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Project Managers: Why Every Creative Agency Needs One
After starting up our web design and development agency, Pelago, in August of 2000, it took only a few months to realize we would have to add a project manager to our eclectic mix of creatives. Our...
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How to get hired at a creative agency
The hiring process at any creative agency is anything but typical. The handshake and the resume don’t usually apply. Getting hired onto a creative crew at a design agency is usually a lengthy process...
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Creating a Fun Place to Work (and Play)
We’ve all been there. Stuck in a job we hate. Listening to the minutes tick by like days while we stare out the window. Wishing we were anywhere but here. A bad work experience can be demoralizing and...
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Developing Lasting Client Relationships at Your Creative Agency
The success of any creative agency — regardless of how bleeding edge or traditional their design work — depends largely on our ability to sign on clients and then maintain symbiotic relationships...
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Time Tracking Isn’t Just for Hourly Billing
I’ve had many conversations about the pros and cons of time tracking with several different web design agencies, creative agencies, and IT services companies — and their corporate in-house...
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Customer Spotlight on Imbue Creative:A Design, Marketing, and Advertising Agency
We interviewed several customers to find out how Intervals has improved their time, task and project management workflow, and increased their profitability. This is a story about Imbue Creative, a...
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Customer Spotlight on Hök NikA Website and Graphic Design Agency
We interviewed several customers to find out how Intervals has improved their time, task and project management workflow, and increased their profitability. This is a story about Hök Nik, a website and...
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Customer Spotlight on MergeA Digital Strategy Agency
We interviewed several customers to find out how Intervals has improved their time, task and project management workflow, and increased their profitability. This is a story about Merge, a digital...
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Customer Spotlight on Media ContourA Full Service Interactive Studio
We interviewed several customers to find out how Intervals has improved their time, task and project management workflow, and increased their profitability. This is a story about Media Contour, a full...
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Using Online Time Tracking Software to Calculate Profitability
Throughout the world, creative agencies are the bulwarks of creative services — providing clients with traditional graphic design, cutting-edge Web design, advanced Web development, and innovative...
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Get Paid What You Are Worth Using Online Time Tracking Software
When a client hires your creative agency for a design project, be it a Web site, logo design, or complete rebranding, they are basing much of their decision on the merits of your talent and expertise....
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Tracking Design Deliverables with Task Tracking Software
Creative agencies providing graphic design and web design services traditionally work through a series of deliverables during a design project. Some of these deliverables are for internal review only,...
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Updating and Tracking Creative Agency Tasks Online via Email
The ability to track tasks online using web-based software is a boon to any creative agency in need of better organization and more fluid collaboration. But, updating a task using a web browser can be...
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Tracking Time on Your Creative Agency’s Monthly Retainer Agreements
It is quite common for creative agencies to bill clients under a monthly retainer agreement. In fact, it’s preferable to billing clients under a time and materials contract. The agency gets paid up...
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Six Things You Should Know Before Starting Your Own Agency
Two years after graduating from college I decided to start a design agency with my best friend. We bought two computers, sublet some office space, and began looking for work. And then, all of my...
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Six Business Mistakes We Made as an Agency
Fourteen years ago, in the late summer of 2000, we started our Web design and development agency, Pelago. We had new and shiny computers, a decent portfolio of work cobbled together, and a handful of...
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