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Project managers are faced with tough decisions on a daily basis. Some of these choices can make or break the success of a project.

But what drives your decisions? How do you measure the core elements of the project?

Without a proper system in place, project managers are forced to make gut decisions that don’t always align with the data. While this may work sometimes, it’s not a sustainable framework for the long-term, and it can be extremely costly.

If you’re looking for a better way to keep your project on track, earned value management might be the solution for you. This guide will explain everything you need to know about earned value management so you can implement this framework into any existing or future projects.

What is Earned Value Management?

Earned value management (EVM) is a structured approach to measure cost, scope, and schedule at a task or project level. With EVM, project managers gain data-driven insights to objectively understand what’s happening with the project.

It’s a deeper way of simply looking at a project schedule and budget. EVM allows managers to understand the actual work and progress that’s being accomplished. Earned value management ultimately helps project managers estimate the total cost and completion dates of a project with greater accuracy.

3 Tools to Improve Earned Value Management

To have the best possible experience with earned value management, you should be using software to you… Read More

We find ourselves in unique times. Outsourcing manpower and remote workforces have become the very lifeline for businesses to continue uninterrupted operations.

Amidst all this chaos, conference calls have quickly become the need of the hour.

As well as for client meetings, you can use conference calling to stay in contact with your team members and ensure the smooth functioning of the daily activities of your business. Whether your employees are from abroad or around the country, there are plenty of amazing free and paid conference call services for you to try out.

In this guide, though, we’ll focus on an excellent cloud-based phone solution called Google Voice.

Read on as we show you how to set up Google Voice conference calls for professional and personal use, alike.

What is Google Voice Conference Calling?

A conference call is an audio or video call involving multiple participants. You can hold and attend conference calls on Google Voice.

People can join the meeting by dialing a number, which will connect them to a conference bridge. This bridge consists of virtual rooms where multiple people can host or join meetings.

Google Voice uses Google Hangouts to complete conference calls, though it doesn’t require you to have a separate, dedicated conference line in either app to host or join the calls. So when you make a conference call via Google Voice, you’ll have a dedicated space within your account with anyti… Read More

Remember when you would see the TV commercials asking for you to donate just ten cents a day to help those in need and fight in the battle against world hunger?

They were great commercials and definitely helped grow the charitable organizations that ran them, but you really don’t see them on TV that much anymore.

Any idea why? For the most part… It’s all about the internet.

Thanks to the power of the internet, now anyone can start a website or blog and get active on social media and immediately have access to billions of people throughout the world. While also not needing to have an expensive production crew, commercials, and purchasing air time to get the job done.

It’s quite an amazing concept, and something many of the world’s top charitable organizations are getting pretty good at!

With all of this in mind, today we are going to take a look at some of the many different ways charitable foundations are taking advantage of what the internet and social media have to offer.

Instant exposure to millions of users around the world

The most amazing and immediate impact a charitable organization has by taking advantage of the … Read More

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We know that B2B marketers love benchmarks.

Every one of our clients wants to know how they rate against their competitors, and beyond that, how they stack up against the best brands in the world. They want to know if their email, website, lead gen, social media and content marketing initiatives a… Read More