Have you ever heard the expression Less is More? Essentially it means that sometimes the less you do, the better the end result. So how does this apply to time management? Often we spend more time than necessary on a project, even if it’s less than the amount of time we’ve budgeted. Here are two…
OfficeTime User Profile – Karen Kirtland of Natural Resources Assessment
Continuing with our user profiles, this week we are thrilled to feature Karen Kirtland, from Natural Resources Assessment, a biological consulting firm specializing in conducting biological assessments for projects. California has numerous state regulations that direct development of properties, among those regulations are requirements for determining if a proposed development will directly or indirectly affect…
Awesome Analysis for the Office Pro
There are a number of self-proclaimed “time management gurus” out there. They all talk about the importance of planning out your tasks or not spending too much time on one thing. But what about when it’s all said and done? Just because a project is finished, doesn’t mean that your work is done. If you…
Excellent Execution for the Office Pro
When many people think of time management, they think of calendars, schedules, agendas, itineraries, etc. While it’s true that planning is one of the most important parts of time management, it’s certainly not the only part. Once you have everything planned out you must execute. In order to optimize the time you spend actually working…
Proper Planning for the Office Pro
We write a lot about how time management and OfficeTime can benefit freelancers, entrepreneurs, small business owners, and more. But what about the big-wigs; the people who work in the corner office of one of those tall office buildings in Corporate America? Time management can certainly be beneficial for them as well. As a matter…
Time Management for Entrepreneurs – Recharging Your Batteries
This is something we must change now, today. Here are a few time management tips to help you recharge your batteries, live longer, and be more successful in your business and life.
Export Bug – An Update: Exporting OfficeTime Reports on the iPhone/iPad
We know that you need a product that is easy to use! For that reason, we made sure that our OfficeTime Time Tracking solution does a good job of exporting reports. You can export a summary report of all of your time broken down by project and category or you can export details of…
OfficeTime Survey Answers: “Where Does Our Time Go?”
As a follow-up to its previous survey on Top Time Killers, OfficeTime.net surveyed business owners and professionals on how much time is spent on activities identified as the biggest culprits to a productive workday. In the Top Time Killer survey, “Email” was declared as the biggest time killer by 47% of the respondents, and in the latest survey 40% of respondents said they spend an average of 1-3 hours per day dealing with email. Really???? Wow, 3 hours is a LOT of time on Email!
Stop the Presses! We Have a Winner!!!
Someone won our contest! Karin Hollerbach is the CEO of a boutique management consulting company, Taku Group (www.takugroup.com). Taku Group helps growing companies that need assistance with financing, licensing or other strategic partnerships, or M&A (being sold or buying other companies). Karin and her team tracks their time every day – both for client projects that are billed by the hour and for other projects, just to continually improve their estimates. Their ability to do so has improved dramatically since they started using OfficeTime.
DRUMROLL PLEASE! Our iPad 3 contest is over…and the winner is????
Yes, folks, it’s true, the contest has ended. Thank you all for your YouTube Videos, Tweets, Blog Posts, Facebook shares and GREAT support of OfficeTime for iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch. We’ll announce the winner with great fanfare in the next two weeks. If you want to share the love, you can always send friends and…