The challenge: creating more time for the work that matters

In today’s fast-paced marketing landscape, finding ways to streamline processes is critical to unlocking more time and resources for what matters most – making great work. This is magnified in talent acquisition and onboarding, as well as client SOWs, contracts and agreements.

With remote work continuing to be a reality, agencies have an expanded pool of talent to hire from. But they also face even more competition. So creating a fast, efficient way to identify, hire and onboard new people becomes paramount.

The same challenge applies to contracting new clients and new projects – agencies can’t let administrative tasks and paperwork slow them down.

Collier.Simon, like many growing agencies, has seen an increase in the variety of documents that need to be sent, signed and stored, as well as the number of people involved in the process. As such, they needed a solution that allowed their process to keep the fast-paced momentum that their clients expect, even with more players and complexities involved. It was critical for them to find an easy-to-use eSignature tool that also provided a simple way to keep a growing number of documents organised and orderly.

The solution: streamlining signatures for speed and efficiency

As long-time Dropbox users, the team at Collier.Simon was naturally drawn to an eSignature solution that allowed them to maintain their current workflow of using Dropbox to share and collaborate on files and documents.

They explored other solutions, but found Dropbox Sign to be the easiest to use, which drove deeper adoption across the agency. Its seamless integration with Dropbox was also a huge factor in saving time and ensuring the organisation of critical documents. Matt Seigel, President, says, “Now that we’re running everything on Dropbox and Dropbox Sign, we spend a lot less time on administrative tasks and more time driving results for our clients.”

The results:

Faster hires and more efficient employee onboarding

By using Dropbox Sign and Dropbox, Collier.Simon was able to speed up their time to signature significantly for offer letters and onboarding paperwork. In addition, the improved flow and organisation has made it easier to add more people to the hiring process while increasing the efficiency.

‍Time savings on collaboration mean rapid speed to impact for clients

By using Dropbox and Dropbox Sign to manage and deliver all their files, Collier.Simon is able to kick off and deliver creative up to 20% faster, which gets the work into market more quickly, delivering a business impact faster for their clients.

‍Getting SOWs signed faster and projects initiated sooner

At the pace of today’s market, deadlines don’t move even if there are delays in paperwork. Collier.Simon has been able to get client SOWs and MSAs signed faster, while projects are kicked off much sooner. All in all, paperwork logjam has become a thing of the past.

Collaboration without sacrifice

With a streamlined process in place, Collier.Simon can scale their teams and document workflows with the confidence that they can move faster without sacrificing quality or organisation. They are currently ramping up the use of Dropbox Paper to collaborate more closely on document generation, and Dropbox Replay for video collaboration, affording them the same efficiencies they enjoy across their other Dropbox workflows.