The couch manager is a blog about working remotely (otherwise known as teleworking or telecommuting).
If you work with a team that’s mostly virtual, then this blog is for you – it focuses on tips to help you manage your job or small business more effectively from your couch.
I launched it to share insights about everything from making calls and drafting emails, to conducting presentations and running meetings more efficiently.
In my posts, I try to focus on tips that have one or more of the following 2 objectives:
I’m also a big believer in using visuals, so I always try to use hand-sketched graphics instead of plain text to portray my ideas.
Most of the posts in this blog are drawn from my own experiences, and I live by Michelangelo’s “Ancora Imparo” rule, so I’d love to hear from you in the comments section if you have any thoughts or ideas that you’d like to share.
If you’d like to receive new posts from my blog, please subscribe through Email or RSS (subscribing will also help me know you’re out there)! Another way to receive updates is to “Like” my page on Facebook.
Quick Update: Since starting my blog, I have been featured 3 times on Freshly Pressed (I wrote about how I made it in a guest post on ProBlogger). If you’re new here, you might want to check out the posts that were selected:
- 8 Interpretations of Silence when using Instant Messaging
- 5 Annoying Replies That Don’t Require “Reply All”
- 14 Tips for Designing a Highly Productive Home Office (GTD Friendly)
This is great!
Thanks Susie!
I absolutely love the graphics
Thanks! Glad you liked them
Your graphics are great! Love the simplicity and specificity of your blog posts. Looking forward to reading more from you!
Thanks Gwenelle – looking forward to more of your comments!
I like it.
Very cool. So how do you draw the visuals and get them into the computer?
Thank you – very simple, just draw them out by hand on a piece of plain paper and scan them in!
I had no idea, now I can do that too
thanks for the tip
Yup, it’s really easier than it looks
You can also use a lot of graphic software that’s out there.
hello from a fellow CMU student. Really enjoying the blog, thanks.
Thanks! Glad to know you’re from CMU as well! (I love that university)
Some days I wish I had a job where I worked from home. I love my couch.
Great looking site. I love seeing effective communication, especially when humor is involved! Keep up the good work.
Great posts.. Looking forward for more!
Just subscribed.
Glad I discovered you on Freshly Pressed! I like your artwork and your insights etc. As a worker from home (not the couch unfortunately) this is very welcome.
Happy blogging!
This is a very nice blog!!! I saw you on Freshly Pressed and I love the way you write!!! It’s so easy, the pictures are very simple and interesting, and it is all good!!!
Well done!
Love this blog! The diagrams are wonderful.
Hey Hassan,
Terrific blog. Great ideas – short, sweet and to the point.
I’d love to mention your blog in one of my blog posts.
I’m a professional organiser in Australia, so ‘time management’ is part of what I do. I’d rather provide a link for my readers to your great ideas, rather than (waste time) re-inventing the wheel.
Cheers,
Angela
Thanks Angela – I appreciate your comment and glad you find the posts helpful enough to share with your readers!
Fantastic idea – glad I stumbled across this blog through WordPress’s front page
Hello, it’s so nice to meet you. I admire you are an “author” as I aspire to be. I found you on Freshly Pressed. I hope we can become friends, I also added you to my twitter. I hope to learn from you. Thanks, Jackie Paulson
nice. i like it.
I like the blog but I couldn’t find the archive. How do I see your past blogs or other posts then the few that is accommodated in your home page?
Thanks
Thanks for your interest! I just started blogging a couple of months ago, so the only posts I have so far are the ones on the home page (not enough to archive them yet)
Great blog! Working from home also and I’m sure my assistants (my dogs) & I will find your insight extremely useful thanks!
Great blog! Very useful. Thanks!
This is a really great blog! If you are looking for any freelance writers for you magazine, I’d be happy to oblige.
Love that I found this blog as I am now working from home. Hope to see more posts in the very near future!
Rich
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Excellent blog ….. saw it on Freshly Pressed. I am definitely adding it to my small business blogroll for my readers!
Hi, Hassan!
I love your posts! I will be keeping a lot of your tips in mind. I have modified my email signature already. Thank you for sharing.
I will be here every so often. Til next.
Hi Hassan! I cam eacross one of your guest posts elsewhere when I typed in ‘how do i get my post featured in the Freshly blogged in wordpress?’ in Google. New to the bloosphere I’m naturally keen to get meaningful traffic – not mere ‘LIKES’! I’ve read in so many places that you need to be posting more often but I’ve refrained myself from doing so as take time in writing and organising appropriate visuals. Needless to say I was getting a bit confused. Your post regarding – ‘content is king’ re-established my belief that quality is any-day better than quantity.
Though we blog in different fields I look forward to your next post as I think your articles are going to help everyone in general, some way or the other.
Thanks Ishita and good luck with your blog!