Business Growth The Best Free Invoice Templates to Impress Clients and Simplify Your Life Let’s start with a well-known truth: invoicing is time-consuming and frustrating. Pulling together bill rates and timesheets, cross-checking with client budgets, and then filling...
Business Growth 10 Proven Ways to Boost Profitability With Hubstaff Premium If you’re one of the 33% of business owners who work 50 hours or more each week, it’s fair to assume you have a lot on your plate. Unfortunately, it only gets busier for entrep...
Business Growth 25 Best Business Newsletters for Well-Informed Founders to Follow in 2024 Ah, emails. Even if you love getting them (tell us your secret?), there are probably a few that crowd your inbox. The best business newsletters entrepreneurs won’t feel like spam...
Business Growth 43 Lessons Learned from Growing Three Startups from Zero to $1M+ You have the money you need to launch your dream company. You’ve prepared a solid business plan. You’ve lined up a winning marketing strategy. But you’re still waiting for yo...
Business Growth How Trust “Just Happens” Inside Our Remote Team of 25 The Hubstaff team is 100% remote, so people are always asking me… Dave, how do you hold everyone accountable? How do you make sure people aren’t slacking off? How do yo...
Business Growth The Super-Detailed Guide to Setting Up an Editorial Calendar Everybody is doing content. You know you need to do it too. You start, but soon enough you find yourself bogged down in planning, managing, and scheduling. Things quickly desc...
Business Growth The SaaS Free Trial Is Essential to the Success of Our Startup. Here’s What We’re Doing to Improve It As Hubstaff’s Marketing Director, my job is to work with the marketing team to help grow our business. While there are thousands of tactics you can use to grow a software-as-a-se...
Business Growth Is Paid Acquisition Worth It? Lessons Learned at Hubstaff At Hubstaff, we take growth seriously. Without it, we wouldn’t be in the position we are today, with over 3,000 customers and $110k+ in monthly recurring revenue. Because growth...
Business Growth The Secret of Our Growth: Successful Integration Partnerships You know what the best part of working is? Working together. Looking for ways to establish your brand and create meaningful connections can be daunting. But reaching out to people...
Business Growth Don’t Build a Unicorn: What I Learned Starting, Buying, and Selling 3 Businesses You don’t have to start a business from scratch to be an entrepreneur. In fact, buying a business might be a better decision. Creating, selling, and buying businesses are all par...
Business Growth Why We Built Hubstaff: Personal Pain and the Need to Be Free Hubstaff was born from a place of pain. As you read this, it’s going to get personal. I learned a long time ago that if you’re going to succeed as an entrepreneur, you...
Business Growth Acquiring Early Adopters: How Hubstaff Got Its First 25 Our biggest challenge when launching the beta version of Hubstaff in 2013 was acquiring early adopters. At that point in time, our biggest priority was getting people to use it and...
Business Growth SaaS Pricing: Our Big Free Plan Mistake There is a strong temptation when beginning a startup to offer a generous free plan, even if you aren’t planning an SaaS pricing model. The idea is appealing, especially to y...
Business Growth The Decision to Embrace Revenue Transparency at Hubstaff The decision to embrace revenue transparency at Hubstaff was long discussed and extensively analyzed. My co-founder, Jared, and I went back and forth so many times it took two to t...