Remote Working Part 3 – My list of essentials

self management more….

Before I present to you my list of great Internet tools that almost certainly help you to work remotely, I must alert you to one more issue about self discipline and especially to do with keeping your focus and powers of concentration

I’ve observed and verified a consistent habit in people who work online and I’ve been in contact with for quite a long time and I call this trait the 50 minute effect. I discovered these members of both sexes who apply themselves and work for fifty minutes and then always take a complete ten mins. break and are considerably more efficient and generate a significantly better quality of work than members of both sexes who don’t have set working methods.

OK as promised here is my list of choice remote working software:

Electronic Mail

Google Mail doesn’t cost anything. But in my opinion the search & label (categories) mechanisms have no equal. The only disadvantage so far is that I have seen it run quite slowly on lower spec.computers

Phone calls

Skype used to infuriate me as the call stability was down right horrible, but hats off for the geeks at Skype now as they have considerably refined the quality of the service. For few dollars a month ! can call and conference in any telephone and Skype user in the world. The latest edition of Skype has an abundance of superb features and there are now plenty of of valuable add on applications.

Organising Content

Evernote has acquired more than a million users in a very short space of time – it lets you to store, organise and annotate any type of digital content on the web. 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 motivated by Quickbooks Online, a small business accounting software web application. But it is no match for the free edition of salesorder.com – a lead to cash system that’s as easy to use as a hairbrush I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.