Remote Working Part 3 – Must have online tools

Posted by Reinecke Jesslyn on August 27th, 2009 filed in Productivity

Quickbooks online edition

Self discipline more….

Before I share with you my collection of great web tools that almost certainly assist you to operate remotely, I should discuss one more issue concerning self management and especially to do with maintaining your focus and levels of concentration

I’ve spotted and established a common trait in members of both sexes who work on the web and I’ve been in contact with for over a long time line and I call this behavior the 50 min effect. I spotted these individuals who apply themselves and work for 50 minutes and then pause for a complete 10 minute break and are much more efficient and produce a considerably higher quality of work than individuals who don’t have set working methods.

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

E-Mail

Google Mail won’t cost you a penny. For my money the search and label (categories) functions have no equal. Googlemail can be a little slow on aging PC’s

Phone calls

Skype
continually perplexed me as the connection performance was atrocious, but a big pat on the back for the geeks at Skype now as they have really improved the quality of the service. For meagre amount of money a quarter Skype lets me call and conference in any handset and Skype subscriber in the world. The current version of Skype has a collection 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 media on the net. Just go check it out…it’s free.

Invoicing, Time and Expenses capture, Accounting and CRM

You almost certainly know that my desire to work remotely was originally inspired by Quickbooks Online, a small business accounting software web application. But it is no match for the free edition of salesorder.com – a lead to cash system that’s as easy to use as a pc mouse 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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