Remote Working Part 3 – ‘tools of the Trade’

Quickbooks Login

self management more….

Before I show you my portfolio of great web tools that I promise will help you to operate remotely, I should write about one more pearl of wisdom about self discipline and specifically to do with maintaining your focus and powers of concentration

I’ve uncovered and confirmed a common habit in people who work on the net and I’ve been in contact with for some time and I call this behavior the 50 minute rule. I observed these contacts who focus and work for 50 mins. and then always take a complete ten mins. rest and are a significant order of magnitude more efficient and generate a considerably higher quality of work than members of both sexes who don’t have such distinct working practises.

OK as promised for your consideration is my list of preferred remote working software:

Electronic Mail

Google Mail has a price tag of zero. My friends and I all agree the search and label (similar to folders) functions are second to none. So far the only gripe I have is that it runs a bit slow on not so new PC’s

Phone calls

Skype
occasionally drove me to despair as the service stability was atrocious, but hats off for the software tech’s at Skype now as they have really improved the quality of the service. For few dollars a month ! am able to call and conference in any phone and Skype user in the world. The current edition of Skype has a wealth of really good functions and there are now plenty of of useful add ons.

Organising Content

Evernote
has connected more than a million users in a very short space of time – it enables 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 probably know that my calling 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 toaster 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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