Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

May 2024

Project Cost Estimation: A Guide to Quoting Profitable Projects

Ever wonder why some of your projects easily meet your target profit margins while others don’t even come close? You might be struggling with accurate cost estimates. They’re the foundation for setting realistic budgets, avoiding costly overruns, and ensuring your projects stay on track financially.

5 Best Time Tracking Software For Consultants

Managing client projects profitably can be challenging — many consultants rely on cumbersome manual processes and spreadsheets. Not only do spreadsheets waste time, but they also waste money: billing errors and limited visibility into resource utilization often result in lost revenue. In this guide, we’ll look at some of the best time tracking software for consultants to help you ditch the spreadsheets and increase your profit margins.

Tyler Caskey: How consolidating tools & automation can transform your agency

Easy access to reports and dashboards is a game changer. But if your data is siloed in different systems, replicating data can be a daunting task, let alone accurate reporting. And with manual data entry, there’s the risk of human error. Imagine if you could consolidate tools to improve automation - gaining visibility, accuracy, and efficiency within your team. In this episode we’ll hear from Tyler Caskey, a chartered accountant and founder of TheBeanCounters. You’ll learn what to look for in a new tool to centralize more of the workflow and how to introduce this change to the business.

Manish Kapur: Optimize these 4 areas to grow your agency

Forget about revenue for a moment. Consider how much more profitable your agency would be if you optimized your team’s time and improved utilization. If you could reduce hiring costs by keeping staff for longer. If you understood the leaky buckets in your outgoings and reduced losses like over-servicing through improved best practice. Manish Kapur, who has over 25 years of experience in creative ops, explains how he streamlines agency operations and boost profit within agencies of all sizes.

16 Agency Metrics & KPIs to Track For a Profitable Business

As an agency, profitability depends greatly on accurately tracking and understanding your company’s key metrics and data. This includes not just financial metrics, but also operational, sales, and project management data. In this guide, we’ll walk you through 16 key agency metrics and data to know and track to improve your agency’s profitability.

9 Project Management KPIs To Track For Profitable Projects

Monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) throughout project lifecycles helps determine which projects are on the right track. And which ones need help to hit your company’s financial and operational targets. Let’s explore the importance of KPIs and our top 9 project KPIs to monitor to boost your profits.

May 2024 Version Update: Bookings & High-Level Resource Planning

If you’re looking to improve resource planning, this is an important update for you! Get ready to get acquainted with bookings, which will make high-level resource planning and utilization forecasting much more convenient in Scoro. But the updates don’t stop there – we’ve also packed in additional budget insights, fresh PDF styling options, a handful of new settings… The list goes on, so let’s just jump in!