Remote Working Part 3 – Must have online tools
August 6th, 2009
self management more….
Before I give you my arsenal of the top online tools that are sure to assist you to operate remotely, I need to discuss one more pearl of wisdom concerning self discipline and specifically to do with maintaining your focus and powers of concentration
I’ve identified and established a consistent habit in people who work on the Internet and I’ve known for quite a long time and I call this trait the 50 min rule. I observed these contacts who focus and work for fifty mins. and then pause for a complete 10 minute rest and are much more productive and generate a significantly better quality of work than members of both sexes who don’t have such distinct working practises.
OK as promised I present you with my list of favourite remote working web applications:
Google Mail has a price tag of zero. My friends and I all agree the search & label (similar to folders) functions are superior to anything I have previously seen. The downside is it can be a bit slow on older machines
Phone calls
Skype continually perplexed me as the service quality and reliability was down right horrible, but a big pat on the back for the developers at Skype now as they have really improved the quality of the service. For meagre amount of money a quarter ! am able to call and conference in any telephone and Skype user on Earth. The latest version of Skype has a wealth of very practical features and there are now plenty of of useful add on applications.
Organising Content
Evernote has secured in excess of a million users in no time at all – it enables you to store, organise and annotate any type of digital content up on the Internet. Just go check it out…it’s free.
Invoicing, Time and Expenses capture, Accounting and CRM
You almost certainly know that my dream to work remotely was originally motivated 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 toaster 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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