The Successful Virtual Office In 30 Minutes: Best practices, tools, and setup tips for your home office, coworking space, or mobile office

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Are you thinking about going virtual for your job or business, but don’t know where to start? Or do want to get better results from an existing home office, coworking space, coffee shop, or other alternative work arrangement? The Successful Virtual Office In 30 Minutes by award-winning author Melanie Pinola can help telecommuters, consultants, freelancers, small business owners, remote workers, and independent professionals set up and maintain a successful virtual office. From practical setup tips to advice for managing virtual teams, this guide covers it all! Topics include:

• Home office requirements, from insurance to Internet
• Four elements of a productive home office
• Matching your main office and mobile office
• Ergonomics (or how to keep your office from killing you)
• Coffee shops, coworking spaces, and alternative office arrangements
• How to tame alerts, interruptions, and procrastination
• Optimizing your daily routine
• Building a workplace culture with a virtual team
• Working across time zones
• Dealing with communication challenges and resentment
• Melanie’s Top Tech Tools for connectivity, project management, security, and more

Virtual workers include everyone from freelancers and startup businesses to employees of major corporations, across nearly all industries and a wide variety of occupations. If most of your work takes place in front of a computer screen, chances are you can get the job done from practically anywhere, whether you’re on a beach in Bali, working out of a home office, or setting up shop in a downtown coworking space. According to one estimate published in the Journal of Labor Research, 65 percent of all jobs are amendable to at least part-time telework. Forrester Research predicts more than 40 percent of American workers will be working in virtual offices by 2016. Will you be one of them? The Successful Virtual Office In 30 Minutes can help you make an effective transition. Melanie Pinola is the author of LinkedIn In 30 Minutes, a top-selling guide to LinkedIn. She also writes for Lifehacker, and is About.com’s Mobile Office Expert. The Successful Virtual Office In 30 Minutes is her second book.