Remote Working Part 3 – Top tools and tricks
Self discipline more….
Before I share with you my collection of the top net tools that will definitely assist you to operate remotely, I should discuss one more issue related to self discipline and specifically to do with keeping your focus and levels of concentration
I’ve spotted and established a common habit in members of both sexes who work on the net and I’ve been in contact with for quite a long time and I call this habit the fifty minute rule. I spotted these men and women who concentrate and work for 50 mins. and then kick back for a whole ten mins. break and are considerably more efficient and produce a much higher quality of work than men and women who don’t have structured working methods.
OK as promised for your consideration is my list of favourite remote working tools:
Electronic Mail
Google Mail doesn’t cost anything. My friends and I all agree the search and label (a bit like folders) functions are second to none. 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 performance was down right horrible, but a big pat on the back for the coders at Skype now as they have really improved the quality of the service. For meagre amount of money a month ! can call and conference in any handset and Skype user on the planet. The current edition of Skype has a collection of very useful features and there constantly expanding collection of useful add on applications.
Organising Content
Evernote has acquired over a million users in no time at all – it lets you to store, organise and add notes to any type of digital content up on the Internet. Just go check it out…it’s free.
Invoicing, Time and Expenses capture, Accounting and CRM
You surely know that my desire to work remotely was originally motivated 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.
