Track Your Non-Day Job With Side Job Track

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Do you do some work on the side? You know what I mean. The job apart from your regular one. Perhaps you do some part-time legal research for a local firm or professor. Maybe you help out some fellow students with tutoring. Or, you might be a young lawyer, doing some legal work apart from your firm.

In any of these cases, and a myriad of others, Side Job Track can make your life easier. If you haven’t heard of this free service, you should definitely check it out.

Check out these features

When you register for free with Side Job Track, you will see several tabs in your account. You can manage Projects, Invoices, and Clients, along with running Reports and checking out your Schedule. Each of these sections provides a bevy of neat features. Here are just a few.

You can input clients, along with contact information, in the Clients section. You can also setup Services and Materials, which are basically the “stock” things you provide to clients. For example, maybe you have a specific hourly rate for writing a memo; you would make “Write memo” a Service. Cool, right?

The Projects section is where much of your daily work takes place. You can create a new project, manage old ones, prepare estimates, bill a client, and much more from this section. The coolest part is that you are taken straight to Projects upon login. You immediately see all active projects on the left, with outstanding invoices on the right.

Invoices are just what you think: invoices sent to clients. Side Job Track differentiates between out-standing and received invoices. Thus, it’s always easy to see what money you are owed at any given time.

Finally, Reports and Scheduling provide handy ways to look at your side job historically. You can see which clients provide what percentage of your income, plus other neat factors.

See how it can be used

You’re looking at my side job. With Side Job Track, I keep tabs on all of my blogging work. I’m not a full-time blogger, but I have earned a nice side income with it. Side Job Track has helped me keep up with my obligations.

The service allows me to track my three main sources of blogging income: consulting, article writing, and paid reviews. I can easily manage clients, monitor projects I’m working on, keep track of billable time, and create spiffy invoices. And all this happens in a free program. Talk about productivity enhancing!

By the way, I got paid nothing for this post. I always disclose when I am compensated for a post with “Sponsored Post” at the top. I just love Side Job Track. Let me know if you do too!

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January 5, 2007 by Andrew Flusche

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8 Responses to “Track Your Non-Day Job With Side Job Track”

  1. Editor of Top Law Student
    January 8th, 2007

    Your post raised three questions that I wondered if you would mind answering:

    1) Does Side Job Track have a feature that records your time for each project? If not, have you found another good website for tracking billable time?

    And unrelated to this post — maybe you would be interested in answering these questions in a future post:

    2) I would love to hear more about what sources of income related to blogging you have found successful. For example, do you find that Adsense, paid reviews, or another option is the best source of income?

    3) What Wordpress plugins do you use? I like your site and figured maybe others would be similarly interested in plagiarizing. :) In particular, the plugin that displays a live sample of my Comment as I am writing this is impressive.

    Thanks!

  2. Andrew Flusche
    January 8th, 2007

    I’m glad this post got you thinking. It always makes me happy to spur thoughts in other people. I will do my best to answer your questions.

    As for #1, Side Job Track does track billable time. First, setup a client. Then setup a “service,” which could be programming, writing, legal research, whatever. Then, setup a project (”write memo re X”). Whenever you want to track time on project X, go to it, add a new “service” to it. Then you can enter your time manually (Y hours, w/ an optional description). Or, you can click a little stopwatch and a new window will popup displaying a handy timer. You can then pause that whenever you want, reset it, etc. When you’re done, you click “Save,” and the time is rounded and put into your database for project X. I love it!

    Your suggestions for 2 and 3 are great. I will put those on my writing list and get to work on them. I don’t think I’m expert, but I would love to share the few things I’ve learned. Stay tuned!

    Thanks for commenting,
    Andrew

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  5. Donna
    September 4th, 2007

    I used to use side job track with my freelance designer side “job”. That was until I started using CollabTRAK.com. I use the free edition, but I still like the ease of use more and the fact paypal is in it makes it easy for me personally to get paid. :) I guess it’s a preference thing. CollabTRAK seems more straight-forward me and my customers. Both are free and both are good in my opinion.

  6. Andrew Flusche
    September 4th, 2007

    Donna – I don’t think I’ve really looked into CollabTRAK before. It definitely has some nice features. And there are plenty of things I’d love to change about Side Job Track. But at this point I value having the historical data in the app. I can see what percentage of my income comes from what client or type of work. I’m a stats nut, I know.

    Thanks for commenting!
    Andrew

  7. Donna
    September 13th, 2007

    I can definitely understand that Andrew. I like stats myself. :)

    I think the thing that seperates CollabTRAK from SideJobTrack to me is the fact I can collaborate with unlimited users. I have a buddy that helps me with graphic design and he just logs in, uploads graphics, send notes, etc… Plus my customers log in and communicate to by notes or integrated chat. I don’t know, I just think collabtrak is underrated right now.

    I guess we are both right! :)

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