SaaS – opportunity for frequent upgrades

March 11th, 2009

Thanks to SaaS model our users don’t worry about updates. We can post small upgrades even every day, and users get them automaticaly. We think it’s very comfortable and will try to get from this fact as much as we can by releasing upgrades often.

Feature: Avarage time per shift

This feature is showing average time per shift for app/site detailed view for better understanding “time killers”. Log in and check this new feature! How to interpretate  it? If average time per shift for an application is very low (for example 30 sec.) you should consider to think about how you use this app and try to use application longer for one session.

Tips for solo enterpreneurs

January 12th, 2009

Here is a great article containing 4 tips for solo enterpreneurs (but I think this is misunderstood title for article because this points could have also great impact on multi enterpreneurs businesees). Here is a fragment:

Put a priority on revenue generation.  Founding entrepreneurs have to spend the majority of their time looking for customers.  This doesn’t mean creating brochures and newsletters; it means getting on the phone and pursuing referrals.  

When entrepreneurs, especially service providers, come to me when their young companies are in jeopardy, I often find that they are working long, long hours.  Unfortunately, they are working on the wrong tasks.  

To bring discipline to a work week, I encourage entrepreneurs to set aside at leasttwo or three full days (ideally, the same days each week) for active customer solicitation.

TimeCamp for companies

December 2nd, 2008

Meeting users’ expectation we proudly announce new core feature: TimeCamp groups.

Would you like to be sure that your employees do not pass the limit of social networking or watching youtube movies?

With TimeCamp groups it’s very easy, as 1-2-3.

1. You install our small appliation on each computer – everybody can do this.
2. You enter to your account settings, create group and invite members by e-mails.
3. After 30 minutes you would see first results, and your employees for first time compare themselfs with group avarage.

It’s costs $8 / month per user. No long-term contracts (with 30 day full-trial), no sign-up fee, cancel at any time. Purchases are handled by the lider of electronic payments – PayPal. It’s very safe.

Furher reading:

• Survey – “Time Out”
• $178 Billion in Employee Productivity Lost in the U.S. Annually
• Internet abuse costs big money
• Triple Your Productivity

Monitor important live activities to be more productive

November 12th, 2008

Brian Tracy in his book “Focal Point” describes a very interesting thing: if you learn that someone watching you when you do some activieties, you start to improve this activities. Nobody wants to be ill-judged.

Now, imagine that there is a person who always stands by you, 24 hours a day. Its grateful task is not  to the lowering  eye of you and monitor what you’re doing, how much time you spend, how often, etc. If you had such a person, would you do the same way? Would you do the same things and do them in the same way?

Probably not …

That’s why monitor and measure. What  you not measure, you can not improve. I think that measure is an art in which we paint the picture of our lifes. It sounds fustian, but this is the truth. Example: Remind yourself day in which you were alone in the house. What where you doing, how did you look? When nobody is looking, we give leeway…

What can be measured in everyday activities? According to me, almost anything. But we should not try to do this. We should wonder what will bring us benefits or improve the humor:) And the best is something that could be measured automatically.

I am not a advocate of measuring the activity that happens spontaneously or which hard relate to private life. For example,  do not attempt to measure and assess the moments spent with family and friends, or time to relax.

What is worth to measure and how to use it to be more competitive company we will write in the next  posts.

What you measure, you improve

October 18th, 2008

Jim Estill says “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it since I am a continuous improvment person.”

But why measure?

• If you cannot measure it, you cannot control it.
• If you cannot control it, you cannot manage it.

But measurement is not an end in itself. The goal is to achieve an objective.

Our typical user spends an average of 4.5 hours a day at the computer. This will result in 19% of the total daily time. It’s quite a bit, huh? In TimeCamp everything is automatically recorded – with no data entry. Stop wondering “where did my day go?”. Reviewing your log can help you identify tasks you could delegate, defer or drop, tasks that you could spend less time on or time killers such as being interrupted by checking email.

Futher reading

You Can’t Manage What You Don’t Measure By F. John Reh
How do you measure personal productivity? By Matthew Cornell
You Can’t Manage What You Don’t Measure
Business Metrics in Action By Michael Alter