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As I sit here endlessly typing different search criteria into Google hoping that I will find some little gem that I have never stumbled on before, I can’t help feeling a little frustrated. As much as I can appreciate it is not nearly as interesting as any subject matter that Carrie Bradshaw would be chatting about, I do feel that it is for me, and others who share my job role in like-minded agencies, worth asking the question………..Why is there NO decent scheduling software available?

I told you it wasn’t riveting stuff and I’d like to say that I am urging people to tell me that I am wrong, or that I haven’t looked in the right places etc., and I am hoping that there may be some miracle out there that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg and actually does what I need it to. People will laugh but scheduling is really important and yes yes I live for it, and in reality an agency can’t function properly without it. It would be great to find software that is easily updatable and makes it easy to get information across to the rest of the agency.

Every bit of software I come across is project management software. It all boasts some miracle time saving devise and the magic that is knowing everything regarding a project, and as important as this is, and yes it is important, I can’t for love nor money find a solution that actually deals with managing people. Not projects, not money but people and time.

All they seem to offer me is a calendar!!!!!!!! or if I’m lucky multiple calendars! I mean for crying out loud are you kidding me. I have, it has to be said, worked in this industry for longer than I care to admit, and I have been in an agency or two in my time, and all I ever come across is people who work in production or creative services who spend their lives updating excel documents like I do. So I see a gap in the market. An actual solution for agencies who want to deal with their sales pipelines, CRM of clients, general project management stuff, invoicing and yes somewhere to actually organise all deadlines and people. So someone I am hoping will hear my cry for help and point me in the right direction. Failing that I’ll ask my extremely clever development team to make me something spectacular.

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