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If You’re Still Doing These 5 Things Manually, You’re Wasting 10+ Hours a Week

Automation isn’t about tech. It’s about time ownership. Let’s rip the manual tasks out of your week and hand them to machines that don’t sleep.

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Meghan Donnelly
Oct 21, 2025
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There are two types of founders:

  • Those who still copy and paste emails manually

  • And those who are slowly buying their time back

If your calendar feels overloaded, your brain’s fried, and you’re constantly playing catch-up, it’s probably not a workload issue.

It’s a manual labor issue.

Too many founders are doing things by hand that could’ve been automated months ago, and it’s quietly costing them 10, 15, even 20 hours a week.

Here are 5 of the biggest time drains still hiding in your workflow, and how to fix them today.

1. Sending Booking Links by Hand

Going back and forth over email to find a time to meet is not high-level founder energy.
It’s administrative drag.

Fix it:
Use a booking system that:

  • Syncs to your calendar

  • Sets automatic buffers

  • Sends reminders

  • Filters by offer or client type

This isn’t just about saving time. It’s about removing friction.
People shouldn’t have to chase you to pay you.

Pro move: Build dynamic booking flows based on lead source or readiness. Yes, your CRM can do that.

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