self management more….

Before I give you my portfolio of the best Internet tools that almost certainly help you to work remotely, I should write about one more point concerning self discipline and specifically to do with maintaining your focus and levels of concentration

I’ve identified and verified a common habit in individuals who work on the net and I’ve known for quite a long time and I call this behavior the fifty minute rule. I spotted these members of both sexes who apply themselves and work for fifty minutes and then kick back for a complete ten mins. rest and are a significant order of magnitude more productive and produce a significantly better quality of work than people who don’t have well organised working methods.

OK as promised for your consideration is my list of favourite remote working software:

E-Mail

Google Mail won’t cost you a penny. My friends and I all agree the search & label (categories) mechanisms are superior to anything I have previously seen. The downside is it can be a bit slow on older machines

Phone calls

Skype occasionally drove me to despair as the connection quality and reliability was appalling, but all credit to the software tech’s at Skype now as they have substantially changed the quality of the service. For few dollars a quarter ! am able to call and conference in any handset and Skype user on the planet. The latest edition of Skype has a ton of really good features and there constantly expanding collection of valuable add ons.

Organising Content

Evernote has reached in excess of a million users in no time at all – it enables you to store, organise and add notes to any species of digital media up on the Internet. 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 web application. 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 kettle I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.