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Remote Working Part 3 – The basic implements

Monday, August 10th, 2009 Subscribe To Our Feed

self management more….

Before I give you my portfolio of really good net tools that are sure to help you to work remotely, I must discuss one more point connected with self discipline and specifically to do with keeping your focus and levels of concentration

I’ve observed and confirmed a consistent habit 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 50 minute rule. I identified these men and women who focus and work for 50 mins. and then take a whole 10 minute rest and are considerably more efficient and generate a considerably higher quality of work than individuals who don’t have well organised working practises.

OK as promised I present you with my list of choice remote working web applications:

E-Mail

Google Mail won’t cost you a penny. For my money the search and label (categories) features are second to none. The only disadvantage so far is that I have seen it run quite slowly on lower spec.computers

Phone calls

Skype used to drive me crazy as the service quality and reliability was unacceptable, but hats off for the geeks at Skype now as they have substantially changed the quality of the service. For meagre amount of money a month Skype lets me call and conference in any handset and Skype user on Earth. The latest edition of Skype has a wealth of excellent features and there is an ever growing list of useful add on applications.

Organising Content

Evernote has connected over a million users in a very short space of time – it lets you to store, organise and annotate any type of digital media on the net. 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 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 pc mouse 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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