News, updates, bloggish stuff, but mostly just selfies.
How to Get Developers to Give You Accurate Estimates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpLlEY-yN_U Are Inaccurate Estimates Killing Your Business? This is something that happened yesterday and today that I want to share with you. We were working on creating estimates for a fair sized project, perhaps a 3 or 4 month...
Defining a Target Market
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ8Vc_ghqxc What do you need to know when you're trying to find or define a target market? Narrow Your Focus A lot of new entrepreneurs want to try to do far too much, or sell something to everyone, and they don't want to define or...
The Secret to Growing Your Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bQJUP8TtlM Are you working on gaining traction on your business but just can't figure out how to get it going? Or maybe you're trying to take it up to the next level? Ever...
Don’t Kill Yourself With Work, It’s Not Worth It.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2ZHMLFF18g Stop Killing Yourself As an owner or as a freelancer, which is kind of the same, thing, it's so, so, so easy to just work all of the time. You can really, so easily just kill yourself working. Figuratively, but also...
Paid Time Off and Company Policies At Digital Agencies Of Different Sizes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqkLgyq8voo I've been sick for the last couple of days, so today's thing of the day is going to be about how to manage paid time off and sick days, etc. for a small agency. 20 years of ups and downs My agency's been around for almost 20...
Lead Measures For Project Managers And Production Team Members
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHFqKGDq52w When you're running a digital agency, the things people look at are things like: Project profitability Project revenueThe number of deadlines you madeThe number of deadlines you missed Lag measures are things you can no...
Consulting 101: Asking The Right Questions Before Making Recommendations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mChFVekE-KQ This is something that I learned the hard way several years ago, and it popped up again recently with one of our project managers in one of their mastermind groups. What is a Mastermind Group? If anybody out there is not in...
Improving Project Manager Communications With Unresponsive Clients
https://youtu.be/tG40pS81ALE Unresponsive Clients In Digital Agencies We had a project manager on our team about a month ago that said, "Hey, I've been sending this client emails over and over and over again, and I'm getting frustrated because he's not getting back to...
What Is The Google Sandbox And What Does It Mean?
What is the Google Sandbox and what does it mean for you? Find out here!
Scope vs. Proposal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPa8Y3aJl4g A Proposal And An SOW Are Not The Same Thing! So many design, marketing, and even web development agencies do not have a clear understanding of a project scope of work vs. a project proposal. Many companies include only one...
