Our creativity keeps the business running, fuel for the motor if you like, but without the motor itself, the doors, chassis, it would be nothing. As creatives, design is where we make our money, but where we spend a comparatively short amount of time. The age of 'month end invoice rage' is over. Additional to the original approval software, we now have project management, time recording and job billing. The real deal. The whole package. For freelancers it means they now have the capacity to facilitate large, demanding clients, for everyone else it means that business is more efficient and productive. So now you can go, be free, and expand your business without having to expand your client service team exponentially.
One of the main reasons clients love both VA and the agencies who use it is due to its ease, accessibility and the speed at which jobs can be viewed, approved and amended. As Lloyd Andermoz, MD at InDepth Cleaning puts it, “Visual Approval allowed us to make team decisions and communicate these through to the design agency in real time. It made the whole process efficient, accurate and speedy”. Derek Rodgers, MD of Enjoy Chocolate agrees, “VA has brought simplicity to the way we work. It has quickened the pace and brought product concepts to life at an earlier stage”. Surely something that is essential in the fast moving, forward thinking industry in which we work?
This approval facility, coupled with the development of the project management element of the software, means that Visual Approval has become a virtual studio. As the central hub of the administration side of your business, it allows your motor to run smoothly without the month end breakdowns that we are all too familiar with. It alleviates the filling in of manual timesheets, the bane of many a creative’s life; as well as giving you the ability to track jobs and activities and input both labour and non-labour costs, giving you total control and full transparency of everything you do.
With the software already in place and successfully underway at Dinosaur and with keen interest being shown by other creative agencies, this online studio management tool is set to alter the way the industry operates. Mark Beaumont, MD at Manchester based agency, Dinosaur says, “VA plays a central role to how we work. It just makes my life a whole lot easier, it really has made a difference to the way we do business”. It seems that Visual Approval is the driving force behind a change that is rapidly gaining momentum.
