3 Automation Perks That’ll Grow Your Digital Agency

Working at a digital agency can be highly rewarding when you get to do the work you love, but a lot of your time inevitably gets allocated to admin work. Things like managing your projects, staying on top of your client accounts, and making sure you’re in the loop with client communications can weigh you down. In order to grow, you need to be able to automate repeatable processes. On that note, here are three perks to automation that’ll help you succeed:

1. Project planning

If you can’t easily plan, manage, and execute your projects from the quote all the way through to delivery, then you’re missing out on the streamlined benefits of automation (and should really consider a different option). You’re busy — you don’t have time to be dealing with spreadsheets and manually inputting information as it comes. But, if you could simply add your quote info into a smart platform at the beginning of a project (and then never worry about the details again), you’d be project-planning golden.

2. Measure and control costs

Spending too much time on managing your project budgets can really take a toll on your work. Plus, when it comes to measuring and controlling your costs, a lot of that revolves around managing your team’s time and skills well. You need to maximize the contribution of each person on your team while monitoring and analyzing your productivity and resources. The easiest way to do that? Find a smart technology that automatically lets you see your team’s schedule (in real-time) with dynamic team scheduling and real-time profitability dashboards.

3. Complete view of client communications

As your agency grows, the demand on your team increases and it becomes harder to manage who’s on top of what, who emailed who — it gets messy.

That kind of disorganization leads to unintentional sloppiness, which can end up costing your company (and reputation). But, what if you could have a complete view of all your client communications from one simple place, without ever having to ping a colleague? With a stream that automatically populates with all team and client correspondences, you’ll never have to.

Automate your way to growth and do more with less. Take some time to explore your options so that you pick a smart platform that works for you. If you like, check out how Accelo might be a good fit.

Originally published at www.accelo.com.