Virtual Company - Go Limitless is my guide for beginner and mid-level consultants and entrepreneurs about joining a remote business or creating a distributed virtual company. Our team at DevriX.com consists of 17 virtual contractors and we're constantly leveraging the power of the best virtual employees while focusing only on quality and the actual work.

1. Virtual Company – Go
Limitless
Mario Peshev @no_fear_inc
WordPress Engineer DevWP.eu

2. Mario Peshev
• WordPress Architect @ DevriX
• Former Java/PHP/Python Developer
• WordPress Ambassador
at SiteGround
• @no_fear_inc
• Open Source addict and Cofficer

3. Virtual Company
• Distributed work force
• Online communication
• Everyone’s remote, no one’s left out
• Larger pool of experts
• Fast turnaround
• Cost and time saving

5. Main Problems
• Time management
• IT maintenance
• Child Care
• Other Peoples Agenda
• Time Zones
• Distractions

6. The typical telecommuter
• a 49-year-old college graduate
• man or woman
• earns about $58,000 a year
• belongs to a company with more than 100
employees
The New York Times

8. Efficiency and Health
• Average business day efficiency: 55-80%
• 90% are effective only 50% of the time
75% of the heart attacks happen
between 5am and 8am

11. Numbers
• Telecommuters in the US:

12. Cisco Systems
1.Saved $277 million in 1 year of
telecommuting
2.60% of the time saved by commuters were
invested back in work
3.80% of the employees are happier

13. What Tools Do You Use?

15. Different Virtual Options

16. Employee

18. Employee Commute

23. Consultant

24. Consultant
• Consultants, Freelancers, Project based
Contractors
• Working with multiple clients
• Flexible business hours
• Unleash your productivity with creativity

25. Tele-Consultant

30. Company Owner

32. Toni Schneider on “5 reasons why your
company should be distributed“:
• Your employees will love it
• You can hire great people wherever you find
them
• You will use better communication tools
• You can still be social
• Your offices will be more fun

34. • 21 Months In: How to Manage a Remote
Team
Wade Foster, Zapier:
1.Hire Doers
2.Hire people you can trust
3.Trust the people you hire
4.Hire people who can write
5.Hire people who are ok without a social
workplace

36. Micromanagement
• Don’t micromanage
• Don’t nag for instant response
• Communication is the very key!
• Motivated people could be more productive
from home
• Non-motivated would try to slack all the time

38. Summary
• Remote is out there
• Sky is the limit
• Options for employees, consultants and
business owners
• Different PM approach and priorities
• More effective, affordable, joyful and flexible

40. Remote and Flexibility

41. Questions?
Tweets as @no_fear_inc
Mario Peshev on LinkedIn
nofearinc on WordPress.org
GitHubering via mpeshev
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