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What is a shared office space and why are they popular in a remote world

A shared office space is a collaborative workspace that brings together employees from different teams or companies in a common area. By splitting the cost of a larger workspace, people can use professional, attractive spaces with amenities that they might not have been able to afford on their own.

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How to find the best coworking space for remote workers

In today’s world, more and more people are working remotely, whether it’s from home or while traveling. While there are many benefits to working remotely, it can also be challenging to find a suitable workspace.

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Your ultimate guide to selecting a serviced office to rent

If you are in need of office space for your company, you should consider whether or not a serviced office might be beneficial for you. The term “serviced office” refers to a workspace that is not only fully furnished but also comes with a number of services and amenities. Yet, because there are so many…

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What to consider when looking for the best coworking spaces

When searching for the best coworking spaces, there are a few things you should keep in mind that will help you locate a workspace that is not only functional but also productive for you.

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Grep Technology Case Study

Grep Technology Partners are a global search firm with offices in London, Los Angeles, and now New Zealand, right here at Urban Hub in Wellington.

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Top 3 Reasons Sustainable Co-working Spaces Are Trending

One of the biggest trends in business is the rise of sustainable co-working spaces. These offices are usually better for everyone, including employees, clients and even local communities. In fact, many people believe that sustainable co-working spaces can make you more productive. So, what exactly is a sustainable co-working space, and why are they trending?

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4 Essential Features to Look for in Good Meeting Places in Wellington

If you’re looking for a place to hold your next meeting, there are plenty of options in Wellington. But not all meeting places are alike, so it pays to do your research before booking a room.

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How To Choose the Best Function Venues in Wellington

Whether you’re hosting a corporate event, a business planning meeting or a full conference, it’s important to choose the right venue. It can be stressful trying to find the right function venue in Wellington, but these tips will help you narrow your search and make the right choice.

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Co-working Space vs Office: Which is Better for You?

Co-working spaces and offices are both great options for start-ups, freelancers, entrepreneurs, small businesses and remote workers. But which one is right for you? There are a lot of factors that might determine which is the right fit for your circumstances. Let’s take a look.

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Ways Shared Offices Differ from a Co-Working Space

Ever wondered about the differences between shared offices and co-working spaces? Read on to find out more. What is a shared office space? A shared office space is typically a scenario where one business already leases premises that are too big for their needs.

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The Top 7 Advantages of Co-working Spaces

If you’re an entrepreneur, running a start-up, or trying to get a small business off the ground, it’s time to discover some of the advantages of co-working spaces.

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Looking for Office Space? A Guide to Choosing the Right Office Space

When you’re looking for office space, there can be so many implications for your business. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, running a small business or expanding to much larger operations, the risks of choosing the wrong office space are all the same.

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How Much Does It Cost to Hire a Meeting Room?

Depending on your needs, you can hire a meeting room in Wellington with ease here at Urban Hub. You can even have the room set up according to your specifications, and you’ll even have dedicated staff to greet your guests upon arrival. But the big question is, how much does it cost?

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Different Types of Event Spaces and Venues for Hire

There are so many different reasons to consider booking venues for hire in Wellington. You may be a small business with a need to impress clients with professional meeting rooms. You may be based out of the city and want a convenient venue for staff meetings, training or team building.

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Your Guide to Conference Venues in Wellington

If you’re planning a conference or meeting in Wellington, the only name you need to remember is Urban Hub. With a dedicated conference team ready to set up and help guide you through a successful event, there’s no better place to book your next conference. Introducing the ultimate conference venue in Wellington.   

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Choosing an Office Space to Rent

Whether you’re an entrepreneur with a business idea or a growing business, finding the right office space can be difficult. There’s so much to consider, such as location, space, meeting rooms, and amenities, not to mention your budget and cash flow situation.

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The Importance of Networking During Conferences

If you’ve ever been to a conference and wondered why there are so many opportunities to eat, drink and mingle, it’s because the conference organisers want you to network. This can occur during food and drink breaks, official conference functions, or even by having group discussions during conference sessions.

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What is a Shared Workspace?

Shared workspaces are becoming increasingly popular, especially with the changing landscape of the workforce. A shared workspace is an office environment where you can rent as much space as you need and work alongside other like-minded business owners.

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What Should be Included When You Rent Office Space in Wellington?

