Remote Working Part 3 – What should be in your tool box
self management more….
Before I share with you my collection of the best net tools that almost certainly assist you to work remotely, I must alert you to one more issue concerningself management and especially to do with maintaining your focus and powers of concentration
I’ve spotted and confirmed a common trait in individuals who work on the Internet and I’ve been in contact with for a substantial period and I call this trait the fifty min rule. I identified these friends who focus and work for fifty mins. and then make themselves take a complete 10 minute rest and are considerably more productive and generate a significantly better quality of work than individuals who don’t have similar working practises.
OK as promised I present you with my list of favourite remote working online services:
Electronic Mail
Google Mail costs nothing. My friends and I all agree the search & label (a bit like folders) features 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 occasionally drove me to despair as the call quality and reliability was down right horrible, but all credit to the software tech’s at Skype now as they have substantially changed the quality of the service. For meagre amount of money a month ! am able to call and conference in any handset and Skype subscriber in the world. The latest version of Skype has a wealth of excellent features and there constantly expanding collection of valuable add on applications.
Organising Content
Evernote has reached over a million users in no time at all – it enables you to store, organise and add notes to any type of digital content on the net. 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 encouraged by Quickbooks Online, a small business accounting software system. But it is shadowed by the free edition of salesorder.com – a lead to cash system that’s as easy to use as a fork I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.
