Dan
@danpdev
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I automate your biggest business bottlenecks in 30 days and save you at least 15 to 20 hours/week (or you don’t pay)
Joined April 2019
I'm COMMITTING to @tyromper's challenge for October. Posting every day of October with updates. Following along here 👇
Anybody wanna COMMIT doing this with me in October?! •Walk 10,000 + steps a day. •Read at least one chapter of the Bible. •Write 2 things you're GRATEFUL. •Zero alcohol, weed or drugs. •Write a gratitude letter to someone from your past that's impacted your life. •Eat
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I thought I needed fancy ads to grow. In reality, my first 5 clients came from old 9-5 contacts. Cheaper than Facebook.
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A photographer client used to copy-paste shoot details into a Word doc for every booking. We turned it into an Airtable form. 20 min admin dropped to 2 mins flat.
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Truth: I once built a full automation for a mate, then worried he’d hate it. He loved it. Paid me early. Most of my stress was imaginary.
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Built my first mailing list by hand. 37 people. All came from ex-colleagues I called up and offered 10 min of free ops advice.
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Every tradie I know says the same thing... paperwork kills their evenings and family time Automating quote → invoice saved one of them 6 hrs a week.
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I used to panic when a client didn’t reply for 48 hrs. Now I assume they’re busy. Funny how much smoother projects feel when you stop inventing disasters.
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Best marketing I ever did: free 10-min consult calls. People booked to “pick my brain”. Half became subscribers, a few became clients.
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A local accountant spent 3 hrs/day re-typing bank feeds into Xero. We built a Zap. Now it’s 12 min. That’s 14 hrs a week he got back.
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I thought I needed fancy ads to grow. In reality, my first 5 clients came from old 9-5 contacts. Cheaper than Facebook.
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I once spent 90 minutes fixing an error that cost $0. Meanwhile invoices worth $12k sat unsent. That’s when I started stressing less.
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Half my early clients came from old workmates. Didn’t pitch them. Just showed what I was building, asked what annoyed them at work. Turns out frustration is the best sales funnel.
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This year I stopped stressing about things outside my control. Funny part: nothing fell apart. Clients still paid. Projects still shipped. The only thing that changed was the knot in my chest.
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The best dashboards aren’t pretty. They’re the ones the team actually looks at every day.
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Cash flow is a lagging indicator of ops discipline. Missed steps always show up in the bank.
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If you need three people to explain a process, you don’t have a process.
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Every hour saved in ops is an hour you can sell. That’s the only ROI that matters.
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Every operator should have these 3 SOPs before they touch another tool. I’ll send you the pack free. Just drop “OPS” below.
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Dashboards don’t need to be shiny. They need to be used. If you’re not looking at it every week, it’s not a dashboard. It’s a toy.
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When we build this for clients, we don’t start with tools. We start with questions: What do you check before you sleep? What do you worry about on the weekend? Those answers become the dashboard.
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