self management more….

Before I present to you my kit of really good online tools that are sure to assist you to operate remotely, I need to discuss one more issue concerning self management and specifically to do with maintaining your focus and powers of concentration

I’ve observed and established a common habit in people who work on the Internet and I’ve been in contact with for over a long time line and I call this behavior the 50 minute effect. I discovered these men and women who focus and work for fifty minutes and then kick back for a whole 10 minute break and are a significant order of magnitude more productive and produce a significantly better quality of work than men and women who don’t have such distinct working practises.

OK as promised here is my list of favourite remote working web applications:

Electronic Mail

Google Mail doesn’t cost anything. For my money the search & label (similar to folders) mechanisms 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 drive me crazy as the connection performance was down right horrible, but all credit to the software tech’s at Skype now as they have substantially changed the quality of the service. For meagre amount of money a quarter ! can call and conference in any telephone and Skype subscriber on the planet. The latest version of Skype has an abundance of very practical features and there constantly expanding collection of useful add ons.

Organising Content

Evernote has acquired more than a million users in no time at all – it lets you to store, organise and annotate 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 desire to work remotely was originally encouraged by Quickbooks Online, a small business accounting software system. 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 kettle I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.