Remote Working Part 3 – The ‘kit’ list
Self discipline more….
Before I present to you my kit of the top web tools that are sure to help you to work remotely, I need to alert you to one more point connected with self management and especially to do with maintaining your focus and powers of concentration
I’ve spotted and established a common behavior in people who work on the Internet and I’ve known for quite a long time and I call this trait the 50 minute effect. I spotted these colleagues who apply themselves and work for 50 mins. and then always take a whole ten minute break and are much more effective and produce a significantly better quality of work than colleagues who don’t have set working practises.
OK as promised I present you with my list of preferred remote working tools:
Electronic Mail
Google Mail doesn’t cost anything. In my experience the search and label (categories) mechanisms have no equal. The downside is it can be a bit slow on older machines
Phone calls
Skype continually perplexed me as the service quality and reliability was unacceptable, but all credit to the coders 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 user in the world. The latest version of Skype has a ton of excellent features and there is an ever growing list of practical add ons.
Organising Content
Evernote has connected over a million users in no time at all – it enables you to store, organise and annotate any type of digital media on the net. 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 web application. But it is shadowed by the free edition of salesorder.com – a lead to cash system that’s as easy to use as a toaster 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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