self management more….
Before I present to you my kit of great online tools that almost certainly assist you to work remotely, I must bring to your attention one more item concerning self management and especially to do with keeping your focus and levels of concentration
I’ve spotted and verified a consistent trait in people who work on the web and I’ve known for over a long time line and I call this trait the 50 min rule. I discovered these friends who focus and work for 50 mins. and then kick back for a complete ten mins. break and are much more efficient and produce a much higher quality of work than people who don’t have similar working methods.
OK as promised I present you with my list of choice remote working web applications:
Electronic Mail
Google Mail won’t cost you a penny. But in my opinion the search and label (a bit like 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 performance was appalling, but three cheers for the designers at Skype now as they have really improved the quality of the service. For just a few bucks a quarter ! am able to call and conference in any handset and Skype subscriber on Earth. The current edition of Skype has an abundance of very practical features and there is an ever growing list of practical add on applications.
Organising Content
Evernote has secured over a million users in a very short space of time – it enables you to store, organise and add notes to any type of digital content in the Cloud. Just go check it out…it’s free.
Invoicing, Time and Expenses capture, Accounting and CRM
You surely know that my burning 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 pencil I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.