According to surveys, one out of every five businesses is using spreadsheets such as Microsoft’s Excel, to help run their business.
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Don’t Just Manage to be a Manager
The project management lifecycle – initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing. It’s what project managers lead their teams through. The project manager defines the objectives, creates a plan to achieve those objectives, and then makes things happen to accomplish them.
What Your PSA Software Needs to Have
Professional Services Automation (PSA) software is becoming an essential tool for businesses, enabling them to make big gains in efficiency and revenue. Managed Service Providers (MSPs) often rely on PSA software to run their businesses.
Creating a Predictable Client Onboarding Recap
Whether you’re a software, engineering, or even a marketing agency, you no doubt have something of an “involved” or “complicated” client onboarding process.
Successfully Manage Your Projects to Increase Profits
Projects often are massive ventures: engineering projects for clients, software program creation, whole server rebuilds. They can be weeks, months or even years in length, encompassing hundreds or even thousands of employee hours with many different parts to their whole (design, execution, administration, billing, etc.).
What is Contracts to Cash?
If you have strolled around the Aysling website, then it is likely you have seen the term “Contracts to Cash” in quite a few places, and you might be wondering what is Contracts to Cash; and how does it apply to my business? To answer that, we have to explain what Aysling isn’t first.
Successful Tips to Manage a Project
Congratulations! You’ve been asking your boss for more responsibility – and often have been taking the lead on small projects and initiatives without being asked – and your boss has rewarded your acumen and moxie by… making you project manager of a major departmental or even company-wide initiative!
Necessary Tips for Services Businesses
By its very definition, a services business offers….services. Marketing agencies, law firms, architects, event...
Just Upgraded Your CRM?
So you’ve recently upgraded your customer relationship management tool. Good for you! That means you’re growing and need a more robust system.
Lead Generation Through Trigger Events
What are Trigger Events? A trigger event is an occurrence that opens the door for a sales opportunity. These events aren’t going to totally take over outbound prospecting, but they’ll certainly help you fill a bigger pipeline.
If Business is Growing, Spreadsheets are Slowing You Down
If your business is growing, it’s not just growing “up,” it’s growing sideways, at an angle and even – sad to say – possibly contracting in some areas.
The Three Vendor Management Reports Your C-Suite Should See
Quick quiz: what’s the main reason your company should use a vendor management system? Answer: you can keep track of all of your business’ “moving parts”: HR, contracts, sales, returns, customer service issues, etc.
What Type of VMS is Right for YOUR Company?
More and more companies are using vendor management systems to help with their back-office operations.
Keeping Track of Each Department’s Vendors
No matter the size of your business, chances are you have different departments or business units in your company. And they probably all work with different vendors.
How To Peeve Your Freelance Workforce
That title might sound confusing, but here is everything you SHOULDN’T be doing to your freelancers if you want to be successful.
Begin with the Beginning in Mind: Onboarding Your External Workforce
Hiring freelancers? Good for you! Doing so will save money and provide talented professionals the flexibility they prefer in their work days.