Remote Working Part 3 – What should be in your tool box
self management more….
Before I show you my kit of great Internet tools that almost certainly help you to operate remotely, I should bring to your attention one more item aboutself management and specifically to do with keeping your focus and levels of concentration
I’ve discovered and established a consistent behavior in men and women who work on the net and I’ve been in contact with for a substantial period and I call this trait the 50 min rule. I uncovered these individuals who focus and work for fifty mins. and then kick back for a whole ten minute rest and are considerably more effective and produce a substantially greater quality of work than people who don’t have such distinct working practises.
OK as promised for your consideration is my list of favourite remote working tools:
Electronic Mail
Google Mail doesn’t cost anything. My friends and I all agree the search and label (similar to folders) functions are the best implementation I have encountered. The downside is it can be a bit slow on older machines
Phone calls
Skype continually perplexed me as the service quality and reliability was atrocious, but three cheers for the developers at Skype now as they have considerably refined the quality of the service. For few dollars a month ! am able to call and conference in any telephone and Skype subscriber in the world. The latest edition of Skype has a wealth of very practical functions and there constantly expanding collection of useful add on applications.
Organising Content
Evernote has acquired over a million users in no time at all – it lets you to store, organise and add notes to any species of digital content on the net. Just go check it out…it’s free.
Invoicing, Time and Expenses capture, Accounting and CRM
You surely know that my urge to work remotely was originally sparked off by Quickbooks Online, a small business accounting software system. But it is shadowed by the free edition of salesorder.com – a lead to cash system that’s as easy to use as a hairbrush 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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