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Virtual offices are getting more high-profile media attention this week.
This time Fox News’ own Donna Fucaldo dives into the world of on demand offices, conference rooms and virtual office space in an article entitled, “No More Coffee House Meetings.” If you’ve ever been relegated to a business meeting in a coffee shop, you identify with this headline oh so well.
In her article, Fucaldo rightly contends that small business owners who work out of their homes no longer need to rely on Starbucks to hold meetings. That, she writes, is because on demand offices and conference rooms are rising up to fill the space needs of today’s business owners.
“While conducting meetings at the local coffee shop has its perks, free coffee, WiFi, it could potentially send the wrong message to potential clients and investors,” Fucaldo writes. “Using a virtual office also gives a small business an address they can use on their business cards.”
Fucaldo also acknowledges the fact that virtual offices have been around for a while, but quickly follows up that thought with another one: the virtual office trend has been growing in popularity in recent years. Part of that is the down economy, but part of that is the realization that commercial real estate is not always necessary. Alternative workplace strategies
Davinci Virtual Office Solutions is on the cutting edge of the virtual office trend, as well as meeting rooms and conference rooms. Davinci Virtual Office Solutions is the industry leader in key virtual turnkey communications and offers virtual offices, day offices, meeting rooms and conference rooms around the world.
Our DavinciMeetingRooms.com offers an online reservation platform that makes finding and booking a meeting room fast and easy. DavinciMeetingRooms.com offers more than 600 meeting room locations around the world.
SALT LAKE CITY-At Davinci Virtual Office Solutions, we always give 110 percent—but it seems our meeting rooms customers are giving even more!
I just got word that our DavinciMeetingRooms.com division has posted a whopping 200 percent growth in reservation revenues so far this year. And the year isn’t even over yet. So before I go any further, I wanted to give a shout out to all of our satisfied virtual office and meeting room customers. Thank you! Oh, and our CEO thanks you, too.
“We are very excited about the incredible growth of our meeting space business,” says Bill Grodnik, CEO of Davinci Virtual. “As we continue to add prime inventory and services to address the business meeting needs of our customers, the marketplace clearly has validated our offering.”
How did we manage to drive this 200 percent growth in the first 11 months of the year? Well, the average reservation transaction value increased by well more than 20 percent over last year. We’re processing more than 1,000 meeting reservations a month.
But to answer the question more specifically, Davinci Virtual Office Solutions is driving that growth, in part, with our comprehensive online reservation platform.
Our innovative technology makes it quick and easy for meeting room users to search more than 3,000 professional conference rooms around the world. Once you find what you are looking for, it’s just as easy to book and manage meeting space reservations. You can even use our online meeting rooms platform to opt for variety of add-on business services.
In case you didn’t already know it, Davinci Virtual Office Solutions also offers virtual office space to more than 8,500 companies and entrepreneurs in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Central America, Asia and Australia. Clients can choose from virtual office solutions like live receptionists, prime business addresses and flexible meeting rooms instantly online any time.
Our company empowers your small business with local or toll-free telephone and fax numbers, digital voicemail, voice and video conferencing, voicemail-to-email, fax to e-mail, virtual assistants, live call answering, screening and forwarding, live web chat, outbound calling, customer service, appointment scheduling, order taking, and much more. And we have more than 850 virtual office locations to choose from with mail forwarding, lobby and directory listings, access to conference rooms and day offices, administrative services and business support centers.
Davinci Virtual has been promising a new corporate headquarters that would allow the virtual office solutions provider to bring services to more customers for nearly a year. Today, the Salt Lake City, Utah-based company made good on its promise.
Davinci Virtual hosted a grand opening event for its newly-built North American headquarters this week. The attendant’s list was a who’s who of local political figures and business leaders, including Salt Lake City Mayor Peter Corroon and Chamber of Commerce CEO Marie Marshall.
“We were thrilled to share the opening of our new headquarters with our friends, staff, partners and our community,” says Bill Grodnik, CEO of Davinci Virtual. “The new facilities will allow us to accommodate our rapid growth while providing a great work environment for our team.”
Davinci Virtual’s 25,000-square-foot facility features four virtual support centers, openly configured work spaces for management, finance, sales, customer care, and partner relations and a state-of-the-art technology hub. The new headquarters sets the stage for rapid growth of the company, which was constrained in its previous location.
Think about it for a minute. Davinci Virtual already provides virtual office solutions to more than 7,500 companies and entrepreneurs across the U.S., Canada, Europe, Central America, Asia and Australia. The company also offers over 750 virtual office locations including virtual offices in Miami, virtual offices in Dallas, virtual offices in San Francisco, virtual offices in Atlanta and any other metropolitan area throughout the world. Clients can select prime business addresses, meeting space and business support services—instantly—online.
What can Davinci Virtual do with this new space? Plenty.
