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Subscriptions as a Service

Business Model Evolves

The subscription economy is here to stay. What does this mean for businesses and consumers? A successful strategy is for companies and consumers to subscribe to services rather than buy products. Let’s explore how subscription services are quickly evolving. The pandemic accelerated the growth of the subscriber model at a rapid rate. Those businesses that […]

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Recruiting Tips

For hiring top talent

Recruiting new staff topped many company’s lists of challenges in 2022. With a new year on the horizon and the job market still siding with job seekers, let’s explore some tips to help you hire the best employees on the market in 2023. First, effectively communicate your company’s core values and culture. Lead with integrity. […]

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Embracing Coworking

International Appeal

In 2016, major cities such as Hong Kong have seen a significant 45% increase in the amount of coworking office spaces being offered. Similarly, the past two years have resulted in more than 100 operators providing coworking environments in China’s top cities and more than 20 in Singapore according to JLL reports. Although numbers still […]

Technology

Blockchain Explained

For real estate and beyond

Imagine that it is the end of the month. It’s time to balance the books. Now, imagine that the entire process is gone from your schedule. Every transaction that your organization made that month was automatically balanced and recorded by an automated, accurate, secure and self-regulated system—completed within seconds. This is just the tip of […]

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Renewable Power

Google's energy business plan

After signing its first agreement to purchase all the electricity from a 114-megawatt wind farm in Iowa in 2010, Google set the target to be powered 100 percent by renewable energy only two years later. According to one of the company’s latest blog posts on the initiative, the said target will be reached in 2017, […]

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Bellwether Brews

Community Engagement

Taking over abandoned storefronts and long-shuttered factories, breweries are breathing new life into cities across the country. Job interview, proposals and book clubs represent just a smidgen of activities occurring at your local brewpub. In the last few years, cities across the US have experienced a brewery renaissance. From empty storage units to abandoned storefronts, […]

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Cybersecurity

NMHC Best Practices

If you think cybersecurity is “just an IT issue,” better think again. Experts agree that cyber risk in the multifamily industry is largely underestimated, given the volume of personal and financial data multifamily companies collect and maintain about their prospects, residents and employees. And the fact that many real estate organizations rely on third-party service […]

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Workspace Reimagined

The WeWork Model

As part of their effort to change the typical office space, the founders of WeWork are using a property management hybrid that owes more to start-ups than real estate agencies.

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Google Local Pack

Searchability = Profitability

Do you want your listings to appear at the top of Google search results? Of course you do. Capitalizing upon your Google Business Listing is the first step towards a higher ranking. During our recent Open Café session, we polled 100 users from across the U.S. to learn if they maximize the potential of their […]

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Best Business Laptops

For Every Office

Today’s professionals can’t afford to miss a beat. Fulfilling client expectations often requires constant connectivity and reliable mobile access. We’ve narrowed down some of the best laptops for professionals that deliver the power, durability, and advanced features that you need to stay on top of the competition. Best Overall We hear so much about the […]

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Tech’s Top Towns

Hot spots to watch

As many developers, investors and brokers are discovering, “technology” is no monolithic industry. The tech sector translates into multiple business specialties and magnets, as dozens of cities stake their claim to the technology boom – with far-reaching impacts on commercial real estate. Along with its highest-profile component, consumer electronics, the age of technology encompasses companies […]

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Time for a Change?

Should the American time zone system be rethought?

When CNN listed time zone reduction on its 10 Ideas, readers like me smiled politely and continued to the next article. Big changes don’t happen often in our society and they certainly don’t happen quickly. Changing American time zones seems incredibly unlikely unless we’re convinced that it would make our lives exponentially better and, of […]

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Cash from the Crowd

New concept for start-up capital

The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed rules that would permit small companies to seek funding from the general public. Crowdfunding has grown in popularity among artists and inventors. Companies that create home security gadgets, tiny appliances for micro-apartments and sustainable furniture have all received public funding via platforms like Kickstarter. If the proposed rules […]

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Business Travel

Practical health tips

As busy as business travel might feel, it can actually be a sedentary lifestyle. After hours of sitting on a plane and munching airport food snacks, we shuffle into a cab. Then we chug coffee while sitting in meetings for hours. To wrap up the day, we go out to restaurants for dinner and cocktails […]

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Into the Cloud

Clearing up misconceptions

If you think you aren’t utilizing a cloud computing solution, think again. There are clouds everywhere. In fact, they are so ubiquitous that we may not realize we are using them nearly constantly as we navigate our professional and personal lives. Just like A.A. Milne’s Eeyore with his little gray cloud always following him around […]