Nak Design Facebook Cover, Bisnes Kad, eCover, Header Grafik yang memukau walau anda NEWBIE?

Nak Design Facebook Cover, Bisnes Kad, eCover, Header Grafik yang memukau walau anda NEWBIE?

Ini 'shortcut' untuk anda menyamar jadi 'Graphic Designer'. KONPEM

Cuba tanya diri sendiri, jika ada 2 orang menjual produk yang sama, satu guna design cantik satu lagi design biasa. Mana satu pilihan anda? Design A dan B mana pilihan anda?

Tidak syak lagi, majoriti akan pilih A. Nampak lebih konfiden biar yang design tu amatur ja :)

Sebenarnya apa yang berlaku adalah otak manusia proses visual gambar 60,000 kali lebih cepat daripada ayat. Jadi jualan lebih senang berlaku sebab lebih senang otak proses dan tangkap.



Tu lah hakikatnya. Gambar lebih mudah masuk berbanding ayat-ayat berjela. Orang suka visual. Lebih cantik lebih tinggi 'conversion'

Jadi ramai yang berimpian nak ada tool marketing berupa grafik yang cantik dan memukau.

Tetapi...

... bukan semua ada BAKAT DESIGN yang bagus. Nak outsource kepada designer pun tak cukup bajet..
Kena ada software PHOTOSHOP (bayaran bulanan)
Kena faham saiz, dimension, layering, angle yang tepat sebelum nak mula design (memang sakit kepala la)
Semua dah ok, design pulak nampak pelik! (terima hakikat, kena ambil masa dan pengalaman untuk jadi pandai design :(
Bunyi negatif pulak. Ok lah kita ambil positif, anda nak selesaikan semua masalah itu.

.. anda nak beli juga Photoshop walaupun harganya mahal dan nak belajar untuk master skill Photoshop. Anda sanggup untuk luangkan masa walaupun lama untuk kuasai Photoshop. Biar lama pun, long term maa...!

Eh tapi berapa lama tu? Berapa lama untuk anda mahir? Berapa lama untuk anda biarkan prospek pembeli anda tunggu?

Memang anda akan menyesal. Bakal pembeli hilang diambil orang (1), produk anda tersimpan lama di bawah katil (2), duit dah kering (3)... lama sangat tunggu untuk anda hasilkan design yang cantik.

Yup. Boleh belajar, tapi untuk kuasai dan mahir perlu masa yang lebih. Anda tak ada masa tu
Ok lah, kalau macam tu saya nak HIRE DESIGNER untuk buat grafik saya!
Tu pilihan terbaik kepada masalah tadi. Syabas!

Tapi...

Opsss! Ini yang anda kena hadapi;
Keluarkan RM300 - RM1,000 untuk khidmat design
Tunggu 7 - 14 hari untuk siap
Aduhhh. Memang itu ke masanya? Ok ja sebenarnya kalau anda plan betul-betul marketing anda.

Tapi biasanya kita ada plan marketing yang perlukan design segera kan? Contohnya kita nak buat diskaun khas produk kita sempena MANCHESTER UNITED menang game penting semalam atau sempena CHELSEA kalah ke.. huuhu

Perlu ADHOC dan segera kan? Takkan la benda tu jadi hari ni, minggu depan baru kita nak buat diskaun khas tu pulak. Memang tak dapet la.. lapok dah masa tu. Silap-silap match yang minggu depan Manchester United kalah, Chelsea pulak yang menang. Jemmm!!!

Padahal buat jualan khas sempena berlaku sesuatu antara senjata jualan yang ampuh yang boleh dapat banyak jualan. Tapi anda tak boleh buat sebab kekangan masalah design lambat..
Best kan kalau anda boleh design sendiri? BOLEH! Ini solusinya...



8 DESIGN TOOL digabungkan dalam SATU SOFTWARE yang kita namakan

"SOFTWARE GRAFIK SUITE"

Anda boleh bina sendiri design anda dengan pantas kerana kita bekalkan RIBUAN TEMPLATE untuk anda! Bayangkan anda mampu bina design anda tanpa sebarang skill design dalam tempoh HANYA 5 MINIT.

Opss! Anda bakal 'menyamar jadi designer!
Bina Apa Sahaja Marketing Design yang Anda Perlukan!

Facebook Grafik Creator
(biasa dijual RM90)
Tool ini akan bantu anda REVAMP Facebook profile, fanpage, promosi banner dan apa sahaja di Facebook. Saiz dan dimensi telah ditetapkan, jadi tak perlu pening kepala!

Disertakan lebih 400 template grafik untuk anda pilih dan edit. Semuanya proven convert!
FBgifinal_resize
banner_resize
Grafik Khas Marketing
(biasa dijual RM120)
Tool ini pula khas untuk design di web mahupun aktiviti GERILLA MARKETING offline anda. Design kupon, flyers, kad, bunting.

Anda hanya perlukan 3-5 minit. Drag and drop fungsi pada tool ini akan lebih memudahkan anda edit dan siapkan mengikut citarasa anda. Penting untuk anda hasilkan banyak design bagi menguatkan BRANDING anda
Youtube Channel Pro Design Creator
(biasa dijual RM60)
Apa saja bisnes anda, Channel Youtube adalah antara perkara wajib yang anda kena anda. Khusus untuk 'online visibility'.

Tapi tak guna juga, kalau orang masuk channel Youtube anda, design welcome page header buruk atau tak ada langsung. Kena buat satu yang memukau + khas untuk branding bisnes anda!.

Tool ini bakal bantu anda!
Youtube_resize
Infografik_resize
Infografik Creator
(biasa dijual RM90)
Cipta Infografik sendiri yang akan menjadi sumber branding dan trafik anda. Anda Google sendiri untuk tahu kenapa anda kena hasilkan Infografik untuk bisnes anda. Pasti terkejut!

Lebih 500 high resolution grafik bersama software design infografik ini (graf, carta pie, label dll)
eBook 3D Cover Creator
(biasa dijual RM90)
Paling minimum anda kena bayar RM40 untuk dapatkan design eCover untuk ebook/viral content/produk anda. Opss untuk 1 eCover ya!

Tapi kini anda boleh cipta sebanyak mungkin mengikut citarasa anda. Template design disediakan. Anda hanya perlu edit dan tambah ikut kesesuaian anda. Bila siap, convert terus versi 3D pilihan anda!
eCoverHARD_animated
Header_resize
Banner & Header Creator
(biasa dijual RM90)
Anda akan dapat template-template banner dan header yang boleh terus edit hanya DRAG & DROP editor. Kita panggil What You See is What You Get (WYSIWGT).

Pilih sahaja saiz dan template design pilihan anda, ubah background, ayat, komponen, warna, texture. Mudah sangat, 2 minit siap!
Sales Grafik Creator
(biasa dijual RM100)
Cantikkan laman jualan anda dengan komponen ini. Bermula dengan grafik untuk headline anda, bullet point, guarantee box, perenggan ayat, button. Semuanya dah siap untuk anda edit dengan mudah.

Variasikan template yang telah disediakan dan jadikan ianya milik anda! Semua dah ada :)
salespage
overlayvideo
Overlay Video Creator
(biasa dijual RM60)
Biasa tengok orang display gambar video dalam promosi? Biasa ambil snapshot terus video Youtube.

Apa kata anda tambah 'overlay' pada snapshot itu menjadikan paparan promo video anda lebih nampak menarik. Semua tu anda boleh buat dengan
BAYANGKAN anda ada semua 8 SENJATA grafik yang anda boleh hasilkan bila-bila masa anda nak. Tak perlu susah nak kejar designer. Fokus kepada marketing untuk buat duit saja.

Nadi bisnes online adalah GRAFIK + SPEED. Kalau GRAFIK teruk, jualan KONPEM susah
Teknologi WEB-BASE. Tak Perlu Download. Tak Perlu Install
Selepas pembelian, anda akan diberikan USERNAME dan PASSWORD untuk akses.

