With the tech landscape continuously evolving and the fierce competition, scaling is no longer just an option for SaaS businesses. It’s a necessity. The SaaS industry has a staggering 90% failure rate. Without strategic growth, your SaaS business might just be one of those many casualties. But to successfully scale SaaS businesses, you need more than just luck. Here are five best practices you need to follow to ensure your SaaS business’ lasting success.

Managing agency projects means managing multiple clients, team members, deadlines, and goals while focusing on profitability. No matter how unique each project is, one constant remains: The need to hit your profit margin targets. Miss those consistently, and your agency’s financial health—and long-term growth—will be at risk. After years of working with agency owners (and having former agency leads on our team), we developed a project management process designed to protect your margins.

Organizational culture is more than just beer on Fridays. It defines and shapes your work environment, and it’s created by all of the programs, communications, and behaviors within your organization—not to mention your business goals and values. But building a good organizational culture takes time and effort. Read on for our culture-building tips, plus six things to focus on to develop a positive culture at your company.

Want to get useful insights on time tracking software for freelancers? You are on the right page. If you are a freelancer, time is both an asset and a liability. Use it wisely, then it’s the former, otherwise the latter. That’s why freelancers must keep an accurate track of their work hours. However, the issue is, which solution is right for them? In this blog, freelance tracking time software will take center stage.

With the onset of the pandemic and the shift in workplace behaviors, there was a sudden need to facilitate collaboration and digitization to enhance productivity and maintain consistency between team members across different locations and time zones. Satya Nadella and Bill Gates wanted to bid $8 billion USD to acquire Slack, the team chat SaaS company. Their meeting took an extraordinary turn, and instead of buying Slack, they decided to create their own app.

Slack has created quite a buzz in the world of team communication. With 10 million+ daily users and more than a $27 billion valuation, it is undoubtedly one of the most popular team communication platforms. However, Slack has gained a lot of competitors throughout the years (Microsoft Teams, and Facebook Workspace, to name a few) that offer highly competitive features and packages. And since Slack’s price tag is quite high many tools deliver more affordable solutions.

If you are that person who says, “I don’t use task management apps because getting into them takes too much time”, chances are, you haven’t found a platform that fits your team’s needs. Using a task management application allows team members to assign tasks, set priorities, and monitor the progress of ongoing projects. It also helps managers oversee workloads and ensure everyone is on the same page.

If you google “project management tools”, there are a number of them that will show up in every review, comparison, discussion, and post in general. One of them is Asana, a great project management app created by a Facebook co-founder and ex-Google engineer. Besides its features, there is another thing that a lot of people are interested in: Asana pricing. In companies with a lot of employees, every additional seat means more money to spend every month.

Element is delighted to be joining the launch of openDesk at Smart Country Convention in Berlin, 15-17 October. For those that don’t know already, openDesk is an Office & Collaboration Suite for public administration. The development of openDesk is led by the Centre for Digital Sovereignty in Public Administration (ZenDiS), a limited company created by Germany’s Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI). Element was selected by ZenDiS as the real time communications component within openDesk.

Managing sales data from different platforms can be challenging, but Geckoboard makes it easy to visualize sales metrics from tools like Aircall, HubSpot, Intercom, and Zapier all in one place. With Geckoboard, you can track these sources on the same sales dashboard or, if it works better for your team, create separate dashboards that focus on specific areas. This flexibility allows you to monitor exactly what you need, whether you prefer a unified view or detailed insights across multiple boards.