mStoner engages Creative Performance Inc. to help with Workamajig deployment

Portland, OR, June 4, 2014 — St. Louis based mStoner, a leading digital communications and marketing firm for higher education, has engaged Creative Performance Inc. (CPI), a national leader in financial and operational consulting for the marketing services industry, to assist with their organization’s Workamajig Deployment.

“We are very pleased to be engaged by mStoner,” says Vanessa Edwards, President of CPI.  “Over the next few months, we will be working closely with their leadership team to assist with all aspects of their Workamajig deployment, including: agency process + capability discovery, billing matrix design, system setup, employee training, accounting conversion and support.”

Workamajig® is the most powerful and innovative project management software for marketing and ad agencies, design firms, in-house creative departments and everyone else in the creative industry.

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About Creative Performance

Creative Performance Inc. is a niche-consulting firm for the Marketing Services industry.  They specialize in measurably improving their client’s throughput, resourcing, realization rates, utilization rates and project profitability, while protecting creativity.  The CPI management team consists of former agency owners, focused exclusively on empowering agency principals to achieve their business and cultural goals.  CPI brings a balanced approach that emphasizes harmony between People, Process and Technology.  Clients include small, mid-market and enterprise organizations across North America. CPI is an Oracle Agile PLM Gold Partner and Workamajig® Expert Partner, tackling their most complex and sophisticated clients, including their largest enterprise deployment: a 1,300 person, 22-office agency.

About mStoner

With offices in St. Louis, Chicago, Seattle and Vermont, mStoner provides sustainable communications solutions to higher education institutions.  They help their clients relay the authentic stories of their institutions by clarifying their brands’ unique value propositions in a unique and compelling way across the web, mobile, social media, print, and other channels.   Capabilities include brand strategy, digital strategy, mobile strategy, content strategy, social media strategy, enrollment publications, video production and CMS.  They enjoy clients that include more than 250 colleges, universities, independent schools, graduate and professional schools, and trade associations.

About: CPI

Creative Performance Inc. (CPI) is a marketing operations consultancy for the marketing services industry (both Agency + In-House). We specialize in improving our client’s Organizational Agility and Operational Resilience, through a seamless integration of industry best practices, mar-tech and business intelligence.  CPI is an AgencyStory®, Deltek®, Oracle Agile and Workamajig® partner.

About: Vanessa Vollum Edwards

Hailing from Portland, OR, Vanessa graduated from university with a degree in Philosophy. An amateur helicopter and fixed wing pilot since age sixteen, she began her first career as a pilot for LifeFlight. Upon completing her MBA, Vanessa was recruited by a fellow classmate into becoming the CFO/COO for a digital agency experiencing rapid growth. The agency was acquired in 2010. Over the last decade, Vanessa has built a strategic consultancy focused on empowering agency principals, accelerating growth, increasing profitability and deploying agency management software.  She is a founder of AgencyStory®, a patent pending curated analytics solution for the marketing services industry.