Executive Summaries

Examine Buy In with Stakeholder Analysis

Identifying the main stakeholders and their level of influence can be vital to the success of your project. Stakeholder analysis involves recognizing individuals and groups with the power to either sway or make a key decision.

Estimating Website Design Costs

As a result of new technology and an increase in competition, the overall cost of a website has decreased significantly in recent years. However, the cost of development is still dependent on functional requirements for your organization.

An experienced developer can provide an estimate based on a breakdown of the hours required to meet your functional requirements. Although there is no standard when it comes to the hourly rate of developers, most charge $50-150/hour.

Cost Estimate Based on Project Size

Small Business

Running Effective & Actionable Meetings

When properly planned and executed, meetings can efficiently communicate ideas, solve problems, and generate action items. Unfortunately, many managers waste time by holding unnecessary or ineffective meetings.

Accept Software: Product Management Software

About Accept Software:

"Accept 360° is an information management and decision support platform that can be used by every participant throughout the product lifecycle to define product strategies, translate these strategies into tactical plans, and then execute to plan while continuing to respond to ever-changing market and customer conditions.
Accept 360° achieves all this by providing an easy-to-use, rich collaborative environment that:

  • Encourages collaboration and knowledge sharing across product teams

Vocus: Automating the PR Process

Vocus provides an integrated on-demand software solution for Corporate Communications and Public Relations. This platform was specifically designed to handle large amounts of information, deliver consistent communications, facilitate collaboration across, and report on the effectiveness of campaigns.

What is your Marketing Effectiveness Quotient

Industry-leading demand generation platform provider, Eloqua, has developed a marketing maturity model designed to help organizations benchmark their current levels of process maturity, measure results from marketing investments, and demonstrate the effectiveness of their marketing department.

Successful Blogs Improve Customer Satisfaction

Weblogs or blogs are online journals that can provide business benefits. This new online communication medium comes with risks that require management. Understand the opportunities & risks of corporate blogs before you proceed. Use Demand Metric's downloadable Blog Policy Template to minimize your risk.

What is a Blog?

Steering Committees Increase Program Success

Developing a strong governance process requires cross-functional alignment on marketing decisions. Implement a Sales & Marketing Steering Committee to formalize your strategic planning, prioritization, decision-making, investment, and performance measurement processes. Use Demand Metric's downloadable Steering Committee Charter Template to kick-start the formation of your committee and establish your mandate.

What are the Benefits of Steering Committees?

Standardizing Project Management

Many organizations operate in a state of mild chaos because of poor project management processes. This summary will provide the business case for implementing a formalized project management policy, methodology, and toolset. Review the Action Plan to obtain 11 downloadable templates and tools to assist you with creating your own customized project management procedure.

Benefits of Structured Project Management:

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