LANGKAH 1: Login
LANGKAH 2: Pilih software anda
LANGKAH 3: Mula design
LANGKAH 4: Download design anda

DAFTAR SEKARANG

(Harga Pengenalan)
RM100

One time fee untuk tempoh terhad

Akses Sekarang Juga!
 
HARGA AKAN DINAIKKAN PADA 14 JANUARI 2017


- Jaminan Kami -
Anda boleh guna selama 30 hari dan jika tidak berpuas hati dengan 'Software Grafik Suite' ini, anda boleh tuntut wang anda semula. Itu keyakinan kami. Tiada risiko untuk anda, yang penting anda ambil kelebihan ini tanpa banyak fikir.
Saya newbie, tak ada basic design, boleh guna ke?
ABSOLUTELY! Software ini dihasilkan 'mesra newbie'. Hanya drag & drop sahaja
Tak ada pengalaman, takut design tak cantik..
Opsss! Jangan risau. Kami sediakan ribuan template yang anda boleh terus edit dan jadikan ianya milik anda. Mudah sangat bohh!
Kena install ke komputer ke?
Tak perlu. SoftwareGrafik Suite adalah web/cloud software. Anda hanya perlu talian internet untuk akses dan terus guna
Ada Money Back Guarantee?
Ya. Anda ada 30 hari untuk cuba guna. Kalau tak puas hati terus email kami akan kembalikan wang anda.
Kena bayar bulanan/tahunan tak?
Untuk tempoh pembelian sekarang, akses ini hanya sekali bayar sahaja. Kita plan untuk jadikan ianya bayaran tahunan dalam masa terdekat.

Nak buat grafik design yang pantas tak?

Nak buat grafik design yang
pantas tak?

Ya lah, kalau nak tunggu designer
pro kena tengok juga;

- que design dia. Kalau ramai
yang tempah, anda kena tunggu
giliran.

Tempah hari ni, terus nak
dapat design tu memang susah
sikit la.

Lepas dah dapat, mesti anda
nak buat sikit sebanyak
perubahan, kena tunggu lagi.

Aduuhh!

Buat sendiri lah :)

Alamak, buat sendiri design
tak cantik pulak. Buruk. Errkk!

Jemmm :(

Okeh, cuba tengok ni. Satu
software untuk marketer yang
nak design cepat.

Diaorang dah compile template
banner, header, timeline,
infografik bla bla bla yang
kita boleh terus edit TANPA
PERLU Photoshop.

Cecuba tengok;

>> http://jvsecurepay.com/affiliates/grafik/32389
Serius naik bulu roma!


- JIHADBISNEZ

Operations team beats deadlines and produces client deliverables 30% faster

"Wrike makes it easy to understand what the priority is and what everyone needs to be working on. Time is not wasted working on tasks that aren't a priority and distractors in other areas."
— Bailey Shemenski, Head of Operations at SimpleRelevance
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THEIR STORY
Data was spread across several platforms, resulting in inefficiency and mad scrambles to meet client deadlines
Like most organizations, this predictive analytics company relied on several different tools to manage communications and client accounts. The development and engineering teams used GitHub to manage tasks, bug tickets, and product updates, and HuBoard to create a Kanban board for their work in GitHub. Other teams, like operations and sales, were relying on their own personal task management system to get work done. To keep everyone in the loop, teams were communicating updates and changes through email. "Everyone was just emailing back and forth, or had a whiteboard full of to-dos," says Bailey Shemenski, Head of Operations at SimpleRelevance. "I carried around a little notebook with me, full of stuff I had to do and small details would sometimes fall through the cracks without calendar due dates or without being able to share my notes with team members."
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SimpleRelevance lacked a unified system across the whole company where everyone could track their individual responsibilities and check in on what was happening with other teams. Trying to integrate their multiple systems and share information ad hoc resulted in inefficiency, lost data, and miscommunications.
THEIR VICTORY
Consolidated data resulted in enhanced collaboration and quicker deliverables
The Operations team at SimpleRelevance was looking for a way to consolidate all the data that was spread out across their different platforms. "We needed one tool that would allow us to create tickets and tabs for the development and engineering team; one that was easily accessible and easy to use across the entire company, not just amongst engineers," says Shemenski.

Wrike has helped everyone at SimpleRelevance get on the same page, and they've successfully increased their ability to produce client deliverables by 30%. With a central platform where all data can be stored and accessed at any time, they've cut down on time wasted waiting for updates and responses. "It gives us a much quicker turnaround," says Steve Rose, Customer Success and Operations at SimpleRelevance. "Now we always know exactly where everything is, and where all the problems are prior to launch."
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Now teams can find data or client information without having to search through chaotic email threads. The most important information sits at the top of their tasks, so it doesn't get pushed down by long threads of comments and client notes. "The virtue of having everything in one system makes it a lot easier for people to collaborate on projects, and it breaks down some of those knowledge barriers, so you don't have to track things down in your notepad or search through email threads to follow up on tasks. It's almost made it a joy amongst everyone to map out a project," says Rose.

"The transparency and ability to have an overview of the workload across all the individual team members has allowed us to deliver for clients a lot faster and a lot more efficiently. Before Wrike, the client on-boarding process was typically taking us 5 weeks to complete, and we were right up against the deadline. Now, we're getting that done in 4 weeks or less." - Bailey Shemenski, Head of Operations at SimpleRelevance

THEIR SUPERPOWERS

Gantt Chart
The Gantt Chart tool provides a project timeline view that helps the operations team map out client milestones and plan for future projects. When something needs to be pushed forward or backward, the corresponding tasks adjust accordingly. They also use this feature to map out the on-boarding process with clients, so the client has full visibility into what the plan is right from the beginning
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@Mentions
Similar to Facebook and Twitter, @mentioning in Wrike helps the team at SimpleRelevance communicate internally on tasks. Through comments, team members can provide instant feedback and callout individuals who need to be in the know. Instead of sending an email, copying several people who may or may not be responsible, and then waiting for responses, @mentions notify people immediately and responsible parties can be easily added to conversations as projects evolve.

Custom Workflows
Custom workflows have helped the individuals at SimpleRelevance adopt Wrike quickly while maintaining their own personal workflows. Since cross-department collaboration is crucial to complete a client project, this feature allows each department to cooperate with full visibility without asking everyone to adopt a single, rigid process.

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Wrike saves R&D team 30 work hours of meetings weekly

“All the data is consolidated in one place so everybody can understand what the current state of R&D is at any give time.”
— Ted Somerville, R&D Program Manager, Nanometrics
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THEIR STORY
R&D projects were becoming too complex to manage using routine processes
For over 30 years, Nanometrics has provided mission-critical seismic networks that are relied upon to provide life-saving data to key personnel. They specialize in building seismological instrumentation that comprise monitoring stations and networks for measuring seismic events. The equipment has to meet rigorous technical specifications and is often deployed in remote areas, making it an absolute necessity to have impeccable communication and precision on each and every project.

Due to changes in market demand, Nanometrics was committed to developing a wider range of projects in a short amount of time. In response, their R&D team had to grow as the projects became more complex. Development priorities became more ambiguous, and the expanding team struggled with scheduling tasks.

Ted Somerville, R&D Program Manager, and David Easton, Senior Software Developer, knew they had outgrown their in-house tools, and were looking for a new solution to make their projects more manageable.
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THEIR VICTORY
“The Workload view has been kind of a go-to for me. It’s nice, it’s intuitive, and I’m able to sit down with the product managers and sales personnel and they can quickly see what projects are taking up a lot of the workload and suggest ideas for how to move things around.”
Ted Somerville, R&D Program Manager, Nanometrics

Nanometrics was able to reduce time spent in meetings by 30 hours each week and focus more time on decision making
The team looked at a variety of different tools, but kept coming across the same roadblock: “Other tools just looked like there was a huge amount of information that you had to put into the system in order for it to tell you anything meaningful,” says Somerville. “Wrike found a really nice balance between being able to be intuitive with how I used it, relaying a level of information that I was able to understand, and telling me something important.”

