Remote Working Part 3 – Essential tools
September 28, 2009 – 9:05 amSelf discipline more….
Before I share with you my list of great net tools that almost certainly assist you to operate remotely, I need to discuss one more pearl of wisdom concerning self discipline and especially to do with maintaining your focus and levels of concentration
I’ve spotted and verified a common habit in friends who work on the web and I’ve been in contact with for quite a long time and I call this habit the 50 minute effect. I observed these men and women who apply themselves and work for 50 minutes and then pause for a whole ten minute break and are much more effective and produce a significantly better quality of work than individuals who don’t have well organised working practises.
OK as promised for your consideration is my list of preferred remote working tools:
Electronic Mail
Google Mail won’t cost you a penny. My friends and I all agree the search & label (similar to folders) functions have no equal. 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 infuriate me as the service performance was down right horrible, but a big pat on the back for the software tech’s at Skype now as they have really improved the quality of the service. For few dollars a quarter they enable me to call and conference in any phone and Skype user on the planet. The current edition of Skype has an abundance of excellent functions and there are now plenty of of practical add on applications.
Organising Content
Evernote has secured in excess of a million users in no time at all – it lets you to store, organise and annotate 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 urge to work remotely was originally sparked off 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 pencil 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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