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.
Last 36 Hours of Our Contest – and Half-Price Sale!
We hope you guys are out there posting your hearts out to be entered into our iPad 3 Contest – because tomorrow (6/13/12) is the last day!!! It’s also the last day of our ½ price sale in the App store, so let’s give it one last push! http://bit.ly/HalfOffOT
So many of you posted tweets and shares about our OfficeTime Time Tracker. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts – a huge thanks goes to the many of you who blogged and even created videos about your experiences with OfficeTime. Our goal is always to save you time (and money!) as you go through your day-to-day work and projects.
We’re Giving Away a New iPad 3!
Half price sale on OfficeTime for the iPad, iPhone, iPod plus Mac and PC and we’re giving away a new iPad 3 as a thank you for helping us shout about it!
We’ve got dozens of improvements in all versions (like even better exporting by email on your iPhone) and are really excited to get this in your hands.
Time is Worth Tracking, Survey Finds
“Where does the time go?” How often do you find yourself asking that question? If you’re like us, the answer is every single day. No matter how hard we work, time just races by, leaving the inbox always full and the “to do” list with more added than crossed off each day. We know that those who TRACK their time are more efficient than those who don’t, but we wanted to know what the impetus is for professionals and business owners to track their time and their tasks.
Here are the results.
Help! PR Opportunity…. We are looking for Case Studies to Feature
We’ve been invited to write a few great articles on Time Management and how important it is to track time to accurately invoice clients – something we’re obviously passionate about! If a few of you out there who use OfficeTime would like to be featured, please comment here on this blog, and we’ll get back to you ASAP! And if you don’t use our Time Tracker yet, you can get a no-cost version of our App and easily try it out at http://bit.ly/OfficeTimeFree
One GREAT Time Management Tip
What’s YOUR best Time Management Tip? Let us know – or share your own best time management tips – and get featured in our blog!
Time. The real commodity.
Brilliant Editor Tracks Time and Increases Revenue
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.
Subject: Features Aren’t Sexy
I believe great apps are not those that do everything. Great apps are the ones that do something well. And how do you define doing something well? It’s not always about power. It’s about being able to do the task with the minimum amount of friction. The more you have to think about using an app, the more you are distracted from doing the work you’ve set out to do.
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