This Matrix is a simple way of helping yourself to choose which activities, tasks or projects to prioritize if you wish to make the most of your time and opportunities. You can also “see’ clearly which ones you will need to drop. After all, you are the “manager of your time” and you can incorporate the tool to choose activities intelligently. The alternative is involving you in activities that could be low-yield and very time consuming.
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?
Is Multitasking the Enemy of Productivity & What does it do to Time Management?
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
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
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…
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.
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.
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.