Self discipline more….

Before I present to you my portfolio of really good online tools that I promise will assist you to work remotely, I wanted to alert you to one more issue connected with self management and especially to do with maintaining your focus and levels of concentration

I’ve discovered and established a common behavior in friends who work on the web and I’ve known for over a long time line and I call this habit the 50 min rule. I observed these acquaintances who focus and work for fifty mins. and then pause for a complete 10 mins. rest and are much more effective and produce a significantly better quality of work than men and women who don’t have structured working practises.

OK as promised here is my list of choice remote working tools:

E-Mail

Google Mail costs nothing. In my experience the search and label (categories) functions 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 infuriate me as the call stability was appalling, but a big pat on the back for the developers at Skype now as they have really improved the quality of the service. For just a few bucks a quarter they enable me to call and conference in any phone and Skype user in the world. The current edition of Skype has a mass of excellent features and there is an ever growing list of valuable add ons.

Organising Content

Evernote has reached more than a million users in no time at all – it lets you to store, organise and add notes to 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 surely know that my dream to work remotely was originally encouraged 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.