Tracky and Your Brand

Managing your time wisely is absolutely a great challenge and adventure! In addition to work, you have to monitor your social media accounts, manage your teams and projects, network with other people, promote your brand, connect with your partners or employees, engage with your customers and clients, not to mention still have time to sit back, relax, and enjoy time with your friends and family.

So how do you manage it all?

Very likely, whenever you’re online, you have all these browsers, windows and tabs open, so you can check and monitor all your accounts. You have to pay attention to every single one of them, so you go back and forth, check your email and social media accounts, manage your blog, make sure to reply to your customers regarding their questions, as well as chat with employees who need your attention.

Isn’t there a better way to manage all of these?

Of course there is. There are many online management and collaboration platforms that can help you monitor and manage your different accounts as well as your team members. One of the latest and most promising tools that has entered the arena is Tracky.

Tracky is an online collaboration platform where you can do practically anything – collaborate on projects, share files, manage your calendar, assign tasks, chat with your team members, and so on. It’s an excellent way to have every one of your tasks organized in one easy-to-use platform, so you don’t have to have multiple windows and tabs open, or have to go back and forth to check and monitor different sites.

Tracky founder and CEO, David Goose, has been developing the platform with his wife Jennifer as well as their excellent team for more than 18 months now, and they have finally unveiled what they’ve come up with recently.

The thing that really makes it stand out from other online collaboration platforms out there is the fact that it offers you a way to network with other professionals within the platform. Unlike other sites where you’re closed off with your team members working and collaborating on a task, Tracky allows you to search for potential service providers you can work with.

This means that Tracky offers a lot of benefits for both personal and small business brands. For example, if you’re a wedding coordinator, you can actually look for people you can collaborate with on a wedding you’re planning within the site. Or even if you’re the one getting married, you can actually look for service providers using Tracky – you don’t have to go too far to find the perfect team for your wedding. The site has a geo-location feature, so you can find local service providers that fit well to your specifications.

And let’s not forget the excellent platform that Tracky offers. Individuals, small business owners, and large corporations can all take advantage of the site so they can organize their busy lives properly. From to-do lists and task management, to live-chat and cloud-based storage, there are so many things that Tracy offers you that will make managing your life and work so much easier – so you have more time to do the things you enjoy.

And the best part of it all is that you can easily get started managing your tasks and team members for free, up to two groups per person. If you want to have unlimited groups and users, you only have to pay $5 per user per month.

Tracky also has a mobile application, though it’s currently only available on iOS. Mobile users can take advantage of the app so they can manage and organize their time and teams wisely.

Only time will tell, however, if Tracky is going to stand out among its many different competitions. Since it’s only recently launched, there are still some bugs to its system, though the Tracky team is continuously improving the platform as they obtain feedback from its users. The site currently has 4,000 users already, and it hopes to reach 700,000 by the end of the year.

So why make it difficult for yourself to manage all of your accounts, collaborate with your team members, and look for potential partners or service providers? Try out Tracky today and see how it can help you manage your busy life so you can have more time to spend doing the things you enjoy the most.

What Everybody Needs to Know About Protecting Their Time

With busy schedules and a variety of things to be done, it’s hard to go on without organizing our schedules on our calendars. If we want to be productive, we have to take the time to fix our schedules for the week or at least days in advance. Then we have to religiously follow it so we don’t waste any time. There are many ways on how we can organize our schedules. There are planners, organizers, smartphones, your Outlook calendar, and many more. Digital calendars like the ones on your smartphone or Outlook are gaining popularity because of syncing capabilities. It’s easier to access schedules without the need to carry a planner.

When we schedule activities in our calendars, our tendency is to write down meetings and important activities for the week, only. We forget that we also have to do other tasks that need our full attention. What you can do is “block time” for your own activities. Even the simple ones if you need to. This is your way of protecting your time, a way to accomplish things that you need to do and have more control of your time. If you’re using Outlook, it’s easier to block your time because others can see that you can’t be disturbed. Here are some of the advantages of protecting your time:

·         Less invitations to last minute meetings – with fast-paced work environments, meetings are unpredictable. You do one, then two, the next thing you know you are stuck in more meetings. When you are finally done, you are piled up with more work and less time to finish it. If you already blocked your time, others will know that you are not available and you will avoid getting last-minute meeting invitations.

·         Prevent others from stealing your time – the concept is similar with last-minute meetings. If people see that you’re already busy with something else, they won’t bother you. They’ll let you work on the things that you need to do. You’ll avoid being volunteered to help or show the new employee around, or help out with other tasks.

·         Time to get things done – because you already protected your time and made others aware that you are going to be busy most of the day, you have more time to get things done. You become more productive and you don’t waste time bumping off schedules for unexpected tasks and meetings.

Now that you have an idea of how protecting your time can help you become more productive and in control of your time, here are some good practices that you can start with.

·         When blocking your time, include everything that you think will need some time to finish. Even the simple ones like running an errand. You can also include personal tasks so that you don’t forget anything and avoid stressing yourself out later on.

·         Make sure that you use just one calendar. This will make it easier for you to see and plan out your activities. You can separate priorities for work/life in your calendar. Sticking to one calendar will help you organize and protect your time properly. This also guarantees that no activity is overlooked or goes overlapping.

·         Show no mercy! Schedule as much as you can. Get into the habit of scheduling more than 50% of your time or more, in a day. This will keep you focused on the things that you need to do. Even if it includes the simple tasks and personal ones. At least you already get a clear idea of how you are going to spend your day. Making you more productive without wasting time on thinking about the next thing you are suppose to do.

Managing your time is important and protecting it will help you be more productive. With busy schedules, we tend to get things mixed up or sometimes forget about the things that we need to do. When we protect our time by putting down all our activities in a day or week, we are preventing others from taking our time and we are preventing ourselves from being distracted.

Protecting our time is important because it is too valuable to be wasted. Before we realize that we’ve already wasted most of our day, it would be too late and the next thing you know you are already running late to your next appointment. Start your week by blocking your time. Make use of just one calendar and schedule everything you need to do for the week. Then work on your daily schedule and do your best to religiously follow it.