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Tracking Payments and Retainers

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OfficeTime does a great job of tracking time, a good job of invoicing, but comes up a bit short on the accounting side of things. Most companies don’t like to admit their product doesn’t do something well. But I like to see it from the buyer’s perspective. When I’m looking at a product, I want to know exactly what its strengths and weaknesses are. That’s the problem with most marketing material. It gives only glowing praise when you need an honest picture. But should we be trying to fill the role of an accounting solution?

Is Multitasking the Enemy of Productivity & What does it do to Time Management?

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Is Multitasking the Enemy of Productivity & What does it do to Time Management?It will come as a surprise to most of us to find out that only 2 percent of the work force can multitask effectively. If that is true, then 98 percent of us, who try to multitask almost every moment of every day, actually impair our productivity rather than help it – and what does that do to our time management???.

How Tracking Time Can Change Productivity

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There are many ways to improve productivity, and they all start from a simple analysis of “Times Tracked”. For example, to an individual, productivity will be measured by how much he or she accomplished – not how busy they were. A Time Tracking Analysis could provide information on the importance of the tasks accomplished and answer the question if any of the tasks could have been delegated. The analysis will provide us with additional information on non-productive times which decrease productivity.

The analyzed and timed activities will highlight key elements of possible improvement. The analysis will provide t

2 Steps to Sanity in your Workload: Summarize and Prioritize

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Step 1. Summarize all tasks that compose your weekly to-do list. This will give you the ability to prioritize according to deadlines and importance. Then split your workload into chunks of time. Write the central idea for the specific day. Can you now specify a few main branches for the key tasks that you need to accomplish? Give those a title and arrange them as sub categories of the central idea. Under these sub categories list all the events, tasks, sub-tasks, deadlines, actions, etc. that are needed to complete each of the sub categories individually.

Step 2. Prioritize. You now have an educated view to decide what is important and what is not, objectively. Having clarity about how everything fits together will increase your productivity. You will be able to “find” those extra hours on your weekly schedule. If you created your summary correctly, you will be organized, calm and clear to tackle the main category of each day.

5 Top Time Wasters of 2012 (according to our bloggers!)

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You will notice that there are only FOUR top time wasters here. We’d love to hear what YOUR #1 time waster was for 2012. Share it here and give us your contact information, and maybe we’ll feature you in our blog next month! Time Management is one of the MOST important wins for OfficeTime and our time tracking solution – knowing what stands in your way helps us to serve you better.

Keeping Your Calendar In Sync With Your Life

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OfficeTime can sync everything you do to your calendar and even find your appointments and add them to the correct projects.  If you use OfficeTime on a Mac, you might already know this. But this trick can work as well if you’re using OfficeTime on your iPhone or iPad.   OfficeTime for the iPhone or…

Two Top Time Management and Email Management Tips from OfficeTime

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Time Management Tip: Be smart in how you communicate. I’m not saying to be unfriendly at all, but I try not to create open ended “chatty” conversations by email (or even in life). Getting sucked into a 20-minute “How’s it going” can mean 20 minutes less with my little girl at the end of the day. So, limit your use of questions when you’re short on time. Instead of “How are you this morning,” try the equally friendly comment: “It is so nice to see you today!” This will stop email back and forth in its tracks.

Having Fun with Time Management?

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For many people, the word “fun” is not what comes to mind when they think of time management. Instead they think of it as just another important part of business. But who says you can’t make it fun? We have come up with a great way to track and manage your time that incorporates many key concepts – and uses the best time tracker out there to make it easy: OfficeTime.

Two Time Management Tips to do More with Less and Increase Productivity

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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…