The tri-state area of Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey serves many kinds of businesses and industries. A guide to finding shared workspaces here is as necessary as the spaces themselves. 

But what’s the difference between a shared workspace and a coworking space? In the simplest terms, the difference between shared workspaces and coworking spaces is a matter of scale and amenities. Coworking spaces often offer more temporary solutions, suitable for start-up businesses, as well as individual entrepreneurs or freelancers. Shared workspaces tend to provide longer leases and more dynamic resources, better suited to more extensive corporate business needs or well-established companies. 

This guide focuses on the business traveler in need of flexible spaces in the tri-state area. If you’re traveling to one of the major hubs in Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Newark, Buffalo, or Rochester, check out some of the best resources the areas have to offer.

Beauty Shoppe—Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Offering a variety of locations for coworking spaces in the historical buildings of the city, Beauty Shoppe is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They offer a variety of memberships and a range of resources, including meeting rooms and private phone booths.

1776—Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

 An upcoming coworking and shared workspace in the Philadelphia community, 1776 boats eight locations, with services ranging from private offices to individual desks. 

Launch Pad—Newark, New Jersey 

With a central location in the city, Launch Pad offers the spectrum of coworking and shared workspaces—from communal desks to private offices. The space even provides customizable solutions for clients. 

Liquid Space—Buffalo, New York

What makes Liquid Space unique is their on-demand approach to workspaces. They provide flexible, mobile, and online booking, permitting instant access to private offices—by the hour or the day. 

Carlson Cowork—Rochester, New York

Carlson Cowork offers a range of all the basic needs for a coworking space. They even have available conference rooms for meetings and a foosball table for brainstorming the next big idea.

Today’s Best Western hotels also provide an assortment of shared workspace amenities, from meeting rooms to large-scale conference spaces, including communications technology. No matter which city you visit, you can find everything needed for your business.

To check out the locations and coworking resources available at Today’s Best Western hotels in the tri-state area, visit www.bestwestern.com. In order to get the most out of your travel, you can browse Best Western Rewards Business Advantage and sign up today.

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The numbers for the evolving rise of chatbots are staggering. Studies point toward a near future in which chatbots command a large share of the market. There are myriad reasons for this growth, but let’s take a look at the numbers first. 

According to a study conducted by Global Market Insights, “AI-based chatbots,” like Botco.ai, “are projected to showcase the fastest growth in coming years with an anticipated CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of more than 52%.” Although the stand-alone segment in the chatbot market, according to PR Newswire, is expected to experience healthy growth (around 29%), the cloud-based models are projected to grow much closer to the overall number of chatbot market growth, at 51%. As cited in this aforementioned Yahoo! Finance article, by 2024, the e-commerce sector is predicted to register over 34% gains. 

Explanations for such impressive and ubiquitous growth are aplenty. In addition to market demand for the utilization of chatbots being due to online marketing, promotions, and advertising, PR Newswire says, “The main features accelerating the chatbot market growth are technological features, individuality, and customization. They provide customized marketing abilities, such as sending personalized messages.”

Investments in R&D and market development from major players such as Google, WeChat, Microsoft, and many more, offer an understanding for chatbot’s growth, plus added vision for their continued expansion. Also, the use of AI technologies allows chatbots unique access to becoming smarter with time. Implementing video or still images also permits chatbots to diversify how companies communicate with their customers. Further, chatbots permit access to information or communication 24/7, without the need for human support, as well as the capacity to communicate in real-time conversation. Even more, chatbots are extraordinarily easy to implement while being customizable to a diversity of nuanced needs. 

If you are curious about an innovative and powerful example of chatbot development and thought leadership, book a demo with us today! 

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Most of us can relate to the above anecdote, whether, at the moment, we realized the power of the image or not. But there is a great deal further science and statistics that go into understanding the more sophisticated manner in which images—still or video—process through our neurological and cognitive systems. 

Storytelling as a means of human communication dates back as far as scientists can estimate. Significantly, humans accomplished our earliest forms of documenting experiences by using a series of images on the walls of caves to tell a story. Current marketing strategies and efforts have witnessed a rise in the relevance and necessity of compelling storytelling. And, in a modern context, one of the most important functions of using visual images over text in storytelling is the speed in which communication occurs.  

As cited by an article from Fast Company, according to research by 3M (the company that brought us Post-it Notes), visual images are processed 60,000 times faster than text. A visual can communicate much faster than a piece of writing or oral communication. Considering the fast pace of digital communication and the on-demand needs of consumers, the speed in which marketing and advertising materials can deliver is paramount to a company’s needs and goals.

What about the most robust example of modern communication: social media?

We can look to social media to demonstrate the power of images on communication. Dan Zarella, a social media scientist from HubSpot, discovered that tweets with images are 94% more likely to be shared than tweets without an image. This statistic points not only to how much more responsive people are to communicate with images, but it also speaks to what we prioritize as more effective communication. Scientific studies also point in this direction.

According to the Social Science Research Network, 65% of people are visual learners. This learning involves how people not only process information but how they absorb and recall that same information. With such a vast majority of people learning through visuals, it becomes imperative to offer images for the sake of cognitive processing, absorption, and recollection. Our communication must reflect what sciences and statistics have reflected in human populations. 

The advent of chatbots drives this far more dynamic approach to communication. Being able to offer, in real-time and on-demand, visuals images—both still and video—renders chatbots the future of complex and effective communication. Consumers will not only process marketing and advertising information more quickly, but they will retain and recall at higher rates.  Do you want to see this type of communication in action? Book a demo with us today! 

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