You started the business to build something, not to be its most overworked employee. Drag the sliders and see the real annual price of doing work someone else (or a system) should own.
On a free 30-minute call we'll look at where your hours and leads slip and show you what we'd fix first. This is the work our Operator System does, from $5,500 over 6 to 8 weeks.
Book a CallThis calculator puts a yearly dollar figure on owner dependence. It adds up two costs. The first is your time spent on admin work that someone else, or a system, could own. The second is revenue from leads that slip through the cracks. You move five sliders, and the total updates as you go. You don't need an email to see your number.
The sliders start at 15 hours, $150, 4 leads, 30% and $6,000. Those are placeholders, not averages. The page shows no total until you move a slider. Set every slider to match your business for a fair number.
The math is simple, and every part of it shows on the page.
Time cost = hours per week × your hourly value × 50 working weeks
Lead cost = slipped leads per month × your close rate × customer value × 12 months
Yearly cost = time cost + lead cost
The calculator also shows the yearly cost as a monthly figure, which is the yearly cost divided by 12. It turns your admin hours into full work-weeks, too: hours per week times 50, divided by 40.
A worked example. Say you spend 5 hours a week on admin, and an hour of your time is worth $100. That's 5 × $100 × 50 = $25,000 a year. Now say 2 leads a month slip, you close 25% of real leads, and a new customer is worth $4,000 in the first year. That's 2 × 25% × $4,000 × 12 = $24,000 a year. The total is $49,000 a year, or about $4,083 a month. Those 5 hours a week also add up to about 6 full work-weeks of your year.
The big number is your estimated yearly cost. Under it, two rows show how much comes from your time and how much comes from lost leads. The bigger row tells you where to start:
This is an estimate, not accounting. The lead cost is revenue you likely missed, not money that left your bank account. Use it to see the size of the problem and to pick the first fix. If you want a copy, enter your first name, last name and email under “Email me my report,” and we will send the same breakdown to your inbox.
No. Your number shows on the page as soon as you move a slider. The email form is only there if you want a copy of the report.
The time cost counts 50 working weeks a year. That leaves room for holidays and time off.
The lead slider counts leads per month. Multiplying by 12 turns that into a full year of slipped leads. Each lead you would have closed is valued at what a new customer is worth in their first year.
Use the value you create in an hour of selling, leading or growing the business. The slider runs from $50 to $400 an hour.
The sliders start at placeholder values. A total built only on placeholders would not be your number, so the calculator waits until you move a slider.
Yes, if you set both the hours and the slipped leads to zero. In that case there is no report to email, because nothing is slipping.
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