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The 15-minute rule crushing contractors everywhere
There's a fifteen-minute rule that's secretly destroying service businesses, and most owners don't even know it exists.
You're running a tight ship, handling customer calls, managing your crew, following up on estimates. Each task feels manageable - just fifteen minutes here, fifteen minutes there. What could be the harm in that?
Here's the brutal truth:
Those innocent fifteen-minute tasks are vampires sucking the life out of your business. They're the silent assassins of productivity, and they're hiding in plain sight.
Let's do some quick math that'll make your head spin.
Five fifteen-minute tasks per day equals 75 minutes.
Over a month, that's 25 hours - more than three full working days vanished into thin air. In a year?
We're talking about 15 entire workdays lost to these sneaky time-thieves.
But here's where it gets really ugly. These tasks don't just steal time - they fragment your focus. You're constantly switching between answering the same customer questions, manually scheduling follow-ups, and updating spreadsheets. Your brain never gets the chance to tackle the big-picture stuff that actually grows your business.
The worst part? Most contractors accept these time-drains as "just part of the job." They've normalized the chaos, thinking that juggling seventeen different mini-tasks is what being a business owner looks like.
Common culprits lurking in your daily routine include manually sending appointment reminders, copying customer information between systems, generating the same reports week after week, and chasing down payment updates.
Each one seems harmless until you realize they're collectively drowning you in operational quicksand.
The solution isn't working faster or hiring more people…
It's identifying these fifteen-minute vampires and systematically automating them away. When you eliminate these repetitive time-suckers, something magical happens - suddenly you have HOURS of mental bandwidth for actual business growth.
TAP Into The Future shows you exactly how to audit your operations for these hidden productivity killers and automate them into oblivion.
TAP Into The Future is our event we’re hosting in Savannah, Georgia October 3-5.
And early bird pricing for the event goes away on July 31st. So if you’re interested, better head on over to the website and book your ticket now: