If you’re a small company looking for flexible office space in Paris, this could be the solution for you! Situated only 5 minutes away from the famous Champs-Elysées, this shared office space on rue de Commandant Riviere can be rented from £1,200-£1,500 per month.

The office suite is 14 square meters in size, and
shared with an international consulting firm – which could lead to possible joint ventures and networking opportunities.

Office space facilities include faxing, photocopying,
WiFi and conference room suitable for around 8 delegates. Those who choose to rent shared office space here also benefit from quality furniture, storage areas, 24 hour access and free coffee!

This top location is sure to be a highly sought after
office space solution, so make sure you contact
Search Office Space today to avoid disappointment.
Our consultants are on hand to help you find the perfect Paris office space with our free and impartial, expert advice. Call today on 0800 5254 4649.

For anyone looking for office space to rent in Bologna, Search Office Space has the answer in the form of a beautiful business centre in Via dei Lapidari.

This building offers 20 available workstations and would suit a variety of businesses looking to rent office space in Italy. Offices are well equipped and highly equipped, with air conditioning, reception, waiting room, meeting room and a conference hall, as well as high speed internet and telephone services.

Virtual office space is also available, affording tenants the opportunity to have a prestigious and professional business address. The building also has reception courtesies and phone answering services, as well as exclusive business meeting spaces, catering for events such as business lunches and coffee breaks, and access to corporate discount rates on hotels, restaurants and banking services.

Via dei Lapidari, based in beautiful Bologna, is a thriving business and commercial area and offers fantastic transport facilities. The airport and train station are just a short distance away, allowing for efficient access for commuters, and the exhibition centre, city centre and motorway are also nearby.

For more information on office space to rent in Italy, or any other global location, talk to Search Office Space now on 0800 524 4649 to discuss your requirements.

If you’re looking for office space in St Petersburg, Russia, Search Office Space recommends this inspiring business centre.

This office space for rent in the Nevsky Prospect, St Petersburg has a minimum term of one year. The office space size requirements are from 8 square metres to 52sq m. There are currently 10 workstations available for rent.

Rates include bi-lingual reception and secretarial services provided by the dedicated team of on-site support staff, along with use of the conference room for up to 3 hours, IT support and office cleaning.

Office space facilities include 24/7 access and security, internet, DDI, handsets, air conditioning, office furniture and central heating.

The business centre is conveniently located only 1 minute away from the Metro Station along with local amenities such as banks, cafes, restaurants and boutique clothes stores.

If you are interested in renting office space at this business centre, talk to Search Office Space today on 0800 524 4649 to discuss your requirements.

If you’re looking for office space in Istanbul, Turkey, Search Office Space recommends this newly refurbished landmark business centre.

Yapı Kredi Tower provides office space for rent in the Levent District, Istanbul’s top business location. Some of Turkey’s leading corporations rent office space within this business centre, as it is a landmark office complex built on international standards.

Office space facilities include high speed internet and on-site meeting rooms. The tower’s central location is also has highly convenient links to
public transport and Metro stations, along with
direct access to the TEM and E-5 Highways, Bosphours Bridges and Faith Sultan Mehmet.

The local area of Levent also boasts a number of shopping centres, entertainment and leisure facilities to explore and enjoy.

For more information on this business centre, or, for additional office space in Istanbul, talk to Search Office Space today on 0800 524 4649 to discuss your requirements.

Recent studies by commercial property and real estate services adviser, CBRE, have indicated that of all property sectors, retail property was Europe’s most successful commercial real estate sector for 2011.

CBRE’s European Valuation Monitor has shown that retail real estate contributed a 1.5% increase in capital values over the year – the tenth time this sector has gained a higher value than the other sectors at the pan-European level.

This was a higher increase for the retail property sector across Europe than at the All Property category which did not see any change. Offices have shown a growth of 0.5% while industrial property indicated a decrease of –4.5%.

On the subject of retail property, Senior Director of Valuation & Valuation Services and CBRE, Andrew Barber, says, “’Appetite for this sector throughout the year was driven by retail’s defensive characteristics, and investor strategies focused on the German and Central and Eastern European markets in particular.”

