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We have between 50-100 staff members working at any given time at the Evoma Hotel and OMR Business Center in KR Puram, Bangalore. This human resource is our key asset, more than the hotel, restaurants, office space and event venues all put together. How do you look after your human resources, and make sure they’re happy with their position…

Evoma is a Bangalore wedding venue with a hall, accommodations, catering, stage (mandap), lighting, flowers, seating, parking and all the other hundreds of minor details that you need to consider during wedding planning. The couples and families who come to Evoma to book their wedding hall ask us questions…

Our luxury Evoma Hotel in Bangalore is an event venue with a business hotel, ballroom, twelve indoor and outdoor event spaces, and four on-site restaurants. This attracts a regular flow of corporate events of all types and sizes, and our kitchen staff have their hands full running around trying to provide the high-end dining and catering services needed.

We have a dozen Bangalore event venues of different capacities, for corporate as well as family events, that bring hundreds of people to Evoma every day. In order to go off smoothly, each event has to be planned far ahead of time. Everything from the parking to security, catering and seating arrangements need to be carefully managed to optimize use…

In the previous post, we looked at how to conduct new employee induction programs. In this post, I want to take a step back and look at all the ways in which employers can prepare to make a round of interviews a big success. In addition to being a Bangalore event venue for conferences, meetings and training sessions, Evoma also…

With large global companies pouring billions of dollars into the Bangalore real estate market, the competition for filling up office space in business centers and tech parks has become fierce. How do you stand up to a $5 billion competitor who throws open the…

Evoma’s first hybrid model of a business hotel combined with office space in Bangalore dates back to 2004-5. We have now expanded to four business centers in key locations across the city, all designed and situated to cater to different kinds of businesses in varying stages of growth.

The business model we follow is located at the intersection of hospitality and real estate. Our products include everything from a luxury business hotel to serviced offices and shared office space, event venues for conferences and training, board rooms, meeting rooms, etc. Another thing we’re proud of is that Evoma is a home for our members – entrepreneurs,…

This is not yet another post about Facebook’s privacy woes, thanks to British data mining and consulting firm Cambridge Analytica’s lack of ethics and morality. I just want to take this opportunity to highlight the need for better data security, especially by business owners who have customer data on their phones, and might unknowingly be sharing it with these…

One of the hallmarks of a successful event is the seating arrangement, the view that participants have. If all your attendees have a clear view of the speaker, stage or spotlight area, they’ll be more likely to feel like they got to see and hear something worthwhile.   By the same token, the speakers on stage have to get a…

International Women’s Day is celebrated every year on March 8. It’s a global event with the UN setting an annual theme. There is no single organization or group that controls or manages the celebration or activities to be held. So what is it about? Let’s take…

The Evoma Business Center and Hotel offers everything you need as a business traveler. We have all the facilities that meetings, conferences and other MICE organizers and attendees need, including food and beverages. A great deal of planning goes into each event, on the part of the event organizers as well as our staff. The food is typically one of…

Business travel is particularly fruitful in terms of the ROI, and it’s a good way to combine business with leisure. Traveling for meetings, events and conferences is a refreshing break from business as usual, and you get to do a lot more business than you do at home. But it can take a toll on anyone, even the most…

The number of SMEs in India is now estimated to be at 42.50 million, and accounts for 16% of bank lending. This formal and other informal SME lending mechanisms are the most commonly availed SME financing types. However, there is a much better way to do it – SME exchanges…

The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, announced that India is one of the 10 most improved economies in the World Bank’s annual Doing Business Report. The Doing Business Report is an annual report that looks at 190 economies,…

Whether you’re just starting a business, running it, or managing business growth, you need an array of business software to automate and simplify your operations. The use of software also allows you to scale the business in a way that’s manageable.

Evoma being a venue provider for all kinds of corporate meetings, conferences, training sessions and events, we follow a strict protocol for hosting events exactly per the client’s needs. We work with MICE executives as well…

This guide on inside sales tools for SaaS founders, originally published on ProductNation, was written by Neel Padmanabhan, Global Client Partner, Enterprise Business and GM India, Lucep. We want to share with all you SaaS founders the valuable information and tools listed in this post, which takes you through the flow of the entire inside sales process. You’ll find tips…

I’m not going to talk about the environment or the urgency of tackling the crisis of climate change and global warming. Instead, let’s take a look at the cost benefits of going green. To get more information about how an SME can go green, the types of ratings, certification costs, and the benefits and ROI, we had a chat…

The biggest challenge for small businesses in India is not about finding the right talent, but retaining your most valuable employees. One way to keep trained and experienced SME staff from leaving is to offer perks such as employee health insurance that they might lose if they quit. This is…

India is already a member of the exclusive club of obese nations, with around 5% of its population affected with this malady. The IT and tech workforce takes a large and unhealthy slice of this 5%. Definitely, you don’t want to be one of them. In this post, I’m sharing with you a few things…

The way you run your business and the way you eat are deeply connected. Let’s face it, you startup founders lead a very busy life and easily fall prey to the “Everything or Nothing” syndrome in which you focus all your energy on one project and usually overlook fitness. To assist you in putting your…

“95% of everything you do is the result of habit. So the rule is to allow good habits to become your masters than let bad habits form.” – Aristotle. If you look at CEOs running successful companies, you will find that they all have figured out a few things in life and that they…

