Free guide + leak calculator
The three ways small businesses lose money without noticing.
None of them look like leaks. They look like an ordinary Tuesday — a call that rang out, a quote nobody answered, an invoice that’ll get paid “eventually.”
of calls to small businesses go unanswered — and 85% of those callers never call back. They call the next name in the results. 411 Locals monitored-phone study · PATLive
of businesses stop following up on a quote after one attempt — while 80% of sales take five or more touches to close. The job goes to whoever didn’t quit. MIT/InsideSales · Harvard Business Review
is what the average small business is owed in unpaid invoices right now. 59% have invoices more than 30 days overdue. Intuit QuickBooks 2026 Late Payments Report
Most owner-run businesses close 30–40% of what they quote. The rest doesn’t go to competitors — it goes to silence. Nobody followed up.
The second leak is work you did but never billed for properly — and the third is sitting in your receivables aging report right now, quietly financing your customers at your expense.
I wrote a short guide that shows the real numbers behind all three — sources named — and how to find each leak in your own books, in about ten minutes apiece. No software required.
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No card · No callThe guide — “The Three Leaks”
The numbers, the sources, and the ten-minute exercise that finds each leak in your books.
The Leak Calculator
Enter a few numbers you already know. It shows what the leaks are costing your business per year, in dollars. Opens the moment you submit.
Matthew Snyder, Third Hand Systems — Florence, Kentucky. I build revenue and automation systems for small businesses. The guide comes by email; a few genuinely useful notes follow, a week or so apart; reply “stop” anytime and I won’t take it personally.
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Open the Leak CalculatorWhy the guide is free: because the diagnosis should be. If the numbers say you have a leak worth fixing, some owners ask me to build the fix — missed-call text-back, quote follow-up that runs itself, invoices that chase themselves. If they don’t, you’ve lost ten minutes and learned where you stand. Fair trade either way.