There are many different ways to rent office space these days, with the rise of co-working spaces, virtual offices and serviced offices making it easier than ever to have a professional working space, no matter how small your business is.

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Tips for Booking Conference Venues in Wellington

You’ve got big dreams for holding your next conference. Excited guests, heaps of conference activities planned. This is your big chance to build your brand identity, impress attendees and create a networking environment like no other. Sounds amazing, right?

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25 Conference Activities to Engage Your Audience

Planning a conference is always hard work, because you’ve got so many things to consider. Without the right support, it can be like trying to spin plates without dropping any of them. One of the things that often gets lost in conference planning is how to keep people engaged.

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How to Build a Customer-Centric Culture in Your Business

More than just adopting the old saying, “The customer is always right”, building a real customer-centric culture takes hard work and dedication. But the benefits are certainly worth the effort. Around 66% of people consider customer service to be a dealbreaker when purchasing a product.

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Managing Remote Teams

We’ve seen an incredible boom in remote working over the past couple of years. While many employees love the opportunity to work from home or from a remote location closer to home, this practice certainly presents some challenges for managers. Fortunately, no challenge is insurmountable.

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How to Hold Effective Meetings

Meetings – they’re a necessary part of business, but so many people get them wrong. Most people have had a bad meeting experience, so let’s look at ways to ensure your meetings are always a valuable use of everybody’s time.

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How to Create a Social Media Marketing Strategy

Have you heard the old marketing saying about meeting your customers where they already are? Well, that perfectly sums up the reason you need a social media strategy. As we know, most people use some form of social media frequently. To reach your audience, it’s essential to develop a strategy and stick to it.

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The Ultimate Guide to Choosing Meeting Rooms in Wellington

Looking for meeting rooms in Wellington for your business? It can be quite a task! However meeting room hire in Wellington is easy when you find the right place that suits your needs.

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Handy Hints for the Wellington Startup Business

A startup business can take you on quite a different journey than buying a traditional business. Usually, you’re developing new products or services, so there is always a little uncertainty about how the market will respond. The other concerning fact is that 37% of startups fall over before they even really get going.

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10 Tips on How to Create an Inspiring Office Space

Are you looking to set up the perfect office space in Wellington? Here are 10 tips to make your office space a more inspiring place to be. 1. Open-plan Open-plan offices give you a wide range of benefits.

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Your Guide to What to Look for in an Office Space for Rent

Looking for a new office is an exciting time, because it usually means your business is growing. Whether you’re moving from a home start-up to a more professional setting or you’re an established business looking to scale up, finding the right office space for rent is crucial.

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How To Find The Best Wellington Conference Venues

Finding the best Wellington conference venues for your upcoming event isn’t always easy. However, this guide makes it a whole lot easier. In many ways, it’s a process of elimination to get the perfect event. Decide what’s really important Ideally, you’ll already know what your event is all about.

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10 Tips for Choosing the Ultimate Shared Office Space in Wellington

A shared office space in Wellington is a perfect place to set up and grow your business from the ground up. However, not all shared office spaces in Wellington are created equal and making a poor choice can harm your business growth. Here are 10 tips to consider before choosing your office space.

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How to Capitalise on Tech for Your Business

Whether you’re planning a business, you’re setting one up, or you’ve been going for a while and need to grow, tech can often be the catalyst for serious business growth and success.

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Benefits of Using a Business Mentor

Have you ever considered working with a business mentor? If you find a good one, they can help you grow your business and hone your skills along the way.

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How To Embrace Your Working Style and Become More Productive

Ever wondered why you seem to work well in some jobs and not others? Why do you find some tasks easy and others a real drag? It’s likely got a lot to do with your working style. 

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Effectively Use LinkedIn to Create Connections and Promote Your Business

LinkedIn is a great place to make connections and promote your business, provided you do it the right way. Unlike other social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook, you’re not necessarily marketing to the general public. You’re dealing with decision-makers on LinkedIn.

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Creating the Perfect Morning Routine

If you’ve ever said “I just got out on the wrong side of the bed today”, you’ll already know how important the start of a day is. It can set up how the rest of your day goes, and if not done right, it can derail your plans.

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Habits of Successful People

Success is defined by a variety of things for different people. Whether it’s financial gains, happy relationships, career advancement or hundreds of other measures of success, you’ll know that it doesn’t happen by accident. To be successful in anything, you need more than just luck.

