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Grace Corporate Park is an Executive Office Suite company dedicated to helping start ups and small businesses become successful.
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Serviced Office Spaces are different from traditional leased office spaces.  Unlike leased office spaces, Serviced Office Spaces, are managed by a property manager of an  Executive Office Suite.  Think about how office spaces are managed in big corporations.  Typical employees do not troubleshoot phone issues or internet problems.  Likewise they do not concern themselves with office cleaning or building a website.  After all that is not what they are paid to do.  That's what the facility staff is for right?  When you work out of a Serviced Office Space, it is like having the support of a large corporation but without the costs.  The scope of office management services can greatly between Executive Office Suite companies.  The services offered in a Serviced Office Space can range anywhere from a simple cleaning service all the way to providing a fully serviced office space environment.  A fully serviced office space environment includes not just the office space but everything that is expected in a well managed office environment.  These office services may include general staff, infrastructure management and back office services.  
 

General Staff at No Cost

General Staff are staff who are non-essential to the core of your business.  These office staff include office managers, receptionists, facility managers.  These job functions have general applicability across industries and their roles often overlap.  

Small business owners and sole practitioners recognize that they have a need for such staff but often end up doing without their services for various reasons.  These reasons may include not having enough work for them, high costs of maintaining payroll and/or short-term requirements.  One alternative is to hire part-time temporary staff but the arduous process of hiring even a part-time or temporary staff may not be worth the effort. Another alternative is to work from a fully managed Serviced Office Space.  Full Service Office Space companies such as Grace Corporate Park maintain full time staff to manage and run the office space environment so that our client partners can be freed to concentrate on their core business matters.  Grace Corporate Park maintains a team of full time staff to generally manage the office environment and to provide basic office services such as receiving and greeting your guests as they work in the door.  All of our Serviced Office Space residents enjoy this service at no extra charge.

Facility Management

As a professional and a small business owner it may be difficult to imagine that you have facility issues that needs to be managed.  After all you might only need a desk and a laptop to work.  Well, what about your phone system?  Would it be more beneficial if you had a corporate phone system and not just a mobile phone?  How about your internet connection?  Would it be nice if you didn't have to spend time fiddling around with your connections when the internet goes down?  Do you have a redundant connection and a firewall that is proactively managed?  Who orders and changes the toners and ink for your fax, print and copy machines?  As a professional and a small business owner, you have a choice.  You can spend valuable time fixing problems or spend time prospecting for new clients.  Highly effective professionals will pickup the phone and have someone else deal with trivial but vital issues such as fixing the infrastructure.  Grace Corporate Park works with highly skilled facility managers who maintain and manage all infrastructure issues around the office.   We work hard to ensure that any issues are fixed behind the scenes before they happen.  But if on the rare occasion a problem does arise, we are usually already working on problem even before our residents notice it.  And if the even more rare chance our residents catch the problem before us, they have a number to call and do not have to waste time troubleshooting the problem themselves.

Business Application Service

In the modern internet era, businesses are increasingly expected to have backend systems that help manage their businesses and provide access to information to their clients.  A business is expected to have a well designed website.  They are expected to provide self service functions where clients can login to access their relevant information.  Ideally, businesses will want to employ every best practice solution there is in managing business aspects such as invoicing, contact management, and marketing campaigns.  Grace Corporate Park has raised the bar on Serviced Office Spaces by offering a very cost effective suite of cross functional systems that every business needs.  When you join the GCP Serviced Office Space, you can optionally tap into our suite of highly functional business application systems that will set you apart from your competitors.  

Website Building Service

These days, almost anyone can build a website but not all websites are created equal.  If you build it will they come?  Only in the movies.  Our website building service incorporates all of the important aspects of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) practices to ensure that your website gets noticed and properly indexed by the big search engines.  This ensures that your website has the best chance of ranking as high as possible by having all the basics in order.  A website built to the highest SEO standards is the basic foundation for your online marketing campaign.  Without it, you are just throwing money away in your online marketing campaign.  Just as we build and manage serviced office spaces, we can build and manage your website for you so you can concentrate on your core business function, whatever that may be. 

Business Management System

Mind your own business.  With your business up and running and as you win new clients, effectively managing your become increasingly important.  Invoicing and accounting for example is one of the critical areas of your business that must be constantly managed.  As a GCP Serviced Office Space resident, you can optionally utilize a suite of Business Management Systems such as Invoicing, Accounting and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) to help you manage your business.  Back office functions are critical but non-value adding activities to your bottom line.  Part of your business strategy tactics should be to employ a set of tools that help you most effectively and efficiently conduct these back office functions.  GCP Serviced Office Space Business Management Systems can help you quickly achieve these goals.

