Remote Working Part 3 – Must have online tools

Posted on August 9th, 2009 by admin

Self discipline more….

Before I present to you my portfolio of really good Internet tools that are sure to assist you to work remotely, I want to bring to your attention one more point related toself management and specifically to do with maintaining your focus and powers of concentration

I’ve identified and confirmed a consistent trait in acquaintances who work online and I’ve known for some time and I call this trait the fifty minute effect. I identified these colleagues who focus and work for fifty minutes and then make themselves take a whole 10 minute break and are considerably more effective and generate a significantly better quality of work than men and women who don’t have set working methods.

OK as promised here is my list of preferred remote working online services:

Electronic Mail

Google Mail costs nothing. My friends and I all agree the search & label (a bit like folders) mechanisms are most definitely the best I have so far discovered. Googlemail can be a little slow on aging PC’s

Phone calls

Skype used to drive me crazy as the service quality and reliability was appalling, but three cheers for the developers 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 current edition of Skype has a mass of really good features and there is an ever growing list of useful add on applications.

Organising Content

Evernote has connected over a million users in no time at all – it lets you to store, organise and add notes to any type of digital content on the web. Just go check it out…it’s free.

Invoicing, Time and Expenses capture, Accounting and CRM

You almost certainly know that my ambition to work remotely was originally sparked off by Quickbooks Online, a small business accounting software web application. 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 pc mouse I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.

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