Hurrah... we've joined the online revolution and started working completely remotely. Life begins!
After 6 years of staring at the same grey walls at an office in Hove, Brighton, we've finally unsheckled our ball and chain to the office and started working remotely.
We're now part of a growing number of businesses who have joined the new revolution of nomad workers, remote workers, home businesses, web 2.0 companies call it what you will I can't tell you how liberating these feels.
So, what's the big deal?
It's taken 8 months of toil and hard work but we've finally thrown away the key to our office. This doesn't mean we work any less professionally or with lack of direction, far from it. As a team we are now each able to chase our own dream of what the Internet really means to us as a individuals.
How does this effect our customers?
In this time we have produced a proven development process and website production tool (Content Management System) built on customer requirements, not personal ego. Working remotely has forced us to document everything like crazy in order that we can support a growing number of system users eager to maximise the return on investment.
Who would benefit from our help and advice?
We've helped clients at all stages of website development, having been a start up ourselves we 've worked with a huge amount of small and independant businesses in the early days. We've also helped large blue chip clients such as GB Airways (the then largest BA franchise, unfortunately now part of EasyJet) and Sussex County Cricket Club.
'Going remote' checklist
In order to begin considering going remote, we thought we'd put together a list of obstacles that we had to overcome to help you along the way*.
- Finances and Book keeping
- Data storage, back ups
- Business operating systems
- Email delivery and management
- Sharing of calendars and resource management
- Website hosting; data storage and bandwidth
- Telephone systems; switchboard, diverts and conferencing
* We'll be elaborating on these business decisions in later blogs
How do the costs compare to the savings?
In 8 months we have managed to slash our running costs by over 60%, where we are now in a position to pass on our cost savings to our customers by offering reduced rates, which has been vital for staying competitive yet retaining our high standards especially in the current state of the financial climate.
What are the key benefits of moving your business online?
Not only are we saving money, working totally online is forcing us to streamline our business building working processes around our product, CMS (Content Management System) official launch ceremony coming soon. Ultimately, every you see on our own site and those list on a CMS Gallery page was built using own onine product by us or by an increasing number third party specialist service providers.
OK so how do you go about moving your business online
We've been able to do it so easily because we're fortunate to have worked online for years and build the tools that our clients use. But now we're doing things differently, we're about to start sharing our top secrets and development tips with you.
Yeh OK great... what's the catch?
None. We're not going to hide the fact that all our development techniques requires the use of our CMS, but that's how we've managed to simplify the whole process and therefore key to your success.
This is too much to be true, I hear you say
Not at all. The Sign Up process is quick and simple, why not try our 30 FREE trial and we'll start sharing our expert advice and knowledge with you!
I look forward to speaking with you...
Kevin
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