Retail investments within Europe have shown a steady increase by 4.9%, having reached almost 38 billion euros in 2011, and Andrew Barber is of the opinion that “the defensive characteristic of good quality retail will continue to be favoured by risk-averse investors. This, combined with a growing interest in prime high street retail units – pricing competition for which has accelerated towards the year-end in markets such as London and Paris – gives reason to believe that further value appreciation can be expected as the evidence feeds into valuations.”

For all the latest industry information as well as information for those wishing to rent office space, call Search Office Space on 0800 524 4649.

Located on Aboulevarden, adjacent to the Aarhus river, this brand new business centre offers premium serviced office space in a commercial, yet tranquil environment.

Described as one of Denmark’s most attractive buildings, this business centre provides tenants with flexible, fully inclusive packages which include the likes of IP telephony systems, IT support, meeting and conference rooms, and printer/copying facilities – all under the roof of city’s best business address.

The convenient and vibrant location means that tenants will benefit from local amenities including retail stores and boutique cafes, not to mention the excellent transport links.

Those who rent office space at this location are encouraged to network with neighbouring companies, which can help your business to grow and develop.

Professional staff and management are on hand to help when needed, and can answer calls and direct mail.

To find out more about office space in Denmark, talk to Search Office Space now on 0800740 80 80 to discuss your requirements.

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Suren, SOS’s SEO expert just forwarded me an article titled “How to explain SEO to your non geek friends.” I’m instantly intrigued.

After a few seconds of scrolling the article, I’m drawn to the heading ‘SEO is like sex’. The following line then reads ‘If you want to explain stuff to a guy, you have to take examples that he can understand.’ The sentence is patronising and the grammar is bad, but I read on anyway.

Wiep Knol who wrote the article asks his readers, ‘Do you like sex?’ Assuming the answer is yes, he goes on to say that websites like to get traffic and SEO, and Link Building creates more traffic for a website. SEO helps ‘your website get laid more often’ he says. The semi crude nature of the post would normally make me cringe, but I like to think that he’s mocking the whole cattle market culture often found in tacky bars and nightclubs. Instead his article makes me smile.

SEO is necessary for most websites because it improves the number and quality of visitors to a site. However, these 3 capital letters also carry negative connotations and have been linked to spamming and bad content- content that isn’t particularly great to read, but the correct key words have been sneakily embedded into the text so google will rank the website higher.

As I read on, Knol started to remind me of the book, The Game by Neil Strauss- basically, a mans guide to getting more sex by saying the right things- often by being a bit controversial to provoke discussion. Despite the fact that many women dislike The Game for obvious reasons, many men have found it to be a huge success. I imagine that an SEO expert is a bit like Neil Strauss, but for websites.

One of the last headings of the article reads, ‘Link Building: let yourself be found. If you can get others to recommend you (preferably by other guys in the same bar, fighting for the same women), you’ll get noticed much sooner. A link builder makes sure that others are talking about you.’

The article ends by describing a Link Builder as having a ‘very unthankful job’ because ‘they help other people to get laid, but usually don’t have time to have sex themselves. Perhaps after huge success with his book, this is what has become of Neil Strauss.

Source

http://wiep.net/talk/other/how-to-explain-what-seo-and-link-building-is-to-your-non-geek-friends/

In November 2010, the UK government announced that they wanted to make London’s Silicon Valley/ Tech- City in the East End, an important hub for technology companies. In January, Eric Schmidt, Chief Executive of Google visited Downing Street to discuss the creation of an innovation hub.

The Government believe that Google can help with economic growth throughout the nation and that technology could play an important role in helping the country’s economy to recover. There has been recent talk of Google expanding their presence further in London.

The UK Government said, “Our ambition is to bring together the creativity and energy of Shoreditch and the incredible possibilities of the Olympic Park to help make East London one of the world’s greatest technology centres”. The aim is to have Tech- City span from Shoreditch to the 2012 Olympic Games site.

In 2008, there were as little as 15 high-tech companies in London’s Tech-City. There are now approximately 200 companies occupying the area, making the ICT sector in the UK the largest in Europe, employing more than 1 million people and contributing more than £66.4 billion to the UK economy.

