Remote Working Part 3 – The basic implements
Posted in Apple iPod on Sep 23rd, 2009
Self discipline more….
Before I give you my portfolio of really good online tools that almost certainly help you to work remotely, I wanted to alert you to one more item connected with self discipline and especially to do with maintaining your focus and powers of concentration
I’ve observed and established a consistent trait in men and women who work on the Internet and I’ve known for quite a long time and I call this habit the 50 min effect. I uncovered these contacts who focus and work for fifty mins. and then make themselves take a whole 10 minute rest and are considerably more efficient and generate a much higher quality of work than acquaintances who don’t have well organised working practises.
OK as promised I present you with my list of preferred remote working online services:
Google Mail has a price tag of zero. My friends and I all agree the search & label (categories) mechanisms are most definitely the best I have so far discovered. 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 call performance 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 ! can call and conference in any telephone and Skype user on Earth. The latest version of Skype has an abundance of really good functions and there are now plenty of of useful add ons.
Organising Content
Evernote has reached 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 media on the net. Just go check it out…it’s free.
Invoicing, Time and Expenses capture, Accounting and CRM
You probably know that my burning desire to work remotely was originally motivated 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 hairbrush I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.
