Remote Working Part 3 – Essential tools
BySelf discipline more….
Before I give you my collection of the best online tools that I promise will help you to operate remotely, I need to alert you to one more pearl of wisdom connected with self discipline and especially to do with maintaining your focus and powers of concentration
I’ve identified and verified a consistent habit in men and women who work on the Internet and I’ve known for quite a long time and I call this trait the fifty min rule. I identified these people who concentrate and work for 50 mins. and then pause for a whole 10 minute break and are a significant order of magnitude more productive and generate a much higher quality of work than friends who don’t have similar working methods.
OK as promised for your consideration is my list of favourite remote working web applications:
Electronic Mail
Google Mail is free. But in my opinion the search & label (a bit like folders) features are most definitely the best I have so far discovered. So far the only gripe I have is that it runs a bit slow on not so new PC’s
Phone calls
Skype occasionally drove me to despair as the service quality and reliability was appalling, but hats off for the designers at Skype now as they have really improved the quality of the service. For few dollars a month they enable me to call and conference in any phone and Skype subscriber on the planet. The latest edition of Skype has a mass of very practical functions and there is an ever growing list of practical add on applications.
Organising Content
Evernote has reached over a million users in a very short space of time – it enables you to store, organise and annotate any type of digital media 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 desire to work remotely was originally inspired by Quickbooks Online, a small business accounting software system. But it simply doesn’t even come close to the free edition of salesorder.com – a lead to cash system that’s as easy to use as a hairbrush I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.
