self management more….
Before I share with you my collection of my favourite Internet tools that will definitely assist you to operate remotely, I wanted to alert you to one more issue connected with self management and especially to do with keeping your focus and levels of concentration
I’ve observed and established a common behavior in colleagues who work on the Internet and I’ve known for a substantial period and I call this behavior the 50 minute rule. I identified these colleagues who apply themselves and work for 50 mins. and then pause for a complete 10 mins. rest and are considerably more effective and produce a considerably higher quality of work than colleagues who don’t have such distinct working practises.
OK as promised I present you with my list of preferred remote working online services:
Electronic Mail
Google Mail doesn’t cost anything. In my experience the search & label (a bit like folders) features are the best implementation I have encountered. The downside is it can be a bit slow on older machines
Phone calls
Skype used to drive me crazy as the connection performance was unacceptable, but three cheers for the geeks at Skype now as they have really improved the quality of the service. For meagre amount of money a month ! can call and conference in any telephone and Skype subscriber in the world. The current edition of Skype has a wealth of very practical functions and there are now plenty of of valuable add ons.
Organising Content
Evernote has reached in excess of a million users in a very short space of time – it enables you to store, organise and add notes to any type of digital media on the web. Just go check it out…it’s free.
Invoicing, Time and Expenses capture, Accounting and CRM
You definitely know that my burning desire to work remotely was originally sparked off by Quickbooks Online, a small business accounting software web application. 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 fork I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.