Online Marketing Services

What business are you in?  You are in marketing business if you are a business.  In order to sell your service, you need qualified customers.  The best way to gain qualified leads is through personal recomendations and through pull marketing.  As you deliver quality to each and every one of your clients, you will gain their trust and be able to ask for personal recomendations.  The next best thing is to "pull" the right prospects into your business at the right time.  This is called pull marketing.  The most powerful marketing is when you are able to apply the strengths of both personal recommendations and pull marketing in your marketing efforts.  As a GCP Serviced Office Space resident, you have the option of accessing our online marketing experts to help you setup your campaigns in the most effective manner to ensure that you get the best possible return on investment.

More than a Serviced Office Space

Grace Corporate Park is the leader in the Serviced Office Space for small businesses and professionals because our management understands what you need.  But we can to much more for your business than just renting well managed office spaces.  We can help you build a stronger foundation for your business by providing professional office environment with general staffing, industry leading suite of business applications and even helping you get your message out to the right audience.
 
To find out how, give us a call today!

 

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Advantages of a Serviced Office Space

Serviced Office Spaces are different from traditional leased office spaces.  Unlike leased office spaces, Serviced Office Spaces, are managed by a property manager of an  Executive Office Suite.  Think about how office spaces are managed in big corporations.  Typical employees do not troubleshoot phone issues or internet problems.  Likewise they do not concern themselves with office cleaning or building a website.  After all that is not what they are paid to do.  That's what the facility staff is for right?  When you work out of a Serviced Office Space, it is like having the support of a large corporation but without the costs.  The scope of office management services can greatly between Executive Office Suite companies.  The services offered in a Serviced Office Space can range anywhere from a simple cleaning service all the way to providing a fully serviced office space environment.  A fully serviced office space environment includes not just the office space but everything that is expected in a well managed office environment.  These office services may include general staff, infrastructure management and back office services. 
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Do you start your day at the workplace at full steam? When you get to your workplace do you have a dozen phone calls and emails to reply to? If you do, how many of those correspondences are new sales leads? How many are business related items that generate revenue? Are most of your daily correspondences sales related or are they personal in nature?

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Do you start your day at the workplace at full steam? When you get to your workplace do you have a dozen phone calls and emails to reply to? If you do, how many of those correspondences are new sales leads? How many are business related items that generate revenue? Are most of your daily correspondences sales related or are they personal in nature?

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Creating a prestigious image for your small business with a limited budget can be difficult because you are unable to build a fancy office or rent luxurious office space. Unfortunately, your business image may be the very key to success. Find out below why your business image is important and how you can use a virtual office to create a prestigious image, even when on a tight budget.

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Building those creative muscles

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Entrepreneurs have to constantly think outside of the box in order to stay on top of their game.  If you are starting a new business then there is a good chance that you are a solo practitioner.  Until you generate some business and are able to hire dedicated staff, you have to wear many different hats, including the creative hat.  If you are like me, you probably have your strengths and weaknesses.  You know that no one can possibly be good at everything.  My experience with entrepreneurs like you have been that you do not sit still and you are never satisfied with simply accepting your weakness.  If a particular weakness is deemed critical to overcome, you will do what you have to augment it or correct it if at all possible.

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Entrepreneurial Mistakes

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Entrepreneurs are not born.  They are made.  No one is born with enate skills to be an effective entrepreneur.  Effective entrepreneurs are effective because they learn from their mistakes and more importantly from other people's mistakes.  They maintain the attitude of continuously improving themselves through reading and interacting with other entrepreneurs.

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Growing Your Professional Services Practice

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The other day I was chatting with a friend of mine who had recently started her law practice.  She was expressing her frustration about how hard it is to find clients.  Unlike most freshly minted lawyers, she decided to start her own practice rather than joining an existing law firm.  I shared what I learned about professional services business during my 20+ years as an IT & Business Consultant.

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Are you starting a new business partnership ?  Which of you will do the sales?

The correct answer is everyone in the company.  Just in case you thought to yourself that you have a great product and it will sell on its own, let me make it clear. It doesn't. They will not come when you build it. You have to work at it.

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My prospective clients often ask if we require a contract term for our virtual office service. I'm not surprised by the question because the topic comes up from time to time even in our staff meetings.  But the idea of a long-term contract is against our founding principles of charging "fair price for a great service".  There are however many virtual office companies that do require a commitment of 1 year or longer, effectively locking people in much like the way mobile phone companies do.  In the old days, it was common for businesses to trap their customers with contracts and fine prints. Then even before the ink dries on the signature, their level of customer service drop significantly.  Why wouldn't it?  The service provider has very little incentive to do otherwise with a signed contract in hand. 

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Your clients are the backbone of your business. You can't afford to lose even one of them so you must concentrate on building solid relationships. Relationships with fellow business owners and your employees are equally important. Building strong business relationships creates stability for your business because you are able to give more personalized service. Whether you realize it or not, your company's location affects your relationships with others.  Here's how renting office space from an executive office suite can help you build great relationships with your clients, business associates, and employees.

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