One benefit of working from a home office is that you can spend an obscene amount of time with your family, and lately that means spending every morning watching Cars with my two year old son, Jude, ... Read more

We're very excited to be announcing our upcoming QuickBooks integration on the Intuit Partner Platform ... Read more

CatchFree launched two days ago at TechCrunch Disrupt by Founder Sean Ellis. CatchFree is a community driven website that makes it easy to share and discover free web apps.

At Mavenlink, we came ... Read more

I recently took part in a great round table discussion with a group of freelancers in Seattle. I knew going in that our topic - pricing our services - was going to provide some great dialogue; I just ... Read more

Many thanks to David Carr of Information Week for taking the time to dive into new ways people are collaborating in the physical world and in the online world. ... Read more

Whether you are an entrepreneur looking to jumpstart your business with specialized talent or a business line executive at a Fortune 100 company looking to optimize an external workforce, ... Read more

Eval-Source yesterday published a detailed review of Mavenlink and Mavenlink's project management and collaboration platform on GetApp, an App store for business software. It is a comprehensive review ... Read more

The other week, we were featured in GigaOm by Aliza Sherman in a post titled: Mavenlink Integrates Collaboration, Project Management and Invoicing. One of our favorite quotes from the article by Aliza we used ... Read more

In this 30-minute Mavenlink Webinar followed by Q&A, we provide a high-level end-to-end walkthrough of our entire platform as it currently stands today starring the beloved Michael Scott and Dwight Schrute. ... Read more

Today marks the Google Apps Marketplace’s first birthday. While the Marketplace is only a year old, it has afforded Mavenlink several years worth of success already. ... Read more

We are really excited to announce our partnership with Link Coworking, which is a coworking facility located in Austin, TX.

Link Coworking brings together independent freelancers, entrepreneurs, and ... Read more

The way that people work is constantly evolving. As more and more people move to the Internet everyday for business, people are constantly connected. As a freelance editor and writer for ... Read more

Earlier this month, our CEO Ray Grainger had a guest contribution on GigaOM's WebWorkerDaily. He discusses how the landscape of the workforce is changing as seemingly everything is ... Read more

As we continue to expand our support channels to care for our user base that has rapidly grown to over 30,000 businesses, we have been fielding questions from all over the place. I don't just mean ... Read more

As we have noted on our Guest Contributions page, we want to hear from our users and Mavenlink users want to hear from fellow users. Whether you want to write about general small business ... Read more

There’s nothing like mingling with 700+ of your new closest friends at a conference and coming to the realization that there is something of a shared mind. Of course everyone has a different ... Read more

Last night, The Next Web technology writer Tris Hussey covered Mavenlink and discussed how we are a project management solution for many issues that businesses face. Below ... Read more

Shortly after The Next Web's post on Mavenlink, ReadWriteWeb's John Paul Titlow covered Mavenlink's custom branding. John Paul keeps his post short and sweet, highlighting ... Read more

With the Holidays just around the corner, Mavenlink would like to give back to some of our great users. We are giving away 6 FREE months of our Business Plan ($474 value).

Follow and tweet us with ... Read more

What is an easier way to "Go Green" than by moving your business collaboration to the cloud? With many companies creating products that make life easier by working online, headlined by none other than Google, ... Read more

The world of work is changing, a world in which economic forces and rapidly evolving business realities have pushed many in the workforce into the role of independent professionals ... Read more

We are happy to announce our September Slogan Finalists for the free iPad on Facebook. Our Management & Marketing Team had the tough task of choosing five finalists from hundreds of entries from over ... Read more

We are all inundated with “new” and “improved” options for doing business online everyday. As business changes seemingly every second in this exciting online world, small businesses and ... Read more

Mavenlink was featured today on IT Business Edge's list of Top 10 Google Apps for Project Management. They note how we are "an online collaboration solution that allows you to manage projects ... Read more

As Alan Murray of The Wall Street Journal discusses, we could be witnessing the end of "Modern" management as we know it. With so much work today being done online in the cloud, change in everything we do ... Read more

"I got a fever and the only prescription is more Mavenlink.” - Christopher Walken

Okay, maybe that’s not exactly what Mr. Walken declared in his much loved SNL skit, but Mavenlink is the cure for the ... Read more

Right now, we are offering the chance to win a free iPad. You can follow Mavenlink on many channels, but right now our Facebook page is offering a promotion open to all countries.

What do you have to do? Just “Like” ... Read more

Last month, Sean Ellis did an interview with Andrew Warner of Mixergy discussing marketing, startups, and entrepreneurship. As somebody who was recently turned onto Sean’s blog by Sean Craft’s post, Focus on the ... Read more

In the coming months, Mavenlink is going to put time, attention and dollars towards the development of our online community. Our goal is to provide our users and followers a resource that enhances their professional ... Read more

Did you know that your email is about as secure as a kid's game of telephone? The only difference between email and telephone is that the communication between the sides (generally) doesn't break down.

