💰💰 Have you ever stopped to calculate the cost of a single slide in your weekly report?
No, seriously.
Imagine the scene: it’s late on Sunday night, you're hunched over your laptop, painstakingly transferring data from CRM dashboards into slides, manually formatting charts, maybe even calling in favors from IT to get that one last metric just right.
And this isn’t even for a groundbreaking presentation—it’s just your Monday morning report.
Sounds absurd, right?
But if you’re like most companies, this weekly ritual of reporting could easily be running up a $10,000 bill—per slide.
The True Cost of Your Weekly Reports
Most companies know the cost of a meeting.
It’s simple math: multiply the number of attendees by the meeting duration and the average hourly rate, and voilà, you’ve got the cost of that all-hands call or the Monday morning sales sync. But that calculation misses one key thing: the cost of prepping for the meeting.
As Janet Gehrmann, Scoop Analytics’ co-founder, explains, “People are spending hours taking screenshots from their CRM to put into Google Slides, or downloading data, popping it into Excel, and creating charts just to show weekly numbers. And one of the issues is that people are spending so much time on this manual reporting. Wouldn't you rather have people focus on what the numbers mean, not just reporting them?”
Think about it.
If you’re spending hours each week pulling data, formatting it, and aligning it for a slide deck, that’s time you’re not spending on actual analysis.
And if you multiply those hours by the cost of everyone involved—well, that’s where your $10,000 slide comes from. (Or more!)
When the Cost of One Slide Hits Five Figures
At Janet’s last company, prepping for a quarterly business review (QBR) meant a full month of work.
“It’d take a week and a dozen calls to get the info I needed for just one slide,” she recalls.
And, of course, a QBR is more than one slide. By the time the presentation was ready, the insights were already stale, lagging behind the pace of business.
And this problem doesn’t just show up quarterly.
It's there every single week, haunting your Sunday nights.
You’re pulling data, updating charts, checking if that Salesforce snapshot was from this week or last week, and hoping you’ve got it right.
Sound familiar?
Focus on the “So What?” Not Just the “What”
The whole point of reporting is to drive action—to answer the “So what?” rather than just the “What?”
But when reporting takes up so much time and energy, there’s barely any bandwidth left to dig into what the numbers are actually telling you.
As Janet says, “Setting up your reporting in such a way that it’s automated week after week, so you don’t have to constantly check if you’ve downloaded the right report, means you can focus on the insights. That’s the real value: moving from ‘What are the numbers?’ to ‘What should we do about them?’”
Imagine a world where you walk into the office on Monday morning and open up your report.
All the data is already updated, all your charts are ready to go.
No screenshots, no late-night data extractions, no double-checking formulas.
Just insights, waiting to be analyzed.
The Scoop Solution
This is where Scoop comes in. Scoop is the only end-to-end data analytics and presentation tool that handles the entire reporting workflow for you.
- No more screenshots of Power BI dashboards.
- No more piecemealing data from five different sources.
Scoop connects directly to your data sources, updates your charts automatically, and allows you to walk into that Monday meeting ready to talk about what the numbers mean—not just what they are.
With Scoop, you’re not spending Sundays pulling together slides. You’re spending Mondays making strategic decisions.
Get Your Sundays Back
Imagine what your team could accomplish if you weren’t bogged down by manual data wrangling every week. Imagine how much more actionable your insights would be if they were up-to-date and ready to go without hours of prep.
And imagine the cost savings—no more $10,000 PowerPoint slides.
With Scoop, you get:
- Automated data updates: Charts and graphs are refreshed in real time, so you’re always working with the latest numbers.
- Integrated data sources: Connects seamlessly to your CRM, marketing data, and more, so you don’t have to cobble together reports from multiple platforms.
- More time for insights: Instead of spending time on the “What?”, your team can focus on the “So What?”
So, say goodbye to late-night reporting sessions, and hello to making data-driven decisions without the manual labor. It’s time to get your Sundays back—and finally let your Monday morning meetings be about moving forward, not just looking back.
With Scoop, weekly reporting doesn’t have to be a chore. It can be the strategic powerhouse it’s meant to be.
Ready to transform your reporting? Try Scoop today.
Scoop Team
At Scoop, we make it simple for ops teams to turn data into insights. With tools to connect, blend, and present data effortlessly, we cut out the noise so you can focus on decisions—not the tech behind them.
