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Looking to use the best agency tools to increase productivity and save time in your agency? Regardless of the size and niche of your agency, agency tools can significantly facilitate doing your daily tasks and stay in better alignment with your team members. Here in this post, we will discover the top 30 best agency tools and see why your agency needs them.

At its simplest, Slack is a channel-based chat tool that many agencies and client services teams use to discuss issues in real-time. Instead of relying on buried email threads, phone calls, or carrier pigeons, Slack has become a popular tool for one-to-one business messaging, private group chat, voice and video calls, and inter-business collaboration via Slack Connect.

You don’t have to be a project manager to experience the challenges that come with handling projects from start to finish. Owners and agency leaders, like you, run into project management challenges on a regular. And it doesn’t matter if you’re large enough to have in-house project managers or handle those functions yourself. Things happen – projects run off course, over budget, or exhaust your most valuable resources.

You can create several timesheets at the same time in OneDesk, as well as apply automations to streamline common processes you encounter while you handle your timesheets. Learn how to create multiple timesheets and apply automations to them below.

Despite the surprising amount of lost time during working hours, and the simple methods which can save it (just 10 minutes of planning your day can save 2 hours of wasted time), around four fifths of employees still don’t use any form of time management system. Time is a precious resource in modern business, but there is a plethora of time management techniques out there, so choosing which one to use can be overwhelming.

Views in OneDesk allow you to group and organize your data based on your specified criteria and within a variety of layouts and better overall plan and prioritize your work. For example, see a hierarchical view of unassigned tickets, assign tasks to users on a Kanban board, group projects by customer and much more. OneDesk’s robust customization options allow for a huge variety of possibilities to fit your company’s needs. Keep reading to learn more about managing views in OneDesk.

Looking to create a burndown chart in Excel? In this article, we will walk you through the concept of a burndown chart, the types of burndown charts, and how to make a burndown chart in Excel. Burndown chart is used by agile project managers to track their projects. This makes it easy to determine, whether things are going according to plan and if you’ll be able to meet your deadline and reach your objective.

This update to OneDesk was released on February 18, 2022, and added several new features and enhancements.

Times have changed in the world of product development. Delivery cycles have shortened significantly over the past two decades, so