"From the increased transparency made possible by Podio, we found Podio really improved our client relationships."

“It was very hard to manage the jobs that I had open because there wasn’t a centralized location where we were storing all of our jobs. So I could have opened up 10 jobs in one day, and two days later I was having to go through my emails to …

"[The Projects app] automatically feeds back into another app we created that tracks the margins for all the products; it constantly calculates average hours, average material costs, average margin for each piece so we can be on the fly adjusting. It’s really amazing what you can do."

"We offer a discount if clients always use Podio first before they send emails or call us."

“It’s extremely critical for us to be able to do that from our mobiles, Whenever someone signs a new customer or identifies a new potential customer … all of that is important to have on our mobiles – to be notified, to be able to add some information and basically …

"Podio becomes a strong tool when we have the site owner in the workspace with us – our work becomes transparent… If we can work openly and honestly with the site owner regarding finances, well then we are able to work openly and honestly on many fronts."

"By now 80 to 90 percent of our employees are using only Podio, which cuts down on email traffic, [and] on different tools. We have only one solution we have to learn and it’s been a great improvement since then."

“Everytime I need to find some information like new graphics, materials, deadlines; all I need to do is enter the app for a particular department and I can find it all there. Before I had to send lots of emails, call, and remind myself. Now it’s it just all there …

"Podio, to me, is about knowledge management. Understanding how your business works from all angles and being able to track trends and statistics from the data."

"Last year, before we were using Podio, we put out three issues. Now that we can plan and track, and have accountability and transparency, we’re going to put out four issues this year and more stories are being told from the economic fringe."

“As we are all working freelance on the side, it is really important to have goals set to push yourself and each other forward. I’ve experienced that we actually get more things done since it is clear what exactly has to be ready and when.”

"Our technology team has been agile for a long time, but we wanted to work this way across the organization. So we thought we’d experiment with weekly sprints in marketing and using a hypothesis-driven development technique, which means every single project has to be written out as as a ‘we …

“Using this system in Podio has changed our world, all of a sudden we can now manage a remote sales team correctly. Naturally you have some people leave, some new people starts, we expand into new territories; straight away all the information that we have can be sorted into that …

“Previously you’d have to send it via email and save it on your local drive, but now I can have an app for all my employees and share just the specific items with the specific people that it’s relevant to; because obviously we don’t want colleagues seeing each others reviews …

“We work with people across the U.S., even Hawaii, so we can now communicate in real time. It just makes it a lot more effective compared to how we were working before. Previously, we’d have to wait for them to get on IM or respond to an email. Now we …