The Economist said, “Britain does not have a technology focussed venture-capital industry anything like as bounteous as that which serves Silicon Valley. What is needed above all, is simply more success stories. American investors are keen on hi-tech start-ups because they have seen many grow into world-beaters. Until East London produces its own Facebook or Apple, British investors will be nothing like as bullish”.

Will the UK’s technology sector always be dwarfed by the US’s? Arm is the british microchip company who designed the ‘brains’ behind Apple’s iPad. The Telegraph said that Arm is “A UK company we can be proud of”. The company recently launched a microprocessor design which it claims will lead to a new generation of ‘super smartphones’. Arm says that the new chip will allow Apple and other handset makers to design phones with ‘five times the brainpower’.

Is there hope or is it too late? America has had a head start and the companies are bigger than in the UK. One broker said, “British technology companies that become big and successful are eventually taken over by even bigger and richer overseas competitors. It’s a cycle that will be difficult, if not impossible, to break”.

Alternatively, Mike Townend, IP Group, said, “American investors have always been more supportive of technology companies than their British counterparts, although attitudes are slowly changing on this side of the Atlantic.”

Perhaps the success of Tech-City is about collaboration. After all, Google are expanding successfully in the UK and Facebook have  recently agreed to create a permanent home in East London with the intention of bringing together and inspiring the most talented developers and entrepreneurs in the UK.

Surely the future should be about the sharing of ideas and expertise and watching success happen naturally as a result of global collaboration rather than resistance and competition.

SOS the world’s oldest established serviced office broker has launched a specialist division known as SOS Flex-Corp to answer demand from their corporate client base to assist in letting surplus office space on flexible terms.

SOS generates a significant number of enquires daily from companies seeking flexible office space by way of online and pro-active marketing and feels that together with the regular enquiries from their large corporate and SME client base, many of which are received off market, they can help to generate additional revenue from surplus office space.

SOS Flex-Corp Managing Director Peter Barrett explained that his division often works jointly with conventional agents and therefore any client utilising this approach is not only exploring opportunities to find tenants in the conventional market, but is also exposing their properties to a large pool of active parties seeking space from a burgeoning and largely untapped market. “We are receiving record numbers of enquiries and have won instructions for over 300,000sqft of offices in the past two months” “This is a perhaps a sign of the times; clients are keen to try something new when disposing of space and tenants continue to seek flexibility when choosing offices, a trend that has been gathering pace over the past ten years or so and that has been brought sharpely into focus by the current economic conditions.”

Written by Emily Mouquot, Marketing Director.

Bordeaux is located in the south west of France and is the fifth largest metropolitan area in the country. The city is world famous for it’s wine industry as well as a major port location in France.

The city offers a great lifestyle and is an ideal geographic location, with the Atlantic coast 45 minutes away as well as the Pyrenees and Spanish border only 3 hours drive. Bordeaux also has an international airport in Merignac with regular flights to major European cities and other worldwide destinations.

Should you require an office in France but cannot afford the rents in Paris, or you are looking for a worldwide known city offering a great quality of life, then Bordeaux is ideal. There are several business centre operators offering flexible office space at great rates.

Should you wish to be based in the heart of one of Bordeaux’s hotspot, then this centre in Bagatelle, would be the perfect solution for your business. The area is the new economic and development hub of the city, near the airport, the city centre and the motorway.

The business centre prides itself for offering the most competitive office rental prices in the area as well as the best advice for start-ups. The centre ensures legal and accounting support to all young enterprises based in their building.

The offices are fully furnished and come on an all inclusive terms, featuring an extensive range of amenities such as state of the art IT, photocopying and faxing facilities, meeting rooms and managed reception.

Should you wish to get a free quote or to book a tour of these offices, please contact SOS > Search office Space today on 0800 740 8080, or email sales@searchofficespace.com . Alternatively, for more options in the Bordeaux metropolitan area, please visit http://www.searchofficespace.com/france/office-space/bordeaux-serviced-offices.html .

Written by Emily Mouquot, Marketing Director.