I could be over serving one client and underserving another. It also means I can’t track the time spent on one-off projects, e.g. This shows that I don’t accurately know how much time I spend on each client. It’s essentially a “use it or lose it” approach, but I would guess that I do often spend as much time on each account as I said I would. Of my retained clients, we have an agreement based on trust, where I commit to a certain amount of hours a week and they trust that I do them. Most people I knew would be too busy delivering on the actual client work to track at the same time how long it would take them to do said work.įast forward to my current role as a director at my freelance agency, Montfort, and my need for time tracking has changed somewhat. I’m in the somewhat fortunate position where we don’t deliver time sheets to clients. It’s the tracking of where you spent your time.

It’s not that the time sheets themselves are hard. Scroll to the end to find out how long it took.Īn example of how Time Doctor tracks your timeīack when I worked in agency land, I used to have to do weekly time sheets, accounting for how much time I’d spent on which client accounts. It was a massive pain in the arse and I’m sure most people who work in agencies that require time sheets will tell you the same. Just to add to the fun, I’ve used Time Doctor to track how long it took me to write this post. The good people at Time Doctor have given me access to an account, so I can try out their time tracking software for Freelancers. This is a sponsored post, but the Time Doctor team have given me complete editorial freedom, so I can write what I like.

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