{"id":10260,"date":"2017-09-06T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/honeybook.site.strattic.io\/?p=10260"},"modified":"2024-11-01T11:16:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T18:16:29","slug":"15-reasons-i-chose-honeybook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hbb.dev.reliablepenguin.com\/blog\/15-reasons-i-chose-honeybook","title":{"rendered":"15 Reasons Why I Chose Honeybook to Manage my Creative Small Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in January, I was lucky enough to attend the Rising Tide Society leaders retreat in San Francisco. They were holding all the meetings and events at the <\/span>Honeybook<\/span><\/a> offices, (whom Rising Tide had merged with about a year before) and the minute I walked into the office I was smitten. In love. With a tech company. <\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the incredible vignettes of comfy furniture that covered every inch of the old building with floor to ceiling factory windows, the end tables adorned with succulents (my fav), the beautiful west elm conference tables, the chalkboard wall of inspiration, the iced coffee on tap and a kitchen with snacks and champagne for days, it was the people that made this space feel like it was a home.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Photo by Natalie Franke<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Two seconds into walking through the doors, we were greeted with a welcome bag, a bottle of champagne, a smile, and a hug. And the thing that made it electrifying was that every employee of the <\/span>Honeybook<\/span> team absolutely LOVED their job. \u00a0(Not that I spoke to all of them) but you could just feel the energy in the room. \u00a0They were working towards something bigger than just client and project management<\/a>. \u00a0They were working towards building a community, a family, of creatives- connecting all over the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Up until that point, I was using 4 other softwares to manage my tasks and my clients. \u00a0I definitely have nothing bad to say about the other companies, but in comparison to <\/span>Honeybook<\/span><\/a>, the caliber and the capabilities didn\u2019t come close. <\/span><\/p>\n

I was using ShootFlow for weddings, 17hats for clients who weren\u2019t migrated to shootflow and for mentoring because that\u2019s where my contracts were, <\/span>Honeybook<\/span><\/a> for the miscellaneous invoice for a travel fee or portrait client here and there, and asana for all my workflows and task management.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not good for someone who teaches systems and workflow<\/a> and streamlining your business (but hey- it worked in it\u2019s own haphazard, complicated, only-works-in-my-brain sort of way).<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, as a Tuesdays Together leader with RTS, I was offered a free <\/span>Honeybook<\/span><\/a> account back in 2015. \u00a0I kept my free account open and honestly only used it to send miscellaneous invoices that I wasn\u2019t able to send through my other systems. \u00a0I didn\u2019t think Honeybook was there yet.<\/span><\/p>\n

But when I visited them, I got to speak with the team about what had just been released, and what was on the horizon and I was blown away! I started to think about switching (but was dreading all the work it would take) but wasn\u2019t quite ready to make the jump until I got to play around with it some more.<\/span><\/p>\n

But then, as I was walking in for our events one morning, I caught a glimpse of their core values as a company, written on a chalkboard. And this is:<\/span><\/p>\n

Reason #1: As a company, <\/b>Honeybook<\/b><\/a> has 5 core values, and they are:<\/b><\/p>\n