Remote offices are a great way to save money. Having people work from home means you don’t need to rent an office and pay bills. Instead of investing in IT infrastructure you can use good remote systems for emailing and calendars. Google Apps is a great system for this: they provide calendars, document sharing and, of course, email. Google is obviously the biggest name in the business so your employees should know how to use it, and you can count on the system to be reliable. Skype is another good application that will help you run a remote office. Free calls between Skype accounts mean you can talk face to face with your co-workers without having to be in the same location. All of this relies upon your employees having access to the internet at home, but that obstacle aside, there is nothing to stop you from saving a great deal of money with a remote office.

Using conference call providers for your office can help limit costs as well. Travelling to meetings can be very expensive when you combine transport costs with working time lost on the road. Conference calls are also useful if you are running a remote office. They’ll allow you to get your entire office on the line for weekly meetings without having to book a meeting venue.

Finally, look for ways to limit paper use. Printers cost a great deal of money to buy, run and maintain. There is also much less need for paper copies these days as almost everything can be sent by email or, for larger items, file transfer services like youSENDit. These methods are free and incredibly quick. So when setting up your office, try to make it as paperless as possible, this will help you save a great deal of money and increase the speed of your business.

So there are three ways to help you set up a cost effective office. By running an efficient office you give your new business the best possible chance to succeed.

If your organization / office blocked your favorite website, dont worry, we have a solution.

If you have your own website / server and ssh access to it, you can browse any website through that. All what you need is putty.exe (in windows).

See below the steps for that:

You need putty for this purpose. Download putty.exe from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

(Read my previous post on putty here )

1) Open putty.exe

2) Enter your server’s ip address and ssh port. (Default is 22 )

3) In the Category tree (left), expand Connection , expans SSH and select Tunnels

4) Enter any source port (eg: 8888 or 7777 – avoid port less than 1000)

5) Select the dynamic radio button

6) Press Ok and login into your server via ssh.

Now your ssh with tunnel is ready.

Goto your browser .

If you are using moziila, take tools (from menu) > Options.

Advanced > Network options > Settings.

Select Manual Proxy settings.

Leave all the places blank . Enter Socks Host as 127.0.0.1 and port as we set earlier in putty’s tunnel settings (say 8888)

Press OK and browse. You are now browsing via your own server. Thus you bypassed your local system or LAN network. Thus you can access any websites which are blocked from your organization.

If you are using IE, follow the same instructions for proxy settings.

Now enjoy browsing with your favorite sites. cool na !!!

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