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Remote Working Part 3 – What should be in your tool box
self management more….
Before I share with you my list of the best net tools that almost certainly assist you to operate remotely, I wanted to write about one more point about self management and especially to do with keeping your focus and levels of concentration
I’ve spotted and verified a common habit in friends who work on the web and I’ve been in contact with for some time and I call this trait the fifty minute effect. I observed these acquaintances who concentrate and work for fifty minutes and then take a whole 10 mins. break and are much more effective and generate a considerably higher quality of work than members of both sexes who don’t have structured working practises.
OK as promised for your consideration is my list of favourite remote working tools:
Electronic Mail
Google Mail doesn’t cost anything. My friends and I all agree the search & label (similar to folders) mechanisms are superior to anything I have previously seen. The only disadvantage so far is that I have seen it run quite slowly on lower spec.computers
Phone calls
Skype continually perplexed me as the connection quality and reliability was unacceptable, but a big pat on the back for the developers at Skype now as they have really improved the quality of the service. For few dollars a month Skype lets me call and conference in any handset and Skype user in the world. The latest version of Skype has a wealth of excellent functions and there is an ever growing list of practical add on applications.
Organising Content
Evernote has connected over a million users in a very short space of time – it enables you to store, organise and add notes to any species of digital content on the net. Just go check it out…it’s free.
Invoicing, Time and Expenses capture, Accounting and CRM
You almost certainly know that my urge to work remotely was originally motivated by Quickbooks Online, a small business accounting software system. But it is shadowed by the free edition of salesorder.com – a lead to cash system that’s as easy to use as a toaster I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.