Remote Working Part 3 – What should be in your tool box
Self discipline more….
Before I give you my kit of the best net tools that I promise will assist you to operate remotely, I wanted to discuss one more item connected with self discipline and especially to do with keeping your focus and levels of concentration
I’ve uncovered and established a consistent trait in colleagues who work on the web and I’ve been in contact with for over a long time line and I call this trait the 50 minute rule. I observed these friends who concentrate and work for fifty minutes and then kick back for a whole ten mins. rest and are a significant order of magnitude more productive and generate a considerably higher quality of work than colleagues who don’t have similar working methods.
OK as promised for your consideration is my list of choice remote working online services:
Google Mail is free. But in my opinion the search & label (categories) mechanisms have no equal. The downside is it can be a bit slow on older machines
Phone calls
Skype used to infuriate me as the service stability was atrocious, but three cheers for the engineers at Skype now as they have really improved the quality of the service. For just a few bucks a quarter ! am able to call and conference in any telephone and Skype subscriber in the world. The latest version of Skype has an abundance of excellent features and there are now plenty of of practical add ons.
Organising Content
Evernote has secured in excess of a million users in a very short space of time – it enables you to store, organise and add notes to any species 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 urge to work remotely was originally encouraged 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 kettle I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.