Genevieve Michaels

Genevieve Michaels is a freelance writer based in Vancouver. She started her career in the contemporary art world, and now specializes in long-form content writing, with a focus on B2B tech and software. She's written for brands including Atlassian, Hootsuite, Trello, Shopify, Thinkific, and Hubspot.
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A Guide to Variance Reports for Project Management

Things don’t always go according to plan. With a variance report, you can tell stakeholders, leaders, and other teams exactly what happened and why.

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Risk Reporting: A Definition, Tips, and Free Templates

Whether you’re running a lemonade stand or a multinational software company, you’re going to run into risk. With a risk report, you can communicate those risks to the people that matter. Here’s how it’s done.

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6 Ways Companies Can Improve Employee Retention

Employee retention encompasses the practices you put into place to keep the people you worked so hard to hire. Here are the top six strategies for employee retention.

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Contact Management 101: Everything You Need to Know

With contact management processes in place, you can track customers, prospects, and external contributors. All to bring in more business.

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Risk Management: A Definition, a Framework, and More

Every organization faces potential risks. To their bottom line, their employees, their very future. With proper risk management, you can mitigate some of these and ensure your business keeps on thriving.

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What Is a Business Report?

A business report communicates some important information affecting operations to some other party. Learn about these reports, how to write them, and more.

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The Top 6 Free Evernote Alternatives

Need to take notes but not a fan of Evernote? Here’s our breakdown of the top 6 free Evernote alternatives, including Notion, OneNote, and more.

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Everything You Need To Know About Data Extraction

Heard about data extraction, but you’re not sure what it is? Here’s our breakdown of the practice, the main challenges, and some tools that make it all easier.

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Data Integration: What It Is and Why It Matters

For most people in your organization, data is as useful as it is difficult to use. With data integration, you can pull information from multiple sources and put it in one, easy-to-access place.

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Customer Lifetime Value: What It Is and How It’s Calculated

By calculating customer lifetime value, you can determine which customers bring more revenue and decide how you should focus your marketing and customer acquisition efforts.

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How To Write a Progress Report (With a Free Template)

A progress report is how you let everyone else know what your team’s been up to. Learn more about what goes into writing a progress report and get a free template for writing your own.