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Finance

Chasing unpaid invoices

Every week I go through our accounting tool, find invoices that are overdue, and email eac…”

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Sales

Copying leads into the CRM

When a new lead fills in the form on our website, I copy their name, email and message fro…”

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Operations

Onboarding a new client

Every time we sign a client I manually send a welcome email, create their folder, add them…”

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Reporting

Building the weekly sales report

Every Monday I download our sales export, paste the numbers into a spreadsheet, build a sh…”

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Admin

Sending appointment reminders

The day before each appointment I text or email every customer a reminder by hand so they …”

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Marketing

Posting to every social channel

When we publish something, I manually re-post it to Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook and our …”

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Finance

Collecting expense receipts

At month end I chase the team for receipts, download them from emails, rename them, and en…”

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Sales

Following up on quotes

After I send a quote I set a reminder to follow up a few days later, then email the prospe…”

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Reporting

Sending weekly sales reports manually

Each week I compile our sales figures and manually send the report round to the leadership…”

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Sales

Copying leads from email into a spreadsheet

Enquiries land in my inbox and I copy each name, email and message into a spreadsheet so w…”

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Marketing

Scheduling social media posts manually

Every week I log into each social platform and manually schedule our posts one at a time f…”

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Finance

Chasing late payments by email

I keep an eye on which customers haven't paid and email them a chaser, then a firmer one i…”

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Finance

Creating and sending invoices manually

For each job I build an invoice from a template, fill in the details, and email it to the …”

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Operations

Copy-pasting data between two systems

I regularly copy the same information out of one tool and paste it into another because th…”

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Admin

Booking appointments and sending confirmations

When someone requests a slot I check the calendar, book them in, and send a confirmation e…”

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HR

Collating team timesheets

Each pay period I collect everyone's timesheets, add up the hours, and put the totals into…”

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Operations

Sending weekly project status updates

Every week I gather progress from our project tool and write a status update email to each…”

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Sales

Re-entering form responses into a CRM

Form submissions come through and I manually re-type the responses into our CRM so the rec…”

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Reporting

Pulling multiple sheets into a summary

I pull numbers from several spreadsheets and combine them into one summary report, updatin…”

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Operations

Sending onboarding emails to new clients

Whenever a new client signs up I send them a series of onboarding emails manually over the…”

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Operations

Uploading files and notifying the team

I upload files to our shared drive and then message the relevant people by hand to let the…”

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Finance

Generating end-of-month financial summaries

At the end of each month I pull our numbers together and build a financial summary for the…”

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Support

Answering the same customer questions

I answer the same handful of customer questions over and over, typing out similar replies …”

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Operations

Tracking stock levels in a spreadsheet

I manually update a spreadsheet to keep track of our stock levels and flag when something …”

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Support

Assigning incoming support tickets

When support requests come in I read each one and manually assign it to the right person o…”

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