Remote Working Part 3 – My list of essentials
self management more….
Before I give you my collection of the top web tools that almost certainly help you to operate remotely, I wanted to discuss one more issue about self discipline and specifically to do with maintaining your focus and levels of concentration
I’ve uncovered and confirmed a consistent habit in acquaintances who work on the net and I’ve been in contact with for a substantial period and I call this habit the fifty min rule. I discovered these men and women who concentrate and work for 50 minutes and then pause for a complete ten mins. rest and are much more effective and generate a substantially greater quality of work than colleagues who don’t have similar working methods.
OK as promised for your consideration is my list of choice remote working software:
Google Mail doesn’t cost anything. In my experience the search & label (categories) functions are superior to anything I have previously seen. The only disadvantage so far is that I have seen it run quite slowly on lower spec.computers
Phone calls
Skype used to drive me crazy as the call quality and reliability was atrocious, but hats off for the geeks at Skype now as they have really improved the quality of the service. For just a few bucks a quarter ! am able to call and conference in any handset and Skype user on the planet. The latest edition of Skype has a collection of very useful features and there are now plenty of of valuable add on applications.
Organising Content
Evernote has connected more than a million users in no time at all – it enables you to store, organise and annotate any type of digital media 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 easily beaten hands down by 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.
