I love working from home. It allows me to shut out distractions whenever I choose, I can take entire day-long breaks or work late into the night yet at my pace. All the creature comforts of home. And since the advent of the digital world, I can remain connected, thanks to such slick solutions as Skype – which I use from home mostly as a phone system to speak with my east coast assistant or my SoCal intern. And since most of my clients and I communicate through BaseCamp, friends and family with FaceBook, and peers with Twitter, well, it’s pretty much a great thing.
Yet for all the great benefits of working from home, there are times when I just need to be connected in a more tangible way. That’s one of the reasons I so appreciate that my single biggest client is a company in Sausalito called WebSight Design. I manage the SEO team in a part-time outside consultant basis, and provide SEO consulting to their development and design teams as well. As a result, I get to oversee the SEO initiatives for a pelthora of clients all through one path. And though I do some of this work from home, I do drive down to Sausalito a couple times a week.
Not because I have to – given all the remote productivity tools we use. Instead, I have the ability to be face to face with some of the best people in the web solutions business. And then there’s the fact that I have my own office with such a killer view…
