Remote Working Part 3 – What should be in your tool box
self management more….
Before I give you my portfolio of great Internet tools that will definitely assist you to operate remotely, I need to discuss one more issue concerning self discipline and specifically to do with maintaining your focus and levels of concentration
I’ve discovered and established a consistent habit in colleagues who work online and I’ve been in contact with for quite a long time and I call this behavior the 50 min effect. I uncovered these members of both sexes who focus and work for fifty mins. and then pause for a whole 10 minute break and are a significant order of magnitude more effective and generate a significantly better quality of work than acquaintances who don’t have structured working practises.
OK as promised here is my list of choice remote working tools:
Electronic Mail
Google Mail has a price tag of zero. But in my opinion the search and label (similar to folders) features are most definitely the best I have so far discovered. The downside is it can be a bit slow on older machines
Phone calls
Skype used to drive me crazy as the call performance was appalling, but three cheers for the developers at Skype now as they have considerably refined the quality of the service. For meagre amount of money a month Skype lets me call and conference in any handset and Skype subscriber on Earth. The latest edition of Skype has an abundance of very practical features and there constantly expanding collection of practical add on applications.
Organising Content
Evernote has secured more than a million users in no time at all – it lets you to store, organise and annotate any species of digital content up on the Internet. Just go check it out…it’s free.
Invoicing, Time and Expenses capture, Accounting and CRM
You definitely know that my burning desire to work remotely was originally sparked off by Quickbooks Online, a small business accounting software system. 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 kettle I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.
