AdMonsters Professional Services & Consulting

Our exclusive focus on online advertising operations and technology and on real-world solutions means that we don't waste time with esoteric methodology, obsolete standards and guidelines, or try to sell you "solutions" developed for another industry. Our work with you is always aimed at maximizing the profitability of your online advertising business. Often, the best 'technical solution' involves less (or even no) technology — the key is in-depth understanding of the problem, based on real-world experience.

AdMonsters consulting staff have unmatched depth in the field, and we bring a unique set of skills and qualifications to bear on your project. We have on-the-job experience in ad operations and technology going back to 1996 covering a broad range of specialties.

Bespoke consulting services can help your organization on any business challenges you are facing from change management and specific workflow improvements, to market research for product launches, and business model validation.

Business Solutions

Optimizing Workflow Efficiency

Make your ad ops dept workflow, systems, people, processes world class. Increase efficiency, reduce costs, provide sales with what they need.

AdMonsters will provide:

• Full review of systems, workflow, processes, workload, staff training needs, sales requirements, technical, and outsourcing possibilities
• Workload analysis and efficiency metrics
• Incremental improvements made during consulting review
• Workflow diagram and discussion of pain points and solutions with management, roadmap for system or staff improvements
• Best practices & documentation of processes
• Assessment of efficiency gains
• Review of training needs

Ideal for:

• Companies who have an existing workflow but lack staff resources to do a full review
• Growing companies who need a 'tune-up' to reduce operational frictions

Examples of some of our client challenges:

• Growing companies which need strategic planning for ad operations
• Companies which have developed over time and need to ensure efficient processes

Systems "Tune-up"

Make your Ad ops dept workflow, systems, processes world class and optimized for your business.  Increase efficiency, reduce costs, provide sales with what they need.

We provide:

• Full review of 'Quote to cash' systems, workflow, processes, staff training needs, technical possibilities
• Overview of systems and pain points
• Incremental system configuration and system training improvements
• Working with vendors to improve current systems or drawing of a project plan to do so
• Roadmap for future system or staff improvements. 
• Measurements of efficiency gains and ongoing efficiency metrics.

Ideal for:

• Smaller companies who need help optimizing systems and workflow for growing businesses
• Medium to larger companies who have a workflow and are suffering multiple pain points

Examples of some of our client challenges:

• New ops team needing system configuration and training
• Developed company with multiple legacy systems need optimization and a "fresh set of eyes" on challenges

Vendor analysis and recommendations

Choose the best vendor for your business in ad serving (display, video, mobile), workflow, reporting, targeting (BT). We offer:

• Needs assessment: systems, processes
• Determination of vendor list and RFP development
• RFP process management
• Vendor comparision matrix tailored to your needs
• Final vendor recommendations
• Suggested implementation plans

Ideal for:

• Growing companies with technology needs in new areas
• Companies with a complex sales and technical challenges which need holistic views of systems planning

Examples of some of our client challenges:

• Growing company with needs for new tools
• Developed company with multiple legacy systems and sales demands which require a deep dive into vendor solutions and integration planning

Systems Migration/Implementation

Let industry leaders make sure your systems migrations go smoothly. We offer:

• Project management of systems migration/integration
• Plan for systems migration
• Management of migration
• Final review of completeness, gap analysis and future configuration plan if needed

Ideal for:

• Companies new to implementing systems
• Companies with complex migrations planned and lack of resources for project management

Examples of some of our client challenges:

• Growing company migrating from paper based systems to workflow tools
• Large companies migrating adservers or workflow tools

*Custom packages can be developed from all of the above

Bespoke/Custom Consulting:

Bespoke consulting services offer custom designed solutions for your business challenges in all areas including:

• Issue specific consulting - Optimize a particular pain point or bottleneck such as financial reporting, creative QA, or targeting solutions
• Video or mobile strategy
• Market research for product launches
• Business case verification/validation
• Project management
• Organizational and staffing planning - bringing ops in-house, or help you outsource
• Requirements analysis and solution selection, including buy vs. build and software vs. ASP decision-making
• Ad network and network optimizer strategy and selection
• Database architecture, reporting, and data warehousing
• External processes, relations with agencies and advertisers, T's & C's
• Ad product innovation and development
• Cross-functional team review: scoping of roles and responsibilities, best practices, KPIs and SLAs

Contact AdMonsters Professional Services for more information or to set up a call to discuss to your particular needs.