Regent Partners with Alliance Business Centers Network
Regent Business Centers is pleased to announce their new partnership with Alliance Business Centers’ Virtual Offices. Alliance Virtual Offices is a global provider of high quality virtual office, telecommunications and meeting room solutions. This partnership allows Regent Business Centers to offer their clients access to world class office space and virtual office services.
By joining Alliance Virtual Offices, Regent Business Centers can offer flexible options that are essential to entrepreneurs and small businesses. Those taking advantage of this new partnership will be able to choose from:
- On-Demand office space and meeting rooms at Regent’s prestigious business addresses across the country including locations in New York, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco and other locations.
- Live answering and virtual assistants providing a professional first impression for your clients while simplifying your day and eliminating the additional cost associated with full time administrative help.
- Hosted PBX phone systems with robust features including voicemail emailed as an audio file, dial by name directory and call blocking, forwarding and handling rules.
Clients of Regent Business Centers will also enjoy access to the multitude of other offices found in the Alliance Virtual Office network. With over 650 world-class offices available to Regent clients, it has never been easier to work comfortably and efficiently while traveling.
“We are excited to add the Alliance Business Centers Network to our list of business amenities,” remarked David Nadler, Managing Partner of Regent Business Centers. “Expanding our services to include this global offering allows us to meet the changing needs of our clients, while providing them with another resource for competing in today’s challenging economy.”
To learn more about Regent Business Centers visit www.regentbc.com. To learn more about Alliance Virtual Office services, visit www.abcnvirtual.com.
Regent Business Centers Partner with Sentry Centers
Regent Business Centers’ New York locations have joined an affiliation with Sentry Centers full service conferencing facilities.
Together, Regent and Sentry can offer meeting facilities accomodating groups from 2 to 400 people. Regent clients taking advantage of the Sentry Centers location will enjoy catering, breakout rooms, banquets, events, presentations and more. Fully serviced and staffed, our professional team will assist in making your event successful and memorable.
For more information on the Regent Business Centers and Sentry Centers affilation and what it means for your business,
please contact your Regent Business Center Manager.
Regent Business Centers at
340 Madison Avenue and 750 Third Avenue
Lisa Rosof
212-220-9501
Email: lisa@regentbc.com
Regent Business Centers at
1325 Sixth Avenue
Kerry Brennan
212-763-8301
Email: kbrennan@regentbc.com
Looking for Office Space in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles or Denver?
Regent Business Centers is now offering promotions at several of its executive office suite locations. New clients can enjoy 3 months free** when signing a 12 month market rate contract prior to December 31, 2010. This promotion is in place at the following Regent Business Centers’ locations:
- Gas Company Tower, Los Angeles
- US Bank Tower, Los Angeles
- Woodland Hills
- Brentwood
- Denver, Highlands Ranch
Those looking for office space in Chicago or New York* will enjoy 2 months free** when signing a 12 month market rate contract prior to December 31, 2010.
With any contract, Regent clients always enjoy the flexible lease terms that Regent Business Centers are known for. When choosing a Regent executive office suite for your business, you will enjoy a fully furnished office space with state of the art technology. The standard offering of business amenities found at Regent Business Centers include:
- Telephone calls answered by our courteous staff in your company’s name.
- Visitors cordially greeted in our spacious reception areas.
- A complete range of back-office services, including professional secretarial services, facsimile transmission, word processing, photocopying, messenger and overnight delivery services.
- Catering services and additional equipment available for special meetings and conferences.
- Easy to read monthly statements, including an itemized bill of all long distance calls, postage and ancillary services.
- Professional, cost-effective and easy-to-reserve meeting rooms delivered with complete business support.
For more information on the promotions available at any of the offices listed above, please contact Regent Business Centers. Visit our website to find contact information for each office location.
* Please note this promotion is only available at Regent’s 750 Third Avenue facility.
** Amortized over the 12 month term
Virtual Assistants and Outsourcing…Both Can Benefit Your Business.