Today, R&D meetings at Nanometrics are shorter and more productive. Since everyone can see task updates in Wrike, their meetings are focused on decision-making and problem-solving rather than just communicating project status updates.

They also have fewer deliverables falling through the cracks. The R&D team is able to share the right information with the right people in order to get the job done. When something goes wrong, they can check Wrike and see where mistakes were made. “Wrike allows us to go back and reflect on where we went wrong, and it gives us a better sense of how to do better next time,” says Easton.
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THEIR SUPER POWERS

Resource Allocation
This Enterprise feature was a must-have for the Nanometrics R&D team, and also for any team that needs to manage the use of their resources and team members. Somerville was able to track effort on tasks and see how their resources were currently allocated across different subgroups of R&D. Whether it was software engineering or hardware engineering, he could see who was overloaded and transfer tasks accordingly.

Folder Sharing
Permission controls in Folder Sharing allow the team leader to share folders with team members while maintaining control over changing dates. This way, individual projects can change based on circumstance, but they won’t necessarily change the team leader’s plan unless he changes it himself. This allows Somerville to have total control and awareness of when project plans shift.

Flexible Project Views
Both Easton and Somerville benefit from the diverse project views that Wrike offers. The My Work page helps the team decide which tasks are a personal priority today and which tasks can wait until tomorrow, giving team members a productive starting point each day. The Gantt chart gives team leaders a timeline layout of the schedules for all the projects they’re interested in. Lastly, the Workload view shows how tasks are distributed across different teams and employees.
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Restaurant franchise replaces email with Wrike, reducing inbox traffic by 90%

“There’s no way we’re leaving Wrike. It’s embedded in the veins of the company now.”
— Lorne Cassoff, President, Ben & Florentine
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THEIR STORY
Email and spreadsheets were becoming inefficient and tasks were falling through the cracks
Ben & Florentine’s brick and mortar restaurant is known for its excellent customer service and delicious breakfasts and lunches. As a parent company/franchisor seeking to expand its base of franchisees, it is primarily a B2B affair, although the company does support its franchises on the B2C side as well — in everything from hiring the right managers to overseeing the paint job of a branch. Lorne Cassoff, President of Ben & Florentine, was looking for a solution that provided full visibility into how each of his restaurants were performing.

Before Wrike, he mainly used Microsoft Outlook to assign tasks and request updates. As his restaurant chain began expanding, flagging email threads and creating inbox folders wasn’t getting the job done. He struggled to find the right emails, connect with the people who were responsible for tasks, and organize projects in the Outlook environment. He looked at various CRM tools but couldn’t find a solution that allowed him to seamlessly organize his projects in one place.
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THEIR VICTORY

Reduced inbox traffic by 90% by replacing email communication with Wrike
Cassoff now keeps all his restaurants as separate projects and has full visibility into the tasks listed under each. “Wrike allows me to compile all the data under one header where everybody can collaborate and see it,” says Cassoff. Whenever Cassoff or one of his employees needs to see the latest project updates, they just look in Wrike. Ben & Florentine has reduced their inbox traffic by approximately 90% by replacing their email communication with Wrike. No more scouring through emails trying to find the latest info on a particular franchisee.
“Using Wrike is like strengthening a muscle. You’re working just as hard, but you’re lifting more weight.”

THEIR SUPER POWERS
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Folder Tagging
Wrike’s folder tags allow Ben & Florentine to create one central location to store information while also providing the capability to organize each task in one or several folders. They can organize their tasks however they like without interfering with other teams’ processes. Employees at Ben & Florentine have adapted their workspaces to suit their personal work styles while also collaborating easily with their teammates.

Folder Sharing
The folder sharing feature allows folders to be shared across different teams within the organization, making collaboration between departments easier. Teams can share notes, view attachments, give feedback, and communicate without resorting to email. The team at Ben & Florentine shares folders so they can open Wrike during meetings and everyone has access to the same information.

Consolidated Information
Cassoff’s favorite Wrike feature is the ability to host all the information about his franchisees in one place. Wrike has eliminated the need to search through emails for data because it’s all organized in one central location. “If I’m talking about a certain project, or more specifically a certain franchisee, I can go into that project and see everything that’s happening with that franchisee and all the information is accessible to all my employees,” says Cassoff. “There’s nothing falling through the cracks anymore.”
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Wrike saves advertising agency 50% of their time by streamlining cross-department communication

“The nice thing about Wrike is that you can hack it for your needs. It’s flexible enough that if you want to make it do something, you can.”
- Megan Peters, Research & Account Coordinator, Freestyle Marketing
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THEIR STORY
Streamlining communication with other departments was difficult and time-consuming
As a small advertising agency in Salt Lake City, UT, the creative team at Freestyle Marketing Group was fairly proficient at communicating within their own team. However, it was crucial to their success to also align with the initiatives of the account services team to complete client projects. They struggled with this alignment as their client base began to grow. Using Google spreadsheets and other tools for recording tasks and communicating with different teams became slow and inefficient. It drove the team to search for a solution that could provide this small, powerful agency the right tools to achieve their goals and keep projects on track.
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THEIR VICTORY
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Freestyle Marketing is saving half their time by communicating project statuses through Wrike
Wrike was able to align the initiatives of both the creative and account services department and cut down meeting times by 50%. Before Wrike, production meetings would take up to and hour and a half. Wrike has cut those meetings down to 45 minutes by eliminating the need to ask for updates on each project during the meeting.
“Nobody likes meetings, that’s true for every business. With Wrike, we’ve been able to keep them a lot shorter, which gives us more time for other projects and opens up time for fun things.”

THEIR SUPERPOWERS
Task Dependencies
Megan calls this feature a “must-have” for Freestyle Marketing. When working with multiple projects per client, deadlines are constantly changing. The dependencies feature automatically adjusts work schedules when linked tasks change. The people responsible for those tasks are then notified about the new dates.
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Custom Dashboards
Custom Dashboards allow the creative team to track their own projects, as well as important tasks that other teams are working on. They tailor their Dashboards to provide them with the information they need to check on throughout the day. This way, important updates are easy to find right when they log in to their account.

Project Templates
Whenever the creative team gets a new client or project, they start by duplicating their existing project template in Wrike to set up the new work and get everyone onboard quickly. Templates are also their central location for standardized documents to be stored and duplicated. They eliminate the tedious task of creating and sharing a new version of an existing project workflow or document each time it’s needed.SIGN UP NOW

Increased business agility by streamlining development process

“Wrike is applicable team-wide. Pivotal had an engineering focus, but with Wrike we can incorporate more of the team into the development process than we used to. It consolidates our work over the entire lifespan of the project.”
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THEIR STORY
As the company grew, it was more difficult to get real-time task updates from team members, which jammed the development process.
Storm8 relied on Google Drive and Pivotal Tracker to store all of their information. Google Drive acted as the master spreadsheet and commentary platform for projects, and Pivotal was used for bug tracking. Both were great individually, but they had no solution to consolidate all information. Employees had to jump from tool to tool as they moved between steps and multitasked on assignments for various games. Attempting to solve this problem, Storm8 looked at Jira, Asana, Basecamp, Redmine, and several more before they decided on Wrike.

THEIR VICTORY
Storm8 has streamlined their game development process, which means they can release new games and product updates faster
Wrike is empowering Storm8 with a tool to reduce workflow interruptions, helping increase their business agility and speed to market. They have finally consolidated all of their information in one place and they’re getting the real-time updates they need to keep their development processes running smoothly. Team members can get to work immediately without jumping through tools and wasting time to figure out what has happened since they last touched a project.
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THEIR SUPER POWERS
Centralized Information
When employees switch from working on one game to another, they know exactly where to look for the most updated information: Wrike.

