Remote Working Part 3 – The ‘kit’ list
Self discipline more….
Before I show you my collection of the top web tools that almost certainly help you to work remotely, I want to write about one more issue related to self management and especially to do with maintaining your focus and powers of concentration
I’ve discovered and established a consistent behavior in people who work online and I’ve known for quite a long time and I call this habit the 50 minute effect. I identified these members of both sexes who concentrate and work for fifty mins. and then pause for a whole 10 mins. rest and are much more productive and generate a significantly better quality of work than acquaintances who don’t have similar working practises.
OK as promised for your consideration is my list of favourite remote working software:
Electronic Mail
Google Mail won’t cost you a penny. But in my opinion the search and label (similar to folders) features are the best implementation I have encountered. 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 connection performance was down right horrible, but a big pat on the back for the coders at Skype now as they have considerably refined the quality of the service. For just a few bucks a quarter they enable me to call and conference in any phone and Skype subscriber on Earth. The current edition of Skype has a ton of excellent features and there constantly expanding collection of valuable add on applications.
Organising Content
Evernote has secured more than a million users in a very short space of time – it enables you to store, organise and annotate any type of digital media on the web. Just go check it out…it’s free.
Invoicing, Time and Expenses capture, Accounting and CRM
You almost certainly know that my ambition to work remotely was originally encouraged by Quickbooks Online, a small business accounting software system. But it is no match for the free edition of salesorder.com – a lead to cash system that’s as easy to use as a kettle I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.
