As your agency grows larger, so does your need to handle the increased complexity of your resources and overall budget. Project planning with clients often requires you to plot your work months in advance. It also requires you to fully understand your available resources and ensure what you’re spending fits the budget. That’s why Teamwork is thrilled to announce Scale, a new plan is specifically tailored to help agencies better manage resources and client profitability.

Whether it's remote or back in the office, there's no reason why a company shouldn't have a proper employee onboarding checklist for its new hires in 2021. If you've ever experienced a poor onboarding experience, you understand why it's so critical to have your ducks in a row for every new employee. In fact, you're more likely to have experienced subpar onboarding than not. Research from Gallup found only 1 in 10 employees strongly believe they had a great onboarding experience at their organization.

When you’re in an agency, you have limited resources to play with: limited time, limited money, and limited human power. No matter how great your best people are, they probably still have basic needs they need to take care of, like sleeping, eating, and watching Netflix. These types of limitations are a challenge for any business. But that challenge is amplified for agencies.

Find yourself drowning in notifications or constantly jumping between meetings lately? Well, you’re not alone. In fact, only 7% of employees believe communication is “accurate, timely, and open” at work. Yikes. Given the rise of remote work, companies are struggling more than ever to communicate effectively. And while some teams feel like they’re totally in the dark, others are stuck staring at Slack channels or Zoom calls instead of actually working.

If you’re a project manager, chances are you already have a lot on your plate. And so organization and productivity should be among your top priorities, right? This is especially true if you’re juggling multiple projects with totally different stakeholders. To help streamline your tasks and put your must-do duties front-and-center, we put together this quick and easy checklist.

There's only one way to make sure a project pipeline exploding with tasks and deadlines can be handled successfully—and that’s with planning. That's why many successful project managers and agencies use resource management software to organize their workflows. These tools are designed for a specific purpose: to make sure your team has enough time to complete the tasks on their to-do lists.

There is only one way to measure whether a project is a success or a failure—with data. Thanks to project metrics (and the right tools to track that data), it's now easier than ever to crunch the numbers on previous projects to see where we went right and what task ended up causing a major delay. Project metrics give agencies the tools they need to track performance and spot problems before they become catastrophes.

With new technology and trendy platforms emerging all the time, it can feel impossible to know what services your marketing agency should offer. We all remember the Clubhouse hype at the beginning of 2021, right? But when was the last time you actually used the app? No one wants to position themselves as an expert in a channel or platform that won’t exist in six months. Still, there are thousands of marketing agencies out there, all offering the same thing.

Regardless of how big or small, determining project estimates for costs, resources, and time needed is really hard. The worst part is, it’s hard to know exactly how a project will pan out. Consider all of the unexpected hiccups that often happen like team members falling sick and budgets get slashed. Project estimates can’t just be pulled from the top of your head. They're complex because, well, your projects are often intricate too.

We’re delighted to bring you some exciting new updates from across the Teamwork Platform this month. From updated User Rates, multiple forms per project, dedicated Project Channels, and the new Events, we hope you love these new features just as much as we do!