Case Study How S.J. Pockmire Uses Splashtop to Work from Home and Stay Productive About the Moore County Historical Association

Case Study How S.J. Pockmire Uses Splashtop to Work from Home and Stay Productive About The Moore County Historical Association

The Moore County Historical Association is a non-profit dedicated to collecting, preserving, and sharing the historical legacy of Moore County, North Carolina. The organization is funded by membership, donations, sales of merchandise, and proceeds from fundraisers.

Summary S.J. Pockmire, a volunteer with the Moore County Historical Association and About Vintage Soapworks Vintage Soapworks, can work from the comfort of her own home thanks to Splashtop Business Access - a remote access software solution that significantly reduces the amount of time she needs to travel for work. Challenge - The Desire to Work from Home A subsidiary of The Moore After retiring, S.J. Pockmire became a volunteer at the Moore Country Historical Country Historical Association, Association. With a college degree in marketing and graphic design along with Vintage Soapworks was created some computer programming skills, she wanted to use her abilities to help the in 2008 as a way to provide Association in all areas. a source of income to the Association. The Association The Association is headquartered at the Shaw House, a historic property that is custom designs the soap labels owned and maintained by the Association. and applies them to each bar “I prefer to work from my home since the historic structure is about 200 years old of soap in-house. Vintage and not quite as comfy as my home office,” Pockmire said. Soapworks now sells 43,000 bars annually. She had tried multiple remote access products before, but they weren’t up to her standard.

“I had been using TeamViewer and Google [Chrome Remote Desktop] until I started having some problems with their software,” said Pockmire. “Then I discovered Splashtop.” Splashtop, Inc. www.splashtop.com 1 Splashtop Business Access How Splashtop Made Telecommuting Easy

Pockmire was thrilled to get started with Splashtop.

“I researched all software on the market and Splashtop was the easiest to install and begin to use immediately,” said Pockmire. “It is terrific and very Mac friendly.”

With Splashtop, she is now able to fulfill most of her duties with the Moore County Historical Association and Vintage Soapworks, all from the comfort of her own home.

• Access Windows, Mac, and As a volunteer with the Association, she often receives requests from people Linux computers from any other wanting to view historical documents or photos. The historical documents and Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, or photos are saved to a computer located at the Association. Instead of traveling Chromebook device. to the Association to fulfill each request, she does it from her home thanks to Splashtop’s file transfer feature. • Remote control your computers with ease over fast connections “I’m able to easily obtain the paperwork from the Association’s computer [via with HD quality and sound. file transfer] and then email it from home to those who requested information,” Pockmire said. • Get the top features you need to stay productive, including drag- Then there’s Vintage Soapworks, a subsidiary of The Moore County Historical and-drop file transfer, remote Association that provides a vast amount of funding to the Association through print, remote wake, remote 43,000 bars of soap sold annually. Pockmire designs the soap labels herself and reboot, chat, and more. uses a high-quality printer located at the Association to print them.

• Save up to 80% or more when Thanks to Splashtop, she does most of this work at home. you choose Splashtop over other “The true lifesaver was the development of a whimsical soap business that more expensive remote access allowed me to design labels from home at any time and then easily transfer them products. to the computer at the Association using Splashtop. Then we print them in high resolution on the printer,” said Pockmire. “Where ten years ago I had to sit in a 200 year old dusty room to do the job, I can now do it in the comfort of my home and only go to the Association for a half hour or less a day to cut the soap labels “I had been using for production. TeamViewer and Google “None, and I mean none of this would be possible if I had to work at the historic [Chrome Remote property. Rather, I can do it whenever the orders come in through my home computer and format and print them at the Association any time of the day or Desktop] until I started night using Splashtop.” having some problems Splashtop Business Access has enabled her to keep up with demand coming with their software. Then from the Association and Vintage Soapworks while still working from home. I discovered Splashtop. Thanks to the hard work of Pockmire and other volunteers, the Association has benefitted greatly in recent years. It is terrific and very Mac friendly. Thank you for a “We (the Moore County Historical Association) are still looking for growth but best of all, not only can we maintain our properties, but we have obtained extra funds great product.” to restore a building into a children’s agriculture museum,” said Pockmire.

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