Ideas, insights, and inside looks at how modern teams collaborate, manage work, and scale smarter – with a dash of product updates and stories from the trenches

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10 Best Team Effectiveness Models For Agency Teams

The mark of all great teams is that they are more than the sum of their parts. That is why it’s frustrating when you know your agency team has all the right ingredients to succeed, but it still underperforms. If this resonates with you, you are not alone!According to research, $8.9 trillion is lost ...

Team Collaboration 12 min read

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9 Steps For Managing Multiple Projects Efficiently

We like to think managing multiple projects is like being behind a drum set, where each limb needs to work independently, but all of them still need to work together to keep rhythm, since your projects are bound to influence one another.Now, when it comes to project management, 85% of your colleagues ...

Project Management 8 min read

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How To Do a Simple Customer Profitability Analysis

Regardless of how big your agency is, your resources will always be limited, be it cash or manpower. So, sooner or later, you will find yourself having a wide range of customers, which is a nice thing to have. Or is it a problem?Bear with us for a moment. No, having a large and varied customer base is ...

Growth 7 min read

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5 Musts For Scaling A Digital Marketing Agency

Just because you want to scale, doesn’t mean you’re ready to scale. What do we mean by this? Well, even though a solid cashflow might be hinting it's time to move on up, your processes and systems might not be there just yet.So, before you get all excited about how to scale a digital marketing agency ...

Growth 12 min read

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December Recap: Calendar, People Archive, and Task Report Presets

Hello, everyone! Welcome to ActiveCollab’s latest updates! In November, we released ActiveCollab 8, and added features to Calendar, Task Reports, and Invoices. This month, we made several more changes to Calendar and Task Reports, as well as to People Archive. Let’s see what these enhancements are ...

Recaps 3 min read

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Workflow Process Improvement Tips: A Guide For Growing Agencies

Speed up, streamline, centralize and deliver. That’s the motto of every workflow improvement hack. Businesses, corporations, organizations, startups and agencies all run on processes. Some love and live by them (think banks). Others loathe, sidestep, and keep them to a bare minimum (think startups ...

Growth 11 min read

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Workflow Automation: What Is It & How To Implement It

According to research, small business owners work twice as much as regular employees, clocking in more than 60 hours per week. That is a lot! And you can bet that it’s more of the same stories with employees in small enterprises and agencies.More often than not, small businesses are fighting to stay ...

Growth 9 min read

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How To Prioritize Tasks Like A Pro: Ultimate Guide

Feeling overwhelmed by your task list? Join the line. Whether it’s five, fifteen, or 500, to-do or task lists can be one of the most soul-destroying, demotivating, moving parts of any professional’s job. What makes it worse is that the list keeps growing. And growing constantly. Usually, at a faster ...

Project Management 11 min read

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ActiveCollab 8.0: Virtual Users and User History

Hello everyone,Welcome to the latest ActiveCollab updates! In September, we showed you the improvements made to the assignments dashboard, estimates, user profile, teams, and trash. This time, we’ll show you User History and a brand new feature Virtual Users. ActiveCollab 8: User HistoryUser History ...

Recaps 1 min read