September 19, 2009

Remote Working Part 3 – The ‘kit’ list

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Self discipline more….

Before I share with you my portfolio of really good net tools that are sure to help you to work remotely, I need to bring to your attention one more pearl of wisdom about self discipline and specifically to do with maintaining your focus and powers of concentration

I’ve discovered and confirmed a consistent habit in contacts who work on the net and I’ve known for over a long time line and I call this behavior the 50 minute rule. I spotted these acquaintances who concentrate and work for 50 mins. and then make themselves take a complete 10 mins. break and are a significant order of magnitude more effective and produce a significantly better quality of work than men and women who don’t have structured working methods.

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

E-Mail

Google Mail costs nothing. My friends and I all agree the search & label (a bit like folders) mechanisms are most definitely the best I have so far discovered. Googlemail can be a little slow on aging PC’s

Phone calls

Skype
used to drive me crazy as the service stability was atrocious, but all credit to the developers at Skype now as they have really improved the quality of the service. For just a few bucks a month ! can call and conference in any phone and Skype subscriber on Earth. The latest version of Skype has a mass of very practical functions and there constantly expanding collection of useful add ons.

Organising Content

Evernote
has connected in excess of a million users in a very short space of time – it enables you to store, organise and annotate any type of digital content on the net. Just go check it out…it’s free.

Invoicing, Time and Expenses capture, Accounting and CRM

You definitely know that my burning desire to work remotely was originally sparked off 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 pc mouse 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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