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6 essential collaboration tools behind every great marketing team

No marketer is an island. Having a great team of people on your side is one of the most important things you can do to set your business up for marketing success, but to maximize your team’s efficiency, you need to make sure everyone is on the same page. This is especially significant because today’s marketing teams have to juggle many moving parts.

The realist's guide to effective team communication within your agency

Teams work better when they talk to each other and collaborate, but you don’t need us to tell you that. Connecting the dots between effective team communication and high-performance teams or agencies is where things get interesting. Poor team communication isn't just unproductive. It can create stress and waste valuable time — everything top performers avoid. Many teams may think they’ve got effective communication when it may not be that great.

Why better resource management is the key to profitability

Some days you might think you need a crystal ball to forecast your agency’s future. What lies ahead? How many people will I need on new accounts? How much money will we need to make in order to meet our bottom line? We’re here to tell you what you actually need is better resource management.

How to set marketing OKRs + 7 marketing OKR examples

Modern business marketing is awash in initiatives, processes, data, and metrics — from referral traffic to new visitors on the website to an alphabet soup of KPIs, there’s a lot to keep track of. And that’s before we start doing any of the actual work of marketing! Marketing OKRs (we know, yet another acronym!) are one way to cut through the noise and align your marketing efforts around something coherent and achievable.

OKR examples: Company, sales, marketing, HR, and product OKRs

Looking for a treasure trove of OKR examples? We've assembled 20 road-tested OKRs that can inspire you as you implement an OKR framework within your business. Over several recent posts, we’ve covered the OKR framework in a detailed way. So in this post, we won’t spend much time at all talking about what OKRs are or why to use them.

How to dominate the project execution phase

Your project may seem to be moving along smoothly. However, the project execution phase is where the rubber meets the road. Want to know if all of your meticulous project planning actually paid off? At this stage of the project management lifecycle, you’ll find out quickly if your meticulous project planning will pay off. The problem? Execution is arguably the trickiest phase of the project lifecycle. No matter which project methodology is used, this is where many teams totally drop the ball.

Learn how to combat these challenges and become a more profitable agency

Do you wish your agency was actually profitable but don't know where to start? We get it, agencies face many challenges and it can be hard to look past the numbers and instead focus on the smaller steps you can take to help your agency become more profitable. Agency owners know that they must continue to grow and improve because even if you were profitable last year, that doesn't guarantee the same for the future.

How team collaboration makes or breaks your agency's projects

Team collaboration is a must when you’re working on projects — but sometimes it can feel a little like herding cats. Sure, it’s easier than ever to assemble a team, especially now with the rise of remote work and the wealth of communications apps out there. But the truth is, real team collaboration is much more than a Slack channel.