Hello everyone, may I please ask who actually needs data analysis? I always see data analysis in tech and ecom, but its not talked about in 'boring' businesses. I am talking about the most basic Google sheets analysis of like maybe employee sales, best routes for logistics, neighborhoods needing more repairs and not python scripts, etc.
These are the boring industries I can think of; waste management, water treatment, industrial cleaning, accounting/payroll software, packaging, logistics, pest control, commercial refrigeration, HVAC, labs, private clinics (like lets say a practice) lets also include lawyer practices, insurance conpanies, compliance/regulatory companies, funeral services, construction, chemical distribution, fleet management, elevator maintenance, septic tank services, agriculture supply chains, real estate, car dealerships.
What I like about this idea is usually these businesses keep records/their data on excel or on paper which is easier to perform analysis on, so they just send the document by email or a picture and I'd do analysis and make a report and send it to them in a day or 2. They can choose either weekly/monthly reports, so I'd basically be an employee just one that costs $20-$30 a month(I don't know what price is right, because this analysis takes atmost 3 hours so I don't want to charge people an insane amount for what I can do in 3 hours)
These are all I could gather, people always say find niches to sell to, but do these niches have the problems we think we found solutions to?
Please criticize and roast my idea before I waste money on cold emails or cold callsšš
Who actually needs data analysis aside from tech?
byu/mimitheminione inEntrepreneur
Posted by mimitheminione
3 Comments
Most boring businesses don’t buy “analysis,” they buy fewer surprises. If your report doesn’t change a weekly decision or catch an exception before the owner hears about it, it’s just a nicer spreadsheet.
The strongest wedge is one recurring question they already ask every Monday.
A ton of these businesses do analytics. I’ve worked in an analytics consulting capacity for a law firm, Physiotherapy clinic, dental clinic, equipment sales. Every industry can benefit from it.
Most just don’t know how. That’s what you need to sell, why is sending them a weekly report beneficial. What can it actually change for them. Get good at communicating that.
Also ive run into a lot of friction with many small small businesses like 2-3 person shops who think they already know/have a good grasp on everything. I’ve pretty well stopped trying to target that and focus on places with at least 5+ employees with meaningful operationsĀ
Honestly the analysis part probably isnāt the hard part. Getting owners to care enough to pay consistently is.
A lot of these businesses already have messy spreadsheets, PDFs, handwritten notes, random exports etc but nobody has time to untangle them. Thatās the real pain point. Iāve seen people basically dump all that chaos into Runable first just to turn it into usable reports/tasks before even doing analysis. The ācleaning the messā part is probably more valuable than the charts honestly.