Want to work out where to start in your company?
The Excel spreadsheet that handled everything without a hitch three years ago now needs checks, backup copies and one person who knows how not to break it.
Hiring solves a shortage of people. It doesn't solve a confusing procedure, the wrong tool or a task that could have been automated.
As orders grow, so does the work of handling them: catalogue, invoices and shipping are still passed by hand from one system to another.
When admin work keeps growing, it's often enough to automate what's still being done by hand instead of hiring.
An hour spent logging invoices is worth less than an hour of design work, yet it comes out of the same working day.
If the owner spends every evening checking invoices, emails and quotes, there is usually no process in place to take care of them.
On launch day the online shop is ready, but it is also the day the real work begins, the work no quote for building the site ever mentions.
A website, management software and an Instagram page give the impression of a digital business, but they often hide processes that are still handled by hand.
Every supplier will offer you the perfect tool for their part of the problem. The risk is ending up with ten tools that don't talk to each other.
“How much does a website cost?” is the question we hear most and the one with the fewest straight answers, because the figure depends on what you actually need, not on a fixed price list.
Between VAT, salaries and deadlines to meet, the accounting for a newly formed Sagl weighs more than it looked on paper, even before the first profit.
The workload grows, and the first thought is almost always the same one. But hiring only solves a problem if it's actually the right one to solve.
A first, no-obligation conversation about what you need: a new website, more visibility online or help with IT and administration.
