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
Data management, efficiency, financial management, security, collaboration, growth, automation, customer satisfaction, brand visibility… If you are running an agency in 2025, all of these things, and more, should be your concern.Sounds like a lot, doesn’t it? And it is, there is no question about ...
Growth • • 9 min read
On a scale of 1-10, how good are you at managing time? Are you a teeny tiny, chaotic 2, or are you a self-proclaimed efficiency buff, sitting on a throne way up in the proud 9’s?Whether we realize it or not, most of us already use some type of time management system to structure our working day. Take ...
Productivity • • 10 min read
Almost every collaboration platform lets you invite people to your workspace in seconds.What happens when you need more time to prepare for onboarding?Say you’re having a new team member joining you in a couple of weeks or a client under contract starting in a month.No matter which platform you’re ...
Product • • 5 min read
Hello, everyone! Welcome to ActiveCollab’s latest updates! In December, we updated Calendar and People Archive, and also added a new feature to Task Reports—task presets. We spent January working on Events in Workload, eInvoicing, and a Project Progress Menu. Curious to discover how these can help ...
Recaps • • 3 min read
How much thought and time do you put into gathering and analyzing project requirements? And have you ever looked back at failed projects to see when and where you went wrong? Was it all a matter of having the wrong deliverables to start with? According to Infotech, 70% of projects fail due to poor requirements ...
Project Management • • 9 min read
The Beatles. The International Space Station. What do these two have in common?At first glance not much. The former are the best-selling band of all time, with 183 million units, and an unsurpassed cultural phenomenon, and the latter is the most ambitious and complex international collaboration in human ...
Team Collaboration • • 8 min read
The mark of all great teams is that they are more than the sum of their parts. That is why it’s frustrating when you know your agency team has all the right ingredients to succeed, but it still underperforms. If this resonates with you, you are not alone!According to research, $8.9 trillion is lost ...
Team Collaboration • • 12 min read
We like to think managing multiple projects is like being behind a drum set, where each limb needs to work independently, but all of them still need to work together to keep rhythm, since your projects are bound to influence one another.Now, when it comes to project management, 85% of your colleagues ...
Project Management • • 8 min read
Regardless of how big your agency is, your resources will always be limited, be it cash or manpower. So, sooner or later, you will find yourself having a wide range of customers, which is a nice thing to have. Or is it a problem?Bear with us for a moment. No, having a large and varied customer base is ...
Growth • • 7 min read
Who’s your biggest, brightest work star? You know who we’re talking about. It’s that one person who can take care of anything and everything. You love them, your clients love them, and chances are, future employers will love them, too.Yep, these bright stars are your greatest, walking business ...
Project Management • • 10 min read
Just because you want to scale, doesn’t mean you’re ready to scale. What do we mean by this? Well, even though a solid cashflow might be hinting it's time to move on up, your processes and systems might not be there just yet.So, before you get all excited about how to scale a digital marketing agency ...
Growth • • 12 min read
Hello, everyone! Welcome to ActiveCollab’s latest updates! In November, we released ActiveCollab 8, and added features to Calendar, Task Reports, and Invoices. This month, we made several more changes to Calendar and Task Reports, as well as to People Archive. Let’s see what these enhancements are ...
Recaps • • 3 min read