For many business owners and managers, the decision to outsource a job or position is becoming more and more common. With budgets tight, the role of the Virtual Assistant has become vital to many businesses and outsourcing can save a business thousands of dollars. Let’s examine how your business can take advantage of one or both of these options.
Virtual Assistants
Virtual Assistants (VAs) can play an extremely valuable role in many businesses. As compared to a secretary or executive assistant who is hired by the firm and works on site, the VA works off site and is either an independent contractor or is hired through a firm like FrontDesk.
VAs provide business support ranging from basic reception services, such as phone answering and call routing to full secretarial support including appointment scheduling. With a Virtual Assitant, your firm is not required to pay payroll taxes, sick or holiday pay. Your VA will collaborate with you to understand your business and works with you on an as needed basis to meet your needs. VAs provide business owners with the additional support they need without the added overhead of a full time employee.
For more information regarding how a virtual assistant can help your business, visit FrontDesk.
Outsourcing
Outsourcing allows business owners to hire professionals for specific jobs on an as needed basis. When outsourcing a job, there are several factors to keep in mind to ensure the experience is a successful one. First, always ask for references and samples of previous work. Ensure that you are able to easily connect with your potential hire. If you have difficulty contacting a potential contractor during the interview phase, chances are they will also be hard to get a hold of during the length of the contract.
Be certain that you have set clear expectations and instructions for your project. Set a regular schedule of meetings to address any issues that could crop up and to check the status of the work being completed. Make certain that you are available to answer any questions that arise during the project.
Ensuring that both parties are aware of and agree to the terms of payment prior to starting the project is also essential. This will make for a smoothly run project and will also keep the doors open for future work if the overall project is a success.
Regent Offers Savings on 12 Month Contracts Signed in 2010
Regent Business Centers is now offering promotions at several of its executive office suite locations. New clients can enjoy 3 months free** when signing a 12 month market rate contract prior to December 31, 2010. This promotion is in place at the following Regent Business Centers’ locations:
- Gas Company Tower, Los Angeles
- US Bank Tower, Los Angeles
- Woodland Hills
- Brentwood
- Denver, Highlands Ranch
Those looking for office space in Chicago or New York* will enjoy 2 months free** when signing a 12 month market rate contract prior to December 31, 2010.
With any contract, Regent clients always enjoy the flexible lease terms that Regent Business Centers are known for. When choosing a Regent executive office suite for your business, you will enjoy a fully furnished office space with state of the art technology. The standard offering of business amenities found at Regent Business Centers include:
- Telephone calls answered by our courteous staff in your company’s name.
- Visitors cordially greeted in our spacious reception areas.
- A complete range of back-office services, including professional secretarial services, facsimile transmission, word processing, photocopying, messenger and overnight delivery services.
- Catering services and additional equipment available for special meetings and conferences.
- Easy to read monthly statements, including an itemized bill of all long distance calls, postage and ancillary services.
- Professional, cost-effective and easy-to-reserve meeting rooms delivered with complete business support.
For more information on the promotions available at any of the offices listed above, please contact Regent Business Centers. Visit our website to find contact information for each office location.
* Please note this promotion is only available at Regent’s 750 Third Avenue facility.
** Amortized over the 12 month term
Moving Your Business Forward in a Down Economy
A successful business is one that is able to move quickly and adapt to change. With swift responses to changing situations, a successful business will remain successful even in a down economy, like the one we are living through today. These tips will help your business to continue moving forward and growing in any situation.
- The Customer is King. Your customers are your most valuable asset. You spent time, energy and expense to acquire them. Don’t let a negative experience or competitor steal them out from under you. Do everything you can to ensure that every interaction is a positive one. Take the time to interact with your customers through social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Yelp. Knowing what your customers are saying about you, both positive and negative, will help you to know where you are succeeding, and possibly failing, as a business. Do everything in your power to fix any areas where your customer service isn’t up to par.
