How to Run a Remote Business: Building & Scaling Effective Teams
Dive inside the minds and processes of CEOs, managers, nomads, and dynamic entrepreneurs who are building impactful businesses and organizations through this new and innovative movement.
Innovative business leaders, like Daniel Ramsey at MyOutDesk, have thrown out the traditional rules and business textbooks, and are actively finding new ways of organizing their teams, driving productivity, and scaling their growth.
Running Remote is a podcast about building and scaling effective, remote teams.
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Daniel Ramsey is the founder and CEO of MyOutDesk, a company with more than 13 years of experience helping CEOs and entrepreneurs around the world grow virtually. In this podcast, he discusses how a blended model can allow you to grow your business, save time, and lower operating costs through virtual solutions.
MyOutDesk has had over 6,000 virtual professionals working for CEOs and entrepreneurs to scale and grow their businesses.
REMOTE WORK INCREASES YOUR SAFETY
There’s a lot of concern out there about the Coronavirus right now. It’s not good for business, and it’s hurting the stock market — but it’s important to remember that this time will pass, and until it does, your job as a business owner is to keep moving forward.
If there’s one thing we’ve learned from COVID-19, it’s that there’s a powerful reason to go virtual in your business. At MyOutDesk, we’ve discussed many of the advantages of remotely for years now, and the increased safety of working from a home office without close physical proximity to others is one more reason to go virtual.
Facebook, Google, Apple and Microsoft are among many of the nation’s big-tech companies have embraced the virtual workplace for years — and right now, they’re asking their employees to work from home.
For smaller businesses, this may not be such as easy task, but by putting the framework in place for a virtual workplace, you’re setting the stage for increased safety and efficiency.
Working remotely is easier for some jobs than for others: if you’re actively selling as a real estate agent, some amount of face-time and physical presence at listings & open-houses will be required.
However, even for jobs like this, you can leverage tools like teleconferencing to reduce exposure & time in public — and since your clients will be just as nervous as you are, offering them a virtual solution could become a powerful selling point for your services.
Once you go virtual, the next question is your team: what are the tools they need to work remotely? We’ve written about VoIP telephony solutions in the past that let you virtualize your entire office, along with leadership strategies to keep your virtual team organized, productive, and inspired.
Maybe it’s also time to finally take the plunge and hire a virtual assistant. They work remotely all the time, and have the tools, training & experience in how to run an office virtually — and of course there’s a cost savings to consider compared to traditional staffing as well.
BEGIN WORKING REMOTELY TODAY
As a business owner, you have to think about the trigger points in your business so that you can make a quick and informed decision to adapt your systems and processes. Remote work is an effective preventative measure that will immediately decrease risks in community health and safety — as well as keeping businesses afloat.
We are offering you a free guide to set up your employees for remote work. For business owners who want to make the switch the right way and stay productive, this guide includes these easy steps to get started.
- Identify all considerations in a disaster scenario
- Prevent productivity loss
- Focus on eliminating potential financial impact
- Maintain high-quality customer service
- Perform your civic duty
