Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

September 2021

A Guide to Scoro for Marketing Agencies: C-Suite Edition

Most senior managers are not project managers, which means there’s often a disconnect between how operations and projects are run. Despite this, the management style of your C-suite executives will still have a major impact on the performance of a project. Some senior executives want to know every detail of their projects – the dreaded and debilitating micromanagement that can be incredibly frustrating for project managers.

How to Add Users in Time Doctor

The single most impactful thing that you can do to make sure you are getting the most out of your Time Doctor account is to add all the users/employees on your team to get the full picture of their productivity levels. Adding more users will help you determine accurate baseline for productivity and give you better workday insights that will help your team improve over time. Watch the video to take a closer look on how you can make the most out of your Time Doctor account!

How to Use Time Doctor's Google Chrome Extension

Did you know that Time Doctor has a Google Chrome extension that lets you track, monitor and automate projects with ease? The Chrome extension inserts a start/stop button into Jira, Trello, Teamwork Projects, Asana, and all the other apps that it integrates with. It syncs with the desktop app, so any tasks and time tracked using the Chrome extension will appear in the desktop app as well as in reports for your account on the Time Doctor website.

October 2021 Version Update: Even Better Work Management | Scoro

Carefully mapping out project-related work, and later, managing, adjusting, and reorganizing it when needed, plays a significant role in delivering a great service, on time. This is exactly the reason we keep making improvements to our work and time management features, starring in a supporting role in our users’ success. Here’s what we’ve done.

Why optimizing your resources is crucial to your agency's success

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.

What is Project Management? 4 Things you Need to Know

To succeed in any project, you need to determine 4 things before you start. Watch our video to find out more about the project management life cycle and how to manage projects like a pro Bitrix24 comes with free project management (amongst other awesome business tools, including CRM, marketing, chats & calls).

What Do Project Managers Do?

Every company has projects which are why there are so many project managers. However what do project managers do? And what exactly are the responsibilities of a project manager in a business? This is because the position of a creative project manager requires a person with all sorts of skills and traits. Another reason why these individuals are in demand is that there are project managers in every industry. Think about it. Let’s take IT as an example.

Project Time Management 101

Project time management is a crucial skill to master for any successful business. It’s not shocking at all that nearly 41% of businesses without time management tools end up missing their deadlines. Effectively managing project tasks is essential for getting the project done on time. This includes breaking down the project into manageable tasks and assigning them to the correct individual for the optimal completion rate.

5 Reasons Why You Should Automate Your Marketing Campaigns

Regardless of its size, if your business is doing well, you’re operating at full capacity more often than not. This means that your staff’s time will be at a premium. While you can always hire more employees if need be, you should also be aware that there are many different ways to maximize productivity. One surprising way to achieve this is by exploring the possibilities of marketing automation.

Asana for Nonprofits expands to organizations of all budget sizes

At Asana, we believe that humanity thrives when we can work together effortlessly. Easy collaboration helps teams do great things, including nonprofit organizations with big missions to improve our world. That’s why we launched our Asana for Nonprofits program, which offers eligible nonprofits a 50% discount on Asana Premium or Asana Business. Asana for Nonprofits aims to boost the impact of nonprofits and help them improve efficiency, connectivity, and visibility.

Getting Started with Bitrix24: Product Talk

Manage your team, tasks, and sales effortlessly with a free online workspace from Bitrix24. We’ve been getting tons of questions from new users. In this episode of our Product Talk series, we went over everything you need to know to get started with Bitrix24. From price plans to communication tools and the CRM – you’ll find all the answers to the most popular questions here (along with product demos).

10-point project management checklist to help you stay organized

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.

What Is Project Management? Quick Guide to Project Management Software

Project management is a deceptively simple term that could really use a 2-hour explanatory video. We did our best to explain the basics of project management to you in a 2-min one. Bitrix24 is a perfect online workspace for your business. Everything you need for productive remote work is here - from tasks, chats, and videoconferencing to CRM, project management, and business process automation.

How to Plan a Digital Marketing Campaign

When it comes to your business plan, digital marketing is an integral component for any sector. A digital marketing campaign truly forms the core of your promotional efforts and can single-handedly help you establish a solid online presence. For example, it’s found that companies with a blog generate over 60% more traffic than those without one.

What Is CRM? Quick Guide to CRM Software and How It Works

CRM stands for Customer Management Software and it really does help businesses increase sales and boost customer loyalty. Watch this quick video to learn the basics of CRM and how you can benefit from using it. Bitrix24 is a perfect online workspace for your business. Everything you need for productive remote work is here - from tasks, chats, and videoconferencing to CRM, project management, and business process automation.

