Rosa Bowden

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Alrighty, let's do a little bit of maths together.

The average SaaS subscription for a small business, let's say it's $50 a month.

Now, how many of those are you running?

CRM, project management, invoicing, email marketing, scheduling, analytics.

If you're like most growing businesses, you're at about six to eight platforms.

So let's be conservative and say six, that's $300 a month.

That's $3,600 a year, just in software subscriptions.

And that's before we talk about the hidden cost, which is your time.

Every time you switch platforms, you lose momentum.

Every time you manually export data from one system to import into another, that's time you're not spending on actual business growth.