Real-Time Notifications
With Wrike’s notifications, everyone knows within minutes when a task has been updated, so the next steps can get going immediately — whether that is passing code through developers and QAs, or moving it over to the design team.

Project Templates
By tracking all projects in Wrike, they can see which set ups have worked well before and which didn’t. Creating templates streamlines their work on large milestones and big releases game after game so that the processes get a little bit better every time.
www.storm8.com James Minahan
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Senior Producer
Own and maintain 40+ mobile games.
Coordinate work between teams, like engineering and the art department.
A leading developer of social games for iOS and Android, with more than 50 monthly active users and 600 million total downloads to date.SIGN UP NOW

Wrike expedites new website launch

“We chose Wrike because it helped us improve project management in a more effective and user-friendly way. It’s easy to set up and has an intuitive interface!
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THEIR STORY
With the launch of their new site approaching, the marketing team struggled with visibility on cross-project collaboration
At Only-apartments, there are eight distinct divisions in marketing. Collaboration and productivity was struggling across all their different divisions. On top of that, they were simultaneously launching a new site. So it was crucial to have full visibility on all marketing campaigns as well as the new branding on the site.

THEIR VICTORY
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As a result of using Wrike, the company was able to successfully launch their new website and adapt their marketing activities in a timely manner.
Collaborating on the website launch in Wrike turned out to be such an inspiring and successful experience that currently the marketing, communication, product and sales teams all use Wrike to get more done.
”The possibility of getting this result without having to send hundreds of emails and set up more meetings has been one of our major accomplishments,” says Glieneke. “Detailed custom reports on the project, employee and team progress helped us achieve great results in launching our projects.”
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THEIR SUPER POWERS
Project Visibility
The simplicity and ease of use gives them a clear view into how teams are collaborating and who has been assigned specific tasks, and thus Wrike became a key asset for ensuring project delivery.
Multi-Folder Tagging

“Hands down, the most useful feature is the ability to access one task from multiple folders,” Glieneke said. This power enables people from different departments to seamlessly work together on the same task and stay on top of the most important updates.
Seamless Email Integration
People receive email notifications about each changed task, and they can add their own updates to the task directly from their inbox, comment on the task, access files and attach new ones.

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Wrike Adoption Tip of the Month: The Basics of Building a New Habit

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Published by Wenbo Liu| Friday, 11 April, 2014

Recently, Wrike’s Customer Success team have been actively interviewing some of our most enthusiastic users because we wanted to learn how to improve everyone’s Wrike experience. We asked them about their experiences and how they successfully adopted the software in their business. During our conversations, we found three common trends. Today, I’ll introduce the first trend and share a few tips that can make your Wrike adoption process easier.

It is true that people are naturally resistant to changes in the workplace. But often times, a project management software is more than just a tool – it’s a new habit people must learn. And when consciously building any new habit, there is always some time when it is difficult to fully embrace the change.

Making a new habit stick requires an average of 66 days, or roughly 2 months. For those who are not tech-savvy, the idea of learning the ins-and-outs of a new software might seem even more unpalatable. If your team has strong opposition to anything new, there are efficient ways to make Wrike easy to adopt.
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As you try to get your team onboard the pro-Wrike train, you need to be firm in the stance that nothing is “real” unless it’s in Wrike. This is one of the most common successful adoption strategies we found with our interviewed customers.

Unless you are unwavering in your determination to get everyone onboard, some projects will be put into Wrike while others will stay scattered throughout email exchanges, excel spreadsheets, and personal desktop folders. Lead by example and rely on Wrike completely for all of your project comments and updates. Your model will let your team know that from here on out all projects should reside in one place – and that place is Wrike.

If one of your team members sends you an email asking about a task, this is the perfect opportunity for a gentle reminder. Prompt them to put their questions into Wrike before you respond. One of our interviewed customers went as far as letting a contractor know that he simply couldn’t respond to the contractor’s comments because the email “didn’t exist.” The contractor got the hint and turned to Wrike to continue the conversation.

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Taken a hard stance and still facing adoption troubles? If your team members are committed to working out of their email client, they can continue this practice. In fact, that’s why our easy-to-use email integrations exist! For one of our customers, most of their users don’t even log into Wrike directly – they work from within their inbox. The key to this method is using our smart email integrations, including our Gmail widget or interactive add-ins for Outlook and Apple Mail. Team members can simply reply to an email when they want to comment on a task they follow, or even turn their emails into tasks for project discussion and updates. Management can check into Wrike to get progress reports and receive real-time updates, while team members can work where they are most comfortable.

Remember: using new software means forming new habits. Stay strong through the process and give your team the time and support they need to fully make the switch.

Have you had a successful experience implementing Wrike with your teams? Did you use a similar method, or something completely different? Let us know in the comments below! And stay tuned for the next two success trends we found: finding power users and creating clear usage goals.

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3 Foolproof Steps to Ace Your Wrike Implementation

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Published by Wenbo Liu| Friday, 14 November, 2014

Back in February, Wrike’s customer success team launched a “churn analysis” campaign. For two months, we collected feedback from customers who had decided to stop using Wrike, and tried to identify their reasons for leaving.

While there were many different reasons people left Wrike, such as a lack of financial resources and specific missing features, “lack of usage” ranked at the very top, far surpassing all the other factors.

To be honest, at first I didn’t think this campaign was very helpful. Deep in my mind I kind of knew the top result would be “lack of usage,” even before we started. What I didn’t know, was why people stopped using Wrike, or the reasons behind their “lack of usage.“

Nor did many Wrike customers know why themselves. When we talked on the phone, they would say, “I don’t know, I guess we just weren’t ready for a tool like this,” or “I don’t know, it’s a good tool, we just stopped using it.“

It was frustrating, because I knew they came to Wrike for a good reason, whether it was to eliminate a pain or to improve a process. Something must’ve gone wrong in their implementation and adoption of the platform, and it was my job to figure out what happened.

Analyzing the Churn Campaign Results

At first, I assumed there simply wasn’t enough authority coming down from management to make the use of Wrike absolutely mandatory — as if flexing muscle at the team members would help solve their adoption problem. But soon I found that wasn’t really the case. Most of the time, team members seemed to be in as much pain as the authority figures and power users (the person in your company who knows Wrike the best and will likely be responsible for training) — everyone was sick of the old way of managing projects, i.e. relying on emails and Excel spreadsheets.

Then I started blaming our product. I would tell myself, “Maybe Wrike just isn’t built for a certain industry, or a certain type of customer.” But the data told me that was also not true: for every customer that failed, I could always find another one in the same industry that was very successful with Wrike.

So what was the problem?

Why Implementation and Onboarding Fails

One pattern I’ve noticed during my onboarding of customers was that the people that are more organized in their approach to Wrike adoption (e.g. those with a clear plan for training their team members, emphasizing specific features during training, etc.) tend to be the most successful. On the other side of the coin, people who are less meticulous in their adoption (i.e. they ask the team members to attend a general webinar and then just wave them on to “start putting their projects in there”) tend to be the customers who fail right from the start.

It’s a little ironic. If my assessment is true, it seems like the people who are already organized and proactive without a tool, are the people who use Wrike the best, and get the most out of Wrike. And the people who really need the most help managing their projects and workflows tend to be those least likely to successfully reap the benefits of Wrike. The great become greater and the disorganized stay disorganized.

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The Problem: Magic Pill Mentality

Magic pills make fantastic stories, whether it’s the fitness program that gives you a six-pack in three weeks, or the collaboration software that will instantly solve all your team’s communication and project management issues. But we all know (even if we don’t want to admit it) that magic pills don’t work on their own. They are the means to an end, not the end itself. Wrike will help you and your team get more organized — once you’ve put in the effort to get there.

