Self discipline more….
Before I share with you my collection of great online tools that are sure to assist you to work remotely, I must make you aware of one more pearl of wisdom related to self management and especially to do with maintaining your focus and levels of concentration
I’ve uncovered and established a common behavior in acquaintances who work online and I’ve been in contact with for some time and I call this habit the fifty minute rule. I spotted these individuals who apply themselves and work for 50 mins. and then make themselves take a whole ten mins. break and are considerably more efficient and produce a much higher quality of work than individuals who don’t have such distinct working methods.
OK as promised here is my list of preferred remote working tools:
Electronic Mail
Google Mail has a price tag of zero. My friends and I all agree the search & label (similar to folders) mechanisms are the best implementation I have encountered. Googlemail can be a little slow on aging PC’s
Phone calls
Skype used to drive me crazy as the call performance was atrocious, but three cheers for the coders at Skype now as they have considerably refined the quality of the service. For few dollars a month they enable me to call and conference in any telephone and Skype user on the planet. The current version of Skype has a mass of really good functions and there are now plenty of of practical add on applications.
Organising Content
Evernote has secured in excess of a million users in no time at all – it lets 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 surely 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 pencil I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.