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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From Active Chaos to ActiveCollab

Customer story written by Norm Alger, partner at Xhilarate.Xhilarate is an experiential branding firm that creates visual brand expressions that engage, excite the senses, and inspire business growth. We are experts in branding, interactive design, immersive storytelling, and cultural engagement. Each ...

Customer Stories 2 min read

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You’ve Got Your NPS Score - Now What?

Humans love expressing things in numbers. By assigning plain numerical values to abstract concepts, we feel like we can understand and control them better. We also associate higher values with better quality, a preconception marketing often seeks to exploit (“The sequel will be bigger, better, with ...

Marketing 4 min read

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A Great Day for Collaboration

For those of you who’ve been looking to collaboration, this is going to be a great day. The Reactions are up and running in ActiveCollab 5.15.0! We are bringing you a new way to make your day-to-day communication more expressive and engaging.Not all comments are created equal. More often than not ...

Product 1 min read

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From Nightmare to Peace of Mind With ActiveCollab

Customer story written by Andrew Folts, owner of Sherpa Design Co.Hey there. I’m Andrew Folts, a freelance web designer, developer, and owner of Sherpa Design Co. I collaborate with small businesses to help them share their unique products, services, and stories through Hard-Working Websites™.Making ...

Customer Stories 2 min read

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A Day at the Outreach

Imagine a beach. Late summer, when it’s still warm and pleasant, but no longer too hot. Soft sand glittering under the morning sun, palm trees swaying in the breeze. The waves, high and imposing, drawing you in, daring you to take up the surfboard and mount them.Now, doing outreach can easily compare ...

Marketing 4 min read

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Dressed to Impress Thanks to ActiveCollab

Customer story written by Joel Avery, co-founder and CTO of FashionPassFashionPass is a service that allows people to rent and swap designer clothing and accessories as many times per month as they want. We believe that a great outfit has the ability to transform not only the way you look, but the way ...

Customer Stories 3 min read

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How We Mastered the Editing Process With ActiveCollab

Customer story written by Roman Davydov, content writer at KraftblickHi! My name is Roman Davydov, and I’m a content writer at Kraftblick, a digital marketing agency for SaaS companies and startups. Our team consists of cool guys and gals who are also professional marketers and experts in their fields.Since ...

Customer Stories 3 min read

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Managing a Global Team With ActiveCollab

Customer story written by Feli and Marcus, founders of DNX GlobalWe never really planned to become digital nomads and build a business around it. It all came together when Feli wanted to escape her 9-5 job again and planned to travel through Southeast Asia. At the same time, after quitting his job in ...

Customer Stories 3 min read

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Happiness Hero and Her Sidekick - Activecollab

Now we save up to 4 hours a day - simply by staying home and not commuting.Hi, I’m Sharné McDonald and I work at hi5 as a part of a five-strong remote team that’s developing a coworker review tool called hi5. My role at this Cape Town based company is a Happiness Hero, which means I handle Customer ...

Customer Stories 3 min read

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What Is a Scope Creep?

If you are a project manager and don’t know what a scope creep is, you are either new to the gig - or just extremely lucky. But don’t worry, it happens to the best of us.The scope creep is an uncontrollable expansion of project goals that were not previously agreed upon. It usually starts off small ...

Project Management 4 min read

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One Step Beyond S.M.A.R.T. Goals

You say that you think things through when setting your goals. But, are you actually being smart about it?If businesses were to set their primary goal, it would boil down to something like: “Earn as much profit as possible.” However, if you were to give this task to a new employee (and leave it at ...

Project Management 5 min read

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Managing a Marketing Agency With ActiveCollab

Customer story written by Gem Muzones, Content Marketing Manager at SpiralyticsIn less than three months, we were able to increase our client base from 30 to 44 (almost 50%)Here at Spiralytics, we operate like a small business to encourage flexibility and creative freedom. So, it’s vital to us that ...

Customer Stories 4 min read