Traditional Project Management 101

Traditional project management is a process that involves a whole range of potential traps and pitfalls that can cause disruption, delays, and, in some extreme cases, project failure. This places a particular emphasis on ensuring effective project management and building the strategies and approaches required for avoiding the mistakes that are typically encountered by any project, irrespective of its complexity and industry.

6 essential project metrics for agencies to track performance

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.

Which Project Management Methodology is Right for Your Team?

Different companies have different needs, and when it comes to individual projects, no two are alike. With so many project management methodologies to apply to your projects, it can be difficult to know exactly which one is right for your team. To help make it easier to pick the right one for your needs, we’ve created a guide that breaks down the most common project management methodologies used by modern businesses.

How an ERP Firm uses OneDesk to serve its customers

For an expanding enterprise resource planning (ERP) firm, providing quality service is of utmost importance. ERP covers a wide range of day-to-day business areas—from procurement to accounting and everything in between—so staying organized and on top of everything is the key to success. Bringing the management of these needs all into one tool makes it easy to find everything in one centralized spot. With this in mind, one ERP firm came to us with a few priority requirements.

What is the ROI of Asana? Read the new IDC white paper

The way individuals, teams, and organizations work has fundamentally changed since the pandemic began. This shift in how teams operate has given rise to the accelerated adoption of collaboration software, which saw a 32% increase in year-on-year revenue globally in 2020 according to an IDC white paper.

Top 30 Best Zoho Alternatives

When it comes to the best Zoho alternatives, there is a large selection of replacements on the market. We understand that Zoho may not be enough for every company so we have compiled a list of the best alternatives to Zoho for your business should you want to make the switch. The project management market has exploded with the rise of remote workspaces.

How to Pitch Project Management Software to Management

Although upper management always has the final say when it comes to identifying the tools that can streamline your workflow, it’s the people on the ground whose opinions really count. As the ones who suffer the inefficiencies of the current system daily, they know exactly what they will need to work more efficiently and effectively. But when it comes to actually pitching new project management software to upper management, what’s the best approach to take?

New: My Tasks makes it easier to organize your work, your way

At Asana we’re big on knowing who’s doing what by when—and that includes knowing when your own tasks are due. That’s why we created My Tasks—your one-stop-shop for viewing all of the work assigned to you in one central place. Whether you’re new to Asana or an Asana power user, My Tasks is the best way to make sure none of your work falls through the cracks. View your tasks in List, Board, or Week View, and create custom sections to make My Tasks work for you.

Why You Need to Factor Flexible Planning into Your Projects

If the last 18 months have shown us anything, it’s that we could all do with being a little more prepared for the unexpected. Our personal and professional lives have been rocked by disruption after disruption as staff members have worked from home, returned to the office, and, in some cases, returned to home working all over again.

7 Techniques to Help You Monitor Your Team's Workflow

Whether you’ve already got experience running a big project or you’re about to oversee a team for the first time, knowing the right techniques to monitor workflow effectively makes the process a lot more manageable. Many teams inherit outdated project management software, coupled with techniques that should have been dismissed years ago. Some even use a combination of different systems or, worse yet, continue to manage all of their projects offline.

Deployment Frequency Report - Demo Den September 2021

Jade Jiang, a product designer on Atlassian’s DevOps team, gives an overview of our Deployment Frequency Report. With valuable insights to improve your software development practices, this nifty report shows breakdowns of your team’s weekly production deployments, the number of issues included in each deployment, and more.

3 Program Management Templates To Help Your Business Get Organized

Running an organization program management specifically takes, a great deal of organization. As the word implies, companies struggle to scale unless they are able to properly establish, plan, work towards, and measure their goals. The act of orchestrating some or all of the projects within an organization is called program management.

How To Enable Successful Project Implementation

Do you know how to enable successful project implementation? With the support of the right tools and resources, it’s never been easier to optimize your workflows around efficiency to deliver exceptional results for your customers. StartingPoint can help to solve disconnected workflow experiences to ensure project implementation and delivery is as smooth as possible. According to research from PWC, digital project management software increases performance.

4 innovative marketing services your agency needs to offer

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.

7 tips from Shopify to drive Asana adoption in your team

Today’s knowledge workers spend about 60% of their time on “work about work”—such as unnecessary meetings, status checks, and searching for information—according to the Anatomy of Work Index 2021. Even before remote work, the average large U.S. business lost $45 million in productivity each year because of inefficient knowledge sharing. But getting people to change how they work, even when the current process is painful and time consuming, is hard—really hard.

How to Plan and Manage an eCommerce Website Personalization Strategy

E-commerce has grown into a saturated market. Nowadays by the time visitors have landed on your eCommerce website they’re likely to have seen similar products to yours in a number of different styles, varieties and prices, and all being offered by a multitude of different brands. So how can you differentiate your website from your competition to better engage and convert visitors? The answer is website personalization.