AdvantEdge Workspaces Blog

Meeting and collaborating with your colleagues is an inevitable and potentially trying task. Ideas and opinions from multiple sources are being thrown around all at once in a sometimes chaotic mess of energy, creativity, and collaboration.

Whatever you are meeting to discuss, the most basic goal is a commonly shared one: a uniform negotiation with a positive and successful outcome for your project, task, or business. In the middle of these situations, it is important to keep everything as organized and focused as possible, and through picking the right meeting space alone, you are that much closer making that task successful for both you and your colleagues.

Your learning environment directly correlates to the amount of information you absorb and your overall learning experience. Thinking of hosting your next big meeting in a hotel banquet room or college classroom? High school auditorium or office computer lab? Should you have to choose? Look no further - AdvantEdge Business Centers is one of the only executive suites in the DC Metro area to offer facilities equipped for groups larger than 25. Both the Chevy Chase and Downtown locations boast brand-new 50-person training rooms with state-of-the-art technology.

Every professional knows the importance of communication in the office, but we often neglect communication's unsung hero: listening. This week our new Downtown D.C. Training Room played host to the Listening: The Superhero of Communication workshop.

Facilitator Lou Hampton, a communications professional with 30 years experience and CEO of The Hampton Group, used our 50-person training room to its full potential, guiding a group of captivated tenants in our shared office space on a journey to realize their full listening potential. The state of the art training room takes meeting space to the next level featuring a projector, screen, two high definition televisions, and a sound system with a microphone for the speaker.

If you have looked into leasing office space in the Washington, DC area, you have likely ran across the term “Class A,” but just what is Class A office space?

Whether you have new hires that need to learn your business or existing employees that need to explore new technology, it’s important you have a training facility that accommodates your needs. While hotels have long been used for large trainings and meetings, executive suites are rapidly becoming the first choice for many different types of training. Both hotels and executive suites offer many of the same amenities such as state-of-the-art technology, Wi-Fi connections, and necessary furniture, but executive suites have more than just the basic needs for an efficient and easy training facility!

Source: Prestige Marketing, Inc.

"Marketers who threaten the Reddit community with spammy links and boring content will likely be destroyed, says Prestige Marketing. On the link-sharing site known as the 'Front Page of the Internet,' only the strong survive.

Reddit receives 2.5 billion page views per month, and thus any content that reaches the front page receives millions of views. The only way to do that without spending a lot of money is to get Reddit’s 34.9 million monthly unique visitors to 'vote up' your content.

Managing your time wisely can be the key to not only a successful business, but also a healthy lifestyle outside of the office.  No matter what field you work in, if you’re feeling overwhelmed with your workload, everyone (from co-workers to clients) can be affected.  While everyone has a different way to manage their time effectively, here are a few tips to ensure that you optimize your time:

To celebrate AdvantEdge Business Centers' March Madness events, we are dedicating this blog post to the NCAA Championships!  Thanks to the news-media, there is indeed a certain “madness” to be found during March. Every year around this time we encounter a flurry of articles and news stories discussing how to build a better bracket for your office pool and possible  drops in worker productivity, but there are also many stories about the lesser known aspects and effects of the NCAA Championship Tournament. Here are a few examples how March Madness influences the world off the court.

Social media has rapidly become one the most effective tools for marketing and advertising your business. Creating a successful social media campaign allows businesses of all kinds to reach consumers on both a national and international level in real-time. Whether you’re using social media for a small business or revamping your current corporate marketing strategies, the most important aspect of social media is implementing a plan. According to Neil Patel of Entrepreneur, one of the biggest social media mistakes is not having a clear strategy. Patel writes that businesses should begin by asking themselves 6 main questions: