There’s a Good Chance You Just Shoveled 4 Tons of Snow Without Even Realizing It

An online calculator that came out after the Blizzard of 2016 tells you how many tons of snow you shoveled.

Yes, tons. Tonnage doesn’t seem like the unit to measure snow shoveling. But Essent staffers punched in their numbers and, sure enough, we started getting 2 tons, 4 tons, 5 tons.

The same thing happens in business. It's just a few minutes at a time but when you add it up the amount is staggering.

How could this be? The calculator must be broken!

But if every scoop is 20 pounds, which is reasonable, then every 100 scoops is a ton. And after a storm that dumped 32 inches, 100 scoops was just the warmup.

It doesn’t seem like tons when you do it one shovel at a time. But when you add it all up at the end the amount can be staggering. And it’s time to get a snowblower.

The same thing happens in business. Data entry might add 5 minutes to this sale, manual processes 10 minutes to that order, status updates 15 minutes with this customer. Those are your shovels full of snow.

It doesn’t seem like weeks or months when you do it a few minutes at a time. But when you add it all up at the end the amount can be staggering.

The solution is a fully-integrated business management system that connects your storefront to your back office to your trading partner so information flows automatically and you save those shovels full of time.

It’s time to get a snow blower. It’s time to get fully-integrated technology for your business.

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