Ad Agency Software – How Do You Know When It’s Time to Add New Staff?

Having organized, accurate, real-time information about agency resources, employees and workloads helps you navigate through short-term bottlenecks and long-term growth.

There are several indicators that help you realize when it’s time to think about adding staffing resources within your agency.  Some of these indicators include growing overtime hours with current staff, growing or backlogged projects from current clients, your agency billing multiplier has risen above industry norm, and possibly your agency debit is at a level that is “safe” to assume additional risk.

When considering additional staff, determining when and who to hire are critical decisions. Do you need freelance talent for short term bottlenecks, or full-time staff to manage permanent growth?  Having access to your agency’s financial and workload data proves critical to helping you analyze these tough questions.

Advantage provides accurate, real-time information on workload requirements and employee utilization allowing you to project future staffing needs - without extensive data entry.  Here are some of our Advantage software tools that assist will assist you in making these challenging decisions:

• Project Schedules:  Plan and forecast workload using Project Schedules to manage approved and estimated work. The intelligent “Employee Finder” automatically analyzes existing workload and recommends the best candidate for project tasks.
• Workload Management:  Assign staff members to projects by team or role with complete visibility into individual availability.  Workload ‘Alerts’ provide warnings on over or under-utilized employees.
• Productivity Dashboards:  Get the ‘big picture’ on current and future hiring needs using productivity dashboard tools that provide key metrics instantly. Workload projections provide information as to whether to add full time or freelance staff.

If you would like more information about Advantage Software and our powerful agency financial, resource and workload report capabilities, please call us at 800.841.2078 or contact our Regional Sales Managers: Dominique Lacerte or Mike McGee. We look forward to working with your agency soon!

 

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Advantage Ad Agency Software Understands the In-House Agency Business Needs!

There are distinct differences in needs between a traditional and in-house agency when it comes to agency operating software!

Advantage Software has made a concerted effort to meet the specific needs of the In-House Agency by working directly with their clients and meeting with related groups to define the differences between traditional and in-house requirements.

In response, Advantage Software has developed a set of browser-based tools that provide information on the type of statistics that In-House Agencies need to analyze and maximize efficiency. These tools include multi-level charts, graphs and exports on employee productivity, utilization (hours), project statistics, and much more.

Each set of information includes drill-downs to details that make up the information displayed. Information is displayed in weekly, monthly, year to date and running week totals.

If you would like to have more information about our Advantage In-House Agency Software, or to schedule an online demo, please contact Ellen Coulter at 1-800-841-2078 or email ecoulter@gotoadvantage.com . We look forward to helping your In-House Agency grow with Advantage Agency Software!

 

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