Know who you are dealing with.

You should always know who you are dealing with when searching for an office online. You want to be dealing directly with the business office centre and not with a third party directory.

When searching for Toronto offices on the Internet, you will sometimes find companies in the sponsored links claiming to have Toronto offices for lease. When you get to their website you will find they offer thousands of locations world wide. What they fail to tell you is that they do not own any of these properties, nor have they ever been to the locations they recommend.

These agents or directories just forward the information you provide to a number of office companies hopefully in your local area. The companies who contact you as a result of getting your information from a directory may often have to inflate the price, to pay the finders fee that the directory demands.

Also be sure to look at these office directories privacy policies to make sure that your email will not end up on a mailing list for products you are not interested in.

When looking for an office or virtual office in Toronto consider Telsec, they have been providing quality service since 1980, longer than any other business office centre or virtual office in Toronto.

Consider how a mail service will benefit you

For as low as $30 per month, your company can have a Toronto mail service delivered to a prestigious business address. This means your clients see that you have an office, rather than just a home office or a P.O. Box. This is also good if you live outside of Toronto and want to show your clients you have a Toronto presence.

Telsec offers a mail service with the option to have your mail and faxes forwarded to your home address or to any other address that you wish.


Setting up a mailing service with Telsec provides you convenience and professionalism to help run your business more efficiently. You no longer have to wait at home for a package delivery or risk having valuable shipments left on your doorstep. We can receive packages from any carrier and hold them in our location for pick-up at your convenience.

Telsec's Mail service system is simple and prompt. All of these professional services can be tailored to your business needs at an affordable cost. Call Josie today and get your business address started as part of our Toronto mail service!

Down sizing or changing office arangements?

Is your company looking to downsize or have more employees work from home a few days a week? Why not consider moving to a team space, where your employees share office space on some days and work from home on others and telecommute?

Telsec offers team space at reasonable rates and even includes a receptionist who answers your phone and directs the calls as you direct.

If you have employee A working in the office Monday, Wednesday and Friday and Tuesdays and Thursdays from home. You may also have Employee B working in the office on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday; and, Wednesday and Friday they may work from home. Their calls can be directed to your Team Space or their homes (based on the instructions you give) without the customer knowing if they are in office or home office.

Telsec offers a comfortable, open concept work environment for 2 to 30 people depending on your requirements. Ideal as a temporary office solution or a long term home for a dedicated team of employees.

Call (416) 363-9035 for more details or fill out their needs assessment form

Greener ways to commute - telecommute or bike commute.

Don't have a need for a physical office, but need the appearance of one? Consider a virtual office space in Toronto. Maybe you need an office but not full time, then consider a shared office.


If you prefer not to commute by car or public transit and want a more green approach. Telsec's Toronto office space, shared offices and virtual offices are conveniently located along the Martin Goodman bicycle path.

Don't have a bike or want a new one? Then get your self to the The 9th Annual Fall bicycle blowout sale. This is a once-a-year, seven-hour sales blitz that brings over 50 vendors selling bikes and accessories. Everything at the show is priced to sell as none of the vendors want to take stock back to theirs stores.

Saturday, October 18, 2008 10 am - 5 pm

Direct Energy Centre
East Annex, Hall F, Door 33
North entrance next to new
Ricoh Coliseum (New Hockey Arena)
Exhibition Place
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Admission: $5.00

Furnished offices in Toronto

Finding a prime office location in only half the battle in finding a Toronto office. It is a lot of work opening a new office or moving to a new office.

Part of the hassle of opening a new office is furnishing it. Deciding on what furniture you need and then acquiring it is only part of the equation. Moving the furniture in and making sure it fits through the door is another challenge.

Once you have the office and the furniture, you have to consider the technology needs of your business. Every business needs a phone and access to a fax machine, they also need internet access and the ability to make photocopies of important documents.

Even with the equipment in place, you will need someone to answer your phone and sort the faxes and postal mail.

Is opening an office starting to sound like a headache? It does not have to be!

Telsec offers Furnished offices in Toronto that includes modern furniture and access to modern equipment. Telsec's professional staff answer your phone with your personalized business greeting and can even transfer your calls to you off site.

Your Toronto Furnished Office also includes Internet access, and access to photocopiers and faxes. Telsec offers long term, short term office space and temporary office space to businesses with 2 - 30 people.

Why not call Telsec to arrange a tour of the facilities

With only a few weeks to the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) , many businesses still do not have an office of operation for the 3 week fair.

Telsec offers short term office space arrangements and is conveniently located only 3 Km from the CNE grounds.

for Only $225 your organization can have an office base for the Canadian National Exhibition. This arrangement includes:

• Personalized telephone answering
• Telephone options: Instant line set-up
• Off-premise call transferring
• Voice-mail
• Executive boardrooms/meeting rooms with: High speed internet Service
• LCD Projector: Available
• Screen
• VCR/DVD
• TV
• Overhead and slide projectors
• Modem line
• Conference speaker phones
• Whiteboard
• Flipcharts
• Photocopy and network printing available: 17 cents per copy
• Colour copying and colour network printing available: $1 per copy
• Word processing: $30.00 per hour, using the latest software and equipment
• Facsimile (FAX): $2.00 per page or $75.00 flat rate monthly for outgoing. Incoming Faxes are no charge
• Kitchen facilities available with complimentary coffee, tea and filtered water
• More than 50 distinct support services are available.
• High-speed internet at an additional cost.
• Boardrooms are complimentary up to five occasions per month.