“We finally were able to tailor a complete build-out to our needs,” says Davinci COO Martin Senn. “The combination of cutting edge technologies, ergonomically correct work spaces and a productivity friendly design enable us to take our mission to the next level. We are very pleased with the outcome.”
When you have good news, you just want to share it with everybody! Well, Davinci Virtual has good news on the meeting rooms front that I want to share with all my faithful readers.
Drum roll, please…
Davinci Virtual is officially announcing a 100 percent increase in revenues from our online meeting room reservation platform. You know it as DavinciMeetingRooms.com. We doubled out transactions and revenues in the April, May and June compared to January, February and April. Yes, double!
How did we do it? Well, one way is by constantly adding new meeting inventory. With more meeting rooms to offer, we are able to serve more people looking for meeting space. As it stands, DavinciMeetingRooms.com lets you choose a meeting room from more than 750 locations and 2,000 plus meeting spaces. That means there’s something for almost everybody—and we’re still growing.
We also released updates to the meeting rooms online reservation platform that we believe makes the site even more user-friendly. You can quickly choose a meeting room with all the amenities you need, such as LCD projectors, Internet access, catering and business support services, as well as an array of easy to use interactive tools and search filters.
Meeting rooms rentals are the perfect complement to the virtual office. And Davinci Virtual has plenty of those, too. In fact, we’re the leader of turnkey virtual communications and virtual office solutions.
In minutes, we can set you up with a local or toll-free telephone and fax number, digital voicemail, electronic fax, e-mail, an online command center, unified messaging, voice and video conferencing, voicemail to email, fax to email, professional live receptionist services, virtual assistants, a call answering service, live web chat, screening and forwarding, outbound calling, customer service, appointment scheduling, order taking, and more.
So celebrate with us. And be sure to visit DavinciMeetingRooms.com for yourself to see how easy it is to reserve a meeting room in Atlanta, New York, Philadelphia, Dallas or just about anywhere else you need to meet. Happy Booking!
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Are you a web worker? If so, you’ll be interested in results from the Web Worker Survey 2010.
WebWorkerDaily, along with GigaOM Pro, conducted the survey of web workers, loosely defined as “anyone who works using the web” to discover some keen insights. I wish they had included the use of virtual offices in the study, but we’ll talk more about how these two worlds meet in just a minute. First, let’s look at the survey results.
One interesting finding was that most web workers are actually not freelancers. That busts a myth, indeed. Sixty-one percent of web workers are full-time employees. That said, nearly half (45%) are freelancers (which seems to suggest that some full-time employees are moonlighting).
The survey also explored coworking, and discovered it’s more popular in Europe than in the U.S. Still, about 30 percent of overall respondents are using some type of coworking set up. What’s more prevalent is the use of Skype. A whopping 90 percent of web workers are using this instant messaging and VoIP tool. Another 38 percent are using cloud-based office suites like Google Docs and Zoho.
Virtual Office Takeaways
Again, the survey didn’t look at the virtual office. But here’s some of my takeaways from the survey as it relates to virtual office space and virtual office technologies.
First, nearly half of web workers are freelancers, and, as I mentioned, it seems some of them may be moonlighting. A virtual office can be a smart solution for a full-time employee who’s doing on work on the side. A virtual office gives the moonlighting employee a special local or 800 number where clients can call without disturbing them during their 9-to-5 job. The virtual office also offers the moonlighter a prestigious business address. The moonlighter can also meet with the client in a conference room at the virtual office provider’s bricks-and-mortar campus. This way the employee keeps the freelance operations completely separate.
I also thought it was interesting that coworking is more popular in Europe. Again, the survey didn’t mention virtual offices but we all know that virtual offices are extremely popular in the U.S. I would bet virtual offices are still more popular in cities like Atlanta, Jacksonville, and Cleveland than are coworking facilities.
So far as Skype and Google Docs, virtual office technologies can compliment those offerings. Davinci Virtual, for example, offers an attractive rate on Cisco WebEx technologies to its virtual office customers. There’s also Live Web Chat services that can help moonlighting freelancers stay focused on their full-time job while someone else deals with their clients.
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Every thought about working at Davinci Virtual? There are job openings at the leading virtual office provider for the taking—and you can apply online—if you live in Salt Lake City.
Indeed, Davinci Virtual is hiring live receptionists and customer service agents at its Salt Lake City headquarters as the company continues its growth streak.
Virtual Receptionist Responsibilities
If you would like to work as a virtual receptionist who answers calls from Davinci’s live virtual receptionist clients, schedules appointments and forwards calls accurately and efficiently, you can click here.
Davinci Virtual receptionists also supervise the call through to clients, process orders, make outbound customer service calls for clients, do administrative work, and work to understand products, prices and best practices of client companies.
Customer Service Agent Responsibilities
Davinci Virtual customer service agents are responsible for client set ups, client surveys, client welcomes, proactive client communication and internal communication. Customer service agents also handle partner center relations, conference room booking, and billing questions, among other issues.