The efforts also need to be channelled in the right direction. When working with customers, I’ve noticed one underlying theme:

Customers who fail at implementing Wrike do not fail at learning Wrike’s features; they fail to be goal-oriented and process-oriented during their implementation.

One implication of this finding is that my job as the customer success manager should focus not on teaching customers Wrike’s features, but on helping them be more goal- and process-oriented.

The Solution: 3 Clear Steps

Here are three things I try to get my customers to focus on:

Step 1. Have a clear goal for using Wrike

One question I always ask customers when I talk to them is, “What’s your goal in using Wrike?“

Answers vary:
“Project management.”
“Uhh, to keep track of our projects.”
“You know, just to have everything in one place.”

Yes, these are all good answers, but they are way too vague, and they lead to unmet goals.

What exactly do you mean, when you say you want to “manage your projects”? Is it to cut down on the amount of overdue work? If so, by how much? How will you know whether you’ve succeeded?

Is your goal to provide more visibility into your project‘s progress? If so, how? Does it mean you can get a quick snapshot of how many tasks are completed, by project? By person? By department?

Sometimes it’s hard to ask yourself these questions, because you don’t really know what you want.

Or maybe sometimes, you just want to achieve too much at once. Too often I’ve seen customers panic because they have not taken advantage of every feature in Wrike, whether it’s time tracking, the Gantt chart, the Workload View, or email integration. And before they know it, they start to come up with many different additional “goals” they didn’t necessarily have when they first purchased Wrike: track team members’ workloads, generate reports for management, run time reports for hours worked, etc.

It’s understandable that these additional goals creep in. After all, you want to get your money’s worth, and these are all good objectives to achieve. But you also need to be reminded what your initial goal was, because it’s only after knowing your goal that you can ensure you feel accomplished. And then we on the Customer Success team can help.

Step 2. Create a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)

Let’s suppose your goal is to identify overdue projects and tasks, and to reschedule them when they go overdue.

Once this goal is identified, you now need to create an entire workflow around it so that you can catch your tasks before they fall through the cracks. Here are some questions to ask yourself:

Should you use Dashboard widgets to monitor overdue tasks you’ve assigned to others? Or should you use email notifications?

Once you pick your antidote (or even if you pick both), you still need to standardize the process to make sure it’s consistent among your team members:

If you use Dashboard widgets: Which “overdue” Dashboard widgets do you set up? How are the tasks within being sorted?

If you use email notifications: Which projects or tasks do you follow to make sure you get the right notifications? How should you customize your email notification settings?

Once you’ve caught your overdue tasks, decide how you will make sure the assignees are aware that their tasks are overdue, and that they will reschedule accordingly.

Should you use the “Request status update” feature built into tasks? If so, you have to standardize the process to make sure team members check these request emails instead of just assuming that they will.

Should you use @mentioning? If so, you need to standardize the usage of the notification center for @mentions. Make it clear that “when your task is overdue, you will be @mentioned and responsible for rescheduling the task“, so your team members have clear expectations right from the start.

This might seem like a lot to consider — and we haven’t even touched on how projects should be created, how they are to be archived (for reporting), and the approval process behind the rescheduling of overdue tasks. But if you take the time in the beginning, it will pay off in the end, and you will achieve your Wrike goals.

Standardization and consistency is key.

In order to set up the right process, the power user not only needs to know about Wrike’s features, they also need to walk in the shoes of their team members. In a collaborative project management solution like Wrike, what each person is seeing always going to be different. If you have multiple teams using Wrike, you may need to create multiple SOPs.

One other thing you’ve probably discovered is Wrike’s flexibility. There are usually multiple ways to do one thing, whether it’s receiving updates, denoting important tasks, or assigning work. But whichever way you choose, make sure sure everyone sticks by the same process. While Wrike’s flexibility is a good thing for your team, it also means it does not come with a specific process carved out. You have to carefully build out your own process and communicate it clearly to meet your goals.

And if you don’t standardize your process of using Wrike? Many of our customers who leave Wrike struggle with people who just start to “do their own thing.” John creates a custom status folder for tasks that are pending approval, while Amy uses the default “deferred” status for the same type of tasks. Michael schedules his task due dates as milestones, while most of Ashley’s tasks are backlogged.

It’s easy to see how things can spiral out of control this way if you let your team members run away with Wrike.

Hopefully at this point, I’ve convinced you on the importance of creating a standard operating procedure for how your team needs to use Wrike. Once the SOP is in place, there’s only one thing left to do.

Step 3. Conduct your team training based on the SOP

The heavy lifting was all completed in the SOP creation! Now it’s just a matter of demonstrating the steps laid out in the SOP to your team, whether via a conference call and a screenshare or gathering everyone in the same room for a live demo. During your training, resist the temptation of going through unnecessary features that the team won’t be using; keep it simple and straight–forward. The easier it is for your team to learn the platform, the more likely they will be receptive toward using it.

3 Foolproof Steps to Ace Your Wrike ImplementationHow to Create Your Own SOP

Now, let’s focus our energy on the  actual creation of the SOP. There are so many questions you could potentially ask yourself when creating your SOP, how do you know what to focus on? How do you keep yourself from being overwhelmed in the process?

It’s important for you to remember our first point:

A good SOP helps make sure your initial goal is achieved.

In other words, the only questions worth considering when constructing your SOP are the ones that truly affect your goals. For example, if your goal of using Wrike is to make sure overdue tasks don’t fall through the cracks, then you don’t need to come up with rules on how the time tracking feature needs to be used.

Again, keep it simple and pragmatic. It will make managing your process easier.

Questions to Ask When Making Your Wrike SOP

No two teams will have the same SOPs for their Wrike usage. Depending on your workflow, you’ll likely need to address some of the questions listed here. I’ve divided them into four different categories:

1. Starting a new project
• Who is in charge of creating a new project/the tasks inside a new project?
• Are new projects created from a template?
• Once the new project gets created, in which folder does it reside? How are the projects categorized?
• For every project created, what type of tasks need to be created? Are there any milestones that must be included for every project?
• Are there any specific naming conventions for your projects?
• How are the tasks in the project scheduled? Are there any rules or approval processes for task rescheduling?

2. Task assignments
• Does every task within a project need to be assigned? (This is tied to how tasks are being updated.)
• Who is in charge of assigning the tasks within a project?
• With tasks assigned to multiple team members, should subtasks be used? If no, how do individuals know it is their turn to take action?

3. Updating tasks
• What kind of updates need to be made within Wrike (vs. kept out of Wrike)?
• How are team members expected to communicate their task updates? Should @mentioning be used?
• How are team members expected to find out about these updates?
• How are team members expected to find out about tasks that are coming up, or going overdue?
• Should a standardized Dashboard be created and shared amongst the team?
• How should overdue tasks be dealt with? Is there an approvals process for rescheduling these tasks?

4. Completing a project
• How do we determine whether a project has been considered “complete”?
• Where do completed projects reside?
• How should these completed projects be categorized for easy reference in the future?

To make these questions more relatable, I’m including a sample SOP I created for a marketing agency some time ago.

Download the sample Standard Operating Procedure.

Their goal for using Wrike was to have visibility into the progress of their projects, and ultimately prevent tasks from falling through the cracks. They also had a simple workflow where projects were created from a template, assigned to project managers, and updated when tasks were completed. Depending on your team’s workflow, your SOP will look marginally to vastly different from the sample I’ve provided.

A new tool will not magically solve all your problem. To make Wrike successful for your team, you must put in the work to set it up the right way. However, once you put a clear goal in place, thoroughly map out your team’s process, and create a great SOP, your team will be much more successful in its adoption of Wrike. One month from your successful tool rollout, you’ll look back and wonder how you ever managed all your work with spreadsheets and email alone!