A startup is an all-consuming affair that will take over everything else in your life. You don’t have time for food, sleep, family and friends, and it’s all you can think of – all the time. One of the byproducts of this unhealthy lifestyle is that you either lose too much…

The startup workforce in Bangalore is the best in India, and arguably one of the best in the world. But they are notoriously lacking in the health department because of the nature of their work and the lack of set work hours. Today, I want to share with you a…

Why is this important? World wide, poor health of employees costs companies $576 billion a year, and the loss escalates as one moves up the ladder to high-stress sectors. Travel & Hospitality Sector: For a company with an employee base of 2,000, the…

  No one said founding and running a startup is easy. It is a very demanding job that comes with stress, anxiety, emptiness and other related issues associated with burning the candle at both ends. The subject of work-Life balance is a dicey one and one that needs to…

Allow me to start by sharing with you some statistics on the distribution of hours for different managerial activities. “A meeting is a gathering where people speak up, say nothing and then all disagree,” says Thomas Kayser, author of Mining Group Gold. This quote and the chart above clearly reveal how a meeting…

As a breed, startups tend to be cash-starved and desperate to find ways to cut corners, reduce costs and overheads, and make whatever little funding they have go further. If this is you, then we have here some fast and easy ways to eliminate startup office costs…

Startups have been the success story of the decade, especially in Bangalore where many founders are making it big. But for every startup success story, there are countless others who fail. These failed entrepreneurs are all still agonizing over the answer to that…

Every worker deserves a safe workplace, and it’s a good business practice to provide a healthy and safe working environment for your workers. It improves key metrics such as employee job satisfaction and retention, while reducing turnover rates and the attendant HR…

Not all issues can be resolved by firing off memos and emails. Complex problems and plans need a meeting or round of meetings to discuss an issue, present solutions, and agree on what needs to be done. But how successful was your meeting? Could it have been better? Shorter? Longer? No slides? More slides?

One of the good things about spending time in Evoma’s coworking space in Bangalore is that you get to meet and talk with coworkers who have personally used shared spaces in many cities. It’s amazing to watch them set up their stuff and get to work.

SMEs and startups in India are globally competitive and lead the way in implementing best practices in most areas. But business insurance is one area where penetration has been slow. Business owners and startup founders are still largely unaware of the types of business insurance policies and packages available for SMEs and startups in India.

One of the things we do to improve our coworking space in Bangalore is to get regular feedback from coworkers. It’s not a feedback form, but actual conversation with coworkers that tells us what they like, what irks them, and what would really help them grow their business. The one thing that keeps coming up repeatedly in these conversations…

How do startups select a good coworking space in Bangalore? Location matters, obviously. That’s why the Evoma Business Centres offering serviced offices for SMEs, startups and corporate branches in Bangalore are located strategically in Whitefield, EPIP Zone, Marathahalli – Outer Ring Road, and in K.R. Puram on Old Madras Road. But when it comes to coworking, there’s a lot…

In this article, I’m going to crunch some numbers and show you exactly how much money a Bangalore coworking hub can save for you in rent and costs. Selecting a prime location for business in Bangalore is one of the most important things you have to do when starting a new business,…

Coworking space is a boon and refreshing change for work from home professionals, freelancers and startups, but one bad apple can quickly spoil the whole barrel. In this case, what it means is that you need to follow certain clearly spelled out  rules and also some unwritten ones that you can label as etiquette. What we…

Every metro city in India wants to be the next Silicon Valley, but it’s only happening at the scale needed in Bangalore, which is the only Asian city apart from Singapore in the world’s top 20 startup ecosystems listed by San Francisco-based Compass in their most recent Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking. If you want factual…

At the Evoma coworking space in Bangalore, we go by our motto of “Why work when you can cowork.” But if you’re wondering why cowork, the answer is laid out clearly in the coworking trends and statistics infographic below.  

Evoma’s Bangalore business centres provide office space and business support facilities and services to hundreds of small businesses, startups and branch offices of large companies from all over India and abroad. One of the things we do is provide facilities for employee training sessions and team building exercises.

Evoma works with a lot of freelancers, startup founders and other solopreneurs who do their best work all by themselves. But we have also noticed a growing trend of freelancers who work from home now coming forward to rent coworking space.

Financial management and accounting are very sensitive areas of your business, and most new entrepreneurs and small business owners struggle to manage this aspect properly. Lack of knowledge and resources in this area is likely to lead to…

Importance of Public Relations and Media Relations in Today’s Business Organization In the business world, public relations and media relations are often used interchangeably as they appear to be confusingly similar. But these are different business processes. Public relations is the act of maintaining, fostering and improving relations between others and your business. On the other…

Steps for Setting Up a Payroll System Employee payroll system has come a long way from old punch card practice to a sophisticated software process. From capturing the clock in time of employees to the tax filing details, the new generation payroll systems has all the features that an organisation needs for…

7 Ways to Improve Your Hiring Process Hiring the right talent is crucial as it has a direct impact on the business. A bad hire can cost you dearly in many ways.  ‘Bad candidate is worse than no candidate’ is a familiar adage in the business fraternity. While it is common to make mistakes in hiring it is…

Types of Market Segmentation According to Harvard Business study in the US, 85% of 30,000 new product launches failed due to poor market segmentation. This study reveals the importance of market segmentation in present market situations. What is Market Segmentation? Market Segmentation is the process of dividing a complete homogeneous market into different segments…