Capturing and billing more time can take your businesses revenue from mediocre to outstanding. When it comes to tracking time, so many lawyers and conveyancers leave money on the table because they fail to record all the hours they’ve worked. Fifteen minutes here or thirty minutes there can add up to hundreds of hours over the course of a year (and thousands of dollars). Fortunately, there are strategies you can use to make sure that your business is capturing and billing more time.

The Smokeball team have been hard at work developing an array of fantastic new features to improve the user experience for our clients.
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Here are some of the new functionality highlights we released in the last month that we are excited to share:

​​Are you wondering: “Should I turn off my computer every day?”

To shut down or leave your computer running has been up for debate for as long as the personal computer has been around. Many people leave their computers on for days or even weeks at a time, but is that really a smart choice? There are many benefits to shutting down your computer every day, let’s take a look at a few.

​Quick and easy document creation is crucial to keeping your conveyancing or legal business running at the speed clients need and expect from modern firms. You can stay on top of heavy workloads by using templates for efficient document creation. Adopt this approach and you will find that you can help more clients more effectively. Try these ten ways to save time with templates:

​Cyber crime has rapidly increased in recent years, with email fraud being the primary tactic of attackers. Lawyers and conveyancers represent an attractive target for cyber criminals, considering you are typically small businesses that deal with large financial transactions.

Email is now deemed insecure and many are worried about their emails being hacked. In response we have developed Communicate, a secure file sharing and messaging platform and mobile app. The first of its kind within the Australian legal and conveyancing industry!

​​We have always been proud of our culture here at Smokeball, and today we have another reason to be!

We are extremely proud to announce that Smokeball was placed in the Top 20 for the 2019 Best Places to Work Study, in the under 100 employees category.

​​Computers are important members of your support staff in your conveyancing or law business. To be operating at the top of your game, and to be ethically compliant, your computer must be reliably up to date. Saddling your staff or yourself with a sub-par machine is risky and even more expensive than investing in new equipment. Imagine your secretary is on a slow, problematic computer – aren’t you spending money paying that person hourly for restarting or sitting and staring at a frozen screen? Here’s how to spend money on technology in a smart and reliable way.