OnePlace is proud to say that we have some great customers with whom we work to increase their business success. And they help us too. We thrive off of customer feedback and are always working to make our small business organization solution better.

One of the customers who has offered some great suggestions to OnePlace is Accountants-4-Less - a provider of back office solutions for businesses that need a way to better manage time consuming tasks. And in turn, Accountants-4-Less has received a great business benefit from OnePlace.

Accountants-4-Less had been using Basecamp from 37Signals for a couple years prior to moving over to OnePlace. They liked how OnePlace gave them more features for less money, and the hierarchical project feature better suited their project management needs.

After utilizing OnePlace in 2008, Accountants-4-Less was able to reduce time spent on project management by 50%. Now the staff has more time to focus on keeping their clients happy rather than managing tasks in another project management system.

You can read the entire Accountants-4-Less case study on our website, and view other case studies to see how more small businesses are using OnePlace to increase the success of their people and their business.

An exchange between two OnePlace users via IM. The names have been changed to protect the guilty.

I thought you would get a kick out of reading it.

[15:03] Peter Gibbons: Am I really going to "enjoy using OnePlace in all facets of my life"? that sounds promising and scary at the same time
[15:06] Joanna: Yes, yes you will.
[15:06] Joanna: And you'll drink the Kool-Aid.
[15:06] Peter Gibbons: Not enjoying it so far... just created my account and it's telling me I already have 3 projects due in the next week and 2 overdue...great, more work!!!
[15:06] Joanna: It's BlackBerry friendly.
[15:06] Peter Gibbons: nice
[15:07] Joanna: suggestion: modify the deadlines at will... see if Bill even notices.
[15:07] Peter Gibbons: will try that

Our firm, Misukanis & Odden, is certainly no stranger to the chaos that can ensue if just one team member misses one small (yet critical) piece of a conversation involving a project. Hence marketing's "butterfly effect."

In our video below, Thomas McMahon and I walk through OnePlace's discussion feature, and illustrate how this team collaboration will help to minimize the 30-second heart attacks we can all feel when we realize a team member has not been included in a critical conversation.

Team collaboration is a feature rarely thought of when a firm is making the decision to implement an online project management software solution.

Oddly, while collaboration and management may appear to exist on separate planes, they are far more interrelated than one might think - especially in our everyday lives at Misukanis & Odden.

For example, should just one bit of a discussion involving a client's project be lost to the ether - an entire project or campaign could end up in complete chaos.

In the video below, Susan & Thomas overview the concept of collaboration, and help to illustrate how it is not only a critical component of the OnePlace Chaos Management System, but a critical part of daily life at Misukanis & Odden.

Project management can be tricky thing. This is clearly evidenced by the approximately 245 different online project management software tools available on the market today promising to herald into your firm a new and efficient collaborative environment.

After a thorough run through of what felt like 95% of all available project management tools on the market today, we at Misukanis & Odden, a high tech online marketing & PR firm in the Twin Cities, were lucky to discover the OnePlace Team Collaboration and Project Management System.

What we've discovered most about using OnePlace, and one of the features that truly sets it apart, is the ease in which you can learn its features, and conversely, the beautiful difficulty you have unlearning what you've learned.

For example, if one of our team members were to assign a task and timeline for a project, it may take a quick tutorial to discover the most efficient way to accomplish this. The next time around, not only will that team member not require a tutorial, they will likely be the tutor.

All that being said, we are still in the discovery process with OnePlace.

We truly look forward to sharing this discovery process with you over the next several weeks, both through these posts, and the videos below as produced by president Susan Misukanis, SEO designer Thomas McMahon, and Account Manager Mike Yanke.