How Much Is "Doing It Yourself" Really Costing You?
Most home service owners spend 10-15 hours a week on tasks worth a fraction of their time. See your exact number - and what you'd save by delegating.
Move the sliders to match your week. Your buyback report updates instantly.
Your Numbers
Be honest -how much time do you spend on tasks that aren't billable work?
Use take-home, not billing rate. Quick math: divide your annual take-home income by 2,000.
Your Buyback Report
Here's what doing $75/hr work on $19/hr tasks is costing you.
Cost of Doing It Yourself
$46,764
per year on admin tasks
Your Buyback Rate
$19/hr
This is the max you should pay someone to do these tasks.
Anything below this = you're buying back time at a profit.
Monthly Waste
$3,897
Net Savings
$34,917
if you delegate at $19/hr
Ready to buy back 12 hours a week?
Book a free 30-minute Discovery Call. We'll review your Buyback Report together and map out a plan to start automating these tasks.
30 minutes. No obligation. No pitch.
The truth
The hours you just saw are not the real problem.
You are not stuck because you work too little. You are stuck because there is no system. Every inquiry requires YOU. Every quote requires YOU. Every follow-up requires YOU. Until the business runs without you, no amount of working harder will fix this.
Hiring a virtual assistant does not fix this. You just move the chaos. You need the system first, then delegation works.
Ready to buy back your time?
We work with home service businesses to install the Marvix Growth Engine™: an Authority Website, a Local Visibility Launchpad, a Pipeline Command Center, automated follow-up, and review collection. First 90 days is the build and launch phase, then month-to-month. Cancel anytime after that. Your domain, website, and customer data stay with you.
30 minutes. No obligation. No pitch.
Why the Best Owners Stop Doing Everything
You started the business to do great work -not to spend your evenings chasing invoices and sending follow-up texts. The owners who grow past the "one-man show" phase all do the same thing: they stop trading their $75-$150/hr time on $15-$20/hr tasks.
36%
of an entrepreneur's week is spent on admin tasks, not billable work1
96 min
lost per day to unproductive, distracted work time2
4x
ROI when you delegate at your Buyback Rate (hourly rate divided by 4)3
1 Time etc entrepreneur productivity study, 2024. 2 Salesforce / Slack SMB productivity survey, 2024. 3 Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time, 2023.
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