Guillaume Pascual
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Team collaboration
Remote collaboration built for creatives
Keep your teams organized. Manage creative projects with tools made for visual content. Start a project to manage creative assets, feedback, decisions and approvals in one place. That’s the power of Hightail.
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Team collaboration
The 6-Steps Creatives Use to Collaborate Remotely
The last two years accelerated our move to hybrid work, but that’s not when remote collaboration started. With a growing reliance on digital tools, we’ve been working together across vast distances for a number of years. But some creatives still use collaboration methods best suited for in-person offices. That means…
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Productivity
6 tips for writing a creative brief
If you’ve ever suffered through a difficult client/agency relationship, you’ll know what a frustrating experience it can be. As the client you feel like you’re not getting the agency’s best work and are wasting your money. Meanwhile the agency tears out its hair at your indecisiveness, while submitting new stories…
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Productivity
5 ways our Adobe extension cuts down on distractions
Stay in the zone with our Adobe extensions Creatives know that it’s all about getting into the fabled ‘zone.’ We all have different strategies for it – some of us block off our calendars, some of us jam to our favorite playlists and some of us pray to the creative…
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Creativity
Just one more thing…
Approved! approved. Yes. Sure. Go ahead. Gone are the days of needing a handwritten signature on a creative proof. With a hodgepodge of links, half used project management tools and email being the primary method of moving through the creative process, a formal line of approval can be tricky to…
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Team collaboration
Let’s get this project started
Whether you’re a project manager at a creative agency servicing many clients with multi-media formats, or a mean and lean three-person stop-motion production shop, everyone needs a way to keep creative, teams and clients organized. We have customers developing hundreds of assets in flight at any moment with tight deadlines…
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How to Hightail
Automate repetitive tasks by connecting Hightail to your other favorite apps using Zapier
Why do busy work when you can get your favorite apps to work together and do it for you? Hightail Teams or Business accounts can now connect to Zapier to automate many tasks tied to other apps available in the Zapier marketplace. (There are currently more than 3,000 of them.)…
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Decide which emails to receive (and which to skip) with Hightail notification preferences
Are you the type of person who keeps every email that you send or receive? According to a Campaign Monitor article, that means you add on 121 emails a day—for a grand total of 44,165 each year. That’s a lot of email to sift through if you’re looking for feedback…
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Go beyond the folder structure: Everything you need to know to organize your content in Hightail
Traditional file and folder systems, like you’re used to working with on your computer desktop, can be a great way for you to store your content. But that kind of storage isn’t optimized for modern, collaborative workflows—which is important for the content creation review and approval process. To facilitate that…
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Creativity
A fresh look for Hightail.com
You might have noticed that we have a new look over at Hightail.com. What’s your first impression? If you said that it’s clean and to the point (like the overwhelming feedback we received internally), then we’ve stayed true to the original brief that was drafted and agreed upon for this…
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Creative reviews for digital media just got easier with HTML previews
My fellow marketers and webmasters: Who here needs to review email content? Web page content? If your hand is raised, you know the drill. Pull up the HTML email content or web page in one screen. Have another screen open with your Basecamp ticket. Spell out every little change that…
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Marketing
4 Website Design Mistakes Businesses Make
Everyone makes mistakes. As poet Alexander Pope observed, “to err is human.” But even though fallibility is inevitable to some degree, that doesn’t mean that all mistakes are of equal value. Indeed, common website design mistakes can be some of the most detrimental for a modern business given how these…
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File sharing the Express way
According to the 2020 In-House Creative Industry Report from Cella, a creative staffing and consulting agency, 77 percent of creative teams said that file size is the biggest challenge that they have when trying to share files between locations. That’s a large percentage of people getting interrupted in their day-to-day…
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How to leave feedback beyond words
Have you ever stopped to think about how much time is wasted spent simply trying to communicate feedback on a file? Setting aside other complications that come with reviewing content—such as dealing with the after thoughts, wrong version references and waiting until the last second to review, it’s really easy…
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@you: Here’s how to stay on top of project updates with Hightail
When teams are working across time zones, organizations and locations, getting technology updates in real time can help projects move toward completion faster and ensure productivity. In Hightail, there are three ways to stay notified of project updates, depending on your preference for working – whether you are on-the-go, glued…
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