Remote Working Part 3 – My list of essentials
Aug 9th, 2009
Self discipline more….
Before I show you my kit of the best net tools that will definitely assist you to work remotely, I wanted to bring to your attention one more item about self discipline and specifically to do with keeping your focus and powers of concentration
I’ve discovered and confirmed a common habit in friends who work on the Internet and I’ve known for a substantial period and I call this trait the 50 minute rule. I observed these members of both sexes who apply themselves and work for fifty mins. and then kick back for a complete ten minute break and are considerably more efficient and generate a substantially greater quality of work than men and women who don’t have similar working methods.
OK as promised I present you with my list of preferred remote working web applications:
Google Mail is free. For my money the search and label (similar to folders) functions are second to none. Googlemail can be a little slow on aging PC’s
Phone calls
Skype continually perplexed me as the connection stability was unacceptable, but a big pat on the back for the software tech’s at Skype now as they have substantially changed the quality of the service. For just a few bucks a quarter they enable me to call and conference in any telephone and Skype user in the world. The latest edition of Skype has an abundance of very practical features and there are now plenty of of useful add ons.
Organising Content
Evernote has reached in excess of a million users in a very short space of time – it lets 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 probably know that my dream 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 pc mouse I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.
