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5 Key Traits the Best Project Management Software Options Should Share
These days, we’re faced with a lot of options for project management software. Luckily, there are a handful of key features that are important for creative agency management that can help narrow down...
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Creative Project Management Tricks You Aren't Using
Managing a creative project can be challenging, and we can always stand to have a few extra tricks up our sleeves. Here’s a few that can help you get unstuck, keep on track, or manage your next project...
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When is it OK to Skip Project Budget Planning?
Project budget planning is usually the best way to ensure that your work is efficient and your agency is profitable. It sets crucial limits on the scope of your activities and helps ensure...
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Don't Blame Bad Meeting Management For These Problems
Bad meeting management afflicts project managers with maladies like missed deadlines, disgruntled creatives and dissatisfied clients.But you cannot blame all problems on bad meeting management....
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Revenue Forecasting: Why You Can't Afford to Fake It
Accurate revenue forecasting can be difficult but it’s not impossible. While there are a lot of different factors to understand, and it can be tempting to cut corners, they’re all important to take...
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The Finance Department Functions Critical to Agency Success
Project managers are used to tackling a project budget and ironing out specifics within it, but have you ever thought about the bigger picture? The finance department at a creative agency has to take...
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5 Project Organization Pitfalls You Have to Avoid
As we’ve mentioned before, choosing an organizational structure to implement across all departments in your agency can be daunting. Whether you choose a functional or project-based organizational...
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Using Creative Project Management Skills Across Your Agency
Let’s face it: your agency’s departments must communicate with each other. They may not like to admit it, but they must. As a project manager, you know that effective cross-departmental communication...
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When Project Communication Plans Fail: What to Do Next
You already know that your communications plan can make or break the success of your project. As we’ve discussed before, your project communication plan is the roadmap for all of your creative...
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The Anatomy of a Well-Planned Project Budget
No matter how you measure success, one of the most critical elements of any project is its budget. A project’s budget is a pivotal influencer that is referred to by all parties involved—from your...
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Is Creative Project Management Software Only for Agencies?
A creative agency will have a definite business need for creative project management software. After all, the entire business is built around the success of - and revenue produced by - creative...
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Meeting Management: What to Do When a Meeting Flops
It happens to all of us: you open your mouth to talk and nothing comes out right. No matter what you say, things just don’t seem to be turning out right. In fact, your proposal (or presentation, or...
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Why Left-Brained Project Management Doesn't Work for Creatives
The human brain has two hemispheres, with very distinct differences. Each hemisphere lends itself to different strengths, and different people tend to emphasize one side over the other in their...
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How to Plan for Communication From the Beginning of a Project
When your project starts sagging in the middle due to communication lapses, it can be hard to get back on track. Make sure that you plan for ample communication at the beginning of a project. Use...
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Don't Fear the Deadline: Project Organization for the Disorganized
There are as many different personalities and work styles out there as there are people in the workforce, and vastly different people can end up performing the same tasks on the same job. For some,...
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Good Meeting Management Can Change Your Life: Here's How
Meetings make your agency go. But whether it goes in the right direction is up to you. Good meeting management can improve your life by making your team more productive and your agency more profitable.
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The Busy Creative's Guide to Revenue Forecasting
Project management within a creative agency requires a very specific set of skills. These skills include the ability to interface with clients and in-house upper management as well as different...
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How a Finance Department Functions Within the Creative Agency
There is quite the symbiosis within any agency. Sales cannot function without a creative team to produce the work they’re selling. Management would not exist without someone to, well, manage. And...
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7 Ways Great Finance Departments Function To Help Creative Teams
You may have the world’s most creatively brilliant team, but without an organized, efficient financial department, your agency is doomed to fail. To help illustrate the multifaceted benefits of a great...
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Hidden Project Organization Mistakes That Can Sink Your Team
There’s nothing worse than a derailed project. Not only does it hurt project team morale, it can cost your company a precious account. While most project management mistakes boil down to either a lack...
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