ClickUp vs. Asana: The Best Tool to Organize Your Business

When you finally decide it’s time to organize your business, the next step you take is probably one of the most important: choosing the right tools.

In the beginning stages of your business, simple to-do lists and planners are probably enough to keep you on track. As you start to grow, suddenly you’re juggling tons of different projects, tasks, documents, clients, team members, and, of course, your sanity. And as hard as you try, things start slipping through the cracks.

That’s one of the most tell-tale signs that it’s time for a project management tool. But with so many choices out there, how do you know which one is right for your business?

Remind me what a project management tool is again?

At a high level, a project management (PM) tool is a digital to-do list that helps organize tasks and streamline processes and projects. Beyond that, it can also help with things like:

• Project planning
• Outlining processes from start to finish
• Managing individual, team, and client tasks
• Assigning projects
• Communicating with team members and clients
• Executing projects
• Creating timelines
• And much more!

That said, you might be wondering why your choice of a PM tool matters. If they all essentially do the same thing, why not just pick one?

Even though most PM tools have the same basic features, they’re certainly not all created equal. That’s when you have to get into the finer details like user interface, customization, and other features that really work for you and your businesses.

Lucky for you, we’ve already done that for two of the most popular PM choices: ClickUp and Asana.

Read on to learn about these top two contenders and which one is our top choice for organizing your business.

Contender #1: All About Asana

Pros of Asana

Asana is generally considered pretty easy to use. To get started, you simply create a project with tasks and subtasks, and you’re ready to go. You can also easily switch between views — boards, lists, and calendars — to see all of your projects and tasks at a high-level view. Finally, the interface is very intuitive; you can easily jump between tasks, projects, and comments without getting lost. All in all, it’s a very collaborative tool!

Cons of Asana

As a team that likes to house everything in one place, one of the biggest downfalls of Asana is the lack of a native editing tool. In other words, you can’t edit and collaborate on documents inside of the tool — you have to link to Google Docs or upload Word documents to share deliverables and content.

Another downside to Asana is that you can’t assign multiple people to a task. So, if a task or project is dependent on two or more people, it might slip through the cracks for those who aren’t assigned it. Finally, the more collaborators you add to Asana, the more expensive it gets, so it’s not the most budget-friendly for business owners who manage several team members.

Contender #2: All About ClickUp

Pros of ClickUp

ClickUp lets you create your task lists to look however you want. You can create visual boards with colored fields, use task lists, and more. If you’re familiar with other PM tools on the market, all the views within ClickUp essentially mimic Trello, Asana, and Airtable.

Some of our other favorite features of ClickUp include:

• The ability to create task templates to duplicate projects and tasks you do most often
• Multiple project and task views, including timelines, calendars, forms, Gantt charts, etc.
• A native document tool where you can edit, comment, and collaborate all within ClickUp
• A Google Chrome extension to assign emails in tasks without having to give anyone email access
• Editing multiple tasks at once (instead of manually changing assignees, due dates, etc.
• Clear pricing structure (less than half as expensive as Asana!)

Cons of ClickUp

Admittedly, ClickUp can be fairly overwhelming at first, especially for those who are brand-new to PM tools. And because there are so many customizations you can make, it’s hard to know where to start.

Some of the other downsides to ClickUp include:

• A bigger learning curve to manage projects and tasks and to utilize all the features
• Several functionalities that can be difficult to use without proper training
• It can feel a bit cluttered if it’s not set up efficiently

And the winner is...

As business organization experts who have dabbled in dozens of PM tools, the clear winner for us in this showdown is ClickUp.

We genuinely think it’s a great PM tool for business owners who are new to organization. Even better, we believe you cannot outgrow ClickUp. We have personally worked with and seen so many business owners avoid switching to ClickUp, but once they do, they wish they made the switch ages ago.

And once you learn how to use ClickUp and all its features to your advantage, you’ll see that it truly is an all-in-one tool to organize, grow, and scale your business.

Become a ClickUp pro with our Systems School course!

As we mentioned before, ClickUp comes with more of a learning curve than other PM tools on the market. But once you master the interface and features, you’ll see first-hand why it’s the go-to choice for all of our clients (and even our business, too!).

But we’re not just going to tell you our top choice and let you fend for yourself. That wouldn’t be super helpful, would it?

Enter: our Systems School ClickUp course to teach you everything you need to know about ClickUp and how to use it for your business.

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With our ClickUp course, you’ll get instant access to:

• 52 On-Demand Video Lessons with step-by-step instructions and hands-on examples
• Access to our Systems School Community on Facebook, where you can get weekly tech support from the DL Team
• Plug & Play Templates ready to upload into your ClickUp account
• Lifetime Access to everything listed above (including future course updates!)

Ready to organize your business with ClickUp? Access our ClickUp course now!

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