Jeff Zbar on Creating the Ideal Home Based Business

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Jeff Joins us from Fort Lauderdale, FL to share his insights on how companies and organizations can create effective teleworking and alternative officing programs. Here are some of the questions guiding our segment:

How did you get interested in the world of home office, teleworking and the like-wha’s your connection to all of this?

Give us a sense of the history of teleworking and telecommuting for companies and organizations-this is more than a trend-but a pretty well evolved alternative approach to productivity, right?

What are some of the key factors driving his movement-the desire for employees and workforce members to work at home rather than coming to an office?

What do you find that most companies or organizations misunderstand about teleworking and alternative officing and how it can serve them and their employees?

There’s a cliché that some people are wired to work at home and some are not. When is it NOT a good idea to set up an office at home?

For solo-prenuers, there are many executive offices across the country that furnish some of the common needs-receptionist, coffee, conference rooms, data connectivity and so forth. What has been your experience with entrepreneurs that choose this route?

OK, so I decide to set up a workspace at home-where do I start in terms of the physical set and flows, setting up communications and data, creating a professional environment for myself to be as productive as possible?

This is about integrating vocation and life in a new way. But, how do you suggest home based business entrepreneurs or employees manage the balance between the “family-chaos factor” and the work at hand?

There are some the tax implications of setting up a home-office. What are the key line items to be aware of?

Jeff’s Books include:

• Teleworking & Telecommuting: Strategies for Remote Workers & Their Managers (Made E-Z Products, Inc., 2002);
• Safe @ Home: Seven Keys to Home Office Security (FirstPublish),
• Home Office Success Stories (Goin’ SOHO!, 1997),
• Home Office Know-How (Upstart, 1998), and Your Profitable Home Business Made E-Z (on CD-ROM, from Made E-Z Products, Inc., 2000).

FILED IN: Entrepreneurship, New Thinking, Operations, Productivity