Remote Working Part 3 – Top tools and tricks
Self discipline more….
Before I give you my list of great online tools that are sure to assist you to operate remotely, I want to write about one more point concerning self discipline and specifically to do with keeping your focus and powers of concentration
I’ve observed and verified a consistent trait in people who work on the net and I’ve been in contact with for some time and I call this behavior the 50 min effect. I observed these people who concentrate and work for fifty minutes and then pause for a complete ten minute rest and are a significant order of magnitude more efficient and produce a considerably higher quality of work than members of both sexes who don’t have well organised working methods.
OK as promised I present you with my list of preferred remote working web applications:
Google Mail is free. My friends and I all agree the search and label (a bit like folders) features 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 continually perplexed me as the service stability was atrocious, but a big pat on the back for the software tech’s at Skype now as they have considerably refined the quality of the service. For meagre amount of money a quarter ! can call and conference in any handset and Skype subscriber in the world. The current version of Skype has a mass of really good features and there is an ever growing list of useful add on applications.
Organising Content
Evernote has connected in excess of a million users in a very short space of time – 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 probably know that my dream to work remotely was originally sparked off 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 pc mouse 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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