self management more….

Before I give you my kit of my favourite online tools that will definitely assist you to operate remotely, I should discuss one more item connected with self discipline and specifically to do with keeping your focus and levels of concentration

I’ve observed and verified a common trait in colleagues who work on the web and I’ve known for over a long time line and I call this habit the fifty min rule. I uncovered these friends who concentrate and work for fifty minutes and then kick back for a complete 10 minute rest and are a significant order of magnitude more productive and generate a considerably higher quality of work than contacts who don’t have set working methods.

OK as promised here is my list of favourite remote working tools:

Electronic Mail

Google Mail is free. My friends and I all agree the search and label (a bit like folders) features are second to none. The downside is it can be a bit slow on older machines

Phone calls

Skype occasionally drove me to despair as the call quality and reliability was down right horrible, but all credit to the engineers at Skype now as they have considerably refined the quality of the service. For meagre amount of money a month ! am able to call and conference in any handset and Skype subscriber on the planet. The current edition of Skype has an abundance of very practical functions and there constantly expanding collection of practical add ons.

Organising Content

Evernote has reached in excess of a million users in a very short space of time – it enables you to store, organise and add notes to any type of digital media in the Cloud. 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 easily beaten hands down by 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.