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
To boost team productivity, optimize capacity utilization rates, and master time management, you need data.Yet, gathering data can be overwhelming, especially if it’s all over the place. Scattered, inconsistent information makes reporting tedious and unreliable.On the other hand, if you have a single ...
Product • • 3 min read
eInvoicing is becoming mandatory for businesses registered and operating in the European Union. Germany, Romania, Belgium, Poland, and France have so far introduced eInvoicing regulations, requiring B2B invoices to be created and distributed in compliance with the EN 16931 standard.Even if your agency ...
Product • • 2 min read
As humans, we tend to be optimists. This can be a serious problem when creating project budgets. Instead of being rational, cautious, and precise, our perception gets clouded, making us think things don’t take as much time, effort, or money as they actually do in reality. But it’s not just our eternal ...
Growth • • 7 min read
Sometimes, a first impression is all that matters, simply because we tend to base our entire opinion of something or someone based on that first interaction. This is also known as the halo effect, and it plays a huge role in your agency’s client onboarding process.According to stats, 63% of customers ...
Growth • • 9 min read
Say hello to ActiveCollab version 8!Over the past couple of years, we've challenged ourselves to turn ActiveCollab into something more than a project management tool. We aimed to create a space where service businesses would manage all their work, people, clients, financials, and more.So we listened ...
Product • • 8 min read
Hello, everyone! Welcome to ActiveCollab’s latest updates! In January, we worked on Events in Workload, eInvoicing, and a Project Progress Menu. February also brings interesting new things, including External Calendars in ActiveCollab, Invoices and Estimates in Companies’ Profiles, and improved Team ...
Recaps • • 2 min read
According to the numbers, your average employee spends 51% of the workday on tasks of little to no value. Also, that same average employee gets interrupted about 60 times during the day.And when you read similar stats about how employees are stressed and overworked, it all points to a paradox of sorts ...
Productivity • • 9 min read
Instead of looking for ways to increase the number of working hours in a day, what we should be doing is looking for ways to make better use of our time. According to a small experiment conducted by Steve Glaveski, author and founder of Collective Campus, switching to a six-hour workday increased the ...
Productivity • • 8 min read
For agencies, time is money. That’s why every service-based business needs a time-tracking tool. One that will help them understand not only where team time is being spent, but also identify which clients are money-makers, and which deals turned out to be complete, and utter budget-breakers.But choosing ...
Productivity • • 17 min read
One of the biggest misconceptions about time tracking is that it’s a way to A: spy on employees, and B: push employees to work faster and do more, in less time. The fact is, most businesses, to survive and remain competitive, need to know which jobs are bringing money in, and which ones are putting ...
Productivity • • 11 min read
Do you ever feel like there is never enough time to finish all your work? If your answer is “yes”, press 1!If we had a dollar every time someone pressed 1, we would probably be too busy counting our millions, but here we are. According to research, a staggering 82% of people don’t rely on a time ...
Productivity • • 7 min read
Choosing an ERP system that is going to be the right for your organization can be an overwhelming endeavor. Why? Well, because there are so many factors you need to consider.There is the price, the features your potential ERP of choice has, as well as the ease with which you can implement it. Do you ...
Growth • • 11 min read