Taking advantage of Aleyda's lack of a travel schedule, her past two years starting and working on Remoters.net and her life as remoter/work from home type the past 7+ years we thought she was the perfect guest to dig into this topic.
She also just posted a Work from Home Worker Checklist (link below) for those working remotely from home for the first time that newbies to this way of working (Matt & Dave both have been remote/WFH for many years now too).
Remote Work Resources
13 Ways Businesses Can Use SEO & Marketing to Combat Coronavirus ImpactRemote Living & Working Tool List (time tracking, chat, video chat, meeting software, etc.)Remote Water Cooler on Discord (Organized by Aleyda)Remoters.net (jobs, tools, interviews, etc.)Work from Home Worker ChecklistDave Rohrer's interview on Remoters.netList of Free Software & Services during Coronavirus OutbreakCoywolf - Online Community Digital Marketer's OrganizationLook for online happy and social hours on Twitter and Facebook happening during quarantine.Meeting Cost CalculatorSneek.ioPukkateamSnag-it - Aleyda recommends and Dave uses this dailyScreencast-o-maticZoom (conference call)Time Management Technique
Aleyda's First Time Remoting Tips
Have a routine. Have discipline and use that and the routine so you start the day and end the day. Have a specific space for work. Have a room if possible or a corner that you work at and can walk away from at the end of the day. The goal is to have a separation of "work space" and "living space". For those that live with significant others or children this will also signal to them that "you are at work".Set a schedule. Again this leaving the "work space" will create a separation from working at home and living at home.Upgrade your equipment for not comfort (table, chair, monitor, video, etc.) but a quality mic and headphones. If possible noise canceling headphones will help you focus if you life and work with others. Having a schedule will help others know when to reach out to you or when you will be looking at email/Skype/Slack/etc. Also have internal rules for when the team should have conference calls, video calls, slack chat hours, etc.
Full Transcript
*as always this is not an exact and correct transcript as it is done by AI but it is VERY close for those that want to read instead of listen*
Matt Siltala: [00:00:00]
Hey guys, excited to have you join us on another one of these business of
digital podcast. And today, Dave, uh, I am really excited you're that right,
Dave? Yes. So we have a special guest. I'm Alita solace, and I'm, I just with,
with what's going on in the world right now, and.
And, uh, so many people working from home. I am so excited
that to have this conversation and talk about, you know, the remote work life
and whatnot. But, uh, before we really jumped into it, I just want to give a,
um, a Lita shout out and say, thanks for joining us, my friend. It's good to
have you on
Aleyda Solis: [00:00:44]
the air.
Thank you very much for the invite is, uh, super excited to
be talking with you and Dave about something that is actually not a CEO. So
this is, there was nice, this difference. I, I love it. Thank God.
Matt Siltala: [00:00:59]
But before [00:01:00] we really jumped into, I mean, if you want to give her
the, our listeners a little bit of a. A brief, uh, background, uh, to who you
are, some that may not know you or are new or whatever.
Just give a little bit of an introduction and what, what you
want people to know about yourself and then we'll jump into it.
Aleyda Solis: [00:01:15]
Yes, sure thing. Well, I am actually an SEO consultant. I have a boutique SEO
solvency that is called, um. Alrighty. We work with clients from all over the
world. It is me and three more people who are also SEO consultants and we are
spread out.
So we are remoting general. Right? And this is the thing.
Until now, what I usually tend to do is that, uh, I work. From home when I