But here’s the challenge…
👉 getting all the data in one place
👉 and cleaning it up
It can feel time-consuming and overwhelming.
The good news? It doesn’t have to be.
For most small businesses, a simple spreadsheet is more than enough:
📈 Excel
📊 Google Sheets
🍏 Apple Numbers
All of them have powerful data tools. If your data isn’t digital yet (e.g. invoice books), you’ll need to capture it. But often, your data is already there — in places like your bank or other systems — and can be exported into a spreadsheet. And Spreadsheets also have great built-in tools to pull your data from many sources. Once it’s in one place, the next step is cleaning your data. This means:
✔ Removing duplicates
✔ Fixing formatting and typos
✔ Splitting data into columns
✔ Handling missing values
✔ Adding simple validation
✔ Solving anomalies
Because here’s the truth: You can’t get great insights from poor-quality data. Clean data is where the magic starts ✨
There are many videos and articles available to help with this part of the job – or of course, there’s me!
Now that you have this great clean data, here’s a thought… What do you actually want your data to tell you? That’s a conversation for another day.
I can help you with the full cycle of using spreadsheets to work your data magic.
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