Archives for November 2013

When you’re looking for a new office, the number of square feet will rarely be the only important consideration. Use this handy office space checklist to help you build an exact picture of your perfect office space and what’s important to your business.  Transport links Choosing an office in a location with good transport links ensures customers and employees can easily reach you.   If you have a few areas

Millions of people work in open plan offices around the world today, but are they a haven for collaboration and creativity, or is the open plan office design just a noisy nightmare? While proximity to your colleagues makes sharing and generating much easier, it is just as easy to share the results of last night’s X factor as it is to discuss the findings of your latest project. We look

Whether you’re setting up your first office or looking to expand, there are loads of office space options for you to consider and it may seem a little daunting making the right choice for your business.  In this guide, we look at the pros and cons of each office space option, starting with the most expensive: the traditional commercial property let and managed office space. We then look at the

How we work is changing.  Not every company elects for a permanent office, and having a virtual office can be a great alternative when cost is an issue.  Virtual offices allow your business to be permanently based at the location of your choice, even though you’re not. Although the virtual office address becomes your business address, you don’t actually have dedicated space in that building, even though your calls and mail

Are you thinking of renting office space in London for your business? Perhaps the dream of London’s bright lights and 24-hour buzz is slowly sucking you in. Before you do anything about it, make sure you’ve weighed up all of the pros and cons, and that you’re 100% certain London’s the right place for your business to set up camp.  London is vibrant, creative and buzzing; but it is also expensive, polluted

Hot desking means not having a dedicated desk of your own.  This might be at your company’s office (ICL for example have approximately 1 desk to every 3 members of staff), or might be at dedicated shared office space.  The latter is seeing increased popularity – allowing freelancers or start up businesses needing some office space away from home that’s been kitted out with the latest telephony and IT equipment to

It’s a common situation when branching out online. You’re on one side, with a great product or service to offer. On the other, there’s a whole world of internet users waiting to hear about it. The question is how to reach them?  Multilingual SEO can get you off to a good start. While the aim of homing in on popular but not overly competitive search terms will be familiar, it’s

Those of us who work in SEO tend to have the same overreaction to any new Google announcement; anxiety, constant worrying, mistrust, mood swings…perhaps I’m embellishing somewhat but, typically, website owners greet Google announcements with a certain degree of suspicion and many already believe they’ve been hit by Hummingbird. Of course, the fact that Google isn’t being particularly transparent is only adding fuel to the fire; they have referred to