This is ideal for the Toronto short term office space while conducting business at the Canadian National Exhibition.

For other Toronto office space arrangements visit htttp://www.telsec.net

Are you enjoying the cottage this summer?

Are you enjoying the cottage this summer? Or are you tied to your home office?

If you are like many thousands of independent business owners who run their business from home, you can not afford to be away from you office and not be able to talk with customers, so going away to the cottage or even on vacation can be difficult.

Why not move your office to an affordable shared office at the number one address on Yonge Street, Telsec Business Centres is located at One Yonge Street in the Toronto Star Building.

With a shared office you get the services or a private office with a price tag of much less.

You get:

• Personalized telephone answering
• Telephone options: Instant line set-up
• Off-premise call transferring that you can change (even when you are at the cottage)
• Voice-mail
• Executive boardrooms/meeting rooms with: High Speed Internet Service

LCD Projector: Available

Screen

VCR/DVD

TV

Overhead and slide projectors

Modem line

Conference speaker phones

Whiteboard

Flipcharts

• High-Speed Internet Service with e-mail address and web hosting: Available
• Photocopy and network printing available: 17 cents per copy
• Colour copying and colour network printing available: $1 per copy
• Word processing: $30.00 per hour, using the latest software and equipment
• Facsimile (FAX): $2.00 per page or $75.00 flat rate monthly for outgoing. Incoming Faxes are no charge
• Kitchen facilities available with complimentary coffee, tea and filtered water

More than 50 distinct support services are available.

Visit http://telsec.net/html/shared_offices.htm for more information

Also visit http://www.telsec.net/ for more information about the other office and virtual offices available to you

Smog Allert? Then Take Public Transit

In these hot blistering summer days, we are being asked to save the air and leave our cars at home and take public transit. And those who dare to remember some of the record snow fall we had last winter and are expected to get again this winter, want to know there are days taking the car just wont work.

Telsec which provides Toronto Office Suites and Toronto Telephone Answering Service is serviced by public transit in many ways:

TTC (Toronto Transit Commision) Bus stop on the southside of 1 Yonge Street
Five minute walk to the TTC LRT (Light Rapid Transit)
Ten minute walk to Union Station which gives you access to the TTC Subway System and
Go Transit (commuter train)
Via Rail Canada.

Besides being close to public transit, Your Telsec Live Telephone Answering, can forward your calls to wherever you want and gives your business the look that you are in the office, while you may be hundreds of miles away on the beach or in the comfort of your home office.

Toronto Argos kick off another season

This week the Toronto Argo have their preseason home game and next week the regular season begins. Why not start your season off with an office close to all the action within walking distance of the Rogers Centre.

Just as the Toronto Argonauts are North Americas oldest professional sport franchise, Telsec has been providing Toronto executive office space longer than any other company.

Since 1873, over 2,000 football players have proudly worn the Double Blue of the Toronto Argonauts Football Club. Whether it was several years, or just a few games, their contribution was invaluable to the success of the team. Since 1980 Hundreds of business have called Telsec's Toronto Business Centre home. Whether is was for several years or several months, having an office located at 1 Yonge Street has helped them be in the game.

Telsec's Toronto downtown executive office space offers a great environment to fulfill your business game plan. www.telsec.net/html/short_term_offices.htm

Visit www.telsec.net to find out about getting you business close to the game

For information about about the Toronto Argonauts visit www.argonauts.ca

Looking for a Green Office

Climate change has heightened our awareness of the environment and has change the way we do things. Now people like you are thinking about being green all the time. So why not look into a green friendly office?

Telsec's Toronto offices are not just smart, they are green friendly. Telsec has taken steps to make its offices for rent more environmentally friendly, by taking steps to conserve on energy and reduce dependence on valuable resources such as electricity and water. In our green office, all resources, including energy and water are prudently managed. To do this we have made some big changes.

Being an eco friendly office is more far-reaching than most other office environments.

The first step we took to becoming a eco friendly office was to replaced our old 35 watt T-12 high output fluorescent lamps with more energy efficient 28 watt T-8 low energy fluorescent lights, without compromising brightness. By reducing our energy consumption on lighting alone we saved a lot of energy consumption.

Telsec's eco friendly offices took further steps to reducing energy by optimizing our lighting usage with a computerized system that detects when lights are not needed and shuts them off to conserve even more energy. During peak and off peak times our eco watch computerized lighting system detects whether someone is using an office or the lights have just been left on and adjusts the lighting conditions appropriately. Our Environmentally Friendly system also detects after hours conditions and compensates for lights left on by office users and cleaning staff.

