Small Business Saturday Nov. 27

Attention Small Business Owner:

Nov. 27. 2010, is the first-ever Small Business Saturday." A day to honor the business, like yours, that give our neighborhoods character and boast our local economies.

In support of the day, American Express is helping to drive customers to your business. Card members will receive a $25 statement credit when they register and spend $25 or more at small businesses that accept American Express Cards

There's nothing you need to do, but if you'd like to get more involved, here are 3 ways to make the most of Small Business Saturday:

1. Display enclosed point-of-purchase materials: Display them in and around your business to build buzz around the day.

2. Take advantage of free Facebook advertising. Get $100 of customized Facebook advertising - while supplies last - at SmallBusinessSaturday.com/merchant.

3. Download digital promotional tools: Get badges for your website, social sharing tools, and marketing content to help celebrate the day.

For more tips on how to promote your business both online and offline, visit SmallBusinessSaturday.com/merchant.

Value Business Interiors Office Furniture store for your needs
503 Laurens Road Greenville SC. 29607
864-232-537
www.vbisc.com

Used Steelcase - Cubicals / Desks / Chairs - 4 Tractor Trailer loads

• Steelcase cubicles /glass - hi-end (used)

- $800 (condition 9) (Retailed for $3,500)

• Steelcase Executive office furniture - U & L configuration (used)

- $600-$800

• Steelcase heavy duty secretary chairs (used)

- $75

Fantastic deal - get them while they last.

Phone 864-232-5377

E-mail Scott@vbisc.com or David@vbisc.com

Fasten Your Seat belts

We believe this is going to be a long slow recovery from this recession. All of us are fastening our seat belts, and tightening our budgets to ride out the ups and downs of a turbulent economy. There is still business to be had and opportunities to be found. We believe the young crop of entrepreneurs with small businesses will help bring us out of this recession quickly. We also hope the current government will provide tax incentives to stimulate this quick market growth.

Office furniture dealers are also seeing a dramatic competitive change in their market. Big Box and National Retail competition is dropping out or severely reducing their commitment to office and home office furnishing. Office products super stores are reducing or in some cases eliminating entire categories of office & home office furniture dealers?

Value Business Interior is a growing entrepreneur business that has a great line of new office furniture, but also used furniture in stock. If we do not have it we will find it in a very short period of time.

Call 864-232-5377
e-mail scott@vbisc.com or david@vbisc.om

With the increased use of mobile technology – from cell phones to BlackBerries to PDAs – today’s knowledge workers can just as easily be “on work” while traveling, in the local Starbucks or in the office. We say “on work” because it more accurately reflects the way people are working today. There are fewer people at work in the office than there are people on work – or working – from multiple locations throughout the day.
Research Steelcase conducted a few years ago showed that people only spend half the day working at their desk. Other industry studies say workers are away from their desks 40 to 60 percent of the time. This change in the way we work today has a strong impact on the way organizations manage office environments. Traditional environments with rows of desks and cubicles no longer suffice. Work has changed, and as such, the workplace must change accordingly. How is it changing? A recent survey of Fortune 500 real estate professionals conducted by CoreNet Global, the Atlanta-based association of real estate executives, found that 65 percent of those surveyed have stopped providing an assigned workspace to at least 10 percent of their workforce. The percentage is expected to grow to 25 percent by the end of the decade.
Whether people work in dedicated “home base” stations or temporary “touch down” spaces, all aspects of the environment must support collaboration. Knowledge work today involves complex tasks and requires the thinking, opinions and ideas of a variety of disciplines and backgrounds. Physical space that encourages this interaction between employees is critical and organizations must understand how and where employees spend most of their time.
Let Value Busines Interiors help you with these complex office place requirement whether it is at the office or at home.
Call 864-232-5377
Scott@vbisc.com

The Cornerstone to Buying is Online Browsing

The Internet has had a dramatic impact on the way American consumers shop. The biggest change is click-to-store behavior - consumers using the Internet to research products before purchasing them in stores. In fact, 81 percent of Internet users go online to research products they're considering buying, and 20 percent do so in a typical day. But the Internet is unlikely to make retailers obsolete. Consumers overwhelmingly purchase products in stores, not online. According to a Pew Internet study, e-commerce accounts for only 3.4 percent of total U.S. retail sales.

Click-to-store furniture shoppers, for example, go online to research their purchase a median of 10.7 times, 53 percent more often than click-to-store shoppers of other products, according to a Diering Research Group survey.

Furniture shoppers have embraced click-to-store shopping for several reason, most important because it is convenient and saves time. We hope this is the case for you. Please let us know what we might do to improve your on line shopping. Secondly, we trust this will then lead you to visit our show room and a very pleasant purchase of your requirements.

Article is by Mike Bernsteing .

Visit the showroom

What are the steps you take when you want to buy a new car? Go on the internet and search around. Sure. It's always nice to take a look at your options and check out availablility. But when it gets right down to it, in order to make the best choice based on your needs, you need to go to the dealership. You need to sit in that car, look at the interior, check out the engine, and look at the other cars on the lot. You need to compare prices and see what kind of value you're getting for your money, Luxury car, compact, or hybrid, automobiles, just like office furniture, offer unique options, huge price variables and many different styles and feels.

Why not come to our showroom and check it all out?

Leasing Office Equipment / Cubicals

We are still in a market environment where it is prudent to hang on to your cash. Some indicators may be signaling a slight turn around in some sectors. Perhaps you see this turn around or you have a start up business. If it is necessary to set up an office or complex and now you need office furniture and/or cubicles, why layout a large amount of cash at this time when it could be used for other start up costs or even expansion.

Why not consider leasing. Value Business Interiors has a great leasing program that can help you in this regard. Why not be on the leading edge as your business makes a turn around and leads our country back to good market days.