Remote Working Part 3 – Best online software

Self discipline more….

Before I present to you my arsenal of my favourite Internet tools that are sure to assist you to operate remotely, I want to discuss one more issue related to self management and specifically to do with maintaining your focus and powers of concentration

I’ve uncovered and confirmed a common trait in members of both sexes who work on the Internet and I’ve known for a substantial period and I call this behavior the fifty minute rule. I observed these people who concentrate and work for 50 minutes and then pause for a whole 10 minute rest and are considerably more effective and produce a much higher quality of work than friends who don’t have well organised working practises.

OK as promised I present you with my list of preferred remote working online services:

E-Mail

Google Mail is free. My friends and I all agree the search & label (similar to folders) mechanisms are the best implementation I have encountered. The downside is it can be a bit slow on older machines

Phone calls

Skype continually perplexed me as the connection performance was appalling, but a big pat on the back for the developers at Skype now as they have substantially changed the quality of the service. For meagre amount of money a quarter ! am able to call and conference in any telephone and Skype subscriber on Earth. The current version of Skype has a ton of very practical features and there is an ever growing list of useful add ons.

Organising Content

Evernote has acquired more than a million users in no time at all – it lets 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 definitely know that my calling to work remotely was originally motivated 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 hairbrush I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.