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2025 agency report: The cost of overworking at agencies

2025 agency report: The cost of overworking for client-facing teams
Agency life is infamously fast-paced. Workloads are heavy, clients constantly ask for more, and workers are burning out. Agency leadership is also struggling to keep up; resorting to reactive, stop-gap solutions.
In this report, we aim to go deeper. We question why, consult the experts, and scrutinize the data, based on our survey of agency employees*. We also share key takeaways that can help agencies protect profitability...
Work Life Balance Blog | Resource Guru •

Guru Gathering 2025: Madrid Edition | Resource Guru

Ever felt the sun on your skin after a week of overcast days? After the 2025 Guru Gathering this October, I can tell you that’s exactly how it feels to see all your colleagues after a year apart. The temperature in Madrid in mid-autumn also helps.
This year, our Guru Gathering took place in sunny Spain, gathering all of our colleagues for four days of collaboration and catching up. Here’s how it went down.
Some context to start. Resource Guru is a fully remote company with colleagues spread over...
Resource Guru •

Resource Guru | Resource management & scheduling software

Multiple projects. Competing priorities. No visibility. Sound familiar?Stop getting lost in bloated tools that claim to do it all andspreadsheets that are stuck in the past.Discover resource planning software that gives youmore focus, speed, and transparency.

Multiple projects. Competing priorities. No visibility. Sound familiar?

Stop getting lost in bloated tools that claim to do it all andspreadsheets that are stuck in the past.

Discover resource planning software that gives youmore focus,...
Work Life Balance Blog | Resource Guru •

Best resource scheduling software: 2025’s top 10

Resource scheduling software is used to allocate and manage people and resources’ availability effectively across projects, teams, or departments. It’s the process of allocating tasks to the right people and resources at the right time to avoid conflicts, overbooking, or underutilization.
Resource scheduling software helps teams use their time more efficiently by avoiding overbooking and excessive downtime. It makes project planning easier—as it offers a clear view of who’s available and when—cu...
Work Life Balance Blog | Resource Guru •

Phases x Resource Guru: Customer success story | Resource Guru

Founded in 2011, Phases is a software agency developing websites, custom integrations, and mobile apps. We caught up with three members of the team to hear how Resource Guru empowers them to deliver high-quality solutions—on time—for clients worldwide.
Let’s start with their take on Resource Guru, the short version:
Beyond the praise from key members of their staff, the data speaks for itself when it comes to understanding the success information technology company Phases has found with Resource...
Work Life Balance Blog | Resource Guru •

Agency pricing guide (including 9 agency pricing models)

According to a recent AdAge article, 75% of multinational brands will seek pricing changes with their agencies in the next three years. Of course, agencies are no strangers to change.
The great resignation, the growing omnipresence of AI, and other challenging economic factors are a given in this line of work. But, the challenge of a client asking for different pricing—if you’re not prepared—can really send shockwaves through your business. 
The AdAge report makes it clear that agency clients w...
eDesk •

How One TikTok Shop Seller Made $1M in 24 Hours: 7 SMB eCommerce Insights

Even if the word “Blursh” means nothing to you, you may have heard of Made by Mitchell. 



The British brand’s owner—entrepreneur, influencer, and TikTok Shop seller Mitchell Halliday—has been a record-breaker since the start of his career. 



His latest milestone was becoming the first UK seller to hit $1M in sales on TikTok Shop in a single day. His story’s one that’s inspiring sellers well beyond the cosmetics industry. There’s a lot to be learned from his meteoric rise to success,...
eDesk •

How to Comply with TikTok Seller Guidelines (2025)

According to TikTok, two-thirds of their users are likely to buy something while using the app. With 1.5B monthly active users at time of writing, that’s a potential audience of 1B eager customers you could reach by selling products through the social media behemoth. 



But, to make things safe and secure for shoppers, TikTok limits what can be advertised and, ultimately, sold in the Shop.



It’s necessary to familiarize yourself with these TikTok seller guidelines to keep all your pro...
eDesk •

How to Get More Sales from TikTok Shop (With Data-Backed Examples)

Whether you’re just getting started with TikTok Shop (TTS) or looking to get more sales from the platform, read on to see how successful brands are leveraging the platform to skyrocket revenue. A lot of the examples below come from global brands, but we’ve included strategies with just as much potential for sellers of all sizes.



Note: At time of writing, TikTok Shop is only available in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the United States, and V...
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Design Capabilities | Wix Studio

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Blog LIVE •

A 5-step approach to landing freelance clients at scale

Few know this better than freelance web designer and creative consultant Brad Hussey, who quit his steady agency job over a decade ago to start a web design business of his own. Since then, he’s worked with clients from (almost) every country in the world and launched web design courses that have helped over half a million creators. From Hussey's experience, designers that are fresh to freelancing are often guilty of taking on any task they can find just to stay afloat. But “complexity kills pro...
Academy X 3.0 •

Editor X 101 | Online Web Design Course | Academy X

Learn how to transform your designs into fully responsive sites. Dive in at your own pace, in your own time, with this free, all-inclusive course. Follow video tutorials and hands-on exercises guided by web designer, Brad Hussey.

Learn how to transform your designs into fully responsive sites. Dive in at your own pace, in your own time, with this free, all-inclusive course. Follow video tutorials and hands-on exercises guided by web designer, Brad Hussey.

12 of the Best Event Sponsorship Proposal Examples to Inspire Yours

According to EventMB, finding sponsors is the second biggest logistical challenge when it comes to organising events.

Providing useful information as a magnet for potential sponsors is one approach through which many conferences have found success.  However, deciding what kind of information to include in a sponsorship proposal, and how to design it so that it’s clear and appealing to your potential partners is a challenge onto itself.

As such, we’ve scoured hundreds of conference websites to...