New + Innovative Programme Helping People into Self Employment

The Belfast Metrolpolitan College is holding a Self Employment seminar here at the Belfast Business Centre in August 2009.

A group of speakers will give a short presentation on their experiences of starting a company and the Belfast Business Centre's Facilities Manager, Elaine, will talk about the advantages of services available in the centre.

This new and innovative programme is aimed at helping people progress into employment or self employment. The course runs on Tuesday nights. Applications are welcome throughout the year.

For more information on the course and to find out how to get on board, contact Rosemary Martin on tel: 028 9026 5041 or by email: rmartin@belfastmet.ac.uk

For Meeting Room hire contact the Belfast Business Centre.

New Client Welcome!

The Belfast Business Centre would like to welcome the following new clients:

*Rumble Labs
www.rumblelabs.com

*Frontline Security
www.fsg.ie

*Morgan Consultancy

*BPT Electrical
www.bptelectricalltd.co.uk

*Utilitex

*Clive Wylie

*Addis and Prentice Solicitors

*APF Consulting

*IRT Consult
www.irt.ie

*Advance Software
www.advancesoftware.com

*This IS
www.thisis.eu

*Think Studio
www.thinkstudio.co.uk

*Think Networks
www.thinknetworks.co.uk

*Outdoor Concepts
www.outdoorconcepts.co.uk

NEW APPOINTMENT

The Belfast Business Centre is pleased to welcome Clare Mercer as their Receptionist/Events Co-Ordinator.

As the new face of the Belfast Business Centre, Clare is looking forward to working with our clients and we believe her bright and bubbly personality can only enhance the service our clients receive.

Experienced in organising events within the Public and Private Sectors, Clare plans to focus on providing to meeting and event co-ordinators, a quality and seamless service.

Welcome to Michelle

The Belfast Business Centre is pleased to welcome Michelle McDowell as their new receptionist. Michelle joined the company in early March and will handle all client telephone calls and visitors to the centre.

Michelle will also take on the responsibility as co-ordinator for meeting and conference events within the centre.

We wish Michelle good luck in her new role and hope she finds the job enjoyable and rewarding.

Risk Free Marketing Testing

The current downturn in the economy has given a major boost to the The Belfast Business Centre's Virtual Office Service. The service has been designed to provide a professional call answering and mail receipt service for any company from start ups and SMEs to multinationals and establishes the company’s presence in their client’s region without the traditional start up costs of premises and staff.

With a one month minimum agreement, Businesses have a dedicated Belfast Telephone number, a prestigious Belfast City Centre BT1 business address.
The cost of this service is £49.50 plus VAT per month.
Additional Services include Call redirection,Fax receipt/transmission, Mail Forwarding.
Discounted meeting and boardroom hire and City Centre Serviced apartment hire on a nightly basis and Business support services are also available.

This option which is proving very popular with businesses from a wide range of industries can also be used by other office locations to divert calls to the centre when staff are absent from their office during leave or sickness.

New Client Welcome

The Belfast Business Centre welcomes new clients

The Sign Company

All Skips

MCL Digital
http://www.mcldigital.co.uk/

Sectra Ltd
www.sectra.com

Rural Development Council
www.rdc.org.uk

Gibson Wealth Management

SRL Training International


Century Stone

Ulstertrader.com
http://www.ulstertrader.com/

Ulstercom

Keystone Insurance

http://www.belfastbusinesscentre.com/

Smart Alternative to Commercial Mortgages

With the credit crunch continuing to bite and commercial mortgages harder to find, it’s no surprise that the serviced and virtual office industry is benefiting from the economic downturn.

Small and medium sized companies are attracted to serviced offices by transparent cost structures, immediate availability and short term agreements that make budgeting easy.

Companies are not keen to invest in commercial property while returns are low and the market uncertain and are waiting to see how long the credit crunch will last. We have experienced a notable increase in demand for serviced offices which reflects the cautionary mood of local businesses. Government investment in Northern Ireland has also increased the demand for serviced office accommodation as companies testing the Northern Ireland market, use the facilities to prepare bids and support new contracts.