Time Tracking & Productivity Blog
Thomas FuchsYou run a business, and your business runs on time. Whether your need to bill your customers, or knowing which projects use up precious...
Time Tracking & Productivity Blog
After years of waging war as an employee and consultant for big (and small) businesses, Amy left the trenches to become a full time Product Crusader. Product strategist and teacher by day, fine furniture enthusiast by night. As a web developer & interaction designer, Amy has created an empire of cheerfully bootstrapped products in the hopes of inspiring others to do the same.
Get Your Tax #@(! Together for 2011, Part 1
Tweet If you’re [using Freckle](http://letsfreckle.com), you already have it easy accounting for your time and productivity and invoices… but what about your taxes? The tax year is wrapping up, which means it’s time to sit down over some contraband wine coolers and talk about **Getting Our Tax #@(! Together for 2011**. [...]
Amy Hoy
Jazzercise! Processize!
Screw singing for your supper — freelancers dance for theirs! High-kicks and project kickoffs, dips and onboarding questionnaires. Tapping. The questions to ask. Jazz hands. The agreements to sign. Interpretive swanning around — the clarifications to clarify. You’re a pro; you know all the moves. But you’re only human. Occasionally, [...]
Amy Hoy
Measuring Time & Poodles: What’s a New York minute?
Johnny Carson once joked that a New York minute is the length of time between when the traffic light turns green and the person behind you starts to honk. Carson’s definition takes a jab at the stereotype that New Yorkers are impatient and perpetually in a hurry. But what is the real definition of a “New York minute”? What [...]
Amy Hoy
How Freelancers Can Avoid Old Boot Soup
### PROBLEM: Cash-flow ouchies You’re in the middle of a project that you thought’d be a snappy 2-weeker, but somehow it’s turned into a snippy 6-weeker. The end is in sight… but your pay day’s another Net 30 away. It’s not quite time to start those old boots a-boiling but, all the same, it’s not exactly [...]
Amy Hoy
Expense tracking is here!
Our #1 requested feature is… expense tracking and line items for invoices! And believe us, we hear you. **Today we launched the beta version of expense tracking**! It goes great with a fine chianti, and also with the beta version of invoicing. > **Why beta?** Because we’re hard at work to make it even better, and we don’t want [...]
Amy Hoy
Avoid the Sales Funnel Swirly
Do you track your clients before the ink is dry? **PROBLEM:** Your True Hourly Rate is a hidden, mystical creature. A unicorn! But you want to find and pet the unicorn. Petting unicorns is profitable. To find the unicorn, you must go on a quest… to track all the time related to your work. **SOLUTION, PART ONE OF MANY:** Figure out exactly [...]
Amy Hoy
Too Hot to Work: the Freckle Summer Series
**Summertime, and the living is easy… or at least really freakin’ hot.** In Freckle land (Vienna, Austria), things are really heating up. Until a week or two ago, the summer was all grey skies and rain. Now it’s bright as you please and 90 degrees F (that’s 32.5 C, for our fellow non-USians). And in Freckle land, nobody [...]
Amy Hoy
Invoicing with Freckle: A Comic in 7 Steps
Did you know Freckle does invoicing? **Cuz Freckle absoluuuuutely does invoicing!** All paid account levels have unlimited invoices. (Free users, all you need to do is upgrade to any paid plan to invoice your heart out!) And we’re adding a lot more power to it, too. Wanna get the inside skinny on our customer-driven roadmap? Just keep [...]
Amy Hoy
Eat the Damn Cookie – Unthink Your Way to Productivity
**A single cookie can make the difference between a great day of work, and a disasterous one.** Imagine you’re sitting comfortably at a table. In front of you is a plate of cookies. Delicious, warm, gooey, wafting cookies. You know how in the cartoons, delicious smells morph into fingers that snare you by the nostrils? Yeah. It’s [...]
Amy Hoy
Freckle Focus Interview with Shawn Adrian of Nerdburn
[Shawn Adrian](http://blog.nerdburn.com/ “Nerdburn”) knows a thing or two about time–specifically, about saving a lot of it for himself and other businesses who work with quotes and estimates. The co-founder of the [QuoteRobot](http://quoterobot.com/ “QuoteRobot”) application, which trims hours off of the quote-generation [...]
Amy Hoy