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The Filipino coworking space market has officially taken off, as more professionals are finding it a viable way to lease office space to professionals at all stages of the game. Not only are small operators finding this a lucrative way to fund office space, but the entire commercial real estate industry is looking toward coworking spaces as a permanent way to fund office space.
As a favourite of the start-up and SME, the coworking space in Manila is also being courted by corporate interests looking to adopt the concepts to the corporate office, namely collaborative working.
For many professionals working in Manila, this can be an exciting opportunity to get to know people working in a diverse array of industries. Your coworking space in Manila can be the platform for any of the public and marketing tasks you want to perform. Alternatively, it can be a pleasant workspace that gives you the opportunity to network in a non-competitive environment. Regardless of the space’s use, coworking can help you make a name for your business.
Continue reading to learn how you can transform your business into a major company in Manila.
Planting Seeds
Every conversation you have in the business day is important, whether sitting in an important meeting or in the staff lounge eating lunch. The reason is two-fold. First, these informal conversations provide you with a chance at getting valuable information that can be filed away for later.
The second, more significant reason, relates to planting seeds that will grow into the types of relationships that help you navigate some of the Filipino business cultures, and this significance is seen in the importance of making friends before business throughout the culture. In essence, these small opportunities to chat at your desk or in other places in the coworking space are the beginnings of great business relationships.
Using Space To Promote Your Business
The coworking’s natural social environment makes interacting with others easier and effortless simply because the office is organised for social interaction. The hot desk and other hot spots in the area are a focus for getting to know others in the community, and if working in a general access coworking space, you might find yourself seated with a diverse group of professionals, all of whom can be resources in the space. More than being resources, your business, through your own initiative, can quickly find ways to collaborate, even on the smallest scale.
Maximising The Space’s Tools
The coworking space functions like many other offices in that it has standard office equipment and other amenities. These tools can make it easy for your business to perform tasks related to collecting data and using this data for marketing strategies, and it can also be used for public relations activities as well.
In a traditional office, to engage in some of the easiest public relations activities might be disruptive to business, but in the coworking space, these same activities are disruptive to no one because of the resources available.
Not only can these tools be used for marketing and public relations purposes, but they can also help you with the everyday tasks associated with managing an office. Accounting and bookkeeping software can help make the administrative tasks of managing a business more efficient, which in turn gives you more time for business. Furthermore, in the coworking space, you can undoubtedly find someone who can help your business manage these tasks as well.
The Thriller In Manila
While you might not win any boxing matches in your coworking space, the fit out places in you a position of making the connections that can make you a strong contender. Having a fighting chance at becoming a winner in markets that can be sometimes competitive is more than possible. No need to lace up the boxing gloves just yet as the coworking platform positions all businesses on the same winning team. – Servcorp Press
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