Design Back Office Announces Official Partnership with Specialty Advertising Association of California
The SAAC Design Center will offer exclusive discounted rates on design services to members
SAN FRANCISCO – July 27, 2009. San Francisco-based Design Back Office today announced an official partnership with the Specialty Advertising Association of California (SAAC). The company has been chosen as the preferred provider of design services to SAAC and will exhibit at the upcoming SAAC Show August 5-6 in Long Beach, CA.
In the first of a two-step implementation, Design Back Office will develop a customized service offering for SAAC. This service, named The SAAC Design Center, will be accessible to all SAAC members from SAAC’s website (www.saac.net). Nancy Phillips, Executive Director of SAAC said, “With Design Back Office as a design partner, SAAC members can reduce the expenses associated with creating high-quality marketing communications. Together with Design Back Office’s extensive line of design services, and the efficiency of a technology-managed workflow, SAAC Design Center enables members to achieve significant productivity gains.”
Cliff Kaplan, President of Design Back Office added, “In partnering with Design Back Office, SAAC can provide its members with added opportunities to increase revenues, reduce costs/overhead and time to market, while increasing profit margins and simultaneously expanding service offerings to their clients.”
Design Back Office is the preeminent provider of high-quality wholesale graphic and interactive design solutions. The company delivers an extensive suite of over 450 creative online or offline, static or interactive solutions at the most competitive prices in the marketplace today. Strategically located design centers with over 500 designers/support staff enable 24/7 follow-the-sun customer support. Design Back Office is a highly managed yet invisible partner to organizations worldwide. Ordering, management and delivery of design services is administered through our proprietary software called DMLive™ 2.0. Through the system, all steps of the design process are transparent, reportable, archivable, and searchable.
DMLive™ 2.0 is the industry’s only proprietary web-based solution that fully automates the design process from ordering to management to delivery. Using the system, SAAC members will have a full spectrum of design services available to them via an automated design delivery system and will have complete control of their design projects. All project information is available anytime, anywhere via the web, email, telephone or SMS.
Design Back Office’s DMLive™ 2.0 represents a powerful automated tool that enables users to track all steps of the design development process. They may place design orders; outline project specifications including technical requirements, directions, timetable, etc; view revisions; manage clients and projects; track orders; and manage funds. A Digital Asset Management (DAM) feature allows users to manage versioning, archive, search for, and retrieve any current and past projects.
The SAAC Design Center will follow a traditional agency workflow. Specific account managers are assigned to each account/customer. Payment is made through standard transaction processes such as credit card, electronic payment, purchase order, etc.
Ron Friedman, SAAC Board Member, stated, “We are very excited about the SAAC Design Center. Not only is it a time saver but it allows SAAC members access to a full range of professional graphic solutions assuring they stay ahead of the competition. This unique suite of services offers innovation, the ability to increase revenues with no upfront cost, and a value set that can't be ignored.”
As an added benefit, SAAC members accessing the SAAC Design Center and establishing an account will receive an exclusive 5% discounted rate off Design Back Office’s already low wholesale prices on all design services.
Design Back Office offers free 24/7 customer support with sales and operations reps in San Francisco to answer design questions.
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