Remote Working Part 3 – What should be in your tool box

Quickbooks online

self management more….

Before I give you my collection of really good online tools that are sure to help you to operate remotely, I should discuss one more item about self discipline and especially to do with keeping your focus and levels of concentration

I’ve uncovered and verified a consistent trait in colleagues who work online and I’ve been in contact with for a substantial period and I call this trait the 50 min effect. I uncovered these people who apply themselves and work for fifty minutes and then make themselves take a whole ten minute rest and are a significant order of magnitude more effective and generate a considerably higher quality of work than men and women who don’t have well organised working methods.

OK as promised for your consideration is my list of choice remote working online services:

Electronic Mail

Google Mail is free. For my money the search and label (categories) mechanisms are the best implementation I have encountered. So far the only gripe I have is that it runs a bit slow on not so new PC’s

Phone calls

Skype continually perplexed me as the service performance was unacceptable, but three cheers for the geeks at Skype now as they have really improved the quality of the service. For few dollars a month they enable me to call and conference in any handset and Skype user on the planet. The latest version of Skype has an abundance of very useful features and there are now plenty of of valuable add on applications.

Organising Content

Evernote has acquired over a million users in no time at all – it lets you to store, organise and add notes to 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 sparked off by Quickbooks Online, a small business accounting software web application. But it is easily beaten hands down by 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.