Remote Working Part 3 – What should be in your tool box
Self discipline more….
Before I share with you my kit of the top web tools that will definitely assist you to work remotely, I should discuss one more issue connected with self discipline and especially to do with maintaining your focus and levels of concentration
I’ve spotted and confirmed a consistent behavior in friends who work on the net and I’ve known for some time and I call this habit the 50 min effect. I uncovered these individuals who concentrate and work for 50 minutes and then take a whole 10 minute break and are considerably more efficient and generate a considerably higher quality of work than friends who don’t have set working practises.
OK as promised for your consideration is my list of preferred remote working software:
Google Mail costs nothing. But in my opinion the search & label (a bit like folders) functions are second to none. The only disadvantage so far is that I have seen it run quite slowly on lower spec.computers
Phone calls
Skype used to drive me crazy as the call stability was appalling, but all credit to the software tech’s at Skype now as they have really improved the quality of the service. For meagre amount of money a month they enable me to call and conference in any telephone and Skype subscriber on Earth. The latest edition of Skype has a collection of very useful functions and there are now plenty of of useful add ons.
Organising Content
Evernote has acquired over a million users in no time at all – it lets you to store, organise and add notes to 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 definitely know that my calling to work remotely was originally inspired 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 hairbrush I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.
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