The truth is that your Time Management will be compromised unless you put the car in gear and move your foot onto the accelerator. If you are going to stay still or work around the project but not on the project, you are “Getting Nowhere”. Maybe you can relate to this?
Tracking Payments and Retainers
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?
Keeping Your Calendar In Sync With Your Life
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…
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.
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.
3 More ACHIEVABLE Time Management Tips from OfficeTime
Saying yes when you should say no can produce tons of stress, and that is far more than distracting, it’s destructive. This week, don’t agree to anything that doesn’t directly benefit you. Once you feel as if you’re in control of your time instead of outside influences being in charge, you can say yes again.
3 Manic Monday Time Management Tips from OfficeTime
Okay, we know it’s Tuesday! We’ve been doing so much to promote our new OfficeTime app that I missed Manic Monday’s time management tips. But better late than never; here they are. Simple and doable:
Tracking Time Means Having the Keys to a Real Work / Life Balance
Time management is one of the most common struggles cited by my clients. We all know that time logs have been around forever, but a handwritten log is such a hassle that very few people bother with one unless they are required to by their company, or unless time logging is part of a scientific or professional protocol they need to follow. So most people just have no idea how they actually spend their time, and asking them to write their activities in a log usually is a dead end.
Tracking Time Keeps Branding Business on Track
Okay friends and fans! We’re in a groove here at OfficeTime! This week’s interview on time management and how vital it is to a successful business is with Dan Crask of BrandShepherd.com. Dan is one of our favorite people – a real odd-ball among fellow creatives, he somehow finds a balance between right-brain creativity and…