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Marketing Analyst - Job Opening

We're looking for a versatile analyst to assume a substantial role in our online and offline marketing efforts. The position has three major areas of responsibility: SEO/SEM, list development for direct marketing, and analytical support of our business development efforts. For at least the short term, this position will report directly to the CEO.

ClickTime is 12 years old, profitable, and management-owned. For more information, check out the full job description. Send resumes to jobs@clicktime.com and please include "Marketing Analyst" in the subject line.

Increase your Profitability

ClickTime's automatic timesheet creation helps companies become more profitable by reducing the administrative workload for your billable employees. For a professional services organization with 20 employees, the savings can add up to a week of additional billable time each year.

Some timesheet systems require employees to create a timesheet each week before entering time. This simple process may only consume two minutes each week per employee, but when you add up that 2 minutes per employee per week for 20 employees over a calendar year, you get nearly a full week's worth of time that could have been spent on billable work. ClickTime lets you reclaim those lost billable hours by automatically managing the timesheet creation process for you.

ClickTime automatically creates timesheet records for your employees, intelligently utilizing any provided employee start and end dates to know when to start and stop creating timesheets for each individual. If you don't enter employee start and end dates, that's OK too! We'll just keep creating timesheet records for employees as long as they're active in the ClickTime system.

ClickTime's automated timesheet creation is a valuable asset to maximize your company's profitability.

Developers wanted

We're growing! ClickTime is looking to add another software developer to our stellar team. For this position we're looking for someone with 0-2 years of professional experience and a degree in CS, EECS, CogSci, or similar.

Our toolkit is JavaScript (especially ExtJS), SQL, C#, and mobile platforms. Ideally we'd like to meet developers skilled in both client-side and server-side development. Join us and help deliver great quality web apps that get used by tens of thousands of paying users, every day, in every time zone on earth.

(Or have a look at the complete job description.)

ClickTime is 12 years old, profitable, and management-owned. Send your resume to jobs@clicktime.com and let's talk.

Office Depot Offers Small Business Loans Up To $25,000

Office Depot has created a new program to offer loans up to $25,000 to small businesses. You can learn more at Accounting Today or apply now.

7 Ways to Tame the Billing Rate Beast

Many companies bill for their time but they don't all do it the same way. Some use simple hourly rates based on either the person performing the work or the project being worked on. Other companies have complex rate structures that vary between clients and projects and adjust the rate based on the type of work performed or the person doing the work. ClickTime can handle nearly all billing rate scenarios with our seven different customizable billing rate models.

To select your billing rate model, sign in to ClickTime and go to your Company Preferences. Make sure the "enable time billing features" is checked and then go to the Billing Rates section to select the billing rate model that best describes your company. Then, depending on your selected model, set and customize your rates when adding and editing people, projects, clients and and tasks.

For example, ACME Consulting charges a standard rate for their consultants' work and a higher rate when senior consultants are involved. They use the option for rates based on "...which Person does the work." However, when ACME Consulting starts doing work for a non-profit organization and is discounting their rates 50% off, they change their model to "...the Person, and we make exceptions for certain clients." This enables them to maintain the same standard rate structure for all existing clients while customizing the rates for their new non-profit client.

However you want to define your billing rate structure, ClickTime helps you manage the rates and simplify tracking your time so you can quickly bill and get paid for your work. Let us know if we can help configure the billing rate model that's best for your company.

We're on Mixergy today!

We're pleased to be featured on Andrew Warner's Mixergy program today. Watch the video of my conversation with Andrew (as well as his other excellent entrepreneur interviews - Tony Hsieh, Paul Graham, Tim Ferriss, etc.)

We spend an hour discussing the company's origins and strategies. Andrew is an excellent interviewer and we had a lot of fun doing it. I welcome questions and comments below.

-Alex Mann, CEO

Happy New Year!

As we reach the end of the year, we like to look back to our accomplishments and milestones. Together with our customers, we've had a terrific year:

• 10,000+ new users added
• 10 new versions of ClickTime released
• Better than 99.9% uptime
• 25,000,000 hours logged by our customers
• $20,000,000 in expenses tracked
• 4 new currencies requested (and added)
• 15% growth in the ClickTime team

We hope all of our customers enjoy a happy new year! We look forward to working with you throughout 2011 to improve your business and provide you with many new features and enhancements in ClickTime.

Professional Services from ClickTime

We love hearing from our customers. The suggestions and feedback we receive help us improve ClickTime and enhance features for all of our customers. Sometimes, however, a company’s feature requests and business needs are very specific and not applicable for other ClickTime subscribers. These special requests are handled by our Professional Services team.

For example, earlier this year we got a request to allow a manager to split the billable hours for a project between two departments based on a specified percentage. The Professional Services team worked with this customer to develop a tailored report using custom fields that computes the split and draws up two unique invoices at the end of each billing period. This saved the customer’s Project Manager a day’s worth of work every billing period. Pretty cool!

Here are some of the areas that our Professional Services team can assist you with:

• Financial and payroll system integration
• Custom reporting and invoicing
• Training
• Database restructuring
• Data importing
• Integration with existing Excel spreadsheets you use regularly
• Custom data exports (special formatting, etc.)

If you’re not sure if Professional Services are something you need, answer these 4 questions:

1. Do you ever include ClickTime data in Excel documents?
2. Are there custom job or project details that you need included in your reports?
3. Do you ever need to take reports from ClickTime and put them in a summary or presentation?
4. Have you ever wanted to extend how ClickTime functions within your company's work-flow?

If the answer is "yes" to any of these or you just want to learn more about ClickTime’s Professional Services team, contact us for a free consultation and quote on customizing ClickTime to your exact needs. You could see big savings in time and money (especially if you currently reformat your data by hand). Find out how we can help you find more hours in your work week and make your ClickTime data shine in presentations to the board of directors. The Professional Services team looks forward to hearing from you.