Our Environmentally conscious designers took more steps to helping our eco friendly office becoming a more environmentally friendly green office, by installing new automatic faucets in the washrooms that allow just the right amount of water flow, but are also self powering. A turbine within the touchless faucet recharges the battery that runs the electronics that control the flow and motion detectors that start and stop the flow of water. This not only saves our eco friendly office energy but is an important step in making our green building save on water consumption.

If you are looking to find an eco office in Toronto, be sure to consider Telsec's eco friendly office, located at 1 Yonge Street in the Toronto Star building.

http://www.telsec.net

Why travel to Pearson when flying to New York

If you are a person who needs to travel to New York for business and need an office downtown, there is a way to save the one hour travel from downtown to the airport.

For the past few month Porter Airlines has been flying directly from the Toronto Centre Airport to New York city for only $100 (thats almost the airport taxes at Pearson)

Telsec Executive Suites Business Centres provides Toronto executive suites only minutes away from the Toronto – City Centre (Island) Airport.

Porter Airlines also provides numerous flights daily to and from Montreal and Ottawa. Porter Airlines & The Island Airport, with the upscale amenities and refreshing approach to customer service, are changing the way people fly.

Telsec Executive Suites Business Centres proximity to the Toronto City Centre (Island) Airport and Toronto Downtown makes this an ideal location .
Telsec – 1 Yonge Street (Toronto Star Bulding), 18th floor.

www.telsec.net

Be Sure to visit Porter at www.flyporter.com

A Toronto Prestigious Office starts with a Prestigious Mailing Address

Having you office at a prestigious address can be a big advantage when you are opening a Toronto prestigious office. One address to consider for that Toronto prestigious office is at the number one address on Canada's most famous street. Telsec has that Toronto Prestigious office and that prestigious address. Located at One Yonge Street, Telsec offers a prestigious address at the place where that famous address starts.

Why not visit the site of your Toronto prestigious office and be sure to read the plaque out front that tells you the history of this famous street that is also the longest street in the world.

The Plaque reads as follows:

Yonge Street
- 1796 -

The shortest route between the upper and the lower Great lakes lies between here and Georgian Bay. For John Graves Simcoe, Upper Canada’s first lieutenant- governor, this protected inland passage had strategic military and commercial potential. He founded York (Toronto) in 1793, then ordered a road built to replace native trails which led north to Lake Simcoe and its water links with Lake Huron. Completed on February 16, 1796 it was named after British Secretary of War, Sir George Yonge, an expert on Roman roads. Yonge Street developed from a muddy, stump riddled forest trail into the main street of Toronto and the first part of Highway 11, which now extends 1,896 kilometers to Rainy River, Ontario.

(Ontario Heritage Foundation, an agency of the Government of Ontario)

Why not consider having a Toronto Prestigious Office Mail Address for as low as $30 per month at Toronto's #1 Address: 1 Yonge St.

This inexpensive program provides you with a prestigious business address, incoming/outgoing mail service, re-direct mail and incoming fax. Home delivery of both your mail and faxes may be arranged.

Office space is available for expansion without changing your address. The boardroom is available at reasonable rates for half day or a full day.

For more info visit

http://www.telsec.net

Eploring the Virtual Office

Virtual offices are very much a service that can suit all types of business and virtual offices Toronto offer services to match individual needs.

The idea of virtual offices means they can be just as an attractive proposition for sole proprietors, those working from home, mobile businesses, and larger companies looking to create a presence in a new market.

How you use a virtual office, like many other services, depends on the demands of your business. You might not want to answer calls at all, or you want a live person to answer your calls and transfer them to, or maybe you just need an answering service for when you’re out of the office.

Then again, you might need a service that takes full responsibility for all of your business's communications.

Why not just use voice mail?

It’s true that a simple low-cost voice mail services can take messages for you, but research shows that people are much more likely to respond positively to a human voice. Many people simply put the phone down when confronted by voice mail, and that business could be lost forever.

It’s also not about simply missing calls. Having a human voice instead of a recorded message improves your business’s image over your competitors and reassures customers that your company is legitimate, it tells them you are accessible and that their call means something.

Cost efficiency

Telsec’s Toronto Virtual office service offer businesses the opportunity to experiment with new or short-term ventures where they’ll need to temporarily increase their office resources.

Telsec virtual office offers a prestigious mailing address for postal and courier needs as well as taking care of your your phone, fax, and meeting space needs. Telsec gives you all this at prices you can afford.

http://www.telsec.net/html/virtual_office.htm

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Why have an executive office?

Why have an executive office? Because you deserve one.

Our clients are treated as the senior executives they are, with efficiency and with a smile. As a Telsec client, your company enjoys access to an inter-city network of over 600 business centres worldwide. With Telsec you rent more than just space.

Visit this page to find more information about what you should look for in an executive office suite.

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Telsec is now blogging

Telsec.net, your best place to find Toronto office space, is now starting to blog about things that you are interested when looking for Shared offices and Virtual offices in Toronto.

To start, you should visit http://www.telsec.net/html/virtual_office.htm

Over the next few weeks, you will find many new articles regarding office space on this blog.