Remote Working Part 3 – Essential tools
Self discipline more….
Before I show you my kit of the top web tools that will definitely help you to operate remotely, I need to write about one more issue about self discipline and especially to do with keeping your focus and powers of concentration
I’ve spotted and verified a common habit in members of both sexes who work online and I’ve known for a substantial period and I call this habit the 50 min rule. I discovered these acquaintances who apply themselves and work for fifty minutes and then kick back for a complete 10 minute break and are considerably more effective and produce a significantly better quality of work than contacts who don’t have such distinct working methods.
OK as promised I present you with my list of choice remote working web applications:
Google Mail doesn’t cost anything. In my experience the search and label (categories) functions have no equal. Googlemail can be a little slow on aging PC’s
Phone calls
Skype occasionally drove me to despair as the connection performance was atrocious, but three cheers for the engineers at Skype now as they have substantially changed the quality of the service. For just a few bucks a quarter ! am able to call and conference in any telephone and Skype user on Earth. The latest edition of Skype has a wealth of superb functions and there is an ever growing list of practical add on applications.
Organising Content
Evernote has connected in excess of a million users in no time at all – it enables 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 probably know that my calling 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 pencil I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.
