Remote Working Part 3 – The basic implements
self management more….
Before I give you my kit of great Internet tools that will definitely assist you to operate remotely, I should make you aware of one more item connected with self management and especially to do with keeping your focus and powers of concentration
I’ve discovered and verified a consistent trait in friends who work online and I’ve known for quite a long time and I call this behavior the 50 minute effect. I uncovered these friends who focus and work for 50 mins. and then take a whole ten minute rest and are a significant order of magnitude more productive and generate a substantially greater quality of work than members of both sexes who don’t have such distinct working practises.
OK as promised here is my list of favourite remote working software:
Electronic Mail
Google Mail is free. My friends and I all agree the search and label (categories) functions are the best implementation I have encountered. The downside is it can be a bit slow on older machines
Phone calls
Skype occasionally drove me to despair as the connection stability was down right horrible, but three cheers for the coders 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 current version of Skype has a ton of superb functions and there is an ever growing list of valuable 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 add notes to 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 surely know that my desire to work remotely was originally encouraged by Quickbooks Online, a small business accounting software system. 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.
Tags: Quickbooks online, small business accounting software
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