Streamtime is project management software for humans – and the Streamtime Blog is a blog for humans! Whether we’re talking about new product developments, picking the brains of our industry pals or hypothesising about the future of the creative industry, you can rest assured we’ll be thinking big and shooting straight.
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Pricing for a better life
While money isn’t the be all and end all, (and I hate hearing that it makes the world go round) there’s no doubt that pricing your work properly is essential. I’ve had many chats over the years about pricing jobs. There are so many elements to consider. I’ve priced jobs …
Improve Your Forecasting With Streamtime
Here at Streamtime we want to make sure we meet your business needs – from knowing how much revenue your agency has to forecasting your potential income. In other words …
The 10 Second Graphic Designer Intro.
“Hi, I’m a graphic designer” – BZZT! Let’s talk about introductions. As a professional, you’ll be making a lot of them to prospective employers, clients, and co-workers. It’s important that …
Thinking Big About The Future
Here at Streamtime, we’re excited by the idea that we can be more than a tool that you use to run your business, and are constantly looking for ways to …
Project Management for Humans – not Robots
We invited Andy Wright, ex-studio owner and Managing Director of Streamtime, to chat with Danielle and myself about how and why we’ve designed Streamtime for humans – not robots. Streamtime’s …
Get your week off to a good start
There’s a saying. Fail to plan, and you plan to fail. Benjamin Franklin gave us that gem I think. But when it comes to trying to run a creative business, …
What’s New? Xero integration gets a significant upgrade
Well hello there – we let our latest release fly free into the internets in the wee hours of this morning. We’re really proud of this one! It has some …
Our commitment to the creative community
You may or may not have heard of a new community for creatives called “Never Not Creative“. It’s a place for the creative industry to identify, discuss and come up …
10 Steps For Successful Project Management
To figure out how to create a successful project, you need to be somewhat of a jack of all trades. This is because there are many factors to consider, and …
Pricing Strategy 101: Discover the right way to charge what you’re worth
Whether you’re freelancing or running an agency, figuring out what to charge for your services is one of the trickiest tasks in the creative industry. From hourly pricing to value …
Setting Priorities – getting your house in order with Streamtime
Priorities: The result of our first hackathon For the last 48 hours, we’ve been hacking. Our inaugural hackathon started with an idea around ‘boards’. How can we give customers a …
The inaugural Streamtime hackathon
The story behind how we created Priorities 2 days, 9 people, 1 idea, 1 solution (kinda). We’ve just finished 2 days of hacking at Streamtime HQ. The result was “Priorities.” …
Product Update: Purchase Orders & Multi Currency Support
Purchase Orders are here! The ability to create and send Purchase Orders to suppliers was one of our most requested features. Well, request no more friends, request no more! 🙂 …
Behind the Scenes of Streamtime’s Product Development Team
This is the story of our product development process at Streamtime. Told from my perspective, an ex-technical support manager who dove into the product team a year into the life …
Dissecting The Design Conference 2018
The Design Conference 2018 This is the fourth time this week I have sat down to write a piece about The Design Conference 2018. So far, my success in completing …
The Future Is Freelance
The Future Is Freelance If you’ve been following us recently, you’ll know that we recently launched our free plan. Run 5 jobs at a time for as long as you …
A Smarter To Do Sidebar
Streamtime’s To Do page is heavily used, and loved by a huge percentage of people looking to log time painlessly. The sidebar, however, was a different story. We spoke to …
The best things in life are free – like Streamtime
You may have noticed that we recently launched some new plans. If not, you can see what they include, and how they compare here. Spoiler: If you’re looking for free …
Time to walk the walk.
I’m Andy. If you’ve been following the story of Streamtime over the last couple of years, you may have seen or heard from me in my role as Co-Founder at …
GDPR – What Streamtime are doing to prepare
GDPR, no it’s not a newly declared Republic with Nuclear capabilities, but it does need to be taken seriously nevertheless. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will set a …
Streamtime iOS App
Streamtime is on a quest to ensure your work life is never not creative. Welcome to the iOS app – just one of the ways we’re defending the world from …
Product Update: Even Better Scheduling
Another product update has come and gone, here’s are the major changes. Improved Schedule (not a small improvement) Over the last few months, the team has been done a lot …
The agency’s guide to working with freelancers
More and more agencies use freelancers. Around 43% of the workforce in the creative industry is already self-employed, and 35% (around 55 million) of the total workforce in the US. …
Product Update: Tagging, New Styles & User Costs. Just some of what is a Huge Update.
The team has been doing a great job pushing out new updates every few weeks now, it’s been hard to keep up. This should give you a bit of an …
Streamtime Reviews, Read what the critics are saying.
