Whitepaper
The Reporting Factory
What delivering studies really costs, and how institutes turn delivery into a product
What you get
- The five recurring tasks that appear in no proposal and still cost every wave
- A worked example with stated assumptions: roughly 50 hours per tracker client per year
- A blank worksheet for costing your own delivery per client
- Three pricing models for portal access, with a way to introduce them to existing clients without a price shock
- Answers to three legitimate objections, from usage to Power BI
- A 90-day plan for one client and one tracker, plus a checklist of twelve questions
In short
In most institutes, delivery is the only part of a project that is not costed. Fieldwork, data processing, analysis and the report have prices. Transferring the charts, the follow-ups after hand-over and rebuilding the waves have none; they just happen, and a senior does them between two projects. This whitepaper works out, on an example, what this work costs per year, provides a worksheet for your own calculation and describes three pricing models with which institutes sell delivery as a product. Added to that are three legitimate objections, a 90-day plan for the first client and a checklist of twelve questions.
- Who it is for
- Institutes & agencies
- Format
- PDF, 11 pages, with worksheets and checklists
Contents 11 chapters
- 01 The line item that appears in no proposal
- 02 Why this is not a diligence problem
- 03 The calculation: one tracker, one year
- 04 The worksheet for your own calculation
- 05 Three costs that appear on no timesheet
- 06 From slide deck to access: what shifts
- 07 Three pricing models for portal access
- 08 Three objections that are legitimate
- 09 The first 90 days: one client, one tracker
- 10 Checklist: twelve questions before the start
- 11 Where DataLion fits in
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