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Recessions, Credit Crunch, Downturn

What does it all mean to you and your company? How will the global decisions actually affect you? What about your company or your family?

With companies daily announcing mass redundancies, is the future all doom and gloom?

There are so many questions to be answered with very few answers. However, there is one question which may have an answer: Should we stand in line and wait to see what happens or should we step out of line and take another approach, is now the time to be innovative and start thinking outside the box?

The answer: There has never been a better time.

It is time to embrace the technology available to us all and not let the fear of the unknown be a hindrance to making the most of what it has to offer. You don’t need to be a techno guru to make technology work for you. All you need is the vision of what you want to achieve, techno guru’s are ten to the dozen and are available to help you make the dream become a reality.

A reliance on old methods to reach customers may mean you struggle unnecessarily as you fight to get your business through these challenging financial times. Even if they do manage to see you though there’s a chance that you will have been left behind in your market place. Businesses that are innovative now and find new ways to bring their products and services to market have more channels through which to attract customers which will benefit them now, as well as in the future. Utilising the latest technology, in particular web based technology, is just one medium that will open up a host of new marketing channels.

From the outset Novaloca.com aimed to be a company at the forefront of technology, using it to open the channels to property occupiers and make marketing commercial property easy. The site you see today is the product of that commitment: NovaLoca is a company that has its finger on the button and isn’t afraid to push it again and again.

The latest button to be pressed resulted in NovaLoca taking on the internet giant that is Google and winning! Having released Street View across America, Google have been developing this technology for London for some time, but they have now been beaten to it following the implementation of Street Level View imagery (collected by Seety) in NovaLoca’s maps which allows user to ‘walk’ the streets of central London from their PC.

Companies thinking outside the box and investing in innovation differentiate themselves from their competition and gets them noticed. When companies are noticed in this way the result is more website traffic, more customers seeing the product or service on offer and as a result more leads to deals are generated meaning companies are in a better position to ride out hard economic times. Innovations and new tools like Street Level View stand out from the old.

If NovaLoca had announced it was going to take on the Google you probably would have thought them mad, but with a belief in their innovation and a willingness to push the boundaries of technology they took up the challenge and won. THE END!

EPC’s are you ready?

Energy Performance Certificates

In a statement on 17 September 2008, David Collett, CEO of Green CO2 said:

“In a little over two weeks, Commercial Energy Performance Certificates will become mandatory when any commercial building is constructed, sold or put up for lease.
Yet the numbers of EPC’s currently being processed in anticipation of this new regulation is worryingly low, which means there is a real risk that come 1 October, many people responsible for commercial buildings will all rush at once to order an EPC thereby creating a backlog for the commercial assessors to deal with and possibly incurring the fine attached to this regulation for non compliance.

Click here to read the full story

The advice from NovaLoca is to act now! Try and avoid becoming part of the backlog when landlords, agents, and owners all rush to get that all important certificate for their commercial property. If you fail to then you might run the risk of being hit with a fine (currently £750 plus a hefty 12.5% of rateable value) and potentially having a vital sale of that office block or lease deal delayed.

Offices 08

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An estimated 600 institutional investors, banks, regional and local development agencies, commercial agents, developers, landowners, serviced office brokers, designers and occupiers will meet at this forum-style event to discuss what’s happening within the market place; and will provide an opportunity to make new and old connections, exchange ideas and seize new business opportunities.  www.offices08.co.uk

You can visit NovaLoca on stand 5B from the time the doors open Monday until the end of the exhibition on Tuesday. Offices 08 will be your last chance to list office space, commercial property you have for sale, retail property and industrial units completely free of charge on novaloca.com, this offer is open to individual agents and companies too.

For your chance to win an Xbox360 or a Nintendo Wii both consoles are being presented to winners before the end of the exhibition, attend one of our short demonstrations Monday at 11.15, 14:00, 16:15 and Tuesday 10:30 details below:

demo times

Look forward to seeing you there!

Free Marketing & Marketing Tips for UK Agents

This week has seen a number of news headlines regarding the commercial property industry which read something like “World Commercial Property Deals Down 41%”. With headlines like that the question has to be asked: Are agents making full use of the free marketing available to them?

To gain maximum exposure when renting out office space or if you have commercial property for sale, then there couldn’t be a better time to join the NovaLoca.com. Not only is the commercial property search engine moving up in Google rankings but in just six months they made Google sit up and pay attention marking their site as a site of importance by increasing their page rank from 0-5, driving more and more visitors to the site each month 65,000 last month.

They are, for a limited time, taking all agents with them, completely free. All companies and commercial property agents throughout the UK can easily load all of their properties, whether it be office space, retail property, industrial units or even land, on the site for free, or if time is of the essence then contact the NovaLoca team and they can do all the work for you!  The 60,000 occupiers that visit NovaLoca each month are then just a click away from the perfect commercial property for their business and the agents are one step closer to finding occupiers for their properties.

It is a match made in heaven when agents meet Novaloca. You see, some agents are extremely good when it comes to being proactive in marketing their client’s properties. However, some are still under the notion that they don’t have to do much to get their commercial property let or sold. I would say this was the case in the past but would now agree that it could be true, as long as their portfolio of commercial properties is listed on Novaloca that is!

Agents are good at what they are trained to do and NovaLoca are experts in what they do and they are offering agents opportunity to use the knowledge they have gained from hours of research by the NovaLoca team. Find some of this expertise in NovaLoca’s blog or to find out more information about listing on NovaLoca contact them on 08443575260.