Project management isn’t a new concept.

For years, businesses around the globe have relied on project management tools to keep teams working efficiently and productively in a host of environments.

However, for the most part, the concept of “project management” has been more often associated with IT, manufacturing, and construction industries. Today, we’re living in a world where project management practices can be valuable in every industry, including those that work from a creative perspective.

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Based on our experience of over 12 years of building and running multiple remote-first businesses, we wanted to share our tips for working and managing teams remotely.

In our experience, it takes a person approximately two months to get used to working remotely By following some of these tips, you can shorten and ease this adjustment period drastically.

“How do we keep working efficiently when we can’t go to the office?”

That’s on the mind of almost every manager and executive this week. Even though remote work has become a rising option for many teams in the past few years, the global crisis around COVID-19 has shockingly and very quickly upended the traditional workforce model across industries.

So many organizations are now scrambling to figure out work-from-home scenarios and implement remote collaboration policies that will minimize the ongoing disruption to the business and employees’ lives.

At Ziflow, we’re part of a growing population of companies that is 100% remote, and because our team has worked this way since the day we launched Ziflow, we’ve refined a company-wide remote work strategy that ensures our global marketing, product development, sales, and customer service teams operate as one productive unit every day to reach our goals. If this sounds like the situation you and your team has just been thrust into, keep reading for some helpful guidance on how creative teams can make the jump to remote collaboration.

On the surface, the words “creative” and “operations” might not appear to go together.

We typically associate “creative” with things like advertising, marketing, and branding. But these functions need managing by operational experts to avoid missed deadlines often caused by bottlenecks in the review and approval process.

A few years back, the Marketing Operations role didn’t exist. Instead, the marketing department drafted in Project Managers to help run and coordinate their more extensive campaigns.

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More users than ever are turning to video to consume content.

A study by Cisco predicted video would make up 90% of all consumer internet traffic by 2019, and with that boon means more and more brands are looking to invest in video marketing strategies. With 79% of consumers saying they prefer to consume videos about a product rather than read about it on a blog, the rise of video's popularity makes sense.

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Try as creative teams and agencies might to move into automated collaboration, email still has a stronghold over marketing project communications.

One of the most challenging parts about managing marketing, design, and creative content projects is the internal-external collaboration flow between clients, partners, and freelancers.

One of the biggest hurdles that brands and agencies face is the most efficient way to incorporate external collaborators into their creative production and marketing workflows.

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Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal by Domino’s Pizza in a lawsuit brought against the franchise due to its website and mobile app not being compatible with screen-reader software used by visually-impaired customers.

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There is a reason today's creative teams are more productive than ever. And that reason is online collaboration tools.

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