"The Home Office that Works" is a practical step-by-step guide to the process of setting up and working in a home office and managing your time, the distractions, and the people (and pets) in your life. The authors draw on their combined 40+ years of working at home. They offer a practical set of tips and strategies for maximizing at-home productivity. From setting up the physical office, to handling long-distance interaction and collaboration, office technology, navigating healthcare options and tax planning, to promotion and networking, "The Home Office that Works" is an indispensable guide to your work-at-home life. This 2015 edition includes new a section about selecting and managing telecommuters, and also many of the new cloud computing resources available that can streamline bookkeeping, document and file management, and collaboration. The 2016 edition is updated throughout, with all-new sections about telecommuting, cloud computing, and co-working spaces.
About the Author: Dr. Joe Webb has been a consultant, entrepreneur, and economics commentator. He started his career in the industrial imaging industry more than thirty years ago. He found his way into business research, planning, marketing and forecasting executive positions along the way, as well as consulting for firms ranging from large multinationals to small businesses. Dr. Webb started an Internet-based research business in 1995, selling it to a multinational publisher in 2000. Since that time, his consulting, speaking, and research projects have focused on the interaction of business-to-business economics and technology trends. He is a doctoral graduate in industrial and corporate education from New York University, holds an MBA in Management Information Systems from Iona College, with baccalaureate work in managerial sciences and marketing at Manhattan College. He has taught in graduate and undergraduate business programs and resides in North Carolina. Richard Romano has been a professional writer and editor since 1990. He began as an assistant editor in trade book publishing. In the 1990s, he began writing about emerging computer graphics and digital imaging technologies, reviewing some of the earliest digital cameras, scanners, and software. From 1996 to 2001, he was managing editor for Micro Publishing News and Digital Imaging magazines, writing news stories, features, profiles, and hardware and software reviews. He began collaborating with Dr. Webb in 2000, writing market research reports and officially launching his home office. The collaboration had led to two previous books-"Does a Plumber Need a Web Site?": Mad Dentists, Harried Haircutters, and Other Edgy Entrepreneurs Offer Promotion Strategies for Small and Mid-Size Businesses (2012) and This Point Forward (2014), the latter of which is also being translated into Japanese and Portuguese. Richard has also authored or co-authored a half dozen or so other books on graphics hardware and software. He graduated from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications in 1989 with a B.A. in English and Writing for Telecommunications. He also has a certificate in Multimedia Production from New York University (1994) and is nearly finished with a Masters program through the University at Buffalo. He lives in Saratoga Springs, New York.