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

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6 best e-invoicing software tools for SMEs in 2025

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

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Task batching: detailed process breakdown for ultimate efficiency

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

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Stay on top of your projects with ActiveCollab Project Progress Menu

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

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Which agency metrics should you track and how

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

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7 best marketing agency project management software in 2025

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

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7 best team collaboration software & tools in 2025

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

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7 best advertising agency project management software in 2025

If you’re running an advertising agency and looking for a project management tool, you shouldn’t settle for a generic tool. What you should be looking for is a special tool –  one that’s tailor-made with ad agency workflows in mind. A tool that ticks all your team and client needs boxes.But ...

Project Management 9 min read

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The future of remote work: dying trend or new standard?

Remote work isn’t clocking out – it’s evolving. As businesses rethink how teams connect and deliver, remote setups are becoming less of a perk and more of a blueprint. The question isn’t if it’ll last, but how we’ll make it work better.

Culture 7 min read

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Preventing burnout: 11 workload management strategies for SMEs

When it comes to SMEs, we mostly hear success stories because, let’s face it, everybody loves a good success story. However, we don’t get to hear much about how tough and competitive it is out there, and how many SMEs actually go belly up.According to research, only 48.9% of small businesses make ...

Productivity 8 min read

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Team workload management: Guide for efficient performance

According to SmartBrief, 28.57% of leaders have said that they distribute the workload very well among team members, with 61.9% of them saying that they do it well. Only 1.73% have admitted to doing a poor job.However, it’s easy to suspect that they haven’t been completely honest, because an unbalanced ...

Productivity 8 min read