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Why Taking Time off is a Good Idea

For many people, the festive season is a time to get away from work for a while and enjoy some time with family and friends. However, many people don’t have the luxury of taking time off over the holidays.

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How to Strategically Set Goals for the New Year

The New Year often brings about a desire to make changes in your life, and that’s where serious goal-setting comes in. Here’s how to strategically set and achieve your goals in the New Year. Set goals rather than resolutions At one time or another, everybody has set a New Year’s resolution.

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How to Negotiate Remote and Flexible Working Arrangements

Since the Covid-19 pandemic, the way we do business has changed dramatically. More people are working from home or in remote locations, and many are working different hours as a result. The traditional 9-5 has become less strict considering people aren’t all in the same office anyway.

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Hosting the Ultimate Work Christmas Event

With the holiday season approaching, it’s a good idea to start thinking about your annual Christmas events. With situations returning to some semblance of normality, businesses will be able to enjoy a little more freedom and actually come together with fewer restrictions in 2021.

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Business Systemisation: What is it, and How Can You Implement it

Business systemisation is a way to create clarity for staff and streamline the daily operations of a business. Let’s look at what business systemisation really is, why it’s important and how you can make it work for you.

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5 Reasons why Business Culture is Important

Strong business culture can lead to great success, or it can quickly derail your company if you don’t get it right. Essentially, the culture of your business is what you stand for. How you treat your employees, customers and anybody else who comes in contact with your business.

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How To Find The Right Project Management Tool For Your Business

Struggling to keep on top of all the projects you’re running? Maybe you just need a tool to keep you on track with your own daily tasks. Well, a project management tool could be just what you need. 

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Winter always turns to Spring - 6 Ways to Prepare for Spring

We’ve all heard of the term ‘spring cleaning’. For some reason, this change in seasons is often associated with growth or cleaning up to prepare for the year ahead. However, the idea of making changes in spring doesn’t just apply to cleaning your house.

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The New Working Norm

There’s no doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic has drastically changed the way we do business. From retail to hospitality to office work, everything has changed. While we slowly see the community being vaccinated and learn to live with the virus, business will never be the same.

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5 of the Best Business Reads

There’s never a bad time to catch up on some reading, but the colder months are certainly a good time. Curling up in front of the heater with a good book is a perfect way to unwind. It’s even better if you can be inspired by the books you read.

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Tips to Communicate Effectively in Virtual Meetings

Over the past 18 months, most of us have become very familiar with virtual meetings. Some love it, some not so much. But the reality is, they’re an effective way to keep in touch while the world adjusts to a new ‘normal’.

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How to Overcome ‘Overwhelm’ and Channel it Into Productivity

Have you experienced ‘overwhelm’ in your professional world or home life? Often the two worlds combine to make your life seem too chaotic to handle. The list of things you need to do just keeps piling up, and it can be difficult to know where to start.

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Healthy Habits for Busy Professionals

No matter how much we try to stay on top of everything, life often gets away from us. As a busy professional, you’ve already got a lot on your plate. There are deadlines to meet, meetings to attend, phone calls to return, emails to respond to.

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Don’t Let Criticism Ruin Your Success

Being able to handle criticism is a valuable skill, and one that you should learn quickly if you want to succeed. In reality, successful people receive criticism all the time, whether it is people doubting their ideas or questioning their process.

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Mastering Habits for Productivity

We all know people who just seem to be brilliant at getting things done. They never seem flustered, yet they achieve everything they set out to do. It’s easy to look at these people and think they must be either incredibly intelligent or have some special skill.

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How Hybrid Work Can Help Your Business

Hybrid workplaces are becoming more popular, with people’s need for work-life balance on the rise. There will always be plenty of people who love the routine of coming to the office 5 days a week to do their 8 hours. But there are just as many people who want more flexibility.

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3 Tips to Grow Your Online Business

If you’ve got an online business and you’re focused on growth, it’s easy to take things in the wrong direction. You get so much advice telling you to spend money here, there and everywhere in the pursuit of more customers.

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Making the Customer Experience Your Secret Weapon in 2021

Whether you’re a fully established business or you’re just starting out, there’s one golden rule to learn. Rather than the customer always being right, it’s that the customer is at the centre of everything you do. Without them, you have no business.

