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
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
Speed up, streamline, centralize and deliver. That’s the motto of every workflow improvement hack. Businesses, corporations, organizations, startups and agencies all run on processes. Some love and live by them (think banks). Others loathe, sidestep, and keep them to a bare minimum (think startups ...
Growth • • 11 min read
According to research, small business owners work twice as much as regular employees, clocking in more than 60 hours per week. That is a lot! And you can bet that it’s more of the same stories with employees in small enterprises and agencies.More often than not, small businesses are fighting to stay ...
Growth • • 9 min read
Hello, everyone! Welcome to ActiveCollab’s latest updates! In October, we introduced User History and Virtual Users, two new features that will certainly help you better manage your teams. We’ve got some exciting news and updates this time as well, so read on to learn more!ActiveCollab 8 RolloutWe’re ...
Recaps • • 3 min read
Feeling overwhelmed by your task list? Join the line. Whether it’s five, fifteen, or 500, to-do or task lists can be one of the most soul-destroying, demotivating, moving parts of any professional’s job. What makes it worse is that the list keeps growing. And growing constantly. Usually, at a faster ...
Project Management • • 11 min read
Backlog refinement is essential for project teams that use Agile methodology, and it’s an indispensable process in Scrum. According to research, as much as 91% of project management professionals say that their organizations are running into project management issues. If your team is constantly struggling ...
Project Management • • 7 min read
Hello everyone,Welcome to the latest ActiveCollab updates! In September, we showed you the improvements made to the assignments dashboard, estimates, user profile, teams, and trash. This time, we’ll show you User History and a brand new feature Virtual Users. ActiveCollab 8: User HistoryUser History ...
Recaps • • 1 min read
After years of development, ActiveCollab 8 is almost ready for the public. But before we make it the only version for all our current and future users, we wanted to provide some of you the opportunity to be among the first to try it.To join our Early Access Program, get in touch with our customer care ...
Product • • 2 min read
Hello everyone, Welcome to the latest recap of ActiveCollab’s updates! In August, we showed the improvements we’ve made to the My Work page and Estimates. Let’s review the enhancements made in September!ActiveCollab 8: Assignments DashboardWhether you want to get info at a glance or drill down ...
Recaps • • 2 min read