Self discipline more….

Before I share with you my arsenal of the top Internet tools that almost certainly assist you to operate remotely, I must bring to your attention one more item aboutself management and specifically to do with maintaining your focus and levels of concentration

I’ve observed and confirmed a common trait in men and women who work on the web and I’ve known for a substantial period and I call this trait the 50 minute rule. I spotted these contacts who concentrate and work for fifty mins. and then kick back for a complete ten mins. break and are a significant order of magnitude more efficient and produce a much higher quality of work than people who don’t have such distinct working methods.

OK as promised here is my list of preferred remote working online services:

Electronic Mail

Google Mail won’t cost you a penny. But in my opinion the search and label (a bit like folders) mechanisms are most definitely the best I have so far discovered. The downside is it can be a bit slow on older machines

Phone calls

Skype occasionally drove me to despair as the connection performance was unacceptable, but three cheers for the coders at Skype now as they have considerably refined the quality of the service. For just a few bucks a quarter Skype lets me call and conference in any telephone and Skype subscriber on Earth. The latest edition of Skype has a wealth of really good functions and there are now plenty of of practical add ons.

Organising Content

Evernote has reached over a million users in no time at all – it enables you to store, organise and annotate any species of digital content up on the Internet. Just go check it out…it’s free.

Invoicing, Time and Expenses capture, Accounting and CRM

You almost certainly know that my burning desire to work remotely was originally encouraged 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 kettle I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.