This SEO Agency Aligns Cross-Team Workloads With Clockify
“Anyone struggling to manage workloads or increase output should look into Clockify.”
– Oliver Sissons
SEO expert Oliver Sissons is the Search Director at Reboot Online, a data-driven and results-oriented SEO agency.
As the company recruited more people, it became harder to track and organize everyone’s work:
“Once we grew, we experimented with manual time sheets and Excel files, but it did not pan out. That's when we decided to make the switch to Clockify.”
How did Clockify help Oliver and the folks at Reboot stay productive? We had a chat with him to find out.
How does Clockify help Oliver and his team?
After the Reboot team started working with multiple large clients, managing everyone’s workload became increasingly difficult.
A time tracker was an obvious solution, as it could provide Oliver and other managers with valuable insights — such as who was working on which tasks and for how long. Clockify became an obvious choice because it’s easy to use:
“You have a decent-sized team, and not everyone’s going to be willing to learn how to do some more advanced software stuff. So, having a tool that people can just jump into and get going with was important, and that was the case with Clockify.”
Let’s see which specific benefits Reboot and Oliver reaped with Clockify.
Benefit #1: Easily show value to clients
Oliver noted that the numbers Clockify provided through summary reports proved beneficial for their work with their clients.
Based on your team’s tracked data, Clockify automatically generates various visual reports — including a summary report that shows an overview of key information.
In Oliver’s words, the ability to export this data and showcase the results to their team and their clients was crucial to securing great client deals:
“I would say it’s helped us grow client accounts, as well. We can demonstrate the amount of time we’re spending to provide our services.”
Moreover, Oliver pointed out that Clockify’s reports help his team recognize the need for additional manpower on some projects:
“You can showcase, for example, why we need more hours to obviously pour more energy and more resources into a client campaign.”
Clockify can help you plan your projects more effectively, respond to changing circumstances, and allocate resources as needed.
Benefit #2: Quickly integrate productivity techniques
Oliver also noted that using the Pomodoro timer — a time management technique based on alternating periods of focused work with 5-minute breaks — proved a great antidote to burnout.
In fact, he quickly realized that making small breaks in the day, especially in crunch time, helped get the job done without additional stress:
“A lot of people have talked about how useful it’s been to be able to set smaller increments of time to get some tasks completed, but then actually take a step back and have a little break as well throughout the day.”
In Clockify, you can set a custom Pomodoro timer that lets you design a specific pattern for working and taking smaller breaks in a day. That way, each employee can create their own work rhythm — maximizing everyone’s productivity in the long run.
Feature #3: Effortlessly integrate time tracking
When you implement time tracking in your company, you want a tool that seamlessly integrates with your current tech stack.
For Oliver, Clockify was a great choice because of integrations with Chrome and Trello, as they were using both software at the time:
“The fact that we could integrate directly with the project management tools was super useful and convenient as well, since it meant that we weren’t doubling up on pulling data between one tool into the other.”
With Clockify’s browser extensions, you can easily integrate time tracking into your workflow without installing additional software — or changing how your team already works.
Grow your team while staying focused with Clockify
Thanks to our time tracker, Oliver managed to expand his team and client base without overworking anyone or losing productivity.
With Clockify, you can also:
- Demonstrate your value to clients with hard data,
- Use productivity techniques to maximize output, and
- Integrate time tracking with your other software.
Don’t slow down your growth for anyone.
