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Managing Your Marketing Collateral from Start to Finish
Marketing 7 min read

Managing Your Marketing Collateral from Start to Finish

Effective marketing collateral helps communicate crucial details about brand goals and identity. Learn more about communication collateral and marketing collateral development.

The Top Challenges for Creative Teams
Marketing 3 min read

The Top Challenges for Creative Teams

We surveyed creative teams of all sizes and asked about their biggest challenges, struggles with collaboration, and how they manage their work. We found that generally, most requests are given at random, too much feedback is a hindrance, and clients are the most difficult to collaborate with.

7 Top Stories of Design Clients from Hell
Marketing 3 min read

7 Top Stories of Design Clients from Hell

Let's talk about the difficult clients. You know, the ones that don't know what they want, are picky as ever, and push up deadlines like it's their greatest pleasure in life. This indecisiveness and miscommunication creates a lag in the design process and leads to horrific scenarios. Without a collaboration tool to capture exactly what the client is looking for, schedules are thrown off by multiple iterations, endless revisions, and too much input.

Are Consistency and Creativity Mutually Exclusive?
Productivity 10 min read

Are Consistency and Creativity Mutually Exclusive?

Creativity is important. But not easy, particularly when you’re expected to exercise your creative genius day after day. Is it even possible to achieve a consistent level of creativity, while producing at a high volume? And if so, how? Here’s what you need to know.

Top 11 Quotes To Get Your Creative Juices Flowing
Productivity 7 min read

Top 11 Quotes To Get Your Creative Juices Flowing

Stuck in a creative rut? Here are 11 quotes from some of the most creative minds in history who've felt your pain and emerged victorious. May you find the inspiration to rise above your slump and free the genius inside your mind.

How to Create an Approval Process in Wrike
Project Management 3 min read

How to Create an Approval Process in Wrike

There are a few concrete business elements that remain consistent across all organizations, regardless of industry. Emails and meetings generally fall in that category. One element that is often overlooked but almost always takes up time is the approval process. Documents, deliverables, content, purchasing requests, etc. all need to go through an approval process to make

Creative Agencies, Want to Win & Keep Clients? Be the Lobster
Marketing 7 min read

Creative Agencies, Want to Win & Keep Clients? Be the Lobster

Whether you’re creating an unparalleled customer experience, providing a behind-the-scenes look into your creative process, or sending weekly performance reports, finding creative and effective ways to demonstrate your creative agency’s value is essential in today’s highly competitive landscape.

VCs Foresee a Bleak Future for Startups? (Work Management Roundup)
Leadership 5 min read

VCs Foresee a Bleak Future for Startups? (Work Management Roundup)

Welcome back to the weekly Work Management Roundup, where we collect and curate the latest articles on productivity, business, and work. This week, we're looking into the future of work. We lead off with eight VCs foretelling the future of startups. Then we follow up with six trends that will affect how work will be done a few years from now. Read on!

4 Strategies for Developing a World-Class Creative Team
Marketing 5 min read

4 Strategies for Developing a World-Class Creative Team

What's the one main challenge for anyone trying to create a world-class creative team? Finding the time to develop the team into an internal powerhouse that can compete with external agencies for the best and most inspiring work. According to a 2016 Paychex survey, 53% of employees claim they left their previous jobs because their "employers

5 Steps to Implementing a Collaboration Tool for Creative Teams
Marketing 7 min read

5 Steps to Implementing a Collaboration Tool for Creative Teams

You're a creative director. You have too many projects, your staff is already working overtime, and you have no idea how to get it all done quickly and efficiently with your current system. Where do you turn? Collaborative work management solutions help cut down on the time your team loses attending extra meetings, managing an overwhelming amount

How SurveyMonkey Continues to Power the Curious
Marketing 7 min read

How SurveyMonkey Continues to Power the Curious

We caught up with the team at SurveyMonkey to learn more about the complex process of creating video, the obstacles they face, and how they overcome those obstacles and continue to power the curious.  

