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Virtual Offices

Virtual Offices are places that allow you to share space and instead of renting office space for yourself. Virtual offices rent office space, boardrooms, conference rooms by the hour, ½ day, day. They also have reception, mail and fax service.

You are assigned a telephone number that becomes your personal business phone no. When they answer the phone they answer as if you have a receptionist and they provide an address for your mail to be delivered. It gives you the professionalism without the cost of paying wages and rent.

Below is a list of Virtual Offices in Toronto with their contact and websites. Check them out for yourself.

Telsec Business Center Inc.
Toronto Star Building 1 Yonge St., Suite 1801 Toronto, Ontario M5E 1W7 Contact: Josie Graziosi Tel (416) 363-9035 Fax (416) 369-0515 email:
josie@telsec.net
(Bay and Front Street)
They have office space has:

$30.00 a month mail service only – gives you a business address to receive your mail and redirect the mail to you and receives incoming faxes.
$75.00 a month for telephone and mail service – provides you with telephone coverage and mail service
$495.00 for Executive Offices provides office space, mail and telephone services.

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120EGLINTON EAST
120 Eglinton Avenue, East
Toronto, ON
Ruth 416-445-1800

Phone and Mail Service - Monthly Cost $100.00 + GST

• Supply of your own Company telephone number
• Personalized telephone answering in Your Company Name
during regular business hours and personalized automated
attendant after hours.
• One Private voice mail box with 24 hour access
• Sorting of incoming mail
* Use of office to make telephone calls
• Courier, postal and fax services available on a Pay-Per-Use basis
• Other services available on a Pay-Per-Use basis
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Should you require occasional office/boardroom facilities, prices are as follows:
Small Boardroom/Office: $ 30.00 / half day
$ 60.00 / full day
$ 15.00 / hour
Large Boardroom: $ 50.00 / half day
$ 100.00 / full day
$ 25.00 / hour

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INTELLIGENT OFFICE
5000 Yonge Street
Toronto, ON
Phone No. 416-628-3000
Toronto@intelligentoffice.com
http://www.iotoronto.com/

telephone and mail service
rent the boardroom
administrative services – ie., data entry, word processing etc.

REGUS
Virtual Offices
BCE Place
TD Trust Tower
161 Bay Street
Toronto, ON

Virtual Office space, mail service, telephone service or mail and telephone service and access to any of their offices across the country.
Check their website for pricing details.
www.virtualoffices.regus.ca

GST and the Small Business Owner

Hi Peoples

I would like to suggest that if you are a small business not making the required $30,000.00 to register that you rethink your options.

I recently took the cra's GST/PST seminar and I found a whole bunch of interesting information. If you are collecting GST you can ask for a refund of the GST you pay on items that you buy for your business. So there is a possibility that you could receive a refund. For example, you collected $100.00 in GST from your clients/customers and you purchased items and the amount of GST you paid out was $200.00 you would be entitled to a rebate of $100.00 or if you paid $50.00 you would just have to submit $50.00. Either way it is found money.

The bad news is that there are a few business that are not allowed to collect GST so you won't be able to get the refund. For more information you can e-mail or go to the Revenue Canada website at www.cra-grc.ca

DIFFERENT WAYS TO ACCEPT PAYMENTS FROM CLIENTS

HI PEOPLES

I AM A SMALL BUSINESS OWNER JUST STARTING OUT AND I DON'T HAVE THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO INVEST IN A START UP. I BELIEVE THAT ITS POSSIBLE TO START AND RUN YOUR BUISNESS WITHOUT A HUGE INVESTMENT TO GET YOUR STARTED. THERE ARE TUNS OF RESOURCES OUT THERE THAT ARE FREE AND CAN HELP YOU RUN YOUR BUSINESS. YOU MAY NOT MAKE AS BIG A PROFIT IN THE BEGINNING BUT YOU CAN STILL MAKE A PROFIT.

MY PET PEVE ARE CHEQUES. YOU CAN BUT I RECOMMEND THAT YOU DO NOT TAKE CHEQUES. ALMOST EVERYWHERE YOU GO YOU HAVE TO PAY BY CREDIT CARD, CASH, MONEY ORDER, INTERACT. WHY JUST BECAUSE YOU NEW SHOULD YOU ASK FOR ANYTHING LESS. A CHEQUE CAN BOUNCE AND YOUR OUT THE MONEY FOR THE CHEQUE PLUS YOU HAVE TO PAY AN NSF CHARGE.

THERE ARE PAYMENT ALTERNATIVES, FOR EXAMPLE, PAY PAL, INTERACT EMAIL MONEY TRANSFERS ARE TWO OF THE MOST COST EFFECT WAYS TO ACCEPT MONEY OTHER THAN CASH OR MONEY ORDER.

YOU CAN GET A BASIC PAY PAL ACCOUNT FOR FREE AND THEY ALLOW YOU TO ACCEPT MOST MAJOR CREDIT CARDS WITH A SMALL FEE PER TRANSACTION. MUCH CHEAPER THAN HAVING TO SET UP A MERCHANT ACCOUNT WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE THE MONEY. THE ALSO HAVE A BASIC SHOPPING CART THAT YOU CAN LINK SO THAT YOUR CUSTOMERS CAN SHOP FROM YOUR SITE AND BE DIRECTED TO PAYPAL. YOUR CUSTOMER DOES NOT NEED A PAY PAL ACCOUNT TO USE PAY PAL TO PAY FOR YOUR PRODUCT/SERVICE.

BECAUSE I PREFER CASH TO ANYTHING THIS OPTION IS MY FAVORITE,INTERACT EMAIL MONEY TRANSFER. THIS IS DONE THROUGH THE ONLINE BANKING FEATURES OF ALL BANKS WITH NO CHARGE OR MINIMAL CHARGE FOR RECEIVING PAYMENTS. YOU NEED TO CHECK YOUR BANK FOR THEIR SERVICES CHARGES. THERE MAY BE A CHARGE FROM THE BANK TO SEND THE MONEY. FOR MORE INFORAMTION YOU CAN CHECK THIS OUT IN THE ONLINE BANKING INFORMATION UNDER INTERACT EMAIL MONEY TRANSFER. YOU DO NOT NEED A BUSINESS ACCOUNT TO USE THIS FEATURE OR TO ACCEPT THIS MONEY.

IF YOU'D LIKE MORE INFORMATION YOU CAN SEND ME AN EMAIL OR IF YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS PLEASE LET ME KNOW.

MUCH SUCCESS TO EVERYONE IN BUSINESS.