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These quickies answer a lot of questions. Does this time tracker have a timesheet? A timer? Is ST used in engineering? Do consultants and freelancers use it, and how? What do project managers think of it? Do they use it to manage projects and tasks? How does PTO and time off accruals work? Watch a few videos and find out.
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Consultants and Freelancers
Engineers Don't Hate ST
Project Managers like ST
Barcoding is Hot in Mfg
Does Your Project Suck?
How Consultants Track Time
Looking for a Timesheet?
Why the PMO Needs a Timesheet
Time Tracking Tool for Service Techs
Eng Director Has a Dream
The Iron Triangle
Customer Support Time Tracking
Fixed-price Milestone Billing
Mfg Runs ST
PM's Like Task Linking
Business Idea for Freelancers
Write a Project Proposal
Effective Billing Rate Calculated
Vacation Tracker for HR
Try Project Portfolios
SEO Time Tracker
Code Slingers Time Tracker
IT Consulting Time Tracking
Sales and Marketing Consulting
Electricians Track Jobs
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Consultants and Freelancers
Learn why consultants and freelancers like ST. The quick answer: you get enough cool stuff to run your whole operation. Stuff like time and expense tracking, apps, client billing, invoicing, PTO tracking, Windows, Web, and smartphone interfaces. It doesn't matter if you're a one-person freelancer, consulting shop, or full consultancy. -
Engineers Don't Hate ST
Engineers hate every stupid app you stick on their computers! But they don't hate ST. Why? Probably because this app thinks like they do. Project Analytics is a good example. Or Project Triangles. These are hardcore project management features geeks don't flee from. -
Project Managers like ST
Project managers are a demanding class. They want the best project management and the best employee experience in the world. That's why they choose ST. It has an effective employee timesheet with all the PM tools you expect. Build projects, assign tasks, link and schedule, then view employee availability. Now compare actuals with estimates. Oh yeah! -
Barcoding is Hot in Mfg
Imagine barcoding a few labels and instantly learning how much time each product takes to manufacture, how much time each product line consumes, and employee hours. That's a lot of fun data to sift through. Want to try it? You can! And once you learn where your manufacturing time is spent, you can realign priorities and be more efficient. -
Does Your Project Suck?
Here are five things to do to salvage a bad project. We give you tools for every one of them. And ancillary features to back them up and answer a lot more questions. A bad project isn't easy to fix, but you can at least get started. Once you do, things are likely to get better as new information pours in. -
How Consultants Track Time
Here are the steps successful consultants use to track time for client billing. Everything starts with a good timesheet and time tracker. Now you need some lite project management, with tasks and milestones. Then throw in a milestone-based client invoicing system. Got all that? If not, check this out. -
Looking for a Timesheet?
You're looking for a timesheet, right? Or was that project management? Guess what... you can have both. You can practically run your whole operation on this one timesheet and project management tool. That's a bold claim, but dig in and you'll be surprised. -
Why the PMO Needs a Timesheet
Is the PMO Office asking for a timesheet on every desk? If so, here's why: Project schedules without actual employee hours and input are virtually worthless. You start with a pristine schedule with all your tasks, but within a few days things have changed. And they change in a big hurry. So what can you do about it? -
Time Tracking Tool for Service Techs
Need a good tool for service techs on the road. Here you go. Track travel time, mileage, support time, client meetings. Know exactly when and where your tech are, how much time they spend on each client. Find out if secondary clients are eating up all the good support time. Re-adjust priorities to the best clients. -
Eng Director Has a Dream
This engineering director has a dream. That is to put the ST timesheet on every machine. There are some nice advantages to this. The biggest one is to collect engineering hours at the very time they occur. Don't wait for several days. Don't collect time second-hand through an administrator. Let engineers enter their own time. -
The Iron Triangle
What a great way to instantly see the health of your project. View triangles for your own projects to see if they are healthy, or going off the rails. The iron triangle is impossible to cheat. Three demands are held in constant tension: time, cost, and scope. Learn what they are and how to view your own projects. -
Customer Support Time Tracking
Are you tracking your customer support hours? Here's a solution you should consider. Start a timer when you begin a support ticket, stop the timer when complete. A single click does both. That means you don't spend a bunch of time figuring things out while the customer is asking you questions. Good for IT support -
Fixed-price Milestone Billing
If you're in consulting, you're likely already doing fixed-bid contracts and milestone billing. But is your invoicing tool working for you? Is it integrated with your timekeeping apps? Or with your task list? How about your project tracking and management? If you're using a spreadsheet the answer is automatically no. -
Mfg Runs ST
On the odd chance you are not already running ST, take a look at this video. Scan barcode labels during assembly and packing. And use PM tools for engineering and administration. Everything manufacturing wants is here. Ask your project managers, engineers, assembly managers, and shipping. They will agree. -
PM's Like Task Linking
Project managers like task linking because project schedules are more realistic. One task cannot start until another finishes. When that happens in real life, represent it in your schedule and timesheet. Employees work see only relevant tasks that can be worked on only after others have been completed. -
Business Idea for Freelancers
Here's a business idea for freelancers. Get a good time tracking app that compliments your client support plan. Send invoices from your time and materials. Get some other freelancers to join you. And build a full-service consultancy. You can do it! -
Write a Project Proposal
Write a project proposal and get new business. Not only does it make your consulting shop look professional, you can track the progress from Submitted to Won. View future project revenue with a win/loss funnel. -
Effective Billing Rate Calculated
How to calculate your effective billing rate: Divide your revenue by your scheduled hours. That's effectively how much you are making per hour. The calculation gets trickier when you have multiple consultants billing at different rates. And it gets even trickier with a given date range, like what is our effective billing rate for last quarter? -
Vacation Tracker for HR
CEO's: You may not have thought about it, but you're likely burning dozens of hours per month managing PTO accruals. If you keep a spreadsheet with everybody's hours, that's likely a human intensive task you can automate. Imagine everybody's bank of hours automatically updating each week or month. And then subtracting when they take time off. Zowie! -
Try Project Portfolios
Consider managing projects using portfolios. It's a high-level project management technique. You're basically managing a bundle of projects as a single entity. Think of project portfolios as big collections. You don't care exactly which projects are inside; instead, you care how much time and revenue is associated with them. That's a step up from individual projects. -
SEO Time Tracker
Track client billable hours for web properties you maintain. Track your SEO efforts such as website optimizations, back link programs, writing blog articles, social posts, and PPC management. Know exactly how much time you spend in each category, and for each client. Measure time, and improve. -
Code Slingers Time Tracker
Code slingers track time too. How else can they know how long each client website takes to develop, debug, and deploy. This app is for HTML, CSS, and code slingers. You need something simple that can track projects, and generate client invoices. Track time in the cloud, android, or ios. Sling code internet god, and don't forget to track client hours. -
IT Consulting Time Tracking
IT professionals track time for client billing. Installing networks, configuring servers, setting up workstations, and installing apps. This is the timesheet tool for that job. At the end of the month, just run an invoice and send it off as a PDF. -
Sales and Marketing Consulting
Can you name your biggest client? Or course you can. Now, can you name the client you spent the most time on last quarter? Oops, it may not be the one you think it is. That is the number one reason you need this timesheet. You may be burning precious hours on secondary clients and not even knowing it. -
Electricians Track Jobs
If you're an electrician, you should consider tracking client jobs. You'll get a lot of information you've never considered, like average cost per job, average revenue per job, effective billing rate per hour, and which clients call on you the most. Plus, you get client invoicing and project tracking.
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