Remote Working Part 3 – ‘Tools of the trade’
Self discipline more….
Before I share with you my list of the top web tools that will definitely assist you to operate remotely, I should make you aware of one more pearl of wisdom connected with self discipline and specifically to do with keeping your focus and powers of concentration
I’ve uncovered and established a consistent trait in contacts who work on the net and I’ve been in contact with for over a long time line and I call this trait the 50 min effect. I identified these men and women who apply themselves and work for 50 mins. and then take a complete ten minute break and are a significant order of magnitude more effective and generate a much higher quality of work than acquaintances who don’t have set working practises.
OK as promised here is my list of preferred remote working tools:
Google Mail is free. For my money the search and label (categories) features have no equal. So far the only gripe I have is that it runs a bit slow on not so new PC’s
Phone calls
Skype occasionally drove me to despair as the service performance was atrocious, but three cheers for the engineers at Skype now as they have substantially changed the quality of the service. For meagre amount of money a month ! can call and conference in any phone and Skype user in the world. The latest edition of Skype has a collection of superb functions and there is an ever growing list of valuable add ons.
Organising Content
Evernote has reached in excess of a million users in a very short space of time – it enables 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 probably know that my urge to work remotely was originally sparked off 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 kettle I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.
