The Virtual Office Survival Handbook

The Virtual Office Survival Handbook: What Telecommuters and Entrepreneurs Need to Succeed in Today’s Nontraditional Workplace. Alice Bredin, who writes the syndicated newspaper column “Working at Home,” offers a step-by-step guide to setting up a home office or a virtual office. With an estimated 40% of all U.S. employees expected to work in nontraditional offices […]

The Home Office From Hell Cure

The Home Office From Hell Cure: Transform Your Underperforming, Time-Sucking Homebased Business Into a Runaway Success. Transform Your Under-performing, Time-Sucking Home-based Business Into a Runaway Success. Is your home-based business suffering from the business-killing disease of stagnation? Have you found that while you dedicate yourself 24/7 to moving your business forward, you just stay right […]

Internet-hosted Online Office

From the website: "Share diaries, contacts, emails, tasks and files with your colleagues… work from different locations… "MyOffice is a subscription based internet-hosted ‘virtual office’ designed for small to medium-sized businesses. "It combines shared diaries / calendars, contacts, tasks, email, file store, reminders and notes into an integrated suite of online collaboration tools to help […]

The Home Office From Hell Cure

The Home Office From Hell Cure: Transform Your Underperforming, Time-Sucking Homebased Business Into a Runaway Success. Is your homebased business suffering from the business-killing disease of stagnation? Have you found that while you dedicate yourself 24/7 to moving your business forward, you just stay right where you are-or worse, you’re beginning to fall behind? Successful […]

The Virtual Office Survival Handbook

The Virtual Office Survival Handbook: What Telecommuters and Entrepreneurs Need to Succeed in Today’s Nontraditional Workplace. Bredin, who writes the syndicated newspaper column “Working at Home”, offers a step-by-step guide to setting up a home office or a virtual office.

Selecting Your Office Space (part 1)

If you sell online you likely work from home. Whether it’s part time or full time you will want a space to work in. If it’s only a desk for your computer you still need somewhere to put the desk. It’s always best to have a separate room for your office so you can reduce […]

Selecting Your Office Space (part 2)

Once you understand the type of work you will be doing and the kind of space needed to support that work you can start looking around your house or apartment to see what you have that will be suitable.

Selecting Your Office Space (part 4)

Having the right office equipment is importnat for an effective home office. Equipment dedicated to your business needs is important, especially if others in the family need computer time or to use other equipment for school or work projects. You may not find that sharing is a good idea if you have an important project […]

Surge Protection For Your Office Equipment

In many areas the electrical service is not consistent and almost all areas suffer from spikes and surges. Protecting your equipment from power surges and spikes is essential to getting long life from your investment.

Selecting Your Office Space (part 3)

Every home based office is going to require storage space. Filing cabinets and shelves are obvious choices. A work table can be created easily and cheaply by putting a door across the top of two equal-height dressers or filing cabinets thus providing both work space and storage in the same unit. I have a very […]