Remote Working Part 3 – The ‘kit’ list
self management more….
Before I give you my portfolio of the best net tools that almost certainly help you to operate remotely, I must alert you to one more pearl of wisdom related to self discipline and specifically to do with keeping your focus and powers of concentration
I’ve uncovered and verified a common habit in contacts who work online and I’ve known for some time and I call this behavior the fifty minute rule. I uncovered these people who focus and work for fifty minutes and then take a whole ten minute rest and are considerably more efficient and produce a significantly better quality of work than members of both sexes who don’t have similar working practises.
OK as promised here is my list of preferred remote working tools:
Electronic Mail
Google Mail doesn’t cost anything. But in my opinion the search and label (categories) 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 used to drive me crazy as the call performance was unacceptable, but hats off for the software tech’s at Skype now as they have considerably refined the quality of the service. For few dollars a month ! can call and conference in any handset and Skype subscriber in the world. The current version of Skype has a ton of really good functions and there constantly expanding collection of useful add on applications.
Organising Content
Evernote has secured over a million users in a very short space of time – it lets you to store, organise and add notes to any type of digital content on the web. Just go check it out…it’s free.
Invoicing, Time and Expenses capture, Accounting and CRM
You surely know that my ambition to work remotely was originally sparked off by Quickbooks Online, a small business accounting software system. But it is easily beaten hands down 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.
