Remote Working Part 3 – The ‘kit’ list

Self discipline more….

Before I show you my portfolio of the best net tools that I promise will assist you to work remotely, I wanted to bring to your attention one more pearl of wisdom concerning self management and specifically to do with maintaining your focus and powers of concentration

I’ve identified and verified a common behavior in men and women who work on the Internet and I’ve known for a substantial period and I call this trait the fifty min effect. I identified these men and women who concentrate and work for fifty minutes and then always take a complete 10 minute rest and are considerably more effective and produce a substantially greater quality of work than contacts who don’t have such distinct working practises.

OK as promised I present you with my list of preferred remote working web applications:

Electronic Mail

Google Mail has a price tag of zero. In my experience the search and label (categories) functions are second to none. The downside is it can be a bit slow on older machines

Phone calls

Skype used to infuriate me as the connection performance was down right horrible, but all credit to the designers at Skype now as they have substantially changed the quality of the service. For just a few bucks a month ! am able to call and conference in any telephone and Skype subscriber in the world. The current edition of Skype has an abundance of very useful functions and there is an ever growing list of valuable add on applications.

Organising Content

Evernote has acquired more than a million users in a very short space of time – it lets you to store, organise and annotate any type of digital content in the Cloud. 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 inspired by Quickbooks Online, a small business accounting software system. But it simply doesn’t even come close to 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.

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