ADVERTISING and creative consultancy Q Brand Agency added $250,000 a year to its bottom line by moving away from spreadsheets and manual job ticketing to a Streamline Filemaker system.
Philip Sunderland, managing director of the Christchurch-based agency, which services clients such as Skope Refrigeration in Australia, says the purpose-built software paid for itself in two months.
This was mainly because hours of work not previously captured in spreadsheets and paper job tickets became chargeable to clients under Streamline.
The system cost QBrand Agency $22,000 to install plus a maintenance contract worth $500 monthly.
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