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
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
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