self management more….
Before I give you my arsenal of my favourite web tools that almost certainly help you to work remotely, I need to alert you to one more point related to self discipline and specifically to do with maintaining your focus and levels of concentration
I’ve uncovered and verified a common habit in contacts who work on the Internet and I’ve been in contact with for over a long time line and I call this trait the 50 min effect. I spotted these colleagues who focus and work for 50 minutes and then kick back for a whole 10 minute break and are a significant order of magnitude more effective and produce a substantially greater quality of work than men and women who don’t have such distinct working methods.
OK as promised here is my list of choice remote working online services:
Electronic Mail
Google Mail won’t cost you a penny. But in my opinion the search & label (similar to folders) functions are second to none. The downside is it can be a bit slow on older machines
Phone calls
Skype occasionally drove me to despair as the service performance was unacceptable, but a big pat on the back for the software tech’s at Skype now as they have considerably refined the quality of the service. For few dollars a quarter Skype lets me call and conference in any telephone and Skype user in the world. The latest edition of Skype has a mass of really good functions and there are now plenty of of practical add ons.
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 up on the Internet. Just go check it out…it’s free.
Invoicing, Time and Expenses capture, Accounting and CRM
You surely know that my calling 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 pencil I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.










