You should have done automation yesterday

“But that’s what an automation firm would say.” Correct. It’s going to help our business. However, it’s also going to help yours.

Think about it like two car options for your commute: if you don’t have automation yet, you’re driving a car that you can only use 10 hours a day, it needs a new tank of fuel every day and new tires every week. It’s not broken, but it needs heaps of maintenance, governance and puts a huge amount of pressure on your finances. With automation, you have to stump up the cash to buy a new car. But fortunately, it’s available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, uses a tank of fuel once a month, and new tires once a year.

Let’s play a quick maths game:

-Car 1 needs a new tank of fuel every working day. At $200 a tank, that’s $40k a year. It needs new tires every week, at $1000. That’s $50k a year. So it works 10 hours a day, 5 days a week and costs $90k per year. Sound familiar?

-Car 2 needs a new tank of fuel every month, and new tires every year. That’s $3400 annually. You would need to pay more than $80k for the car for it NOT to be valuable, and that’s only based on one year. Oh, and it works 24/7.

The fun part is that it really is that simple. Good automation replaces mundane work that admin staff are doing. It means you can replace them or push them into work that will help grow your business.

There’s no ‘best time of year’ or ‘investment quarter’ for automation. Yes, it can be a large outlay to get it done, but it pays itself off so quick that you’re doing your company a huge financial disservice by NOT getting it done ASAP.

-Fred