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5 Common Problems of Revenue Forecasting (and How to Solve Them)
It’s nearly impossible to predict annual revenue to the exact dollar—especially in the creative realm. However, it is absolutely critical for businesses to create high-quality budgets that are...
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Four Project Budget Mistakes You're Probably Making
As a manager, you probably have a lingering fear about budgeting issues. You likely have even made a few mistakes and learned life lessons from them. Here's a list of some of the more common mistakes...
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Managing Change on the Creative Project
Change. Scope creep. Change orders. All necessary things to manage. All things your project client hates to be approached about. We (hopefully) have great relationships with our clients. However, every...
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5 Tools Every Creative Agency Should be Using
While technology has certainly made the lives of creative professionals a whole lot easier, it can be tough to keep up with the latest and greatest. Staying in touch with the top tech tools requires...
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5 Project Management Secrets Your Team Wishes You Knew
Scope creep, missed deadlines, conflicting information. As an experienced project manager, you know that stuff happens. And often, you’re forced to take the blame—it’s the nature of the job.No one...
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The 5 Biggest Myths About Client Satisfaction
Repeat after us: the customer is always right. Again: the customer is always right.Unfortunately, as you know, actions speak louder than words. And repeating idioms, adages, and proverbs, no matter how...
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The Worst Advice We've Ever Heard About Creative Project Management
It’s basic human nature to want to provide for others. This means that at some level everyone is full of advice. While you might want to pay attention to the advice from supervisors and experienced...
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4 Innovative Ways to Improve Your Resource Forecasting
The work of a creative agency is complicated and cutting-edge, requiring the use of innovative techniques to keep up with a constantly changing workload. Efficiently forecasting your agency’s...
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The 5 Best Tactics for Improving Your Project Communication Skills
If you’re a marketing or advertising professional, chances are that you’ve experienced problems with communication on one or more of your projects. Sometimes these problems are frustrating and...
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Why We Love Agency Software (And You Should Too!)
Over the past several years, agency life has become substantially more efficient, thanks in part to major technological advancements. And whether you’re digital, full-service, or in-house, software...
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Five Signs of Prospective Project Trouble
Ever get that eerie feeling that something may be going wrong on one of your creative projects? Something lurking in the corner, waiting to rear it's ugly head at you and take down one of your...
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Client Retention: Improve Client Satisfaction Now
If you're in the creative industry, client retention is on your mind. Between the time and cost of new client acquisitions, and the numerous benefits of long-term, professional bonds, it’s clear that...
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4 Tips for Rocking Your Next Project Kickoff
You know what they say about first impressions, don’t you? Well, we’re here to say that they matter in the creative industry—especially when it comes to establishing long-term, productive bonds with...
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Become a Workflow Management System Master
When you have a group of tasks or processes and need to coordinate and monitor them, mastering a workflow management system can be quite beneficial. Between the initial setup phase, performance...
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Where Am I Going Wrong on My Creative Projects?
One of my all-time favorite movies is “High Fidelity” starring one of my favorite actors, John Cusack. Like me, his music preferences and collection are important to him, and he is constantly...
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Why You Need Integrated Project Management to Succeed
As a project manager, you need to be able to keep your team motivated and directed throughout each project. Leveraging integrated project management software helps to keep the process on track and...
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A Guide to the Anatomy of the Creative Project
Working with a creative project seems pretty simple, right? You have demands from the client, which become deliverables. And you have a timeline that the client sets, which then also becomes a...
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Keeping Your Client Base Happy: 4 Techniques to Use
Without clients, the creative industry would be very different; in fact, it might not exist at all. Helping keep each client in your agency’s client base happy is a crucial job for every team member....
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The Biggest Trends for Advertising Agencies in 2016
While it isn’t always easy to predict trends, especially within the advertising and marketing space, there are a few things that seem to be pretty sure. Here’s what we predict could be the biggest...
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How to Be a More Effective Team Leader: Our 4 Best Tips
As a project manager, we’re sure you’ve read at least one think-piece, or perhaps even an entire book dedicated to leadership techniques. At the end of the day, being a team leader is your job. And...
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