To say we’re proud of Streamtime is an understatement. We believe we’ve built a forward-thinking project management solution suitable for businesses of all shapes and sizes. Whether you’re an advertising agency, …
In Conversation: Mike Tosetto, Director & Motion Designer at Never Sit Still
Mike Tosetto is a man of craft and imagination. He breathes life into static objects through motion and sound, providing them with character and therefore a developed and considered identity. We recently attended …
The Future of Digital Project Management
The digital project management industry faces constant adaptation because digital technology constantly evolves, and it does so at a faster and faster rate. It’s a challenge to keep on top …
Vivid 2017, Lights, Ideas & Music: Our Picks
Sydney’s annual light, music and ideas festival, Vivid, has just begun. Each year the festival manages to go that extra mile further than the previous year, so to say that we are excited for …
Product Update: Powerful lists, custom reporting
Streamtime users love seeing what they need to run a smart, efficient and profitable business in one place. Birthed to the world today, our latest Streamtime update gives easier access …
10 expert tips to boost your productivity
Our lives are busier than ever before. We use a ton of apps to communicate with each other and are (almost) always on, especially if we work with people across …
D&AD Awards 2017: Highlights
On April 25-27 the second D&AD Festival and this years Award ceremony took place in London. There were a ton of standouts amongst the awards, but we must admit our …
Happy First Birthday, Streamtime!
Happy First Birthday, Streamtime! He’s only one year old, but Tiny Aaron is growing up fast! (he’s still pretty tiny though…) Thanks! We’d like to say a big old thank you …
10 expert tips to get the most out of time-tracking
Whether you’re a freelancer or work in an agency, tracking your time may be a necessary evil. Equally, if you run your own studio, you may have to track your …
Still at the Front of the Pack – Streamtime Considered the Best for Task Management
UK accounting firm, The Wow Company, release their annual BenchPress Report with some good news for UK business and Streamtime. Last week leading UK accounting firm The Wow Company released their …
Here’s 7 reasons why Streamtime is a great alternative to Basecamp
Two months into 2017 already – time is flying! Now that the new year has well and truly calmed down, it’s a perfect time to look for a new tool to …
Product Update: Invoicing from Streamtime
Why hello there. It’s been a while between drinks but we’re here again for another Streamtime release. Invoicing Until now you’ve only been able create invoices within Xero. Not anymore! This update …
The year that was 2016
Well… That was a year and a half, 2016 definitely was a whirlwind. Easily the biggest in the life of Streamtime. This year we launched an entirely new, from the …
Off The Grid festival, inspiring change through creativity and optimism
Yesterday was Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year. Danielle from our Melbourne office was at Off The Grid festival in Melbourne. In the words of Finding Infinity – the …
Product Update: A clearer picture
Another new update is out today and we think it’s worth kicking up a bit of a fuss. This update is the first stage of changes to our Jobs page that’s …
An Alternative to Wrike
Streamtime vs. Wrike Why do we need to over complicate things? Here’s 7 reasons why Streamtime could be a better alternative to Wrike. 1. Time Management, but not as you know it …
How to stay on top of deadlines
As a designer, you often have clients needing designs urgently – whether for a last minute event, team function or simply for a change of date on a flyer. Tight …
Pins, Pencils and Pinnacles: The good, the bad and the ugly of awards
Anyone around me will know that I have a healthy cynicism when it comes to awards. As with so many things in our industry, I feel that what was once, …
Pinnacle for Streamtime at AGDA Awards
The AGDA Design Awards happened over the weekend and Streamtime picked up a Pinnacle for Digital Applications. Pinnacles are presented only to designs which the judges score unanimously over 90 per cent. …
Share Your Data Across Multiple Apps with Streamtime and Zapier Automation
No two people are the same, so it stands to reason that no two peoples’ workflows are the same – even if the end goal is almost identical. Some people …
Product Update: Online Approval, Job Duplication and Contact imports.
Product update for all those playing at home 🙂 Faster Communication with Online Quoting Send your quotes directly to the client for approval. That’s right, keep a paperless trail and don’t ever …
The importance of time for creatives
We’ve all been there – we quote on a job and then the time it ends up taking is a lot longer than expected, meaning we don’t earn as much …
Register for the Streamtime live demo this Friday
Our monthly Streamtime demo is happening this week. Register now to tune in on Friday at 10:30am AEDT to check out how Streamtime can help your business. Ryan will be broadcasting from …
Three Silvers for Streamtime & For The People in NZ Best Awards
Feast your eyes on our Silver Best Award winning large scale website…. That’s right. Streamtime, with the help of For The People, won three Silver at the Best Awards for Streamtime the …
Choosing the right project management software for your creative agency
Finding the right project management software to do your budgeting, estimating, time tracking, scheduling, invoicing etc…Geez, it can be hard work. Today more than ever there is an abundance of …
2016 AGDA Design Award Finalists!
2016 AGDA Design Award Finalists! “Hey Everybody, come see how good we look!” When we sat down and began re-writing Streamtime after 14 years, we not only wanted to be …