Finding the right tools for online project collaboration and new ways to efficiently handle clients is something I continuously investigate. Handling multiple clients, multiple projects for each client, fellow ... Read more

Just over four months ago, Google opened their virtual doors to the Google Apps Marketplace. The Google push for cloud computing and the more than receptive public took a huge step forward that day. With over 2,000,000 ... Read more

Today we released a few how to video's to provide some tutorials. If you are new to Mavenlink or even a seasoned user, there is something to be learned from these short simple ... Read more

I'm happy to announce that we've released our integration to Google Calendar for all Google Apps and GMail users! We're really excited to get this feature out on the heels of our Google Apps Marketplace ... Read more

We thought it would be helpful for our community to see what's involved in pulling Mavenlink into their existing Google Apps account through our listing in the Google Apps Marketplace. Use ... Read more

Mavenlink got a shout out today in the OCTech Innovation Blog. The author, a local patent attorney and Ph.d., crashed a Mavenlink investor presentation at the 2010 VC in the OC where it impressed ... Read more

We're building new functionality into Mavenlink every day. Functionality that you, our users, request from us. One philosophical point that we hear time & time again is: please make Mavenlink ... Read more

Are you as tired of more usernames and passwords as we are? We've always tried to keep the Mavenlink sign up & sign in process simple. As of this week, we've made it even better by now ... Read more

Getting clients is one thing, negotiating terms you want is another. For most in the freelance economy, dealmaking is a necessary evil. But learning to negotiate effectively can increase your pay and help grow your ... Read more

One way to jumpstart your business is to rethink how you make money. That is, look at where the money is coming in and where money is going out and try to maximize the first and minimize the latter. Whether you've ... Read more

Social Again, a tech review review site, gave Mavenlink a glowing review in March. Check it out!

"Now you can concentrate on your core business, and Mavelink will help you with all the other things. ... Read more

Mavenlink was recognized today as a finalist for TechAmerica's Innovation Award for Cloud Computing.

Mavenlink is excited to be a part of this year's TechAmerica High Tech ... Read more

Being your own boss means contributing to the some $150 billion that independents will pay this year in income tax.

Working hard to grow your consulting business (whatever it is - design, law, accounting ... Read more

Everything you need to navigate the networked economy. It is a lofty vision, but we are one giant step closer with the launch of our new "Community" site. Our goal from this day forward for the community ... Read more

According to MSNBC, women are more likely to juggle multiple gigs than men, with some 3.7 million adult women working more than one job. The reason? Women often aren't interested in working a ... Read more

Most of you on Mavenlink are not software developers - you come from many different industries with many different specialties. For those of you who aren’t familiar with building software, there’s ... Read more

You're talented and hardworking, but you feel like you're business isn't as gangbusters as it used to be. Maybe you just need a refresher on what it takes to be an independent consultant. Inc.com ... Read more

As the Network Economy continues to evolve, people and organizations are adopting new approaches to getting work done: tapping into networked knowledge, breaking down silos, and collaborating across ... Read more

April is the cruelest month, but taxes don't have to be. Basic tips can go a long way, especially with how much rules can change year to year. The New York Times brought in an expert from law ... Read more

As David Lazarus notes, rising premiums are causing plenty of employers to either lower amount they help employees with health care costs, or abandon it all together. For an independent ... Read more

CNET got ahold of a February Goldman Sachs whitepaper that showed that businesses are increasingly choosing to conduct their business through paid subscriptions, or software as a service (SaaS.) ... Read more

The Philosopher Eric Hoffer once wrote that during times of change, it is the learners who inherit the world while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists. Well in today's ... Read more

If a picture tells a thousand words, I’d love to find out how many words a video gets across, especially an animatics video in the deft hands of The Incite Group. It is an incredible medium for story ... Read more

This morning Nicole Black released a screencast (audio & video) review of Mavenlink’s comprehensive online collaboration platform built for the consultant/lawyer and their interactions ... Read more

Business Week recently presented a somewhat gloomy outlook for the US worker entitled “The Disposable Worker”. Citing numerous statistics, the article lays out in excruciating detail the challenges facing the ... Read more

No matter what your area of expertise is, who you consult for, or what your role is on a project, there is almost always a need for a private conversation between a few of the participants. People ... Read more

I’m excited to be introducing our newest feature: the ability for you to reply to workspace activity directly from your email!

Many of you have asked for it and we agree - this is definitely ... Read more

A good friend of mine recently (by choice) turned a full time position into a contract position so that he could take on more clients. In less than 2 months he had ... Read more

We’ve seen the rise of the Independent Party, Independent Film, Independent Music, and Independent Media, but there seems to be a new movement afoot that just might be more important than all combined, ... Read more

As we wrote in our first installment of this series, important trends in productivity, disruption, and individual responsibility are re-shaping the way that people work. We are witnessing the emergence of ... Read more

We started Mavenlink because we recognized that the world of work is changing dramatically, and that we are on the cusp of a new era in the workplace. Here at the Mavenlink blog, we’ll be exploring ... Read more

It is my pleasure to introduce our latest major feature - multi-user projects and workspaces. It was through some of the initial feedback of our community that we prioritized this feature and made ... Read more

One of the things that the team at Mavenlink is most proud of and vows to protect is the high quality of the Mavens that have joined our charter community. There is no question that the individuals and firms that ... Read more

Media, television and bloggers alike are clamoring about changes in the way people work. Journalists, Economists, Academics, Businesses, and just about every one you run into these days, seem to agree on a couple of things. ... Read more