Santa Barbara, CA--How many billable hours a month do you lose to project management overload? Tracking employee and contractor hours, staying on top of evolving client needs, adjusting budgets mid-stream, billing accurately and on time--it's an inevitable part of business no matter what business you're in. But it doesn't need to take over your life. Not if you've got Intervals.

Intervals (www.myintervals.com), a web-based task and time management system, is a one-stop shop that streamlines and synchronizes projects so you can get back to doing your real job. The online software features very user-friendly project management, time tracking, integrated timers, weekly timesheet submissions, and dynamic graphs and charts--all in a secure and personalized format. In short, you get an overview of and insight into your business that's based on cold hard realtime numbers. Intervals gives the pink slip to guesswork.

"We originally designed Intervals to address the challenges of running our own business," said John Reeve, co-founder of Pelago. "We realized that we were spending so much time with administrative overhead that we didn't have enough time to actually do the work we were billing for--and that's how Intervals was born. We decided to share our creation with others, and the response has been overwhelming."

Ever since Intervals launched in June 2006, paper timesheets and excel spreadsheets have been going the way of the oversized cordless phone in businesses around the country.

"The biggest challenge for us," explains Dave Graham, the web guy at Sonik Newmedia, "is tracking maintenance hours. This may seem small, but maintenance represents about half of our revenues, and accurate tracking is fundamental to billing. We used to track all of our time in separate spreadsheets and then tally them up at the end of the month. Now we just get an export from Intervals." For another customer, the well-known IT management software company Computer Associates, the greatest value of Intervals stems from its reporting capabilities and the solid, realtime data the quality assurance manager can use to justify her budget and time to higher management. That's golden.

Sign up at www.myintervals.com, for a free 30-day trial and see what all the fuss is about. Assign tasks to other people, review project breakdowns by "work type" (editing, design, meeting, etc.), and see once and for all where all your hours go! At the end of the month, if you haven't saved time, improved your project management skills, gotten your team to fight over which logo to personalize your Intervals with, and found the time to actually enjoy your work again, just cancel your account and go back to spending late nights at the office.

About Intervals

Created by Pelago Design, Intervals was originally an internal project designed to solve Pelago's own struggles with efficiently tracking time, billing clients, and knowing where projects stood in real-time. Intervals is ideal for service companies that bill based on hourly work or flat rates, freelancers and independent contractors, and small businesses, but can be used by anyone who needs to manage tasks and track time. Learn more about Intervals at www.myintervals.com.

About Pelago

Pelago is a Santa Barbara, California-based web design and web development firm founded in 2000. Pelago specializes in developing highly intuitive web sites and reliable web-based applications, and injecting them with solid business sense and functionality. Pelago clients include JD Power and Associates, Nexxus, Xplane, Network Hardware Resale, and TenetCare. Learn more about Pelago at www.pelagodesign.com.

Pelago

Pelago

Pelago is a Santa Barbara, California-based Software as a Service company founded in 2000. As members of 1% For The Planet, Pelago is devoted to responsible stewardship of the earth. Pelago's flagship service, Intervals (myintervals.com) was originally designed to solve Pelago’s own challenges with tracking time, billing clients, and knowing where projects stood in real time. Targeted primarily to web designers, creatives, IT service companies and communications companies, Intervals is a powerful tool for anyone who wishes to ease the daily stress of organizing and managing people, workflows, projects and time. Intervals is currently being used to manage projects in over 100 countries. Learn more about Pelago at pelagodesign.com.

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