The Money You Stop Overpaying Is Faster Than the Money You Grow
Software subscriptions, shipping rates, agency invoices, payment processing. Growth is one lever. The money you stop overpaying is the other, and it is faster.
What Is Usually Wrong
- Your carrier rates were set when you shipped a third of today's volume, and nobody has asked for a new card.
- There are subscriptions on the company card that no current employee remembers signing up for.
- The agency retainer has not changed in two years and neither has the scope, in either direction.
- Payment processing is on the default tier because switching felt like a project.
There are subscriptions on the company card that no current employee remembers signing up for.
What I Do About It
- List every recurring cost tied to digital and marketing and put an owner and a purpose next to each.
- Negotiate carriers, processors, and platforms on your behalf. I have done this at scale and know what the other side can approve.
- Review agency and freelancer scopes against what is being delivered, and renegotiate or replace where the invoice is not earned.
- Report the savings as a monthly number, so it is visible and stays fixed.
What Lands on Your Desk, and When
A complete cost map with the obvious cancellations already flagged.
Subscriptions cut, carrier and processor conversations opened with volume data in hand.
Savings booked as a monthly figure, with the slower negotiations still in progress and dated.
Not a promise of a percentage. If the numbers are not moving by the end of the month, you say so and the work stops. No notice required.
What This Typically Costs
Most of this work starts as a Checkup ($1,500 to $3,500) or a fixed-scope Fix ($6,000 to $25,000, quoted flat). Ongoing management sits inside the Standing Arrangement at $2,000 to $5,000 a month, cancel any time. Full pricing and terms →
Free Tool
Steps ten and eleven of the free audit start the cost review. Open it →
How much can this typically save?
It depends entirely on what you spend and how long since anyone looked, so there is no percentage here. The checkup puts a real number on it in two weeks.
Asked on nearly every first call
How much can this typically save?
It depends entirely on what you spend and how long since anyone looked, so I will not quote a percentage here. The checkup puts a real number on it in two weeks.
Will you talk to my vendors directly?
Yes, with your say-so. Having sat on the buying side of large negotiations helps: I know which asks get approved and which get a polite no.
Is this a one-time thing?
The first pass is. Keeping it fixed is part of the standing arrangement, because costs creep back the moment nobody is watching.
Tell Me What Is Not Working
Tell me what you pay for and what you suspect is padded, and I will show up to the call with real observations, not a slide deck about myself.