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Managing Creative Differences Amongst Your Team Members
Having a team that can think on their own is great. Having a team that comes to blows due to all that individual thinking is a different matter completely. Conflict resolution is one of those project...
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Keeping Team Morale High During Slow Times
No one is busy 100% of the time. And that’s good. There are times when we are all over worked and feel like we are working 30-hour days. That happens. But what about those times when things are slow in...
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4 Signs You Have the Right Creative Team Assembled
Do I have the right people for the project? That is always on the mind of the project manager – and probably senior management personel in the organization. And in a smaller creative organization,...
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I Can't Feel My Fingers: How to Focus Your Creative Energies
Have you ever had that sense when you’re working heads down on something or so focused on something that you forget where you are or what day it is? Or you're so focused on your driving that you didn’t...
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The Ugly Duckling: Project Management in a Creative Centric World
This post originally appeared on Creative Performance Inc. To read more great content like this, subscribe here. Imagine your agency landing a seven-figure contract with a Fortune 100 brand, only to...
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I'm Drinking A Surge Right Now: Market Creatively, But Be Aware
Yes, I am drinking a Surge soda right now as I type this. That may not be big news to some of you, but in our family – and specifically to two of my sons – it is a huge thing. Surge soda and its...
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5 Ways Workamajig Will Delight Our B2B Tech Marketing Clients
This post originally appeared on McClenahanBruer. To read more great content like this, subscribe here. As a client, Do the programs and tools they use have the flexibility to be customized to your...
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5 Issues That Frustrate Creative Project Managers
Now is our chance. Yes...our turn to complain. Think hard. When you're managing a project, what things really grind your gears? What bothers you and makes you want to blow your top? What behaviors or...
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Why Jason Stone and MarkeTeam Chose Workamajig
Jason Stone, vice president of operations at MarkeTeam, recently helped out the Calico Agency by finding the CEO’s cat and returning him to his loving office. (Admiral Purr was in the biplane, in case...
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Key Competencies for Creative Marketing Managers
You’re a marketing manager in the creative management industry. What skills do you need to do your job well? To be effective for your organization, to lead your teams, to successfully deliver for your...
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Think Before You Speak: Communication Management on Creative Projects
If only I took my own advice... Several years ago I made a friend cry at her own birthday party and just the other day, at a checkout lane at Target (discount chain store), I unwittingly and...
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What's Missing From My Marketing Approach?
Marketing. For the individual consultant working on his own and wanting to serve his clients, marketing can be a four-letter word. A necessary evil. It must be done, but there is so little time for it...
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What Matters Most on the Creative Project?
When you and your creative team are working a project for either an internal business unit or an external client, what matters most on the project? We are all affected by our organizations goals and...
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Even Nationwide Should Apply Logic to Their Creative Projects
Seriously…who pays $4.5 million dollars and then runs a depressing ad – I mean THE most depressing ad possible – during the biggest sporting event of the year? Apparently Nationwide does, as part of...
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The Ugly Duckling: Designing a Successful Project Management Rollout
This post originally appeared on Creative Performance Inc. To read more great content like this, subscribe here. Welcome back to the second part of our Project Management article trilogy, The Ugly...
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How Much Does Your Budget Squelch Creativity on Your Creative Project?
How prominent does budget management weigh into your day to day and week to week activities on creative projects? Is it at the forefront as a primary concern or is it an afterthought on the project - a...
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Why Workamajig Works for Smith & Jones, Healthcare Marketing Agency
Rooted in the capital district of New York, Mark Shipley and Sara Tack founded Smith & Jones almost 30 years ago. As the healthcare marketing agency grew, they knew they had to find a managing...
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What Resource Management Techniques Make Your Ad Agency Work?
Let's face it...resource management is often that dirty two-word phrase that no one wants to deal with. Would project management life be much easier if we could just run with the project and not worry...
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What Helps You Determine Client Satisfaction on Creative Projects?
How do you gauge client satisfaction on your creative projects? Is it touch points throughout the creative project - one on one with the sponsor on the customer side? Is it a lessons learned session at...
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Workamajig Desktop Configuration: Useful Widgets and Adorable Kittens
Linda. My official title at Calico is finance director, but one of my unofficial duties is administrating Workamajig for the agency. It sounds like it might be a lot of extra work, but it’s really not...
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