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Fall is officially here and that can mean only one thing, it is time for Deltek Insight! If you plan on attending, check out our information below, we hope to see you there.
October marks the start of our new quarterly theme, planning and forecasting. As our content gears around this theme, and as we quickly approach year end, we encourage your firm to think about how successful planning and forecasting can impact your goals and budgeting.
We hope you enjoy our new blog articles and look forward to seeing you at our upcoming webinars and events. Also, be sure to connect with us on LinkedIn and Twitter for the latest news and information.
Sincerely,
Full Sail Partners
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What is Forecasting and How Can It Benefit Professional Services Firms
 What is forecasting? Forecasting is a tool that many professional services firms use to help management make decisions based on past, and current, data trends. For a professional services firm that does two types of forecasting, utilization forecasting and cash flow forecasting, it really starts with the analysis of the work that is yet to be performed and equating that to overall firm revenue.
Is your management team leveraging data to make the most important decisions for your firm?
Webinar: Growing Smarter | Core Growth Strategies & Metrics
 Recently Full Sail Partners teamed up with Andrew Dietz from Creative Growth Group to present on growth strategies & metrics. As we near year end, this is a great time for your firm to think about your own growth strategies and metrics.
If you're seeking better ways to accelerate your firm's growth, you cannot afford to miss this presentation!
Is Your Budgeting and Forecasting Process Doomed?
Budgeting and forecasting is part art, part science. For too many firms, however, it is also a frustrating process that takes a lot of effort to produce less than optimal results.
Review strategies that can help your organization enjoy a successful budgeting and forecasting process.
"I just love working with you.." Client Evaluation Fallacies
 Your firm is committed to using client evaluation surveys to ensure project success. So what do you do when your client gives you all high marks and you just know it isn't true?
To provide clients with the best possible service, it is important to look at the validity of the results from client evaluation surveys -- no matter how good of a job the feedback says we are doing.
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Lessons Learned: Business Performance Metrics
 You might be tempted to think that the hardest part of using business performance metrics to guide your business is gathering and analyzing the metrics.
But equally important - maybe even more so - is selecting the right metrics to begin with.
Review three ways business performance metrics may be failing your organization.
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Learn More...Deltek Tips
Conference Planning 101: Leveraging Marketing Campaigns in CRM
Every year in your conference planning meetings you agree to come away from the upcoming conference with concise, actionable intelligence. Instead, every year you come away with nothing but a big stack of business cards, and maybe some new LinkedIn connections.
Review how to leverage marketing campaigns in CRM to come away from your event.
Kona Life for Marketers
Deltek Kona is a social collaboration tool uniquely designed to make life easier on project teams. More importantly, Kona is a marketers dream: Communicate with internal and external project teams, partners, clients, or vendors seamlessly across a cloud environment. Create tasks for your team, schedule meetings, create conversations, and share large media files all with the click of a button.
Manage the entire lifecycle of your project pursuits right within Deltek Kona, from brainstorming initial ideas to alerting principals to review final proofs for signoff.
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Attending Deltek Insight 2013?
Let us know!
No, that's not the cast from Duck Dynasty, haven't you heard? ZZ Top will be rocking out at Deltek Insight 2013!
With five sessions being hosted by Full Sail Partners, we are excited to have the opportunity to meet face to face with all of our clients. If you plan on attending, drop us a line and let us know!
Deltek Insight will be held on October 14-17, in Dallax, Texas at the Gaylord Opryland Resort.
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