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Marketing is often associated with promotions, market research and advertisement, but seldom with productivity analysis. Do you ever wonder whether marketing alone is sufficient to attract customers and increase revenue? What if your marketing campaign is not working, but you are unaware and continue to pursue the strategy? You’d be at a great loss- in terms of revenue lost and opportunities missed, had the marketing strategy been implemented incorrectly.

Pitching your agency as the perfect fit during a client presentation is daunting. You have to remember product positioning, messaging, client goals, and most importantly, selling your service. Most of all, a client presentation must add value. The aim is for clients to envision what it’ll look like if they work with you and how you’ll help them reach their goals. The failure of most client presentations is how they land. Some are full of text-heavy slide decks. Yuck.

Did you know that productivity loss in the US ranges from 22.6% for planned employee absenteeism to 36.6% for unscheduled absenteeism? That’s according to a survey by SHRM. In this blog post, we will discuss what absenteeism is, how to measure it, and how to manage it in your workplace.

Hiring top-tier freelance talent can help you scale your agency quickly, so it’s no surprise the freelance market is booming. But hiring freelancers is so much more than assigning deadlines and expecting results. Freelance project management can be time-consuming and complicated, not to mention risky. If you want your freelancers to deliver consistent work that exceeds your clients’ expectations, you need to put your freelancer project management process under the microscope.

We’ve shared stories about Scoro’s company culture, given tips on recruiting world-class talent, and explained how we use Scoro to manage daily work. Today you can read about how to upgrade your application form and increase your chances of landing an interview. Have you ever been in a situation where you find a job description and understand that it is exactly what you have been looking for?

Client project management can present a range of challenges. Establishing solid working relationships with your clients is critical to retention. These are the foundation of any successful service business. If you’re unable to inspire retention and suffer from high churn, this can throw the sustainability of your service business into question. So, what’s the secret to success?

In life, there are plenty of times we all feel like a hamster stuck on a wheel going nowhere! Online project management can sometimes feel the same, especially if you aren’t using project status updates to your advantage. Projects make a business what it is. No matter who you’re doing business with or what kind of project it is, it always helps to keep your stakeholders in the loop. Project status updates are an effective way to do just that.

What does the disintegration of a $193 million satellite and your company’s last failed project have in common? If we had to guess, the answer is a failure within process documentation. Your business isn’t going to accidentally destroy a satellite – we hope – because you failed to specify whether measurements were in the metric system. No, seriously – that happened.

Website projects can flourish or flounder, depending on how effectively they are managed. Proper project management (supported by the right website project management software) can keep things running smoothly. At the same time, an absence of due processes can be a recipe for 404s, buggy designs, unhappy clients, and just about every other type of gremlin imaginable. This ultimate guide will walk you through how to specifically plan and manage website projects.

With every passing moment, the world seems to become more and more distracted. Between the influx of cell phone notifications and the never-ending news cycle, when do we find peace and serenity in our day-to-day life? Distractions can be frustrating, but the truth is, we are actually hardwired for them. We've all faced countless distractions from the time we were born up until this very moment.