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🚨 Your business might not need more software. It might need one better dashboard.
📊 Here's something I actually built.
I created the Local Business Operations Dashboard (Spec Build) to demonstrate how a home-service business can organize its daily operations in one place.
Imagine being able to follow the work:
📩 Customer inquiry → Organized lead
✅ Follow-up → Review and approval
📅 Appointment → Scheduling oversight
🛠️ Estimate → Job tracking
💰 Invoice → Outstanding payment visibility
📈 Dashboard → Know what needs attention
Instead of juggling disconnected spreadsheets, the goal is to make the next step clear.
💜 Here's how I can help your business get started.
Custom Google Sheets Dashboard — Starting at $249
Your starter dashboard includes:
✓ One customized Google Sheets dashboard
✓ Customer, job, and appointment tracking
✓ Estimate and payment status tracking
✓ Outstanding balance calculations
✓ Organized views and basic reporting
✓ Setup instructions and one in-scope revision
No complicated software required.
✨ Want more automation?
My interactive portfolio demonstration also showcases advanced concepts such as approval workflows, simulated alerts, conflict detection, and workflow monitoring.
These are examples of what can be developed in a separately scoped premium solution—not features included in the $249 starter package.
Advanced Google Apps Script automation, Gmail, Slack, CRM integrations, and live Calendar synchronization are quoted separately.
🔎 See my actual dashboard case study:
📩 Need a dashboard built around your business?
Send me the spreadsheet or workflow you're currently using and tell me what's frustrating you.
I'll help identify the right next step.
Explore my $249 dashboard service:
Independent portfolio demonstration using synthetic data. The interactive browser demo is separate from the customized Google Sheets starter service. No live third-party integrations are demonstrated.
#GoogleSheets #DashboardDesign #HomeServices #WorkflowAutomation #GoogleAppsScript
the inquiry to invoice flow is a really clear way to show what it does. are you finding home service owners on here, or reaching out to them directly?
using the contra profile as the landing page is smart, it does the trust part for you. how do you find the owners for the direct outreach, and is it mostly email or calls
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