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...
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3 Ways To Get Your Team To Track Time
You run a business, and your business runs on time. Whether your need to bill your customers, or knowing which projects use up precious resources—you rely on accurate and timely time tracking: who did what when, and for how long. In the minds of your team members time tracking probably is far down the list of what they think is important. [...]
Thomas Fuchs
How to ship software, the easy way
Do you think you have what it takes to ship software? I’ll let you in on a secret: it’s not easy and takes a lot of effort—but it’s all skills that you can learn. Here’s my checklist for getting software projects done, in a way that they actually ship and actually work well: To ship software, first learn how to design things for [...]
Thomas Fuchs
Stack Overflow is down. What now?
The Internet is awesome. Information is right at your fingertips. Always-available help from people all over the world is one of humanity’s dreams come true. I’m not sure if the philosophers of antiquity included copy and pasting of code snippets in this dream, but hey, it’s a fact of daily developer life. Copy and pasting is awesome, [...]
Thomas Fuchs
To #tag or not to #tag
The other day, one of our two amazing developers Thomas “Tagging It” Cannon wrote an advice email. As much as I wanted the email to be about men’s fashion (he’s a sharp dresser), alas it was a solid bit of guidance for an IT team to get the most out of Freckle. In his defence, the email was a lot more useful (at least [...]
Thomas Fuchs
Top 10 Signs You Should Raise Your Rates
December is crunch time for most freelancers. It’s that time of year again. Time to take on a few extra projects to make going to the mall less painful, and time to say, ‘yes’ to ridiculous requests from your clients. photo cc alli It’s the holidays, so you’ll give them a break; they just need one more thing done; [...]
Devon Kreider
3 Great Reads to Help You Price Betta, Hunt Down Clients, & Work Those Deadlines!
Happy Friday! **We hand-picked these 3 action-packed essays full of great ideas for your consulting biz.** Enjoy! ## Passing the Holy Milestone: How to Meet Deadlines Deadlines: they’re hard to love. > “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” — *Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s [...]
Amy Hoy
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
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
We’re refactoring, thanks!
> A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system. > — John Gall
Amy Hoy
Hipster Time Tracker, v1: Download & Print
For your printable pleasure, I’m happy to unveil a little goodie we’ve made for freckle time tracking customers… and anyone who has a love for pen & paper. Download PDF (260k) This is just version 1, and we have some other pocketable ideas. You’re so quiet. Whatcha thinkin’? This is not a one-off for us. [...]
Amy Hoy