The Ultimate Guide to Moving Your Company Remote

by Jeff Robbins

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, this book was in its final stages of drafting. Across the world, businesses and families were forced into working and schooling from home. Many scrambled in their attempt to manage life in a virtual way. Thankfully, my team was already settled and prepared, with years of remote working experience already under our belts. Our company, By Referral Only, after 24 years in business, had officially made the transition to full-time remote working in 2015.
Still, adjusting to business after COVID-19 wasn’t easy. Our company suffered a 10 percent drop in revenue because we could no longer hold the live events we’d scheduled for 2020, but this was a far cry from the losses that other companies experienced that year. Our team was fine––more than fine, actually. We did so well that we decided to refocus our efforts and teach our clients the skills and strategies we’d learned and implemented during our transition to remote working.
Since the start of the pandemic, we’ve helped thousands of real estate agents and lenders in the U.S. and Canada
find their way in the new remote-work environment. We assisted them as they learned how to use Zoom and other
technologies to stay in touch with their sphere of influence during an unprecedented time. Those who charged
forward and embraced the changes (versus hiding from them) had the best year ever!

106 pages, Paperback

Published October 4, 2022

About the author

Jeff Robbins is co-founder and CEO of Lullabot. He worked at O'Reilly & Associates as an illustrator and systems administrator as the world wide web came into being. He was involved in the early stages of the first commercial website, O'Reilly's Global Network Navigator, but left to start one of the first web design companies, Liquid Media, in 1993.

In 1994, Jeff's band Orbit signed to A&M Records. Over the next 6 years, the band recorded 3 albums for A&M, scored a modern rock top 10 hit, appeared on MTV and MuchMusic, and toured extensively throughout the U.S. and Canada playing many radio festivals and the Lollapalooza tour.

Jeff has developed web sites for Ringo Starr, Participant Productions, Adaptive Path, the Fearless Living Institute, and many others. He also runs a soundtrack music company called SomeMusic.

Jeff hosts Lullabot's weekly Drupal podcast, manages Lullabot's consulting, education events, and media products. Additionally, Jeff has contributed over 20 Drupal modules and themes.

Jeff believes that free open source software doesn't need to be ugly and difficult to use. Along with Matt Westgate, he began Lullabot as a way to improve these tools and make them more accessible to companies and individuals who are looking for a non-proprietary solution with social relevance. Open source development makes the world a better place.

Jeff lives in Seekonk, MA with his wife Jennifer, a graphic designer and author of O'Reilly's Web Design In A Nutshell, and their son Arlo. Follow Jeff on Twitter.