Guillaume Pascual
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How to Hightail
How to collaborate across individuals and teams in Hightail
These days, creative teams can be pretty complex. It’s common to see senior and junior team members, internal and external stakeholders, third-party vendors and contingent workers all working together on the same project. The good news is that Hightail is built for collaboration, no matter what the makeup of your…
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Creativity
How to find your creative flow in four simple steps
These days, it’s harder than ever for creative people to achieve that elusive feeling of “flow,” defined by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi as being “so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter.” Of course, we’d all love to experience that sort of total creative absorption in our work. But in…
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Productivity
The 4 pillars of creative content collaboration
In order for creative collaboration to be effective, you have to put the right building blocks in place from the beginning – so that everything won’t come tumbling down later on! Two building blocks are the most important of all: people and the right allocation of tools and other resources. It…
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Content marketing
Why Use Content Collaboration?
The makeup of creative teams has changed. Remote or hybrid work is the “new normal” – meaning many teams nowadays are distributed by default. And teams comprising full-time employees, contingent workers and third-party service providers are now commonplace. Because of this, content collaboration is more important than ever to the…
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Content marketing
How to find your creative flow in four simple steps
These days, it’s harder than ever for creative people to achieve that elusive feeling of “flow,” defined by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi as being “so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter.” Of course, we’d all love to experience that sort of total creative absorption in our work. But in…
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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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Marketing
How to Build and Retain a Highly Collaborative Remote Marketing Team
Is your business advertising yet another open remote marketing position because an employee left too early? Are you finding it challenging to attract and even more difficult to retain top talent in your organization? You are not alone. According to McKinsey, keeping valuable employees is one of the biggest issues…
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Productivity
Give Effective Feedback While Working Remotely: 8 Best Practices
While giving feedback has become increasingly challenging in today’s remote work environment, it plays a critical role in creating a more productive team. That’s because feedback: Helps foster healthy communication between you and your team.Encourages the professional growth and development of your team members.Helps you refine your systems and processes…
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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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How to Hightail
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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