You need office space. You don’t want to buy a building, lease a whole floor of a high rise, and you dont want an furnished “office suite” . What you need is a few hundred square feet of office space. How do you find it?
Right now there are really only two options. First option is to drive around writing down numbers and calling each of them to get details, that’s not a good use of your time. Second option, call a Realtor. Sure Realtors have their purpose but they aren’t the best choice for finding the kind of space you need.
I know there is kind of a third option, and there certainly should be… Online Office Space searches like there is for houses and appartments. The problem is the couple sites that are out there that do this already… In our opinion, really suck.
There needs to be a new choice, a realtor.com meets craigslist for leasing commercial property. We know the need exists and we are going to be stepping in to help. Enter one of our latest projects: LeasClick.com. It’s not even up yet, and already some employees of the competition has been bashing it on another blog… To me that means we have the right idea. I will post again with the launch date as soon as it’s set!
So you have decided to start a business.
Step one: come up with a business name.
Step two: get business cards.
Maybe that’s over simplifying things a little bit but the fact is you are going to need some business cards, and there is no reason to drive down the street to the local print shop and drop $500 on business cards.
I am not going to get into the design aspect right now, this is purely about the printing…
As a designer and entrepreneur I have had lot of business cards printed… I have used quite a few different online print shops and even the occasional local shop and for business cards there is a clear winner:
Overnight Prints. Fast turnaround, amazing prices, helpful customer service. You can get 250 double sided, glossy, full color business cards printed on an offset press (as opposed to a digital press) for under $30. That is amazing.
Overnight Prints product is so good I now use them for ALL of my own standard sized cards, brochures and greeting cards. (by the way, a custom greeting card will get noticed by the client, but that’s another topic)
Here is a coupon for 100 free business cards to get you started!
In my opinion Overnight Prints is the best,but their product sizes are limited to keep prices as low as possible. So what if you want something different… A custom sized card maybe…
Uprinting. Uprinting lets you print custom sizes at great prices. They aren’t as cheep, and they aren’t as fast but they can handle almost any size printing you need, they even have these cool Canvas Prints. 10% OFF All UPrinting Products!
I recently designed a card for my design business, I wanted to have a 2″ square card. I looked around and the prices were crazy everywhere I found except for Uprinting. I got the cards and the quality is perfect. I am very happy with my new cards. Next time I will be looking for custom die cutting… I’ll keep you all posted.
While you can design a simple card on both sites if you want to stand out you will need to have an amazing design, I promise I will dive into that subject soon.