Create Value for Your Clients Faster

It’s a jungle out there. The freelance job scene is fast-paced, always-evolving, and highly competitive. We don’t get an owner’s manual, a roadmap, or a job description. 

You know what else we don’t get? Project management software built just for us. Asana, Jira, and Wrike, the “bigs” as we like to call them, are there for large teams on complex projects stuck working with each other in a cube farm or from dozens of guest bedrooms scattered around the globe. More importantly, large project management platforms are built for corporate overlords to monitor projects, tasks, and people.

But if you’re a freelancer, you don’t need to be monitored to ensure you’re breaking rocks at management’s desired pace. If you don’t get stuff done, if you don’t create value for your clients, you don’t get paid.

That’s why we built Hibiscus: to help us make stuff.

To help freelancers get stuff done. Faster. More efficiently. With limited opportunity for error. Because stuff is what freelancers make. Unfortunately, “I make stuff” is not a compelling value proposition in the labor market. Organizations seeking help from freelancers want them to create value.

The stuff we make translates into assets that have value to our clients. That’s how we here at Hibiscus like to frame conversations about business operations, around asset development. But when discussing project management software, the broadly accepted terms most associated with it relate to deliverables along with project and task management. 

“Bob, we’re a big giant company with dozens of business units doing a whole bunch of different crap. Let’s find a software application that will help us keep track of it.” I get it. Theoretically at least, users in a corporate setting are united in creating value for the larger organization. Cogs in a machine, so to speak. Okay, okay, Not cogs in a machine. Members of a big happy team, at least until layoff day.

I digress. 

Freelancers aren’t cogs in a machine. We are the machine. We are our machine — not just responsible for our little part of the big effort. For us, projects and tasks are what drives assets to completion, providing value to our clients and generating revenue for ourselves. We need tools that help us complete our work more efficiently and keep projects moving forward.

How does Hibiscus help with that? With a little bit of structure to start. Whether you’re someone who can keep track of a lot without much help or a person who needs the first half hour of the day to remember their name, Hibiscus can get your day started off on the right foot. When you log on, the first thing you see is a snapshot of your business:

This is the Hibiscus dashboard. It answers all of the most important questions you have about your business in the morning. Where am I at for the month on earnings? Are any of my projects stuck? What tasks do I have to get done today? How many active projects do I have going at once? All those questions answered in one place. Projects, tasks, assets, the three-legged stool of value.

At the client level, Hibiscus shows you what’s on your plate for each, how far you’ve come so far, where you’re going next, and how much time you have to get there…

Drilling down even further, the project view illustrates the tasks that have been completed and those that are still open…

Or tab over to check out assets in development along with version history for each…

We built a platform that is not noisy, not overwhelming, and not designed for your manager. Hibiscus was built to help freelancers and small teams get stuff done. Stuff being assets. Not deliverables. Too many people treat deliverables and assets as interchangeable. They’re not. Almost anything can be a deliverable, a rough draft, some logo concepts, a couple of tacos, or a biting remark.

Value-creating assets are the end result of all the project and task management. Hibiscus can help create assets faster and more efficiently. To learn more, visit our home page or check out our blog, where we take an even deeper dive into the Hibiscus platform to discuss tasks and our very own Task Wizard.