Why Your Creative Team Isn’t Using Your Project Management Software
Project Management 10 min read

Why Your Creative Team Isn’t Using Your Project Management Software

Getting everyone on board is crucial to project management platform success. Here are five reasons your creative team isn’t using your creative project management software, and what you can do to increase adoption.

Top 5 Product Design Blogs to Follow
Productivity 5 min read

Top 5 Product Design Blogs to Follow

When you talk about product design, you're talking about the numerous processes involved in creating a product — whether physical or digital. It must have functionality that answers a target market's specific needs, and it must have an aesthetically pleasing form. It's a formula that Apple has used with much success. But where does one find

Rapid Collaboration Proves Essential for World-Class Meal Kit Delivery
Leadership 10 min read

Rapid Collaboration Proves Essential for World-Class Meal Kit Delivery

Today, we’re highlighting our Manager-X Award winner for Cross-Team Collaboration: Katie Breen, Digital Marketing Project Manager at Green Chef

Building DAMs: Integrating Project Management Solutions With Digital Asset Management
Marketing 5 min read

Building DAMs: Integrating Project Management Solutions With Digital Asset Management

Here are 3 ways that integrating a DAM (Digital Asset Management) system into your project management tool can power your operations and keep brand assets accessible to all.

Rules of Brainstorming: A Manager's Guide to Producing Great Ideas
Collaboration 7 min read

Rules of Brainstorming: A Manager's Guide to Producing Great Ideas

Let's go over the do's and don'ts of brainstorming and some brainstorming techniques to battle bad habits, so you can be sure your next brainstorming session is successful and effective.

What Vinyl Records Can Teach Us About the Creative Process
Marketing 7 min read

What Vinyl Records Can Teach Us About the Creative Process

For growing, high-performance creative teams with cyclical work, it’s helpful to view the creative process through the lens of the record industry.

How Wrike Helps Backcountry Connect People to Their Passions
Marketing 7 min read

How Wrike Helps Backcountry Connect People to Their Passions

We stepped outside with Ivan Ward, Producer & Media Manager, and Georgia Steenberge, Design Director, at Backcountry to see how they were able to overcome the obstacles and continue to connect people with their passions.

6 Roadblocks to Creative Collaboration and How to Avoid Them
Collaboration 7 min read

6 Roadblocks to Creative Collaboration and How to Avoid Them

Collaboration is critical to a creative team's success. Here are 6 common roadblocks to collaboration and how to avoid them.

OSF HealthCare Crushes Creative Projects 50% Faster with Wrike + Adobe Integration
Marketing 10 min read

OSF HealthCare Crushes Creative Projects 50% Faster with Wrike + Adobe Integration

See how the OSF HealthCare team cut revision and approval time in half using Wrike's Adobe Creative Cloud® Extension.

Why Marketing Agencies Need Creative Project Managers
Marketing 7 min read

Why Marketing Agencies Need Creative Project Managers

In marketing agencies, a creative project manager plans projects, monitors progress, and keeps deliverables on track. Find out what else makes this role important.

You’ve Just Been Given Your Own Creative Team. Now What!?
Marketing 10 min read

You’ve Just Been Given Your Own Creative Team. Now What!?

Opportunity and excitement aside, making the transition from individual contributor to creative leader is tough.

How Automation Leads to Creative Confidence
Marketing 5 min read

How Automation Leads to Creative Confidence

Automation can alleviate your workload so you can focus more on creative aspects of your work. It eliminates mundane tasks while establishing structure and consistency in your processes. Let's take a look at how automation frees you up to focus more on the more impactful, fun stuff.

10 Must-Haves for Creative Project Management Software
Project Management 10 min read

10 Must-Haves for Creative Project Management Software

What should your creative agency be looking for in a project management software? We’ve compiled 10 points for you to consider in your search for the perfect work tool.