What does this mean for entrepreneurs, road warriors and others who need an occasional meeting space? It means they have more options in more business centers in more U.S. cities. That’s good news! Specifically, Davinci is offering meeting rooms from over 600 locations and over 1,500 meeting spaces around the world.

“We are enjoying the continued growth of our online meeting room reservation platform,” said Bill Grodnik, president and CEO of Davinci Virtual. “The continued addition of prime office locations and meeting rooms enables Davinci Virtual to offer our customers a great selection of International countries and metropolitan cities. Whether you need a virtual office in Atlanta, a virtual office in Chicago, a virtual office in New York, a virtual office in Los Angeles or meeting space anywhere in the world — Davinci offers the right space at the right price.”

Grodnik was referring to Davincimeetingrooms.com. The reservation platform offers advanced applications, including:

• Instantly available, live conference room inventory
• Critical add-on services such as LCD projectors and video conferencing
• Catering services for meeting participants
• Business support services for administrative and technical needs
• A variety of interactive tools

Davinci still has the best meeting room reservation platform in the industry.
Here’s how it works: Just log on to Davincimeetingrooms.com. You’ll see a form that offers pull down menus that let you select rooms by the hour or by the day in just about any city you choose.

Once you’ve selected all of your meeting room criteria, just hit the search button and you’ll get instant results. I searched for meeting rooms in Hallandale Beach, Fla. and found two suitable options. One cost $23.50 an hour and the other $45 an hour. It took about 30 seconds.

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Specifically, Davinci Meetingrooms can now be found in 28 locations in China, India, Indonesia, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan and Australia. The major international expansion gives virtual office clients 100 additional meeting spaces around the world.

“We are very excited to offer the new locations to our clients,” said Bill Grodnik, president and CEO of Davinci Virtual. “The continued addition of prime office locations and meeting rooms enables Davinci Virtual to offer our customers a great selection of international countries and metropolitan cities.”

Davinci Meetingrooms offers an end-to-end online reservation platform that road warriors find intuitive. The platform gives travelers access to available meeting room inventory at thousands of conference rooms and business support services in over 700 locations worldwide. That leads the industry.

By visiting DavinciMeetingrooms.com, users can also book add-on services like LCD projectors, video conferencing, catering and business support services, along with an array of easy to use interactive tools.

This is Davinci Virtual’s self-stated way to level the playing field for small business so entrepreneurs can create a big business image on a small business budget. The at-a-glance availability of meeting rooms around the world adds to Davinci Virtual’s value proposition, which is centered on virtual office space and services. With more meeting rooms, entrepreneurs have more reasons to choose this growing brand.

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Specifically, Davinci Virtual has launched a new Web-based reservation platform that aims to make booking conference rooms and meeting spaces as quick and easy as purchasing office supplies from Quill.com.

You can find the new system at DavinciMeetingRooms.com. The Web site will give you
immediate access to meeting spaces within the Davinci Virtual stock that match your specific business needs, including size, location, and technical requirements.

“We think our clients and the business community will really benefit from the speed and efficiency of this service,” said Bill Grodnik, President and CEO of Davinci Virtual. “A process that used to be time-consuming and cumbersome can now be accomplished in a few minutes. Our customers will now find meetings easy to plan and affordable to host.”

Streamlining Meeting Room Selection
When you consider that Davinci Meeting rooms offers more than 2,000 meeting spaces in metropolitan areas around the world, you can see why the new Web-based reservation system is a must have. But when you consider the bells and whistles that you can add to the meeting room experience Davinci offers the need becomes even more apparent.

In addition to choosing the prime office building in the city of your choice, for example, you can also choose add-on services like LCD projectors, videoconferencing, catering, and business support services.

DavinciMeetingRooms.com promise to reduce the cost and effort of researching and negotiating meeting room options and responds to a growing, global workforce. I think Davinci accomplishes its goal with the new system.

A First-Hand Experience
I took it for a whirl this morning. It’s got a user-friendly interface that asks you the standard questions: city, state, zip, country, and date and hours required, as well as the radius in which you are willing to travel to get to the meeting room.

I typed in Hallandale Beach, offered a five-mile radius, and asked for meeting space today between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. Short notice, I know. But we’re testing the metal here. Wouldn’t you know it? They offered me two solutions. The Hollywood Florida Business Center and the Hollywood Business Center. Prices started at $15 an hour for a day office and I was given all the details I could handle, as well as directions.