Applying for a Davinci Virtual position is simple. There’s an online form where you can put in your name, address and contact number, entry any comments you have and upload a resume. When you do, your online application will be ushered off to a hiring manager in Salt Lake City who will review your qualifications to determine if you are a strong match for the job.
Davinci Virtual offers a great work environment where employees treat each other with respect and dignity. It’s a diverse workplace with an attitude of excellence. The company makes positive contributions to the communities it serves and the environment. Davinci has over 600 virtual office locations, and the opportunity is growing.
While Research in Motion is readying its OS 6.0 for BlackBerry and Apple is preparing to roll out iPhone 4.0 software, Davinci Virtual is making some news of its own on the software front.
Davinci Virtual just released version 3.0 of its online reservation platform. The company has enhanced the technology that powers DavinciMeetingRooms.com so that its virtual office clients—and anyone else in the world who needs a meeting room, conference room or temporary office space—can quickly and easily book it online in minutes.
“We are proud to release the new version of our online reservation platform for professional conference rooms and meeting spaces,” said Bill Grodnik, President and CEO of Davinci Virtual. “The new site has been designed with ease of use and optimal search criteria in mind. We looked at the past 18 months of experience and implemented what our clients and partners have asked for.”
If you have an Internet connection, you can book a meeting room in Atlanta, New York, Houston or just about anywhere else on DavinciMeetingRooms.com much faster than you could even dial the phone, speak with a representative and confirm your reservation. That said, if you need to speak with a reservation specialist, the new platform gives you two options: You can call in or you can chat with Live Chat services.
When you visit the new DavinciMeetingRooms.com, you won’t see much different on the outside. The sleek design is the same as it was last week. What’s changed is what you can’t see: the underpinnings of the Web 2.0 technology that offers advanced applications like live conference room inventory, critical add-on services such as LCD projectors, catering and business support.
Davinci Meeting Rooms offers more than 750 locations across the globe. Grodnick likes to say it levels the playing field for small business by allowing companies to create an image on a small business budget. Meeting rooms work hand in hand with virtual office space. And Davinci has you covered from top to bottom with turnkey virtual communications, virtual office solutions and on-demand physical office space.
It seems the whole world is going virtual. Google just opened an online store for business apps. The Apple iPad is making life easier for multimedia-loving road warriors. And Davinci Virtual is giving 21st century business travelers more options for meeting rooms.
In case you didn’t hear yet, Davinci Virtual just its progress toward better serving the growing population of business people who need meeting rooms. Davinci Virtual has opened more than 250 new conference rooms in North America this year.
No matter where you are traveling, you’ll be able to find a Davinci Virtual meeting room that suits your needs – there are more than 600 locations and 1,500 meeting spaces around the world. Davinci Virtual makes it simple. All you have to do to make your reservation in an instant is log on to Davincimeetingrooms.com. There you’ll find an online reservation system that hooks you up with a meeting room in the right city, at the right time and at the right price. It literally takes seconds to book a meeting room.
I’ll let Bill Grodnik, president and CEO of Davinci Virtual, get a word in edge-wise now:
“We are enjoying the continued growth of our online meeting room reservation platform. The continued addition of prime office locations and meeting rooms enables Davinci Virtual to offer our customers a great selection of International countries and metropolitan cities. Whether you need a virtual office in Atlanta, a virtual office in Chicago, a virtual office in New York, a virtual office in Los Angeles or meeting space anywhere in the world — Davinci offers the right space at the right price.”
Are you always on the go? Is your schedule jammed from morning, through noon, and into the night? Could you earn more money if you weren’t burdened with mundane tasks?
If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you are a candidate for a virtual assistant. Much like a smartphone, e-mail account, fax machine or old fashioned Rolodex, a virtual assistant, also known as a VA, is a tool in your productivity toolbox that can help you do much more with much less.
Think about it for a minute. When you leave your office, you could forward your calls to your mobile phone. But do you really want to take calls in the middle of an important lunch meeting? And do you really want to be unavailable when the next hot prospect calls? A virtual assistant can answer your calls for you while you are out of pocket, and also screen calls when you have your head down into a project.
You don’t need traditional office to have a virtual assistant. You can have a virtual office, hire a virtual assistant, hold virtual meetings and more in the 21st century business world thanks to modern technology. Your virtual assistant can be the glue that holds it all together, handling business administration tasks, scheduling appointments, and even handling personal issues like booking your next, well-deserved vacation.
The virtual assistant also frees up your budget. Rather than hiring a full-time or even a part-time employee, you can use a virtual assistant on an on-demand basis. You can ramp up by adding hours as needed or scale back when business slows or when a special project is completed. The power is in your hands – and those two hands become four even more powerful hands when you hire a virtual assistant.
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