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5 Tips for Finding the Best Meeting Rooms in Wellington (NZ)

More and more of us are working remotely these days. One undeniable difference of this trend is that your business may not have a suitable HQ for holding meetings or getting everyone together.

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Hybrid Workplaces and Maximising Your Office Space

If we cast our minds back to January 2020, businesses had no real idea what was to come. The Covid-19 pandemic threw the world into chaos, and offices certainly weren’t immune. One of the key trends to emerge during the pandemic has been working from home, or remote working. 

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What to Look for in Office Space Wellington (NZ)

If you are looking for new office space, this can be both exciting and daunting. Moving into the first office that you set your eyes on might well be a mistake. You’ll want an office space that will support your company right now and allow you to grow your team and your business.

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Finding Your Why

2020 has been in equal parts a year to forget, but also one we’ll always remember. For better or worse, the strange year of 2020 has forced us to re-evaluate parts of our life, and really work out what’s important.

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How to Take a Tech Break

2020 has been a tough year for so many people, and business hasn’t been exempted from hardship. So, there might be a natural temptation to work through the holiday period to play catch-up. However, taking a break can sometimes be just as important as working through.

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Why Your Work Environment Matters

We’ve all probably had a variety of good and bad experiences when it comes to our work environment. There’s a big difference between a dynamic, fun, energetic environment and one that’s dreary and lifeless.

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The Importance of Diversity and Inclusion

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace has become a huge topic in recent years, and rightly so. In this day and age, it’s hard to believe that companies are still resistant to hiring a diverse workforce, but sadly it remains the case.

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Office Christmas Party Ideas

Covid-19 may have shaken things up in 2020, and even though we’ve come through the worst of it, Christmas may be a little different for many businesses. Budget constraints or other issues may prevent the usual big Christmas function this year, but that doesn’t mean the Christmas spirit isn’t alive and well.

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The Truth About Working Remotely

Working remotely has been one of the most talked-about topics in the business world throughout 2020. Many were forced into remote work due to the pandemic, while some were already working remotely. For most businesses and staff though, it’s been a steep learning curve.

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How to Up Your Networking Game

Networking is a huge part of many people’s career. In fact, their success often hinges on how well they can network to generate sales, new clients or investments.

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Why Supporting Local Business Is So Important

Here at UrbanHub we’ve always been champions of supporting local business. But now, more than ever, it’s important to draw attention to how much they need community support. When you think about the part local business plays in the community, you’d agree they’re a valuable resource worth supporting.

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The Growing Popularity of Remote Working & Co-Working Spaces

Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, remote working has become the new norm. With fewer people attending their normal workplaces, we could be on the brink of a permanent shift in how we view the traditional office.

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Work Life Balance Strategies That Will Drive Better Productivity

Ask people what they want out of their career, and most will mention a good work life balance. Sure, great salary, advancement opportunities and benefits are great, but people are now starting to realise the benefits of more balance.

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Leadership Post Covid-19 - How The Pandemic Changed Business

There’s no doubt the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the business landscape. Some will be hoping to get back to normal once restrictions are eased, while others will embrace some of the changes. One such example is remote working.

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How to Build Your Brand as a Business Blogger

One of best ways to enhance your reputation in any given field is to become a thought leader. This means opening discussion on key industry matters, and sharing your expertise. People can do this through personal blogs, which can then be shared on social media, particularly LinkedIn.

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Will the Way We Work Change Post Covid-19?

The recent Covid-19 pandemic disrupted the way we do business in a big way. Offices that have never considered remote working were forced to look at other ways to do business. Companies had to make the shift from boardrooms to Zoom. In general, most office-workers experienced a new way of doing things.

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5 Daily Habits to Help You Stay Focused and More Productive

Have you ever looked at someone who seems super-productive, but never looks flustered? Wouldn’t it be nice to go through a work day like that? Well, the truth is, you can! In fact, everybody can, it just takes a little focus and attention.

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Remote Working Ideas to Help You Be More Productive

With the recent COVID-19 pandemic forcing many businesses to rethink how they work, the amount of people working remotely has increased dramatically. Whether this is a temporary thing, or a sign of things to come in your future working life, staying productive can sometimes be hard.

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The Top 10 Apps to Help Any Small to Medium Business Thrive

Technology is a huge part of business today. Especially software programs and apps. By choosing the right ones, you can make life a whole lot easier for yourself. Here’s some of the best apps to help your small-medium business thrive.

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