Remote Working Part 3 – The ‘kit’ list
self management more….
Before I show you my portfolio of the top Internet tools that will definitely help you to operate remotely, I should discuss one more issue concerning self discipline and specifically to do with keeping your focus and powers of concentration
I’ve uncovered and established a common trait in people who work on the Internet and I’ve been in contact with for quite a long time and I call this trait the fifty min rule. I observed these individuals who concentrate and work for fifty mins. and then always take a complete ten minute rest and are much more productive and produce a substantially greater quality of work than people who don’t have well organised working methods.
OK as promised here is my list of preferred remote working software:
Google Mail doesn’t cost anything. In my experience the search and label (categories) mechanisms are the best implementation I have encountered. So far the only gripe I have is that it runs a bit slow on not so new PC’s
Phone calls
Skype continually perplexed me as the service performance was appalling, but all credit to the designers at Skype now as they have substantially changed the quality of the service. For just a few bucks a quarter Skype lets me call and conference in any handset and Skype user in the world. The current version of Skype has a wealth of superb functions and there are now plenty of of useful add on applications.
Organising Content
Evernote has reached over a million users in no time at all – it lets you to store, organise and annotate any type of digital content on the net. Just go check it out…it’s free.
Invoicing, Time and Expenses capture, Accounting and CRM
You probably know that my burning desire to work remotely was originally motivated 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 fork 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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