MarineMotion.com Uses Wrike To Track Its Sales Leads And Control Customer Interactios

Published by Valerie   |  Monday, 28 April, 2008
Many companies try to manage their businesses by collecting data into spreadsheets and e-mailing them around. The seamless simplicity of this method can bring a huge mess very soon. Information becomes duplicated on the employees’ computers, and managers spend plenty of time getting status updates. The entire process becomes uncontrollable. As a result, organization may quickly become rigid and inefficient. This can seriously limit a company’s growth.

MarineMotion.com, a multi-media portal for boat and yacht brokers and dealers, acted wisely. Instead of using spreadsheets, it decided to implement a project management solution to increase sales. Sales manager Bob Hirsh told us about how MarineMotion.com uses Wrike to keep its customers satisfied. “We have customers in different parts of the world. Right now, we are working on 20 plus projects run by distributed teams. To increase sales and to keep our customers satisfied, we need to carefully sort lots of information. The introduction of Wrike was an enormous leap forward for us. Now I can better manage my distributed team, increase revenues, complete projects faster and build better communications with clients. As Wrike spans through all our departments, it is easy for me to get a complete picture and guide the business. Wrike is very agile and incredibly powerful project management software. Once you get the hang of it, it is simple and easy to use. Wrike saves us time and money, and helps to make the right decisions on time,” he says.

Read the full story “Efficient collaboration of a distributed sales team and clients helps speed up business growth.”

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Appulate Uses Wrike To Get Full Insight Into Business

Published by Valerie   |  Friday, 28 March, 2008
Appulate is the leading national provider of innovative insurance technologies. They were looking for a project management solution that  would enable them to track all the tasks, including marketing, sales, change requests and bugs in one single place.

Wrike allows Appulate’s management team to clearly see what is going on in every department and understand what each member of the team is busy with at the moment.  “We used several different applications, including e-mail, Microsoft Project and Excel, for tracking development, marketing and sales. Some of those applications were really hard to adapt to the work process in our organization. The real challenge was to get the whole picture of what was going on in the company. We made the right choice by purchasing the Wrike subscription,” says Nic Bryson, director of marketing for Appulate Inc.

Read the full story “Full insight into business boosts productivity and triples the number of customers."
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SayitRight Marketing Solutions Use Wrike To Manage Busy Marketing Office

Published by Valerie   |  Thursday, 28 February, 2008
Do you manage various projects for numerous clients? Do your projects imply a lot of time communicating with clients? Are you tired of e-mail mess in your inbox? SayitRight Marketing Solutions solved those problems with the help of Wrike. “No matter how many projects are active or on hold at the moment, Wrike lets me keep my fingers on the pulse of the business and see where we stand. Since the progress and requirements are tracked, there is no ground for miscommunication. Kudos, Wrike!” says Joseph Andrade, the owner of SayitRight.

SayitRight implemented the project management solution to keep all project information well-organized and easily accessible for every team member. Wrike enabled SayitRight to share project information with customers without extra effort. It also helped Joseph's team to organize the e-mail mess so that the project work became clearly structured. It's so easy to add wrike@wrike.com to the e-mail recipients to keep track of the task collaboratively. When one of the team members finishes a task, he is sure that his associates will stay in the loop.

Read the full story “Seamless collaboration saves time and enhances working process.”
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Cook Storage Uses Wrike To Prevent Order Delays For Hundreds Of Customers

Published by Valerie   |  Monday, 28 January, 2008
Cook Storage offers the highest quality self-storage facilities and space planning in the U.S. and Canada. Wrike helps the firm  keep track of tasks in many areas from finance to facility maintenance.

John Gabaldon, managing partner of Cook Storage, says, “To me, the real beauty and powerful concept of Wrike is enabling us to monitor and modify the progression of work and tasks from inception to completion. That's really simple and at the same time really powerful. Wrike helps me to control the process, and it lets our team collaborate. Our miscommunication rate has dramatically decreased."

