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Innovative Creative Project Management Strategies to Try
At its core, project management is designed to ensure predictability and productivity. Keeping projects within scope and budget is an agency’s main goal, no matter the project.But often, the rigid...
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Top 5 Best Practices for Your Creative Project
Successful creative project management is often a mix of many facets: tried and true processes; creativity; a bit of luck; lessons learned from past successes and failures; and of course the input from...
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The 7 Skills Every Creative Project Manager Needs to Master
Understanding how to lead a team is contingent on understanding yourself—especially in the creative industry. From overseeing the big picture to managing the day-to-day, project managers are required...
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Understanding the Section 179 Deduction: A Guide for Creative Agencies
Tax reporting and payments are complicated at best, and it is easy to overlook ways to reduce your overall tax burden. Section 179 is one such method, and it can be quite useful for advertising...
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Are Poor Billing Processes Hurting Your Company? 4 Ways to Know
Are you not on top of your agency’s billing process? Let’s face it: you may be missing out on precious income opportunities. No matter the services you offer, the size of your agency, or even your...
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Want your Creative Project Budget to Succeed? 7 Tips to Try
Managing your project’s budget is the ultimate way to guarantee success—because as project managers, you are well aware that no two projects (or project budgets) are the same. While this may be true,...
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Wanna Win Your Creative Project Argument? Three Tips Special for You
It hopefully doesn't happen that often, but every now and then we get into a creative project argument with other stakeholders who may feel passionate about a decision, key piece of information or a...
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Why You Should Try Ad Agency Software This New Year
The New Year is the perfect time to try ad agency software. If you’ve been on the fence for a little while about it, here are the top six reasons that might help sway you. It’s always good to have a...
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Do You Really Need Revenue Forecasting?
Through any number of various experiences, you may have noticed that it is nearly impossible to precisely predict revenue. There are a variety of factors that can lead to a forecast failing to...
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4 Strategies to Get Rid of Your Meeting Management Headaches
Meetings. The dreaded gathering of any office. For so long, meetings have been misused by employees as time to catch up on sleep, think about the weekend, and in more recent times, catch up on emails...
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Avoid Project Disasters: Understanding the Project Communication Plan
In an industry saturated with acronyms, technical talk, and jargon, it can be tough to discern the true implications of project management terms. What then, is a project communication plan? And what is...
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You Need Resource Forecasting to Grow Your Agency: Here’s Why
Resource forecasting is a process used to predict or estimate future patterns, based on qualitative metrics. As project manager, it’s an essential tool that is used to gauge business development,...
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3 Elements All Successful Project Communication Plans Need to Succeed
Establishing a project communication plan is the first step in ensuring a successful campaign. Much of this rests in formalizing your existing internal processes into a binding, yet flexible, plan. A...
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Revitalize your Creative Project Team in 2016
While the goal of resolutions is to use commitment as an impetus to better a certain aspect of your life, many people recycle resolutions year after year.Why? Because far too often, people focus on...
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Want to Be an Effective Team Leader? 7 Skills You Can’t Do Without
Let’s face it, being a leader is not an easy task. You have to balance maintaining work relationships with meeting deadlines, and walk a difficult boundary line between friendship and authority with...
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5 Key Traits You Didn’t Know Your Ad Agency Needs to Succeed
At their core, many advertising agencies are the same. They offer similar services, have shared skill sets and talent, and share a common objective.But what separates the winners from the losers? Is it...
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Revenue Forecasting: Increase Your Bottom Line With This Resolution
It’s the start of a new year, and on top of the personal resolutions we’ve all made, there might be a few professional considerations as well. Perhaps you’ve decided to begin an earnest effort for...
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Did Your Creative Project Get Stuck? 4 Tips To Consider
When you’re managing a team of creatives,and everyone (including yourself) hits a roadblock, what do you do? Unless you’ve got the luxury of calling up the client and saying you’re no longer working on...
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Project Budget: Why It's Not Just For Accounting
Most project managers are well aware that they need to be in control of the finances on their projects. If a specific team or project area is consistently over budget, that’s a big red flag. The team...
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What your CEO Needs to Know about Integrated Project Management
It can be common for a project manager to feel that his/her individual daily responsibilities are not of interest to the company’s CEO. While there might be some truth to that statement, a CEO should...
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