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		<title>Moving to a Home Office</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next Wednesday, my long time business partner, Wes Straub, and I are moving out of the office we have had on 17th Ave in Calgary, AB. We&#8217;ve been at that location for almost four years and during that time we&#8217;ve done some great work but have also made some business mistakes. We&#8217;ve tried going beyond [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Next Wednesday, my long time business partner, Wes Straub, and I are moving out of the office we have had on 17th Ave in Calgary, AB. We&#8217;ve been at that location for almost four years and during that time we&#8217;ve done some great work but have also made some business mistakes. We&#8217;ve tried going beyond our usual service offerings to try and start web hosting, we had a partnership that didn&#8217;t work out, and built relationships with people that were frustrating in the end. We didn&#8217;t go into business because it was easy, but because we like the challenge. After four years of having an office we&#8217;ve realized: we don&#8217;t need an office.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what it comes down to: we pay $2500 or so a month for a space to work. We meet with clients at the coffee shop or at their offices. We aren&#8217;t going to hire anybody else &#8212; we&#8217;ve found its much better to work with people on a contract basis. So&#8230; $2500 a month for a space to sit down in front of a computer and work. I can do that at home for no money. So next Wednesday we move out of the office and move into our home offices. We&#8217;ve made an arrangement with a company that provides virtual office services &#8211; phone answering, mail and fax services, and has a boardroom we can use when we need it. We didn&#8217;t even have those services at our one room office on 17th ave.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m going to write a few more posts about how I&#8217;m surviving working in my home office, and how it works with a newborn, if all goes well in a month or so. Good bye, office!</p>
<p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3552/3467788574_d94788a04f.jpg" alt="Good bye, office!" /></p>
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