Remote Working Part 3 – Must have online tools
Self discipline more….
Before I present to you my portfolio of really good online tools that are sure to help you to operate remotely, I should make you aware of one more issue related to self management and especially to do with keeping your focus and levels of concentration
I’ve identified and confirmed a common behavior in colleagues who work on the net and I’ve been in contact with for some time and I call this behavior the 50 min rule. I discovered these acquaintances who concentrate and work for 50 minutes and then pause for a complete 10 minute rest and are considerably more effective and produce a much higher quality of work than members of both sexes who don’t have structured working methods.
OK as promised here is my list of favourite remote working online services:
Google Mail is free. But in my opinion the search & label (a bit like folders) mechanisms are the best implementation I have encountered. The only disadvantage so far is that I have seen it run quite slowly on lower spec.computers
Phone calls
Skype used to infuriate me as the call stability was down right horrible, but hats off for the coders at Skype now as they have substantially changed the quality of the service. For few dollars a quarter they enable me to call and conference in any handset and Skype subscriber in the world. The current version of Skype has a collection of really good features and there is an ever growing list of useful add on applications.
Organising Content
Evernote has acquired over a million users in a very short space of time – it enables you to store, organise and annotate any species of digital content in the Cloud. Just go check it out…it’s free.
Invoicing, Time and Expenses capture, Accounting and CRM
You definitely know that my dream to work remotely was originally encouraged 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 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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