The $50,000 Habit You Didn’t Know You Had
You answer the same questions on every intake call: How do you work? What's the process? How long does it take? Each call runs 45 minutes, unpaid. If you take on 50 new customers a year, that's 37.5 hours of unbilled time. At $150/hour, you're giving away $5,625 a year in hard cash. But the real cost is bigger. Every hour on repetitive qualification is an hour you could have spent delivering high-value work or closing premium deals. You can't scale your skill if your manual processes don't.
