Digital products often fail. Many times, it’s because they’re poorly funded, based on a bad idea or trying to fill a vague market need. But on the flip side, even products that are well-funded and have a solid idea and clear market can also go belly up. What gives? Dean Schuster believes it comes down to goals. Learn the five essential parts of goals, and how to put them to work for you and your product.
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How do you host a remote workshop? Plan for PPP forgiveness? Or inspire creative breakthroughs? You’ll find ideas for all this and more on this month’s Resource Roundup—plus some tools to boost your productivity. Check out recommended tools, articles, playlists and more.
These are challenging times for any leader. Regardless of how big your company is, or how many people are on your team, it can feel like you’ve lost your focus or are unable to rally your team forward. Traci Barrett, President and Founder of Navigate the Journey, can put you on the right path. Here are four key areas to focus on in order to show up for your team and drive results.
With COVID-19, we’re all facing unprecedented challenges in an unprecedented time. Under the best conditions, leadership, teams and culture are tough to master. But in the midst of a global pandemic, it can feel overwhelming, or nearly impossible, to lead effectively—especially when you’re working remotely. Stephen Gates, Head Design Evangelist at InVision and Host of The Crazy One podcast, is no stranger to remote work. Read on for Stephen’s take on embracing change, setting your remote team up for success and cultivating a culture that’s stronger than ever before.
There’s comfort in routine and certainty. But life lately has felt anything but normal. With COVID-19, you may find you’re grappling with new struggles and emotions. How do you protect your mental health? Dr. Sherry Walling, PhD, has some suggestions. A licensed clinical psychologist and founder of ZenFounder, Dr. Walling offers tips to help protect your mental health during turbulent times.
In this resource roundup, you’ll find community-recommended resources for things like COVID-19 small business loans, leading remote teams, protecting your business during uncertain times, forecasting and more. We also have launched a a series of online events to help you connect with industry leaders to get the answers you need.
With COVID-19, it seems new information and resources are emerging every day. To help sort through it all, we’ve collected the articles, tools and resources that digital leaders within the Bureau community have found helpful in addressing challenges such as health concerns, business planning, working remotely and communicating effectively. Read on for advice, guides, interviews and more, and add your recommendations to the mix. You can also post your questions in a comment, and we’ll reach out to our community experts for answers.
We’ve been doing a virtual summit experience for years, and we’ve been planning virtual camps and more for when the time was right. Well…it looks like it’s time. So let’s do this! In April, we’ll be launching Virtual Camps and Bureau Circles, two new Bureau experiences to help you connect with peers, develop new solutions and grow as a leader.
How do you approach discovery? Collaborate as a remote team? Ensure website compliance or make sure you’re covered in the event of force majeure? These are just a few of the many questions posed in the Bureau community this past month. Check out digital leaders’ favorite tools, services and resources, and add your own to the list.
In the agency world, many times it’s feast or famine. While many of us have gotten good at standardizing how we deliver, we may not have operationalized our sales approach as well as we would like. Parallax’s Tom O’Neill and David Annis offer some ideas to help standardize your sales process, uncover your value proposition and focus your pitch on outcomes rather than “speed and feeds.”
If you’re in need of some inspiration and resources to make your work life easier, look no further than this month’s resource roundup. Thanks to the Bureau community, we have recommendations on dozens of books, podcasts, webinar platforms, collaboration tools and more. Maybe you’re looking for someone to help you improve your leadership (life coach, anyone?) or tools to help you manage file versioning and passwords. Whatever your goals or workplace stressors, chances are this list can help.
What does the future hold for digital studios, shops and agencies, and how are companies meeting business challenges today? Take the Digital Services Outlook Survey by February 14, 2020 and get your free copy of the report. The more organizations that contribute, the more insights we all can benefit from.
We all want to make our work lives better and more fulfilling. And the Bureau community knows the tools, services and resources to help you do just that. From improving team engagement to speeding up web projects, setting agreements up for success, mapping out process, working in comfort and more, here are the latest and greatest favorites from digital leaders around the globe.
As we kick off 2020, it’s the perfect time to dig into business strategy and plans for growth. Even better, why not hear first-hand from others who have been where you are today and come out ahead, plus spend a few days in one of the most exciting cities in the world?
With Bureau Bucks, you can spend that extra budget, lower your tax burden and enjoy the flexibility of choosing which events, programs or opportunities your team would like to take advantage of in the future.
Each month, we scour hundreds of Bureau community conversations to surface the latest and greatest tools, articles, services and more. This edition is packed with leadership resources, tools to bring your team together, solutions to help improve business and more. Dig in and share your go-to favorites.
As we look forward to 2020, we’re bringing back all of the community favorites, plus hosting several new workshops for even more professional development and team training. See what's coming up, and make plans to join us.
As 300+ DPMs converged in Orlando this past month for the Digital PM Summit, we dug deep into everything from Agile to design sprints, project metrics, process and more. Online, the Bureau community Slack was lighting up with Q&A and recommendations on PEOs, business and liability insurance, leadership books and other resources to help keep shops and teams humming. Check out our monthly collection of articles, tools and recommended services below, and keep a good thing going by adding your favorites to the comments.
At the Bureau, our job is to help you connect and tackle tough challenges, while giving you a break from the day-to-day madness. That’s why we’ve added some new events and updated some popular favorites for digital shop owners. Check out this sneak peek of what’s to come in the months ahead, including the all-new Growth Camp and Owner Camp XL.
It’s no surprise that remote work is becoming more and more popular. As an employer, the question that inevitably comes up is “Will remote workers save me money?” Short answer, it depends. Dave Danic and Adam Hale of Summit CPA Group join us to walk through some of the important tax implications and considerations for financial management.