Remote Working Part 3 – Essential tools
Self discipline more….
Before I share with you my portfolio of really good online tools that will definitely help you to operate remotely, I need to write about one more item related to self management and specifically to do with keeping your focus and levels of concentration
I’ve observed and verified a consistent trait in men and women who work on the net and I’ve been in contact with for some time and I call this habit the fifty min effect. I spotted these men and women who concentrate and work for fifty minutes and then pause for a complete ten minute rest and are considerably more effective and produce a much higher quality of work than friends who don’t have well organised working practises.
OK as promised I present you with my list of preferred remote working web applications:
Google Mail won’t cost you a penny. For my money the search & label (similar to folders) features are second to none. Googlemail can be a little slow on aging PC’s
Phone calls
Skype occasionally drove me to despair as the service performance was down right horrible, but hats off for the software tech’s at Skype now as they have considerably refined the quality of the service. For few dollars a month Skype lets me call and conference in any phone and Skype user on the planet. The current edition of Skype has an abundance of really good features and there is an ever growing list of useful add on applications.
Organising Content
Evernote has reached more than a million users in a very short space of time – it lets you to store, organise and add notes to any species of digital content on the net. Just go check it out…it’s free.
Invoicing, Time and Expenses capture, Accounting and CRM
You probably know that my burning desire to work remotely was originally encouraged by Quickbooks Online, a small business accounting software web application. But it is no match for the free edition of salesorder.com – a lead to cash system that’s as easy to use as a pencil I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.
