How much is manual work costing your business?
Two ways to put a number on it: time lost to manual work, and enquiries that slip away. Adjust the numbers to match your situation.
Think: filing, reporting, following up, re-entering data, compiling numbers someone already has
The hourly rate of the person doing this work: you, your office manager, or whoever it falls to
What recovering part of it could mean
If a fix recovered 40 to 50% of this time, that would be 17 to 22 hours per month, roughly $430 to $538. That range is an assumption for illustration. The real figure depends on the work.
Over a year, that is $5,160 to $6,456 in time returned to you or your team.
Calls that go to voicemail, messages answered a day later, quote requests that stall
Some people call back or wait. Be conservative.
Revenue is not profit. Use your own margin after materials, labor and overhead.
How to read this
This is an estimate built from the numbers you entered. The starting values are placeholders, not industry data. It shows revenue you may be missing, not what a fix would recover: some callers would have called back, and not every job is won.
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