Since Wrike is Web-based, John's team can contribute to their tasks not only from their workplaces, but from home as well. This is particularly helpful, since the business is distributed among several locations and time zones. For hundreds of customers, no delays occur, thanks to the simplicity and agility of Wrike.

Read the full story “Transparency of projects brings smooth collaboration.”
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Happy Holidays!

Published by Valerie   |  Thursday, 20 December, 2007

Dear Wrike users, we wish you all the joys of easy collaboration and a productive New Year. We’ll do our best to make the year 2008 even more effective for you.
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Wrike perfectly covers all 24 time zones

Published by Andrew   |  Sunday, 24 June, 2007
One of the questions that I often get is, "Will Wrike's user interface be translated in [insert your favorite language]?" It will.

Meanwhile, feel free to use your favorite language as you create tasks. People already do it in Spanish, French, Russian, German, Chinese and many other languages.

Recently I gave a talk at the Project Management Tools and Techniques Forum, organized by the Silicon Valley Chapter of the Project Management Institute. It went very well, and we had a great feedback. Afterwards, Naoki Iwamoto (of Sumisho Computer Systems) sent me a screenshot of Wrike’s tasks in Japanese. Now I’m pretty much sure that we cover all 24 time zones. Anyway, if you ever need our help, don’t hesitate to send an e-mail to support at team.wrike.com.

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Wrike presentation at "Launch: Silicon Valley 2007"

Published by Valerie   |  Wednesday, 06 June, 2007
You are welcome to watch the presentation that we prepared for the "Launch: Silicon Valley 2007". The presentation covers main features of Wrike from which you can benefit.

A "Show all" view in our brains

Published by Andrew   |  Monday, 18 December, 2006
Thanks to the feedback of Stowe Boyd we decided to explain some features of Wrike. As it's written in that blog post "There doesn't seem to be a way to show all of your tasks at once".

The option to show all tasks will surely be there shortly; it is one of those features, which were in beta 1, but were postponed a bit in beta 2 in favor of massive (and absolutely positive) changes in the user interface and usability. It will be there soon, but I personally don't think it's all that supercritical. Why? It's easy.

We have thousands (if not more) tasks in mind, but we don't have a "Show all" view in our brains. Because it will be just a big mess. The same thing is true with Wrike.

If you have hundreds of tasks entered there and try to show them all on one page, you will hit the performance, both from the computer side (traffic, computation in your browser and on the server) and from the human side (it will be hard for you to find anything in that mess). So what we want users (and us) to have is a smart way to quickly find what they want, not the option to show everything in one big heap.

We are on our way to accomplishing that. In beta 1 we had a quick search, and quick filters and beta 2 will have more than that soon.
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Wrike at Youtube

Published by Valerie   |  Sunday, 10 December, 2006
We are currently available at Youtube.com. You can quickly learn main benefits of Wrike for you and your team. The video is only 3,5 minutes and is provided by nice cartoon heroes to help you get the idea.

Becoming familiar with Internet Explorer 7. How to import RSS feeds

Published by Andrew   |  Wednesday, 01 November, 2006
Today I tried to export my RSS feeds from RSS Bandit into an OPML file and import it into Internet Explorer 7.

To my surprise, the import feature is located under the "Add to Favorites" button in IE7. Not the best organization of menus, I’d say. My next surprise was that Import Wizard did not import anything and did not prompt any reasonable error message.

It took me 5 minutes to find the source of the problem and create a workaround. Here is one simple step to make your RSS Bandit’s OPML valid for IE7: open you OPML file in text editor and replace [xmlUrl="] with [type="rss" xmlUrl="].

That’s it. At least it worked for me.
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The collaboration service Wrike is rolling out today... That is about the easiest way I can imagine to create and assign tasks. It's even easier than using Outlook's own Tasks list..I also like the way Wrike signs up new users: When you send somebody a message and cc Wrike, the recipient is automatically signed up."


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