Time Tracking - FreshBooks Blog https://www.freshbooks.com/blog Information and inspiration on how to start a business, grow your business, tax tips, freelancing & more from FreshBooks! Sat, 13 Aug 2022 00:02:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.1 5 Ways Your Appointment-Based Business Is Losing Money https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/5-ways-appointment-based-business-loses-money https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/5-ways-appointment-based-business-loses-money#respond Mon, 30 Aug 2021 19:27:34 +0000 https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/?p=65931 Between managing client appointments and making sure that your books are up-to-date, you’ve got a lot going on. But don’t let a busy schedule prevent you from making sure that your appointment-based business is running as efficiently as possible. Service-based businesses are unique in the sense that the bottom line is almost entirely dependent on […]

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]]> https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/5-ways-appointment-based-business-loses-money/feed 0 How to Price a Job as a General Contractor https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/how-to-price-a-job-general-contractor https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/how-to-price-a-job-general-contractor#respond Mon, 26 Jul 2021 13:26:17 +0000 https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/?p=65553 As a general contractor, you want to make sure that you’re pricing out each project accurately; otherwise, you could find yourself running out of budget mid-project and ultimately having to break the news to your clients that their project will cost more than anticipated. But in construction, there are a lot of moving parts; you […]

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]]> https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/how-to-price-a-job-general-contractor/feed 0 Working to Deadlines: 12 Ways to Be More Focused and Productive https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/11-things-to-do-when-youre-struggling-with-deadlines https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/11-things-to-do-when-youre-struggling-with-deadlines#respond Wed, 28 Oct 2020 16:00:58 +0000 https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/?p=51440 One of the defining characteristics of thriving small business owners is their ability to set their own productivity pace. It’s a hidden skill that you won’t understand until you find yourself alone with your computer, your deadlines, and the itch to check Twitter or email just one more time before you get down to business. […]

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]]> https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/11-things-to-do-when-youre-struggling-with-deadlines/feed 0 How Automation Software Can Help You Focus on What’s Important https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/9-tasks-automation-software https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/9-tasks-automation-software#comments Mon, 17 Aug 2020 13:30:39 +0000 https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/?p=54110 Automation software can help you streamline jobs like tracking your income and expenses in spreadsheets. Writing social media posts that you manually post to your profiles. Creating an invoice using Excel or Word. Or sending email after email to follow up on a late payment. Do any of these examples sound familiar? These tasks are […]

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]]> https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/9-tasks-automation-software/feed 3 How to Increase Productivity Using the Pareto Principle (a.k.a. the 80/20 Rule) https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/ways-to-apply-the-8020-rule-to-increase-productivity https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/ways-to-apply-the-8020-rule-to-increase-productivity#respond Wed, 29 Jan 2020 16:30:50 +0000 https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/?p=51292 As a small business owner, you wear a ton of different hats, from administrator to accountant to head of business development (and every hat in between!). With so many conflicting demands and priorities, it can be hard to stay on top of your tasks and get things done without feeling completely overwhelmed. That’s where the […]

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]]> https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/ways-to-apply-the-8020-rule-to-increase-productivity/feed 0 Would You Adopt a 32-Hour Workweek? https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/32-hour-workweek https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/32-hour-workweek#respond Wed, 27 Feb 2019 14:00:50 +0000 https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/?p=61069 Congratulations: You made it happen. You’re an entrepreneur, you left the 9-to-5 behind, and you live and work according to your own rules. The freedom is liberating at first, but it probably didn’t take you too long to realize that normal office hours and consistency are actually pretty good for your productivity. Even working from […]

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]]> https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/32-hour-workweek/feed 0 Work-Life Balance: 9 Work Habits to Get You Home on Time https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/work-life-balance https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/work-life-balance#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2019 14:00:30 +0000 https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/?p=52356 When you’re an entrepreneur it’s next to impossible to call it a day: The business of running a business has a never-ending to-do list. But without a healthy balance between a robust professional life and a legitimate personal life, your work can become uninspired and your life uninteresting. Stepping away every day with enough time […]

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]]> https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/work-life-balance/feed 5 How to Overcome Your Worst Distractions and Increase Productivity https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/increase-productivity https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/increase-productivity#respond Thu, 03 Jan 2019 14:00:44 +0000 https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/?p=60624 One of the defining characteristics of thriving small business owners is their ability to set their own productivity pace. It’s a hidden skill that you won’t understand until you find yourself alone with your computer, your deadlines…and the itch to check Twitter or email just one more time before you get down to business. Most […]

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]]> https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/50-minute-focus-technique/feed 0 3 Easy Ways to Spend Money to Buy Time https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/buy-time https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/buy-time#respond Mon, 03 Dec 2018 14:00:36 +0000 https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/?p=60528 Paying a mechanic to fix our car instead of doing it ourselves. Eating out instead of cooking at home. Hiring a housekeeper to clean our house, so we don’t have to. Buying back our time, we do it all the time in our personal lives, but why do some of us remain reluctant to do […]

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