3 Ways to Make Work Easier with Wrike’s Google Chrome Extension

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Published by Brad Sanzenbacher| Monday, 13 April, 2015

Wrike’s Google Chrome extension allows you to build a bridge between Wrike and any other browser-based tools that you use. When you create a task from a page online, the Extension embeds a hyperlink back to that page in the task. In essence, it’s a fast way to bookmark and discuss web content with your team. Here are a few of my favorite ways to use it.
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1. Learn together

The web is full of content that can inform your work and drive your creativity. If you stumble upon an article you think your team can learn from, use the Chrome Extension to start a discussion thread.

Three Ways to Wrike It Down with Wrike's Google Chrome Extension

2. Keep track of items you need (or just want)

Want it? Need it? Gotta have it? If you find that killer new “Toy” online that you know will make your life easier, you can easily direct it to right place for sign off. You can even grab a screenshot and highlight pricing information to include it in the description.

Three Ways to Wrike It Down with Wrike's Google Chrome Extension

3. Wrike within Wrike (aka Wrikeception)

Since all items in Wrike have a unique URL,  you can use the Google Chrome Extension to save and share custom timelines, lists, and reports. With a few clicks, you can ask your team to explain a delay, or share your stellar progress with your boss.
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Three Ways to Wrike It Down with Wrike's Google Chrome Extension

Since the URL is embedded directly in the task, it’s easy for the viewer to jump back to the source (selected filters and all) to review it in its native format. Tip: You can capture multiple screenshots, so feel free to scroll around large projects to highlight areas of interest.

Three Ways to Wrike It Down with Wrike's Google Chrome Extension

How do you use our Chrome Extension?

These are just a few examples of how you can bridge your digital worlds with the Wrike Google Chrome Extension. Our Chrome Extension is free and available to all Wrike users. Install it here and share your favorite ways to get work done from anywhere on the web!
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Achieve Collaborative Writing Nirvana with Wrike

Published by Tim Chingos| Wednesday, 9 July, 2014



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Wrike tasks pack a lot of punch. Ideas about how an action item can be captured and executed are possible with fields for everything from duration and due date to task importance.

However, the real magic lives in the feature-packed task description section. Because the task description works like word processing software, content marketing teams around the world are leveraging task descriptions to draft, edit, and update their writing on a daily basis.

The benefits are many:

Tasks and their content live in the cloud. This means that you never need to scour through your email searching for the latest version of a document.
And you won’t worry about whether or not your changes will be lost in case, say, your Word document suddenly decides to crash. Wrike autosaves your work every second so you never lose a single letter.
The Live Editor built into the task description area allows multiple people to edit and write on the same task, simultaneously.
Similar to Google Docs, each person’s cursor appears in the description area as a different color so you can see exactly who is doing what.
Revision history allows you to go back in time to revive or reference old versions of your text. No more “Where did that paragraph go?” You can figure it out immediately.
6 Tips to Improve Your Content Collaboration Efforts

1. Colored highlights point out specific comments and phrases.

Highlight text in different colors to point out areas that need editing.Wrike offers six colors for highlighting text. Leverage these during the revision phase to call out sentences or phrases that need to be updated. This will quickly draw the reader’s eyes to the areas that need immediate attention and ensure that all suggestions are addressed. If you’re stepping in quickly, simply highlight entire sections that seem clumsy or need rethinking. Highlighting is also an ideal reminder to add links, styling, and formatting.

Bonus tip: if your team is small enough, have every person adopt a fixed color so at one glance you know the red highlights are from Mary, and the purple highlights are from Richard.

2. Revision history tracks small and big changes.

Have you ever noticed the little clock in the formatting bar of the task description? With a couple of clicks you can step back in time like Marty McFly and revisit every second of your task’s existence. This is a great tool to see who’s made what changes, recover information that may have been accidentally deleted, and better understand the content’s progress from start to finish.

3. Comments allow conversations and feedback.

Keep the conversation about the content right where the content is being created and edited. Wrike’s comments system makes it easy to request feedback from colleagues, add your own thoughts, and let team members know when you have completed your work on the task. By keeping the conversation where the work is happening, no one needs to jump back and forth between emails and documents. This minimizes the number of windows you need to keep open and helps you to execute more productively.

4. Folder tags move content through its life cycle.

Create folder tags to track the life cycle of your writing project.

If you’ve read my blog post on using Wrike as a CRM or using Wrike as a ticketing system, you’ll know that I’m a bit of an addict when it comes to tagging tasks. Managing the content process is no different. Create custom folders to track the life cycle of your writing from ideation to publication. Think about how your team operates and the steps you take when creating content before setting up a folder structure. If your team draws its ideas from a backlog, create a place in Wrike for those ideas to live. One approach could be to start with “Drafting,” then move the task through “Editing,” “Designing,” “Scheduling,” and finish it off with “Published.” Remember, there is no right or wrong way to set up your folders. It’s all about what makes the most sense for your team.

5. Subtasks and checklists track multi-step content projects.

If you haven’t seen it yet, Wrike has launched Subtasks in Beta (you can enable them for your profile by visiting www.wrike.com/labs). Subtasks are a fantastic way to break down the creation process and keep team members on track. For example, there are multiple steps involved when sending out a newsletter. Create, schedule, and assign subtasks for each step to ensure individual team members are held accountable for their work and get it done on time.

Alternatively, you can use Wrike’s simple checklists built into the task’s description area. This option is perfect for small teams that work closely together and don’t need full-blown subtasks to track their work efficiently.

Use subtasks to break your task down into small wins. Use checklists to quickly break down a task into baby steps.
6. Attachments help manage external files.

While we love to see you working in Wrike, we know that there are times you will need to create content outside of the workspace. After attaching your external files to the related task, Wrike supports version control and gives you the ability to edit Office files without downloading — two features that are critical for a collaborative content team.

Version control is perfect for tracking changes and updates to images and other visual files. In the attachments section, select “New version” or “Add new” (depending one whether or not you’ve already uploaded files) and select the version you want to view, or add your latest edition.

Use version control in Wrike to keep track of document and image revisions.

Wrike helps content teams, writers, academics, and freelancers complete their writing commitments with grace. Check out this video for some of these tips and tricks in action.

Does Wrike Use Wrike?

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One of the most telling questions you can ask a software company is: “How do you use your product internally?” If they quickly throw out several compelling ways they use it, great! But often you hear: “Well, we use it, but we use lots of other tools too” and they can’t give specific examples of how they’re using their own tool.

Why don’t companies use their own product? Or why don’t they use it well? Is it a question of belief or reliability? To customers and potential buyers, using your own product is a way of saying, “Yes, we love our product (and we hope you do too)!“

Here at Wrike, not only do we believe in our software, but we’re bona fide fanatics who use it every single day.

Yes, We Use Our Product Everyday!

We get the question, “How does Wrike use Wrike?” all the time. To answer that question, I’m sharing my example of a big project we completed using Wrike when I first started:

I joined the marketing team at Wrike in January 2015. As a marketer, my team and I live and breathe in Wrike. Brainstorming, writing, editing — you name it, it’s done in Wrike. And one of my first projects was part of the effort to develop example pages on our site. My priority was to provide customer stories, so people could see our product in action.

During my first week, our international creative team was in town, and they had a huge role to play in the development of our new pages. We had a quick kick-off meeting with our Head of Creative and the project lead, our VP of Product Marketing. Within minutes we had created a task in Wrike to collectively brainstorm which example pages we wanted to develop and which took top priority. We used Wrike to schedule when each example page would be published, and created subtasks delegating to our teams what needed to be completed for each page. Then, we created a template from our first task structure, so we could use the same workflow for the rest of the example pages. The entire project planning meeting took only 30 minutes.

