know about collagen skin care treatments. Collagen is one of the most important proteins in our bodies, and in particular in our skin, and collagen replacement as we age is essential. But most collagen treatments don’t actually resupply our skin’s store of collagen.Collagen is an extremely important protein for our bodies, and our skin, because it is extremely strong and forms fibers, or strands, that help hold us all together. And collagen in our skin helps keep our skin firmer and more elastic, and more supple.Pinch a piece of your skin and pull and let go and it snaps back into place. It’s collagen that supplies that “snap”. Well at least our skin snaps back into place if we’re young, but as we age that “snap” back reduces.Why? Because as we age our skin starts to lose it’s essential supply of collagen, and doesn’t produce as much as it did. Gradually our levels of skin collagen reduce, and that is one of the major causes of our wrinkles, lines, crows feet and sagging skin that we seem to be stricken with as we age.Basically our skin is losing it’s “snap”. It’s losing it’s skin elasticity, and is suffering more and more from the forces of gravity.So the question is, how do we restore our skin’s supply of collagen as we age? Are there collagen skin care treatments that successfully restore our skin’s collagen supplies? Do collagen treatments work?The basic answer is that most collagen skin care products don’t restore our skin supply at all. Traditional collagen skin care treatments found in most anti aging and skin care products revolve around adding it to that bottle of moisturizer or night cream or day cream or whatever cream it is that is promoted as an anti aging cream. Sadly though, there is no evidence that supplying collagen to the skin can result in the skin increasing it’s supply of collagen, because it is not known if skin collagen can even absorb any more.And it is known that collagen molecules are too big to penetrate the skin anyway, so any applied topically to the skin remains on the surface of the skin, unable to penetrate.So why would these skin care and anti aging companies put it in those bottles of skin care products if it really doesn’t actually do anything? Because when people see collagen listed on the label they buy the products, and those collagen skin care products you see on the shelves sell like crazy. So it’s in the bottle.But there is a product that is known to restore skin collagen. It doesn’t do it by adding it to the skin, because that isn’t shown to work. It does it by stimulating the skin to make more of it’s own. If the skin produces it’s own supplies that has to work, because the skin is restoring it’s own stock of collagen itself.It’s a product called Cynergy TK, and it’s found in the best natural skin care products. It’s very effective, studies have shown visible results within a month. But it’s expensive, so the big brands don’t use it. Why would they when their anti aging products sell like crazy with cheaper ingredients.But there are small niche skin care companies that make excellent collagen skin care products using Cynergy TK. They can’t possibley compete with the big brands on marketing, because they can’t afford the TV advertising, so they compete on product quality instead. So when they get a new customer they usually get a customer for life.And their products are cost competitive because they don’t need to factor in the cost of TV advertising. But because they don’t advertise you are unlikely to know their name.So if you’re looking for effective collagen skin care treatments they do exist, but you need to work a little harder to find them.