Cost Management
Your Google Sheets Are Costing You $50K a Year - And You Don't Even Know It
Burnside Project
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Your Google Sheets Are Costing You $50K a Year
Small companies rely on analysts who pull data manually from 5-10 different systems (Salesforce, Stripe, Google Analytics, customer support tools, etc.) into Excel/Google Sheets for weekly/monthly reports. This process takes 2-3 days every month and the data is always outdated.
- Calculate the true cost: Analyst time (2-3 days/month × $75K salary = $9K annually) + decisions made on stale data + missed opportunities
- How TechStartup X missed their Q3 growth target because their churn data was 3 weeks old
- The cascading effects: Late reports → delayed decisions → missed revenue opportunities
- Simple cost-benefit analysis: $500/month platform vs. current hidden costs
- What you get instead: Automated daily reports, real-time dashboards, data that updates every hour
Stop burning money on manual processes and get data that actually helps you make decisions.
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Written by Burnside Project
Senior engineer with expertise in cost management. Passionate about building scalable systems and sharing knowledge with the engineering community.
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