Self discipline more….
Before I present to you my list of really good web tools that I promise will help you to work remotely, I should bring to your attention one more pearl of wisdom about self discipline and specifically to do with maintaining your focus and powers of concentration
I’ve discovered and confirmed a common habit in men and women who work on the web and I’ve been in contact with for some time and I call this trait the fifty minute rule. I discovered these men and women who focus and work for 50 minutes and then kick back for a whole ten mins. rest and are much more efficient and generate a substantially greater quality of work than men and women who don’t have set working methods.
OK as promised for your consideration is my list of favourite remote working online services:
Electronic Mail
Google Mail costs nothing. For my money the search and label (a bit like folders) features are second to none. The only disadvantage so far is that I have seen it run quite slowly on lower spec.computers
Phone calls
Skype used to drive me crazy as the connection performance was atrocious, but three cheers for the developers at Skype now as they have substantially changed the quality of the service. For few dollars a month Skype lets me call and conference in any handset and Skype subscriber in the world. The current edition of Skype has an abundance of very useful features and there is an ever growing list of useful add on applications.
Organising Content
Evernote has acquired in excess of a million users in a very short space of time – it enables you to store, organise and annotate any species of digital content on the web. 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 motivated by Quickbooks Online, a small business accounting software web application. But it is shadowed by 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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