How Automation Saved 20 Hours Per Week
A practical look at how workflow automation can eliminate repetitive tasks and free up your team for higher-value work.
Every week, thousands of businesses lose valuable time to repetitive manual tasks. Data entry, email responses, report generation, invoice processing — these tasks don't need human attention.
In this post, we walk through a real example: how NERIS automated lead processing for a marketing agency and saved them 20 hours per week.
The Problem
The agency was collecting leads from Facebook Ads, Google Ads, and their website contact form into three separate spreadsheets. Every morning, someone spent 2 hours copying data into a master sheet. Lead responses took 24+ hours.
The Solution
NERIS built an n8n workflow that: captures leads from all three sources into a central database, sends an automated email response to the lead, notifies the sales team on Slack, and logs everything for reporting.
The Result
15 hours of manual work eliminated per week. Lead response time dropped from 24 hours to 2 minutes. The sales team could focus on closing deals instead of copying data.
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