Although the kick-off meeting consisted of only 4 people, the whole project required input from 15 team members. Since all my initial meeting notes were in Wrike, everyone could see our detailed project plan without needing to call me or tap me on the shoulder to ask a question. My teammates could add questions or suggestions to the kick-off task, and then simply @mention the appropriate person to get their answer.

3 months later in March, we had completed all five example pages on time without ever having to jump on another call or schedule another meeting. Everything between our content marketing, product marketing, design, and development teams was done through Wrike. This was an “A-ha!” moment for me as a new employee; I saw the power of our product in action.

After our project was completed, our VP of Product Marketing sent out a congratulatory message. Always making a little time to celebrate our wins!

“This is an amazing example of Wrike in action. In January, we laid out the project plan in a 30 min meeting and here we are today delivering exactly on time with 10+ people involved in these pages and 0 status update meetings. There were at least 5 individual pages created as part of this project. In the typical creative process, this would have required at least 3 rounds of review for each, and we did it all in real time through Wrike.” —Brian Thome, VP of Product and Product Marketing at Wrike

 …And Here Are Our Wrike Tips:

1. We take notes in Wrike so project plans are accessible in real time

We don’t wait until the end of the meeting to record next steps or primary goals. Instead, we open up Wrike right when the meeting begins and take notes in real time. This allows us to document every detail and create/assign tasks appropriately. Since everyone involved in the project has access to these notes, it helps keep the meetings short and only requires key players to attend.

2. We assign tasks to document accountability

Since all the information is in one location, assigning individuals to tasks helps us track accountability. In the example above, each example page required a number of tasks to be completed by different team members. In Wrike, everyone saw who was responsible for which task, so if there was any delay we could comment on the task to see what the hold up was. There was never confusion on who was responsible for any work.

3. By receiving daily updates on projects, we cut out meetings

Whenever there is a change to a task, everyone on that task is notified immediately. So while creating the example pages, all project tracking was done through Wrike. There was no need for status meetings or conference calls. If our director was curious about our progress, he could just glance at Wrike to see what was still in motion and what had already been completed.

4. Consolidating project data in Wrike allows us to plan around the clock

With our team spread across the globe, we use the “follow the sun” technique, allowing the U.S. team to get tasks done during our work day, and then pass off the work to our international teammates to keep progress moving as we sleep; the project never stops moving. And since we keep all our progress and work in Wrike, there’s no need to send emails asking for updates or documents, and then wait day (or more) for a response. Our teammates’ work is always accessible.

5. We create templates to save time

We love creating templates and copying folder structures in Wrike so efforts aren’t duplicated. For example, we created five example pages — all with different content, but developed using the same process and with similar components. We duplicated our tasks and subtasks structure, so the process for the individual pages stayed consistent. It helped us prepare for the next step on each page and reference what worked last time.

Want more on how Wrike uses Wrike?

I hope you enjoyed this account of how we use Wrike internally!

Check out some of our case studies to see some examples of how our customers are successfully using Wrike! You can also see How I Run a Marketing Team, 8 Lessons in Increased Productivity from Wrike Customers, and How Wrike Uses Wrike… for Fun! for more examples.

Are you a big Wrike fan? Tell us your favorite reason to use Wrike in the comments!

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SELECTIVE DATA-SHARING

Granular control over data management

Wrike is easy to share; now your team, clients, and freelancers can work together in one place. Whether you want to share a single task or the entire project - it’s your call!

Make collaboration smoother by assigning folder access permissions to fine tune what different users or user groups can do within shared folders. Learn more

USER GROUPS

Coordinate multiple teams efficiently

Group your team members for easier user management and control. It helps you to administer data access rights for groups of people rather than one individual at a time.

This feature is particularly valuable for selective data sharing, as it helps managers quickly share projects with all members of a group. Learn more

ONLINE FILE STORAGE APPS

For online document collaboration

Wrike integrates with Google Docs, Dropbox, and Box, allowing your teammates to work on files together in real time right from Wrike’s workspace.

Link everything you need to the projects and tasks, so that your team always knows where to find the latest files. Learn more

MS OFFICE AND OPEN OFFICE

Time-honored desktop apps brought online

Whether you prefer the classic MS Office or the new Open Office is of no difference to us. Attach all files to your tasks quickly via drag & drop.

Collaborate, brainstorm, take notes - do everything together with your team without downloading the files to your computers! The latest version of the doc is always linked to the task. Learn more

Lead Effective Weekly Meetings in Wrike

When done right, team meetings can be efficient and motivating. The goal is to ensure that time is well spent, the agenda is focused, and everyone walks away with clear action items and next steps.  As you know, Wrike is the perfect place to manage your tasks and projects. Through adding an extra layer of organization, you and your team can easily manage weekly work flow and run team meetings right from Wrike — hassle free.

First things first: set your goals

Before diving into setting up Wrike for weekly meetings, take a step back to make sure your team has clear goals. Google has a great approach for planning quarterly and annual goals. In Wrike, create two folders: high-level goals (1. Objectives) and specific big-picture actions you want to take to achieve them (2. Key Results). Then, have your team tag relevant tasks and projects into subfolders focused on achieving the Key Results.

Set your project goals

Organize by week to keep the team on track

Top performing teams organize their tasks by week in order to stay focused and ensure deliverables are generated by the time they’re needed. If you haven’t explored task tagging yet, pause your reading and take a look at this Help Center article. Wrike gives you the ability to put a task in multiple locations. This is essential for organizing your tasks by objective AND by week. After creating a folder system for months and weeks, all you need to do is drag the folder name and drop it on the task to tag it. This video will give you a quick overview.

Organize your projects by week to keep the team on track

Get ready for your meetings

With the weekly folders you created to organize deliverables and tasks, you are now equipped to run weekly meetings straight out of Wrike. Instead of harassing everyone to submit slides for the weekly meeting deck,  simply have teams go on Wrike and show the list of tasks they completed last week, then decide what will be done this week.

For tracking purposes, you can either push tasks from week to week as they’re rescheduled and pushed out, or leave the original week tags in order to see the history of where a task has been. This is a great way to identify bottlenecks and better understand which work is being prioritized.

For even more organization, consider including a Meeting Agenda and Action Items task in each week’s folder. This will be the task where people can jot down notes, high level thoughts, action items, and other initiatives to ensure there is a place to capture feedback and follow up. During the meeting, make sure you designate a recorder to keep track of actions items and ensure these are then converted into tasks with assignees.

Weekly folders can also help you understand bandwidth constraints on your team. When used in conjunction with Wrike’s Workload view, weekly folders are the perfect place to jump to when a last minute request comes to your team and you need to find someone to get it done.

Leverage analytics to understand where you’ve been and where you’re going

Wrike provides Action Progress Insights to add even more control and visibility to your work progress. The reporting engine crunches millions of work activity records and provides essential project data in the form of actionable infographics. These graphs work together perfectly with your weekly folders. Open the Analytics view on any week and get a detailed snapshot of weekly status and top performers.

Leverage project analytics to understand where you've been and where you're going.

We’ve made it easy for you to get started today. Download this template which has Week and Objective Folders already created for you, and then import it into your Wrike workspace.

Want to see this weekly set up in action? Check out my supplementary Youtube video for a quick run-through.

And if you aren’t using Wrike yet, you can start your own free trial today!

Redfoo’s 5 Wrike Tips for Business Success

Meet Redfoo: former member of LMFAO who has since become an independent recording artist and CEO of LaFreak clothing line and Party Rock Records. As a busy musician, he found it difficult to communicate with his team while traveling around the world, and his team had just as much trouble knowing exactly who was responsible for specific tasks.

But since implementing Wrike, Redfoo has seen a total transformation in the way his team works. They’re more productive, communicate better, and (most importantly) they have more time to have fun. Here are five of Redfoo’s secrets for Wrike success:

Tip #1 – Use Wrike during team meetings

Redfoo keeps his team organized by having everyone open their Wrike accounts during meetings. Each task and every idea goes straight into Wrike as they move through agenda items, so it’s clear who’s responsible and what the next steps are.

