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CLIENTS & PROFITS
ANNOUNCES C&P ASAP, A WEB-BASED STUDIO MANAGER
New subscription service tracks clients, jobs, costs, time,
and billing for only $29.95 a month
May 16, 2004 -- SAN DIEGO, CA -- Clients & Profits announced today Clients & Profits
ASAP, a new web-based studio manager built especially for free-lance creatives
and graphic design studios.
The new internet-based system lets creatives, account execs, bookkeepers, and
studio managers handle the complete job lifecycle—from proposal to billing—from
anywhere in the world using only a web browser.
Clients & Profits ASAP is a subscription
service for managing creative businesses and includes time cards,
proposals, estimates, job scheduling, client and vendor management,
billing, and more. “Clients & Profits ASAP replaces any
manual system you’re using now to manage your shop,” says
Mark Robillard, Clients & Profits founder and developer.
“Unlike Quickbooks and other generic software," he says, "Clients & Profits
ASAP is designed at its heart for creatives — and only creatives. It's
the only system they need to keep on top of the work."
No software to buy, nothing to install, and available anywhere
Based on the rapidly maturing "ASP" software-as-service
business model used by Salesforce.com and others, Clients & Profits
adapted nearly 20 years of agency management software experience
into a small system, designed especially for start-ups. “Clients & Profits
emerged in 1986 with an innovative solution to the agency management
software dilemma,” Robillard says, “and we’re
continuing that legacy with Clients & Profits ASAP.”
Clients & Profits ASAP offers busy shops
an affordable—and mobile—job management software. In
addition to it’s low monthly subscription, C&P ASAP is
easy to get started. “The ASP model gave me a tremendously
economical platform to develop a micro-version of Clients & Profits
with an ideal feature set for smaller shops,” Robillard says.
Unlike other web-based applications, only Clients & Profits ASAP handles
a job’s entire life cycle (instead of just time or production) and has
the only upgrade path in the industry to a complete agency management system
-- Clients & Profits Classic.
“We’ve had hundreds of calls over the years from young designers
just starting out,” Robillard says. “They wanted to run like a big
agency from the start, but they just couldn’t afford a big-agency software.” With
C&P ASAP, now they can.
An unbeatable upgrade path
C&P ASAP subscribers can trade-up to Clients & Profits Classic any
time without losing any client, job, or accounting data—and get a 100%
credit for what they paid over the years. Clients & Profits ASAP is available
on a month-to-month subscription basis for $29.95 for a single user, and only
$5 more per month for each additional user. There are no upfront fees or committments—and
the data is yours forever.
Clients & Profits ASAP was unveiled at the
HOW Design Conference in San Diego today and is planned for a 3Q
release. In addition, the company will be previewing its Mac OS
X-native upgrade to its award-winning Clients & Profits software
and announcing Clients & Profits Pro for MySQL Special Edition,
which supports the leading open-source database for Windows, Linux,
and Mac OS X.
Founded in 1986, Clients & Profits Worldwide, is the leading developer of job
tracking and business accounting software for advertising agencies, design
firms, and corporate marcom/graphics departments that use Macintosh and Windows.
Clients & Profits is the agency management system of choice for thousands
of shops worldwide.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact Judy
Hector, Director of Marketing.
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