What is a Remote Team?

Mar 5, 2020 | Businesses

How do you get a “remote team“? And what does “remote” mean anyway? Is it different timezones, geographic distribution? Must there be at least one digital nomad sitting at the beach at any given time? Is it that standups happen with Zoom? Or maybe you have to get rid...

Challenging Team Habits

Feb 13, 2020 | Businesses

We just threw away a regular meeting. And no one is missing it (yet). How on Earth did we do a meeting that apparently no one needed? Don’t worry—all went according to plan. Here is why. Our meetings, before We’re a remote team, but we’re not fully...

Fixing Unlimited Vacation

Feb 12, 2020 | Businesses

We at engageSPARK have an unlimited vacation policy. It sounds good, right? Or … too good to be true? Unlimited vacation isn’t without controversy. Today we’re fixing one of the issues for us, and I’ll explain our thinking behind it. Problems with...

Remote Teams: Beware Bad Office Habits

Jan 20, 2020 | Businesses

Bad Office Habits can creep into remote teams just fine. A proud and happy remote worker, I didn’t realize this until I read on reddit a couple of days ago that Slack is “asynchronish”. That’s to say asynchronous … but not quite. That got me thinking....
Lessons from our Remote Team Traveling Together

Lessons from our Remote Team Traveling Together

Jan 1, 2020 | Businesses

Last month our remote team met in the Philippines. Time went by in a snap: board games, surfing, snorkeling to the backdrop of volcanoes and, yes, working. The best thing: Hatem met other team members for the first time, and vice versa. As usual some things went well...

9 Tips to Boost Your Christmas Sales with SMS Marketing

Dec 18, 2019 | Businesses, SMS

Christmas is around the corner and with it the last and biggest sales spike of the year. That is, if you play your cards right. It’s all about marketing, about attention—and one of the best ways to garner attention is SMS marketing. Why is that so? For a...