Remote Working Part 3 – The ‘kit’ list
self management more….
Before I share with you my arsenal of my favourite online tools that are sure to assist you to work remotely, I want to alert you to one more issue about self discipline and especially to do with maintaining your focus and levels of concentration
I’ve uncovered and verified a consistent behavior in men and women who work on the web and I’ve been in contact with for quite a long time and I call this habit the 50 minute rule. I uncovered these contacts who apply themselves and work for fifty mins. and then make themselves take a complete 10 minute rest and are considerably more effective and produce a considerably higher quality of work than members of both sexes who don’t have similar working methods.
OK as promised here is my list of choice remote working tools:
Google Mail has a price tag of zero. For my money the search and label (similar to folders) mechanisms 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 continually perplexed me as the service quality and reliability was atrocious, but three cheers for the geeks at Skype now as they have really improved the quality of the service. For meagre amount of money a month ! am able to call and conference in any phone and Skype subscriber in the world. The current version of Skype has a wealth of superb features and there constantly expanding collection of practical add ons.
Organising Content
Evernote has reached more than a million users in no time at all – it enables you to store, organise and annotate any species of digital media in the Cloud. Just go check it out…it’s free.
Invoicing, Time and Expenses capture, Accounting and CRM
You surely know that my ambition to work remotely was originally motivated 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 kettle I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.
