Remote Working Part 3 – What should be in your tool box
self management more….
Before I share with you my list of the best net tools that are sure to help you to operate remotely, I need to write about one more pearl of wisdom related to self discipline and specifically to do with maintaining your focus and levels of concentration
I’ve discovered and verified a consistent habit in members of both sexes who work on the net and I’ve been in contact with for some time and I call this habit the 50 minute effect. I identified these acquaintances who focus and work for fifty minutes and then always take a whole ten mins. rest and are considerably more effective and generate a substantially greater quality of work than men and women who don’t have set working practises.
OK as promised I present you with my list of choice remote working tools:
Google Mail is free. But in my opinion the search and label (a bit like folders) features are second to none. So far the only gripe I have is that it runs a bit slow on not so new PC’s
Phone calls
Skype used to drive me crazy as the service performance was appalling, but hats off for the developers at Skype now as they have considerably refined the quality of the service. For meagre amount of money a quarter Skype lets me call and conference in any phone and Skype user on Earth. The current version of Skype has a collection of excellent functions 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 enables you to store, organise and annotate any species of digital content in the Cloud. Just go check it out…it’s free.
Invoicing, Time and Expenses capture, Accounting and CRM
You definitely know that my urge to work remotely was originally inspired 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 kettle I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.