Some ideas:
Brainstorm with your team in Wrike
Add and assign tasks in Wrike while discussing upcoming events, projects, etc.
Share links and upload the latest document versions so everyone has access to what they need
Discuss overdue items with the team to uncover roadblocks and improve processes
Tip #2 – Create Wrike tasks via email

Wrike’s email integration makes it easy to create and edit tasks on the go. Redfoo uses this tool extensively to turn emails into action items and assign them directly to his team members.

Some ideas:
See your Wrike @mention notifications in your inbox
Reply to comments directly from emails
Capture and categorize important emails by adding them to the proper folder in Wrike
Redfoo’s 5 Wrike Tips for Business SuccessTip #3 – Keep an ideas folder

As an artist, Redfoo is constantly coming up with ideas for songs, events, and fashion designs. Wrike provides a secure, central location where he can archive every idea even before he decides what he wants to do with it. He knows exactly where to find his ideas and can rest easy knowing that nothing is lost or forgotten.

Some ideas:
Keep an “Ideas” folder to archive your thoughts
Within the folder, create subfolders for better organization
Add any attachments or links associated with the idea so everything stays together
Tip #4 – Use the mobile app to track tasks on the go

Wrike’s mobile apps for iOS and Android let Redfoo stay in contact with his team even when he’s halfway across the world. He can check project statuses, see the latest updates in his Activity Stream, and discuss progress or leave feedback for his team, minimizing project delays.

Some ideas:
Respond to comments and view the Activity Stream directly from the mobile app
Use your mobile device’s camera to attach photos to Wrike tasks
Record voice notes on your mobile device and upload them into Wrike
Tip #5 – Keep all project-related items in one location

Redfoo’s goal is to keep all work and ideas in Wrike. “If it’s not in Wrike, it doesn’t exist!” he says. Keeping everything in one place removes the stress of scouring countless emails and spreadsheets just to find a particular document, comment, or idea. Having all his project data consolidated also makes it easier to look back and see which processes worked and how to streamline.

Some ideas:
“Wrike it down!” Instead of capturing an idea on a post-it or in an email, just put it in Wrike
Duplicate folders and tasks or mark them recurrent to create project templates
Evaluate your process by reviewing completed projects and recording lessons learned
Watch the video interview with Redfoo, where he tells you how he uses Wrike to get work done:


How do you keep your team organized?

What are your tips for keeping your team organized? Tell us in the comments!

Read next:
Wrike it Down with Redfoo: How to Manage Projects Like a Rockstar!
Redfoo’s Success Story
12 Ways to Use Wrike You’ve Never Considered

Image Credit: Top photo by Tom Treanor

12 Ways to Use Wrike You Never Considered

Wrike is known for being one of the most flexible enterprise project management systems around — sometimes more flexible than we ourselves realize. Our customers are pretty creative with how they use Wrike, so we asked them to share their best tips and tricks.

Check out the unique ways Wrikers are taking advantage of our tool, and you might just discover a new, implementable Wrike hack for your team.      

Notification Settings Tips

1. Get your Daily Digest at the END of the day

“I changed my daily summary time from the beginning of the day (summarizing what happened yesterday) to 4:00 PM  (summarizing what happened today). I feel like this gives me a better opportunity to re-align my next day for anything I missed in the toaster pop-ups or activity stream.”
— Brandy Roberts, Continental Kennel Club, Inc.

2. Only focus on completed work via Notification Settings

“I have modified my notification settings so I only receive an email when someone completes a task, not every time they update it. It cuts down on email traffic, but let’s me know the progress my staff is making on certain projects.”
— Bethany Taylor, Dakota Security Systems, Inc.

Dashboard Widgets Tips

3. Give individual attention with person-centric Dashboard Widgets

“The dashboard: all my team members‘ project work in ONE place. I have a widget for each of them. During individual status meetings I print their list, go over it, and update Wrike as necessary.”
— Paul Stefanski, Metro Transit, St. Louis, MO

Folder Organization Tips

4. Transfer client information with Folder Info & Permissions

“Use the “information” part of each folder for crucial details that the whole team might need, not just an explanation. On our team, each client has a folder, and we keep goals, objectives, key contacts, email addresses, phone numbers, addresses, etc. That way, if a client ever transfers to another team, it’s only a matter of changing folder permissions.”
—Mark Curtis, ROI Revolution

5. Store email templates in a “Templates” Folder

“Create macros when working with a support team. This ensures that each email to a customer is consistent and provides your branding.”
— Jared White, Contra Costa Association of Realtors

6. Separate client-appropriate information with Subfolders

“For sharing outside of Wrike, use a subfolder in your project of high-level project tasks, with your date ranges. This will create clean Gantt charts and excel exports to be shared with others, while still allowing you to track the details separately.”
— Joe Kern

Folder Privacy Tips

7. Stalk interesting tasks with Private Folders

“If you are a project manager or client manager, I’ve found it very useful to create your own folder with permissions only for you that you call “Follow up” or “Watch”. Then you include all tasks that you need to keep an eye on in that folder. It might for instance be tasks that you are not responsible for, but still need to keep an eye on. Then you can also easily add a widget for this folder on the Dashboard and you can stay updated on what’s happening with those tasks as well. In the widget, don’t forget to include all statuses, otherwise completed tasks will disappear.”
— Olle W. Strahle, Wolfgang strategic design agency

8. Respect sensitive HR issues with Private Folders

“We share everything with everyone, in order to make sure the various projects are as transparent as possible. However, sometimes you just don’t want people others to know what you’re discussing, especially with sensitive HR issues. For this, we’ve recommended our employees use a private folder, and for each sensitive/private discussion creating a task within this folder, just shared with the people who need to be involved.”
— Name withheld, Environmental NGO

9. Sprint Folders save time spent on task management

“We have started using ‘Sprint’ folders, a folder where tasks from our various projects are dropped to show what we are working on now. Works great when you aren’t in a mode to assign and maintain dates for every task.”
— John Hansknecht, University of Detroit Jesuit

Folder Tags Tips

10. Forget Folder organization and just use Tags

“Once I realized that folders were like Tags on Evernote (or Gmail), the usefulness of having tasks in multiple folders expanded. Instead of having folders as the primary structure, now the tasks are the primary object, and I tag them with folders. We do a lot of task oriented bookkeeping work, and now I can have a task such as “2 items for bank reconciliation” tagged with the Client’s job, the site visit, each person at the Client I need to meet with about it, and the work type. Following this, I use folders more liberally for events such as meetings. If I meet with someone about it, I can include the task in the meeting folder, then again later in a follow–up meeting folder. I can look back at that meeting folder next month and see what we talked about, and see the status of each tasks we discussed.”
— David Prins, Mindful Financial accounting services

11. Track the physical location of objects with Folder Tags

“We started using Wrike for tracking Computer equipment. Create a differed task with title “Equipment ID – User’s Name”, the description has information on purchase date, special software, room located, links to drivers, etc. We then use folders to tag PC/Mac, Desktop/Laptop, Computer/Server/Printer, Department.”
— Justin Rentmeester, University of Wisconsin

Apps & Integrations Tips

12. Wrike+Wufoo+Zapier = automation magic

“I just started using Wufoo+Zapier to bring tasks into Wrike, and I have to say my life just got so much easier. My team supports about 30 clients, with between 5 and 10 project requests a day. With Wufoo+Zapier, I can automate a larger percentage of the reoccurring projects, without having to manually forward project emails. So happy!”
— Joshua Van Horsen, Drury Hotels

We hope you learned something interesting from some of our more unique use cases. If you have your own special way of using Wrike, share your story with us in the comments below. We’d love to hear how you use Wrike to suit your work style.

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