The "You've got to spend money, to make money" mantra is often used for any business; big and small. And it's true...

There’s a great piece of business advice in 37Signals’ “Getting Real”. It advises having an enemy...

It shouldn't take years to add feature requests from customers. That's why when we were asked to add favicons, login page customizations and themes; we added them in just 6 days.

As BP struggles to contain the oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico, and businesses and communities across a swathe of coastline brace themselves for the economic and environmental impacts of oil washing ashore, President Obama told NBC last week that he wants "to know whose ass to kick".

Our team hit the pavement rather hard again since we last released our huge tasking and messaging release in April and have just finished delivering the next planned enhancements.

There are always things that come up throughout the course of our work days that may not need the full capabilities of tasking, but are just things that we need to do.

Imagine all of the day-to-day things that happen within a business where people may not even know that they have happened or of all the parts that have gone on to get this “thing” where it is today. Starting to think of a lot, aren’t you? How do you solve the problem of missing bits of information? Why through logging of course!

Messaging has been an extremely important communication tool throughout history. Pigeons have been used to carry notes from one person to another and even bottles have been used by stranded ships as an S.O.S to be saved.

When you think about it, not much has changed in the way that project management, collaboration and task management software works.

As business owners, there are many good lessons that we can learn from celebrities and their PR representatives. Just look the most popular scandal that was, and still continues to be, in the media day in and day out – Tiger Woods.

You should never lose money for doing work. Now given some cases you may do work for free for special clients or give considerable discounts for your work for charities or those that may turn out to be big referral plays, but the majority of the time you should be planning on making money off a job.

Recently I went through the process of creating a one-page handout for our sister company and the process that I used for the concept was unlike anything I have ever done before.

I think that one of the greatest strengths within our company is that we are constantly in search of finding methods and best ways to get work done.

In life, as in business, things are changing constantly - by the week, by the day, by the minute, and it is our ability to adapt to these changes that dictates our survival.

Okay, so this is going to be up for an award for brevity for one of my posts. But sometimes, being brief is the best way to spark an entire dialogue.

Cloud Computing: An Establish Model with a 40-Year Pedigree

Although Cloud Computing is touted as a new way of delivering applications, Cloud Computing has been an established business model since the 1960s when it was called a "time sharing system". In the time-sharing model, several "dumb" terminals (keyboards and monitors lacking CPUs) were networked to a mainframe or mini-computer, usually in a hub-and-spoke topology. Applications and data resided on the mainframe. Input was received via the terminal keyboard and output was then directed to the appropriate terminal monitor.

Sometimes in order to improve your business, you have to extend your reach. Sometimes that reach is to other target customers, sometimes to new suppliers, and sometimes to new technology. Reaching out is usually what takes our businesses to the next level.

Working with project teams inside and outside of office boundaries is becoming increasingly popular and as businesses strive to cut costs, both teams need to work more efficiently without as much face time.

I've heard many people ask why we would create a system that does everything for a business. Why not create separate applications like other vendors in the SaaS space? My response; why wouldn't you want everything in one location?

As a business owner or an individual working in a small- to medium-sized business, how difficult are you finding it to keep all of your many hats atop of your head? By many hats, I mean the many various functions that you perform day in and day out within the business...