Comments on: Going Virtual: Can It Work for Your Business?

By: KC Truby

KC Truby — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 04:22:42 +0000

We have 65 people working for us all over the world. About half in the US where I hire retired CPA’s and Software Engineers and work at home bookkeepers. We use India and the Philippians for SEO and IT stuff. Best of all we found a service called Delegation Magic that took us paperless (we outsourced all documents to them at 15 cents a page) and they read, organize, assign tasks, create work flow on all documents and track all tasks time online. If we did not have the paperless solution we’d not be able to work from our beach house or Wyoming ranch. Of course we use a lot of on line collaboration tools as well like GoToMeeting so were in constant contact with my top 5 managers – but everything else is outsourced. If you want to check them out its http://www.delegationmagic.com. Oh and we outsourced our bookkeeping too. Found a great local USA guy at http://www.qbexpress.

By: Nisha

Nisha — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:46:51 +0000

Nice post! Working virtual by using different tools (Products) organize your work well. It helps you to be always at the top of your work. There is another tool which we use to collaborate with our team is DeskAway.

By: Nancy Berger

Nancy Berger — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:47:23 +0000

Going virtual has become a necessity as today most people will check out a company online before going to “brick and mortar”. Although my company, Kappix (http://www.kappix.com), has a physical location, it just seems that working virtually seems works best for my team.

Going virtual with marketing is a different ball game these days with big corporate players (you cited Honda for one) who can afford savvy marketers to outdo the small guys. Very few make break the viral marketing glass ceiling on their own (i.e. Blendtec).

By: Otto Hilska

Otto Hilska — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:16:12 +0000

Now that I’m based in San Francisco and the rest of the team is in Helsinki, we really need to focus on how we communicate online.

None of the tools you listed are really suitable for intense teamwork, because they’re not real-time. They might be ok if you’re trying to follow projects from distance, but you’re not directly involved with them.

We built http://www.flowdock.com/ to present all the required information in real time. We can actually use it as our only communication channel. Can you say the same about the alternatives listed in the article?