Remote Working Part 3 – Top tools and tricks
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
self management more….
Before I present to you my portfolio of my favourite online tools that are sure to assist you to operate remotely, I should alert you to one more item connected with self discipline and especially to do with keeping your focus and powers of concentration
I’ve spotted and confirmed a common trait in contacts who work online and I’ve been in contact with for a substantial period and I call this behavior the fifty min effect. I observed these members of both sexes who concentrate and work for 50 mins. and then take a complete 10 minute rest and are a significant order of magnitude more efficient and generate a much higher quality of work than friends who don’t have structured working practises.
OK as promised here is my list of favourite remote working web applications:
Google Mail doesn’t cost anything. In my experience the search & label (categories) mechanisms are second to none. So far the only gripe I have is that it runs a bit slow on not so new PC’s
Phone calls
Skype used to infuriate me as the service stability was unacceptable, but hats off for the coders at Skype now as they have really improved the quality of the service. For meagre amount of money a quarter they enable me to call and conference in any handset and Skype subscriber on Earth. The latest version of Skype has a wealth of really good features and there is an ever growing list of useful add ons.
Organising Content
Evernote has secured over a million users in no time at all – it enables you to store, organise and annotate any species of digital content on the web. Just go check it out…it’s free.
Invoicing, Time and Expenses capture, Accounting and CRM
You definitely know that my urge to work remotely was originally sparked off 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 fork I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.
