Time management is crucial to my business, because I charge by the hour, and until I found OfficeTime, I was truly winging it. I actually considered buying a chess clock to keep on my desk to try to keep some kind of track of my billable time. I’ve always told my clients that even when I am not sitting at my keyboard editing their books, I still carry their stories around in my head, mulling them over, and for that, I do not charge. But otherwise, I can now say that I am on the clock.
Perfect Time Management Tip for a Starbucks Generation
If you work in an office or a shared work area (or worse, in a “public” space, like a library or a Starbucks), one way to keep interruptions down is to be obviously very busy. If somebody interrupts you, don’t ask how they are. Instead, no matter what you’re doing, ask them if they can wait a moment. Then take a few seconds, finish your task and say, “Sorry, I’m really busy today. What can I do for you?” That sets the stage for a FAST interaction and keeps them on task. No chitchat necessary!
3 New TGIF Time Management Tips from OfficeTime
Happy TGIF Everyone! This week’s Time Management tips are simple, but of course, not easy. Give it a try anyway.
Sharing Our Latest PR: OfficeTime.net Announces Top 5 Time Killers
Foreword: Three weeks ago, we posted a survey on all of our social media spaces asking what other professionals felt were their biggest time wasters. The response was huge, and TONS of people responded that Email was the #1 time suck out there. I wanted to share the entire PR to let you all draw your own conclusions around this – and hopefully come up with some keen solutions. If you’d like to share your OWN solutions here, by commenting on the blog, we’ll be happy to put them all into a follow-up piece and share it next week! Here’s to your great weekend! Stephen Dodd
3 Steps to Time Management that WORKS (at Work and in life!)
Here are a 3 time management tips to help you get out of the office and get into the rest of your life! #1. Remember that DONE is better than perfect. It’s SO easy to get hung up on edits and re-edits on anything we do. Believe me, as a developer, I can understand that. And while some things demand and necessitate perfection (like creating the app for our Time Tracker), the reality is that MOST things are a process, rather than a destination we arrive at. We’ve certainly seen that as our app and software has changed and developed over time.
Brilliant (and Busy) CEO uses OfficeTime to Track Time, Team and Project Development
OfficeTime is simply the best tool that I’ve found – and I love that it works on Macs and PCs, as our team uses both. It’s incredibly intuitive and easy to use, yet it’s not simplistic – meaning, it has all the functionality I need. I don’t use 100% of the functionality, but I’m happy to say I’ve never found myself needing something it didn’t do, nor scratching my head wondering why in the world certain features were there (as I sometimes do with other companies’ “bloatware”). It’s really just a fantastic combination of highly functional and really user-friendly. And Stephen Dodd, the CEO, has always been really easy to get a hold of when I’ve had questions – a real person supporting his software, how wonderful! My biggest takeaway? A real productivity tool for real businesses that have real needs, backed by a real person.
Attack Your Day, Before it Attacks You – 3 Time Management Tips that WORK
In our opinion, at OfficeTime, time management is REALLY about decision management. It’s the ability to successfully choose what we do and how much time we spend on it. It’s one reason that we developed the best Time Tracker out there – to help us navigate our own successful path. So here are three time management tips to help you navigate your to do list without losing your cool – or your mind!
Sync = Synchronicity
OfficeTime currently syncs wirelessly from your desktop to your iOS device. It does a pretty good job at this. Any changes you make will be automatically updated within a few seconds. It just works. You can sync your desktop to every iPhone, iPad, iPod that you have and it’ll sort itself out. Your computer doesn’t even need to have a wireless connection itself, as long as it’s connected to the same network that gives your iPhone, etc., wireless internet.
Trick or Treat! Three Time Management Tips for a Marvelous Monday!
One valuable way to manage your tasks, believe it or not, is to do the toughest thing first. The one that’s been hanging over your head for weeks (or longer). Do THAT first, and then the rest of the day is not only easy, by comparison, it’s also far less distracted!
DRUMROLL PLEASE! We Have a Winner!!!
As you may have heard (hah) we decided to give away an iPad 2… (an iPad 2 Wi-Fi 32 GB white or black with a smart cover of the winner’s choice, to be specific). …and late last week, we picked a winner! Charlotte Merton! Charlotte Merton runs a successful, highly respected translation business in Sweden,…