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Self discipline more….

Before I give you my portfolio of my favourite Internet tools that are sure to assist you to operate remotely, I need to discuss one more issue about self discipline and especially to do with maintaining your focus and levels of concentration

I’ve spotted and verified a common habit in friends who work on the web and I’ve been in contact with for some time and I call this habit the 50 minute rule. I identified these contacts who apply themselves and work for fifty mins. and then always take a whole ten minute break and are a significant order of magnitude more efficient and generate a much higher quality of work than contacts who don’t have structured working practises.

OK as promised I present you with my list of favourite remote working tools:

Electronic Mail

Google Mail has a price tag of zero. But in my opinion the search & label (a bit like folders) functions have no equal. Googlemail can be a little slow on aging PC’s

Phone calls

Skype occasionally drove me to despair as the service stability was unacceptable, but hats off for the coders at Skype now as they have really improved the quality of the service. For few dollars a month Skype lets me call and conference in any handset and Skype subscriber in the world. The latest version of Skype has an abundance of really good features and there are now plenty of of valuable add ons.

Organising Content

Evernote has reached over 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 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 desire to work remotely was originally sparked off 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 toaster I looked at NetSuite whose pricing (and people) scared me off. My choice here is salesorder.com – Go check it out.