Did you know Leeds is the largest centre for financial and business services outside London? Did you also know that more than 300 recruitment agencies now operate in Leeds? Or perhaps you weren’t aware that Leeds City Region has a workforce of 1.9 million and a business base of over 106,000 companies, collectively generating five percent of England’s total economic output?

Our point? Leeds is a thriving business community, the commercial hub of the North, a truly inspiring entrepreneurial city.

Playing such a vital role in the UK’s commercial and economic landscape, the savviest of businesses are keen to be associated with the pulsating city of Leeds. It’s the businesses that are void of such an admirable association that run the risk of being commercially left behind.

In short, a business in West Yorkshire without a Leeds business address, could be being unnecessarily held back.

We say ‘unnecessarily’ because almost every business can benefit from a credible business address, such as a Leeds’ postcode, thanks to the unique opportunities virtual offices create.

Whilst Leeds’ business community might be flying, those entrepreneurs, small business owners, freelancers and SMEs without a professional address could be seriously missing out.

An SEO no-no

You might not think a physical address would affect Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), after all what’s great about the internet is that it creates a globalised, boundary-free world, right?

Not exactly!

As Work Webb Net notes, search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing actually use the address a business has on their website to provide their results to people that make search queries to find a service or product.

“When your website is void of a physical address, you don’t have much chance of being found online for your services. Basically it’s a big SEO no-no,” writes Work Webb Net.

Consequently, a business working remotely from a home office in a secluded village in the Yorkshire Dales could be seriously missing out if they don’t have a lucrative business address present on their website.

Professionalism

Having a business address in a city like Leeds creates a professional impression for comapnies of any shape, size or form. By contrast, a business with a home address, a P.O. Box, or no address at all, crafts a significantly less professional impression and could even be viewed as being an organisation that is dodgy, unreliable and unprofessional.   

You’re hosting a meeting in the dynamic city of Leeds, good choice! You’ve booked a meeting room venue, you’ve informed delegates of the date, time and location and you’ve even had the attendance replies back. You’re ready to go, right? Not quite.

Whilst more and more employers are beginning to recognise the multitude of benefits that go hand in hand with flexible office space and flexible working arrangements, there is always going to be a few flexible working sceptics.

So your meeting room in Leeds didn’t cost as much as you’d anticipated. Perhaps the catering wasn’t as expensive as you’d imagined, or maybe the meeting room venue was cheaper, or perhaps the IT back-up team you’d budgeted for was included in the overall cost of hiring the meeting room in Leeds? Whatever the reason, the meeting is over and you’re ‘quids in’. So what do you spend the money on?

The vibrant, exciting and business-orientated city of Leeds might be abundant with meeting rooms and office space to rent but will such corporate spaces cater for your specific needs and requirements?

With a population of more than five million – similar to the whole of Denmark or Scotland – it stands to reason the city of Leeds attracts so many businesses to its trendy, cosmopolitan streets. Naturally, being such a business-orientated city, Leeds caters for organisations of all shapes, sizes and industries.