I like the straightforward pricing. An LCD projector cost me $46.75 an hour, but a dry erase board is free. A network connection cost me $13.50, but a wireless connection is free. Secretarial service cost me $46.75 an hour – wow – and a notary is $9.50. In short, I can get access to everything I would need to hold a meeting for two or up to 60. and it only took about three minutes to make the reservation.

More About Davinci Virtual
Davinci Virtual is a respected provider of turnkey virtual communications and virtual office solutions. Davinci’s virtual offices and services include local or toll-free telephone and fax numbers, digital voicemail, electronic fax, e-mail, online command center, unified messaging, voice and video conferencing, voicemail to e-mail, fax to e-mail, professional live receptionist services, virtual assistants, live call answering, screening and forwarding, find me, follow me, surveys, outbound calling, customer service, appointment scheduling, order taking, and more.

Davinci offers virtual office locations and virtual office services worldwide. With professional business addresses in over prime 600 locations, mail forwarding, lobby and directory listings, access to conference rooms and day offices, catering, administrative services, virtual assistants, business support centers, resident agent services, license hanging and more, Davinci Virtual aims to help businesses maintain a global presence on a local budget.

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What is Office on Demand? It’s Officescape’s trademarked service to provide its members fully-furnished office space and meeting rooms in any of its global office centers, by the hour, by the day, or by the month. That’s convenient, especially for the globetrotter, or even the nation-trotter.

Office on Demand combines Officescape’s conferencing, computing and professional services in effort to keep business people from missing a beat in their business activities even while traveling. Flexibility and security are two keywords Officescape is using. Any time, anywhere are the others.

The key to the service – and you’re going to like this – is that you only pay for what you use. Rather than shelling out cash for services you don’t need, you get a strong set of standard capabilities and you can add on what you need – on demand. That helps you cut costs without sacrificing quality or services you really need.

Clever Office Space Marketing
The “on demand” marketing slant is a clever one. Consumers these days are on-demand consumers. They want their television on demand, so they turn to the Web and stream in Internet broadcasts. The want their music on demand, so they download it onto digital devices over Wi-Fi networks. Officescape is hoping business consumers also want their office on demand. The company is definitely on to something.

Let’s take a closer look at what Officescape has to offer through its Office on Demand platform. The conference services, for example, offer audio conference and Web conference services, as well as videoconference services at most locations. This is probably more convenient for the locals doing business with people in other cities than for the traveling businessman, but it’s a clear value-add.

What about the professional assistant services? Officescape’s Office on Demand platform provides services like data entry, accounting, and secretarial service. This is especially attractive. It’s perfect for the stationary entrepreneur but may be even more valuable to the traveling businessman who needs a dictation on the fly or some other task completed in between meetings in a foreign city.

Membership Made Easy
An Officescape membership is included with each Office on Demand package. Officescape is making it easy for business owners to sign up for its Office on Demand services. Relying on some of the technology it touts, the company offers a Web portal through which you can reserve any of the on demand services. You can schedule it for the exact times, dates, and places you want with a few keystrokes.

You can also choose from several packages. Some of the more expensive packages give you access to Officescape’s Unified Communications service. If you need follow-me/find-me functionality and voicemail-to-email features, this is important to you.

Whatever package you choose, Officescape promises its physical office locations are professionally staffed and fully equipped with computer access and a broadband connection. That’s as it should be. I’ve seen some providers charging for broadband access lately. That should be a staple of whatever package you buy.

Officescape also offers other services, like its Telework Center and Officescape Enterprise. Officescape has done well to offer something at all levels of demand. But its Office on Demand platform is one of the most flexible, well-communicated offerings I’ve seen on the market.

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Or budget might not be your issue, but finding the most appropriate location can often be challenging. Hotels and other conference facilities are offten booked well in advance, so booking a last minute meeting can be a challenge and time consuming to call around to find space.

One great solution to this is to use Worktopia to find meeting space. Worktopia is solely focused on helping connect people in need of meeting space with hotels, conference facilities and executive suites. They have a very easy to use web application, which they say that you’ll be able to book your space within 3 minutes. It is very easy to use and comprehensive in its options. From catering, to parking, to audio / visual equipment choices, you’ll be sure to have everything you need.

Other similar services exist, such as Officescape, but their database is not inclusive of hotels and their model is not solely focused on meeting space like Worktopia.

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