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Marketing Agency Workflow: How to Sync Sales, Ad Ops & Creative
Solutions to a marketing agency's workflowhave traditionally focused on the planning and execution phases of the campaign, the marketingworkflowbetween account managers, creative teamsand ad ops teams. However, this often overlooks that marketing campaignsbegin with sales and order management,...
The Problems with Using Asana for Your Marketing Agency (and Why Marketing Teams Need More Than Generic Work Management Tools)
Many project management software solutions such as Asana and Trello are generic, limited, and not intended for the rigors of marketing campaigns. Our agency customers' common pain points with using Asana to manage their workflow include: Only covering part of the marketing workflow proc...
The Key Features of Advertising Order Management Systems (and How to Integrate an OMS into Your Marketing Operations)
Advertising and marketing teams use a variety of tools to submit and collect new orders. Some companies (especially larger ones) rely on popular CRM platforms for this. Smaller companies, like boutique marketing agencies, often handle order management through more basic solutions like Google For...
PPC Reports for Clients: Customizable Dashboards at Scale
Manually creating PPC reports for clients requires time-consuming and tedious tasks that become roadblocks as you scale your business. When you sit down to create a PPC report, you need to: Gather your PPC marketing data out of each digital marketing platform. This means pulling data ou...
The #1 Problem with Most Marketing Agency Project Management Software
Most marketing agencies use several different platforms to plan, launch, measure, and report on their marketing campaigns. But relying on fragmented platforms to manage your marketing operations can lead to bottlenecks, inefficient communication between teams, and crucial delays in client onboa...
How to Optimize Your Ad Operations Workflow
Solutions for optimizing ad operations workflow often focus on the post-sales steps of planning, execution, and reporting. For example: Creating marketing deliverables Analyzing and managing campaign performance Creating reports for internal and external stakeholders But before...
The 4 Key Features of Marketing Work Management Platforms
For most marketing teams, the lifecycle of their services from planning and launching campaigns to measuring and reporting on performance is handled through several different online tools, most of which do not communicate with one another seamlessly. But the more fragmented your marketing ope...
How to Increase Conversions in 2021: A Light at the End of the Tunnel
2020 brought a wave of challenges and opportunities to businesses across the country. COVID-19 forced many non-essential businesses to temporarily close their storefronts and offices and shift to a virtual model, leading to a drop in sales for many as they attempted to adjust to a new way of wor...
How to Improve Your PPC Reporting Process (With Free PPC Report Template)
To help you quickly create reports and present your data in a way that is visually engaging we put together a free, downloadable PPC report template. But even the best PPC report template comes with significant limits, such as a lack of automation and limited data analysis. Not to mention, wh...
How to Find Competitor Keywords for SEO: An In-Depth Guide to Competitive Analysis
To improve exposure in search engines, you need to find search terms that you're not currently ranking for. But you want to focus on organic keywords that provide value to your company, and bring you prospects who can benefit from your services. To do this, a good strategy is to look at which...