Digital Tools for Agencies: So There's More Time for Agency Life
With these tools, you can bring order to your (digital) agency routine
- Slack with your customers - save yourself from the email chaos
- Pitching instead of Powerpointing - let your presentation speak for you
- Monday makes not only Monday clear
- Miro Board brings workshop character into digital meetings
- The Google world in its full extent
- Applications, holidays and absences with Personio
- Agency software as an all-in-one? Matter of taste!
Do you still remember them? The times when you noted everything in your notebook and broke into a cold sweat when you couldn't find it for a short time?
Or when there are still five tasks left in the evening because you needed twice as long for some tasks? This is over now: Because with cool digital tools, you create plenty of time in your agency's everyday life and keep track. Our guest author Saskia Robert knows exactly which tools these are and introduces them to you in this article.
Slack with your customers - save yourself from the email chaos
Emails had their legitimacy for a long time, but when working with customers they can sometimes get on your nerves. An attachment is missing again, if you need a specific info, you have to search through 20 consecutive mails and in the end you still can't find it.
And: Emails are also not nearly as fun as communication via Slack. Yes, Slack! To all users of Microsoft Teams: Of course, this is possible, but not nearly as interactive. With Slack Connect, you simply link the Slack channels of your customers and have everything in one dashboard.
And not only that: You can also easily integrate applications like Zoom, Google Drive and Pitch. A small highlight is also the GIF function - which finally brings emotions back into the remote routine. Generally, Slack is suitable for Improving remote team work. But the tool certainly also proves its worth in the office routine.
In the category Instant Messaging on OMR Reviews you can find further messenger tools that might suit you, such as:
Pitching instead of Powerpointing - let your presentation speak for you
Pitch is a tool with which you can create interactive presentations. Anyone who now thinks that it is comparable with animations in PowerPoint where suddenly headlines fly in is completely wrong.
In Pitch you can not only work with the pre-made graphics, icons and GIFs, but also pitch directly. Simply click on the record button, the face cam turns on and you can record yourself presenting in addition to the slide.
Whether video or just audio is up to you. This way, you can send your customers a preview or explain more complex slides in more depth without overwhelming them with too much information.
Monday makes not only Monday clear
Those who work according to the Kanban method in project management are well advised with monday.com. Because the project overview provides an overview of all tasks and each team member can create their own view.
Of course, the usual workflow with daily stand-up meetings, in which everyone briefly goes through the Monday tasks and informs about what they have planned for the day, is part of Kanban. This works particularly well for hybrid or remote teams. If you are currently looking for a new project framework, then the Comparison of Kanban and Scrum
helps. In the category Project management on OMR Reviews you can also find further tools that might suit you, like:
Miro Board brings workshop character into digital meetings
While a whiteboard or flipchart used to be go-to tools for workshops, agencies were initially lost at the start of the remote work period. Luckily, the online whiteboard Miro ensures that interactivity can also take place in remote workshops. In addition, Miro has many tool integrations such as Slack, Notion and Google Drive.
In the categories Collaboration and Mind-Mapping on OMR Reviews you can find even more tools that could suit you, such as:
You can also find out in the Contenthub which the 8 best tools for your brainstorming are.
The Google world in its full extent
The Google Workspace is the optimal digital server when it comes to managing and sharing files. But besides the classics like Google Docs, Presentations and Meet there is still much more to be done: Agencies should definitely take a look at the Jamboard tool, which can be used as an interactive whiteboard - alternatively to Miro. You can easily set up surveys or even event invitations with Google Forms - including evaluations.
Applications, holidays and absences with Personio
Personio not only bundles the data of all employees, but also makes it very easy for them to apply for their vacation or absences. Especially the birthday reminders are worth their weight in gold. Applications for various open positions flow directly into the recruiting tool.
Here, your responsible contact persons can get an overview of the applications, directly invite to the interview from the tool, accept or refuse and exchange internally.
Depending on the option, employment contracts and other documents can also be managed directly in Personio. In addition to the right tools, of course, also the right applicant management.
helps to get your preferred candidates. In the category HR on OMR Reviews you'll also find further tools that might suit you, like:
Agency software as an all-in-one? Matter of taste!
With all the many tools, the question arises why not simply switch to an All-in-One agency solution. Although the promotional promises sound good: Often, individual functions in my opinion are then not as mature as advertised, and you resort to alternative solutions. Therefore, I prefer to use the top tools in individual disciplines such as time recording, team project tracking, OKRs and KPIs.
That this is a matter of taste is shown by the sometimes very positive ratings for the following and other All-in-One agency softwares on OMR Reviews:
MOCO
helloHQ
poool
easyJOB