- Know the Competition. This is closely related to knowing your customer. You need to know your competition inside and out because your customer likely does. Ensure that you are aware of their product and service developments, what their customers are saying about them and how your company compares. Keeping up on the competition is as easy as reading trade journals, following them on Twitter and setting up Google Alerts.
- Engage Your Customer. When you invest your time and energy to start talking to your customers via social media, resist the urge to SELL, SELL, SELL! It is essential that you provide them with a service in addition to your product, or you will quickly turn your customers off. Provide them with interesting tips, relevant information, some kind of additional content that goes beyond what they would expect to see about your product or service. Become a partner with your customer, a resource for information, and they will look forward to hearing from you.
- Know When to Spend. This is the trickiest point of all. When the economy slows down it is only logical to tighten your budgets and not spend as much. But when things start to turn around, it is time to start making small spending choices. When business starts to improve make strategic decisions about adding staff, widening product lines or purchasing equipment. Adding a part time or freelance person can offer the added help you need without the commitment of a full time employee. Adding one or two additional products can give your line the freshness and lift it needs. Making those strategic decisions are essential to future success.
LA’s Largest Office Lease Deal of the Year
Eric Duncanson and Steve Walbridge of Cushman & Wakefield partnered with Howard Feuerstein of Travers Realty to represent USC in what is being touted as LA’s largest office lease deal of 2010. The University of Southern California (USC) has renewed their 160,000 square foot lease in the Marina Towers in Marina Del Rey, California.
The Marina Towers consists of two 12-story office buildings totaling 380,000 square feet and are located across from Marina Del Rey Hospital. The building located at 4676 Admiralty Way is home to USC’s Information Sciences Institute, a unit of the Viterbi School of Engineering.
Regent congratulates the team who represented USC on closing this extremely important deal.
Regent Launches Updated Website
Regent Business Centers’ new website went live last week at http://www.regentbc.com. The new look offers an easy to navigate, user friendly design. The uncluttered look provides users with quick access to information regarding each of Regent’s US, UK and India offices with just the click of a mouse. Users can also quickly acquire in depth information on Regent services including serviced offices, virtual offices and meeting rooms.
“Our goal was to create a site that allowed users to quickly navigate to the information they require. The clean, streamlined appearance and focus on providing information in a concise, easy to use format is in line with our goals of partnering with our clients to help drive their success,” comments David Nadler, Managing Partner for Regent Business Centers.
Regent offers premium business facilities and services for corporations and individuals requiring flexible, cost-effective office space. With flexible lease agreements, fully furnished office space, complete back office services and state of the art technology, Regent is a leader in the shared office arena. In the United States, Regent currently manages more than 500,000 square feet of office space in prime locations in New York, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco and Southern California. Regent also has office space partners in the UK and India.
You can also follow Regent Business Centers on Facebook at www.facebook.com/regentbusinesscenters and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/regentbc.
Tips from the Book “Secrets of Small Business Owners Exposed”
We loved these tips that any business, large or small, can put into practice to be better. We hope you find them as valuable as we do!
- Create and communicate your organizational clarity. Clear roles and responsibilities within your company are necessary. Articulate your vision.
- Someone has to be in charge. Decide where the buck stops. When there is shared responsibility, there is no responsibility.
- Find Your Focus. Be focused on your company’s direction. Pay special attention to the financial side of your business.
- Plan, Plan, Plan. There is no substitute for planning. Prior preparation prevents a pretty poor performance.
- Develop Systems. As FedEx says, “Systemize the routine; humanize the exception.”
- Customer Service is Essential. Give your customers the type of service you expect from your vendors.
- Think, Think, Think. Never stop thinking about ways to be different, innovative, creative and exclusive. Make your business the best it can be.
- Don’t delay! Take action now!
- Go the Extra Mile. Your customers will appreciate it and you will build rapport and long term relationships by proving you are in for the long haul. A little extra goes a long way!
New Regent Website Coming Soon!
We are excited to let you know that our new website look will be launching very soon. Check back here for more information about our new website!
