Office Rental Singapore Soars

The current office rental Singapore office had increased tremendously. Office rental space in Singapore is currently facing a shortage of supply. This is due to several redevelopments or retrofitting of commercial office building. Many buildings in the prime district are redeveloping for residential usage. The high influx of oversea companies, especially financial institute, moving into Singapore had also contributed to the office rental in Singapore to soar.

For company looking into expanding their office space in Singapore, finding a suitable space is becoming a challenging task. Some companies had opted to move towards High tech building or business park zone. Due to the tight supply of office rental in Singapore, some companies had also decentralized their operation, moving backend operation out of the central business district. There are still ample office spaces in the industrial or business park zone.

For some companies, the current office rental had double and even triple when come to renewal of lease. The days of tenants paying low rental and enjoying large space are over. Tenants that do not choose to renew the lease will also need to lower their expectation of the new office that they will be moving to and at the same time paying higher office rental.

Shophouse office had become a new popular choice for many companies. Shophouse office rental Singapore is typically commanding half of the traditional office space. With careful planning and interior design, shophouse office can be renovated to be an office with taste. The popular shophouse offices in Singapore are located at Amoy Street, Telok Ayer Street and Tras Street. With the high office rental in Singapore, tenants need to have better creativity usage of office space. Open concept office which optimized office space is employed by most tenants.

For some companies, moving out of the Central Business District to the fridge of business zone becomes the number one choice. Others are moving to the business park paying lower rental without compromising the corporate image. However, they do need to compromise on the location as most business park do not residue in the central of Singapore. Most of the business park and high tech building are located either at the east or west side of the island. With this office rental trend, the rental of suburban and business had also increased.

The current office rental in Singapore had already surpassed the 1996/1997 office peak. However, there is still room for upwards movement. It is forecast that it will stabilize in 2 years times when new office buildings are ready. This upward trend is due to the shortage of supply and the continuous strong demand. The demand will continue to increase as Singapore economic foundation and strong infrastructure for doing business are attracting many foreign companies to invest in Singapore.

Although the office rental in Singapore had push up the business cost, there are many companies continue to expand in Singapore. This does not affect the competitive of Singapore in the Asia region.

For more information of office rental Singapore and office for rent Singapore available vacant list, visit officedirectory.com.sg

Are Interview Products Dead?

I was recently in attendance at Mike Filsaime and Tom Beal's outstanding 2007 Figure Business Workshop on Long Island and one of the hot questions for the expert panel the last day of the event was "Are Interview Products Dead?" With yours truly being just one of the around twenty 'experts' up on the stage I didn't have an opportunity at the event to put in my two cents on this subject so I'll do it now.

Interview products in the Internet Marketing niche are not dead if and only if you have a unique slant or marketing approach that will stand your interview product apart from the crowd. If you're doing another "me too" product that is nearly identical to bunches of other products already done your chances of having great success with that interview product are pretty slim.

Great marketing alone can give you a chance - but are you a great marketer? How are you going to distinguish your interview product from the dozens of Internet marketing interview products that already exist in the marketplace? It's a tough challenge and one that relatively few marketers are equipped to handle.

If your interview product is in a more specialized niche then you'll probably find very few interview products even exist in your area. So you stand a better chance for success. Can you can identify the top experts in your niche (not Internet Marketing)? Then an interview style product is still quite viable. So what niche can you stake a claim in?

Here's an interesting note. Speaker Fulfillment Services duplicates and fulfills products for a lot of information marketers. Here are the top 5 topics which we currently ship products on:

1. Nutrition
2. Stock trading
3. Dating women
4. Playing the guitar
5. Cake decorating

What don't you see on that list? Internet marketing. I find that very interesting. There's a reason for that. There is more money to be made in specialized niches rather than in more Internet marketing interview products.

Find your niche and avoid the overcrowded markets with all the "me too" interview products. Take advantage of the keyword tools like inventory.overture.com or Good Keywords to help you identify those segments that have hungry buyers. If possible, match one or more of those segments with something that you are passionate about.

Interview products are not dead. You just need to be careful where you choose to play.

Bret Ridgway is co-founder of Speaker Fulfillment Services, a company dedicated to helping authors, speakers, and information marketers maximize their time by taking care of their product duplication and fulfillment needs. For more information visit http://www.SpeakerFulfillmentServices.com or call 812-235-8050.