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Running into Project Budget Limits? Try These 6 Creative Solutions
We’ve all been in similar situations: you nailed the kickoff meeting; your creative team is absolutely killing it with their copy and art; and you’ve met all deadlines and kept the client happy thus...
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5 Ways to Benchmark Project Budget Requirements for Creative Projects
The stronger you start, the better you can finish.
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How to Use Revenue Forecasting for an In-House Creative Team
Revenue is not just a “sales” issue or a “business” matter. As the lifeblood upon which their access to resources depends, revenue is vital for creatives. From staffing levels to the office...
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Do In-House Creative Teams Need to Integrate With Other Departments?
While we’ll never diminish the value of creative teams, it’s true that they have slightly different schedules and work habits. If you’ve ever worked on a cross-functional team—a team that consists of a...
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5 Signs It's Time to Revise Your Project Communication Plan
Let’s be real. If you’ve been around the industry for some time, you know that projects can fail. And while proper planning and succinct scheduling can positively impact the success rate of many...
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Can Creative Agency Management Software Really Replace Other Tools?
With creative agency management software, the whole can indeed be greater than the sum of the parts. Integrated agency management software can replace other tools as well as allow you to collectively...
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5 Symptoms of a Meeting Management Skill Gap
With proper meeting management, you can run efficient and productive meetings with essential personnel. It’s easy to keep a team motivated to meet on a regular basis when they know that the meeting...
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Work Smart, Not Hard: Reducing Stress With Creative Project Management
No matter the size or scope of the agency, it seems as if you can always pinpoint the overstretched, overtaxed employee. It’s not that they’re necessarily overworked. It’s that they’re always running...
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The 5 Items NOT to Include in Your Project Communication Plan
If you’re in the know, you’re aware that we’ve already outlined the five best steps for creating an effective project communication plan. For those who need a refresher, communication plans provide...
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The Right Project Organization Techniques to Save a Struggling Team
A struggling team is like a sinking swimmer unable to reach safety on his own. They can make waves by thrashing about but their efforts will be wasted if they don’t make it to their destination.
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Why Remote Teams Make Meeting Management More Important than Ever
When assembling a remote team for a meeting, you may notice a different vibe than you would have with a face-to-face meeting. It’s important to have proper meeting management skills, for any meeting...
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5 Times When It's OK to Change the Project Budget Halfway Through
One of the most common struggles of project management is keeping costs within budget. As PM, it’s your job to correct inefficiencies across your agency, with the hopes of turning mistakes into profit.
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How Revenue Forecasting Helps You Prove Project ROI
Like any business, your agency’s success ultimately depends on your ability to make more money than you spend. As the project manager who determines how much is spent, you must know how much you can...
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What All Creatives Must Learn About How a Finance Department Functions
As creatives and creative project managers, we may take the finance department for granted. After all, we’re the ones doing and overseeing the work that makes their job an actual necessity. But then it...
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Project Budget: How to Demonstrate ROI for Creative Work
The concept of return on investment (ROI), is quite easy to understand. You make an investment over a set period of time, and at the end of that time period you get back your entire investment - with...
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How Does Revenue Forecasting Really Work?
Getting revenue projections right—or at least in the right ballpark, relative to actual results—is vitally important for agencies of any size. While it’s admittedly difficult (or downright impossible)...
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Creative Project Management: How to Tame Your Task List
It’s Monday morning and you can’t seem to stop staring at your task list. Despite your best intentions—and the fact that your to-do list is populated with a growing amount of jobs—it’s seemingly...
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Integrated Project Management: The Key to Showing Profitability
Efficiency fuels profitability.The more efficiently you work, the more profit your agency makes.Integrated project management is the key to showing profitability because it allows you optimize your...
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Project Organization for Flexible Offices: 4 Tips to Try
Studies show that some3.7 million employees work from home for at least half their workweek. That’s a staggering 103% increase since 2005.
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How to Build a Creative Agency Brand for Your Agency
If you’re in the creative or marketing services business, the one thing you can’t afford to ignore is your brand.Besides your work, your brand is the only thing separating you from a sea of similar...
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