Remote Working Part 3 – Basic Toolkit

Self discipline more….

Before I share with you my collection of my favourite online tools that are sure to help you to work remotely, I should bring to your attention one more point connected with self management and especially to do with keeping your focus and levels of concentration

I’ve discovered and verified a common habit in contacts who work on the net and I’ve known for some time and I call this behavior the fifty minute effect. I discovered these people who apply themselves and work for 50 mins. and then take a whole ten mins. break and are a significant order of magnitude more effective and produce a much higher quality of work than acquaintances who don’t have such distinct working practises.

OK as promised for your consideration is my list of choice remote working web applications:

E-Mail

Google Mail has a price tag of zero. In my experience the search & label (categories) features are most definitely the best I have so far discovered. Googlemail can be a little slow on aging PC’s

Phone calls

Skype continually perplexed me as the service stability was down right horrible, but three cheers for the software tech’s at Skype now as they have considerably refined the quality of the service. For just a few bucks a month ! am able to call and conference in any phone and Skype user on Earth. The current edition of Skype has a wealth of very practical features and there constantly expanding collection of practical add ons.

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 content on the web. Just go check it out…it’s free.

Invoicing, Time and Expenses capture, Accounting and CRM

You almost certainly know that my burning desire to work remotely was originally encouraged by Quickbooks Online, a small business accounting software system. 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.