Remote Working Part 3 – The basic implements
by on Aug.06, 2009, under Uncategorized
Self discipline more….
Before I present to you my portfolio of great Internet tools that almost certainly assist you to operate remotely, I wanted to discuss one more point related to self discipline and especially to do with maintaining your focus and powers of concentration
I’ve spotted and verified a common behavior in friends who work online and I’ve been in contact with for a substantial period and I call this behavior the fifty minute rule. I identified these members of both sexes who focus and work for fifty minutes and then always take a whole ten mins. rest and are much more productive and produce a substantially greater quality of work than friends who don’t have similar working methods.
OK as promised for your consideration is my list of preferred remote working online services:
Electronic Mail
Google Mail won’t cost you a penny. In my experience the search & label (a bit like folders) functions are superior to anything I have previously seen. Googlemail can be a little slow on aging PC’s
Phone calls
Skype occasionally drove me to despair as the connection performance was unacceptable, but three cheers for the developers at Skype now as they have really improved the quality of the service. For few dollars a quarter ! am able to call and conference in any telephone and Skype user on Earth. The current edition of Skype has a collection of very practical functions and there constantly expanding collection of practical add on applications.
Organising Content
Evernote has acquired over a million users in a very short space of time – it lets you to store, organise and annotate any type of digital media in the Cloud. Just go check it out…it’s free.
Invoicing, Time and Expenses capture, Accounting and CRM
You surely know that my burning desire to work remotely was originally inspired by Quickbooks Online, a small business accounting software web application. But it simply doesn’t even come close to the free edition of salesorder.com – a lead to cash system that’s as easy to use as a toaster I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.
