Ideas, insights, and inside looks at how modern teams collaborate, manage work, and scale smarter – with a dash of product updates and stories from the trenches
Choosing the best project management tool for your agency or consultancy business is a tiring venture. It takes time to do the research, create a shortlist, and test out the ones that seem like a good fit. With a heap of project management tools on the market, most try to cater to every business type ...
Project Management • • 9 min read
AboutGEL Studios is a B Corp creative agency based in Swindon, Wiltshire. They offer a range of digital services, including marketing and branding, website and graphic design. What makes this exceptional team of 10 stand out is their approach to business. They are driven by a purpose, aiming to inspire ...
Customer Stories • • 4 min read
The term “conflict” is pretty much a four-letter word in any agency, business, or organization, mainly because it’s usually associated with disagreements, misalignment, or even worse, bullying and harassment.However, workplace conflict can also be beneficial to your team, and there are numbers ...
Productivity • • 7 min read
According to a survey of 2,000 U.S. knowledge workers, they spend only 44% of their workweek doing their primary activities. That basically means that their core activities take a backseat to stuff like meetings and emails. And it’s all because of poor time management.The most worrying thing about ...
Productivity • • 8 min read
Humans are a funny lot. We like setting and achieving goals because it gives us a sense of purpose. We like rules and routines because it keeps us in-line and organized. And we love fail-proof strategies and hacks because they promise to make us more focused, driven, productive and successful beings.One ...
Productivity • • 7 min read
No, this is not an updated version of a 2023 list. It’s the real deal: Six of the best e-invoicing tools in 2025, selected carefully to suit small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), specifically. With over 99% of businesses in the European Union (EU) and the USA classified as SMEs, you would think ...
Growth • • 9 min read
Jumping from one task to another, hoping to clear as much as is humanly possible in a working day, is not productivity; it’s a recipe for disaster.When you have no plan of attack, you waste energy and time. On top of that, you also experience higher levels of stress. To avoid this, most people turn ...
Productivity • • 6 min read
While ActiveCollab Assignments Dashboard and Reports can give you a lot of information about your projects, time, team performance, and budgets, we understand that you don’t always have time to create and analyze specific reports.We implemented the Project Progress Menu to make project progress tracking ...
Product • • 3 min read
For an agency to scale and reach seven-figure ARR, properly set up business health metrics aren’t optional — they’re mandatory. Think of them as your lighthouse, guiding you through the inevitable storms ahead.Without these metrics, you’ll be flying blind – unable to pinpoint where you’re ...
Growth • • 10 min read
Agencies run on systems and operating procedures. Systems are your software tools, and procedures are your processes. They work together to deliver optimal results so you can grow and scale your business. If either of those two is ineffective, it will directly affect your business’s bottom line. And ...
Marketing • • 9 min read
According to Zoom, employees who use more than 10 apps have 54% more communication issues than those who use five or fewer apps. If you think about it, it makes perfect sense. The more divided you are, the less focused you become. But while every business founder would love to have a leaner tool stack ...
Team Collaboration • • 10 min read
Did you know that an average employee spends 11.3 hours in meetings each week? There are also other events, like webinars, online training, all-day conferences..We often overlook these, the same way we ignore the fact it takes us about 23 minutes to recover and regain focus after a distraction. This ...
Product • • 4 min read