Remote Working Part 3 – ‘Tools of the trade’
self management more….
Before I show you my list of really good online tools that will definitely help you to work remotely, I wanted to make you aware of one more issue related to self discipline and especially to do with maintaining your focus and powers of concentration
I’ve discovered and confirmed a common habit in people who work on the net and I’ve been in contact with for over a long time line and I call this trait the fifty minute rule. I identified these colleagues who apply themselves and work for fifty mins. and then pause for a whole 10 mins. rest and are a significant order of magnitude more effective and generate a much higher quality of work than acquaintances who don’t have similar working methods.
OK as promised I present you with my list of choice remote working tools:
Electronic Mail
Google Mail has a price tag of zero. For my money the search and label (a bit like folders) functions 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 continually perplexed me as the service stability was unacceptable, but a big pat on the back for the software tech’s at Skype now as they have considerably refined the quality of the service. For meagre amount of money a quarter they enable me to call and conference in any phone and Skype subscriber on Earth. The latest version of Skype has an abundance of excellent functions and there constantly expanding collection of practical add ons.
Organising Content
Evernote has connected in excess of a million users in a very short space of time – it enables you to store, organise and add notes to any type of digital media up on the Internet. Just go check it out…it’s free.
Invoicing, Time and Expenses capture, Accounting and CRM
You probably know that my calling 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 pc mouse I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.
