Email is Ruining Your Startup.

19.8% – That’s how much time each person in your company is probably spending searching through email. Every day.

For most small businesses, email is the central hub of information. Questions, to-do’s, timelines, files, proposals, approvals. The average employee receives 121 emails a day, each containing the bits and pieces they need to do their job. We get it. Email is essential to your business.

But while you may view email as one the most important tools your startup has, it’s also the one that’s the most often misused.

The Fox in the Henhouse

A McKinsey study* discovered that on average, workers spend 19.8% of their time searching for information they need to do their jobs. And in a small startup, that information tends to live buried in email threads.

What feedback did the client give? Pull up the email. Do you have the new timeline for the marketing campaign rollout? Yes, let me dig it up and forward it. Hey, can you shoot over those photos to the Design Team? Of course, I’ll zip a folder and email them right away!

Sound familiar? If not, your employees certainly recognize these phrases. Because they spend nearly one whole day of their 5-day workweek searching for the information they need to do their jobs.

If you have 10 employees, that’s 10 lost days of productivity every single week. Or more frighteningly, over 520 days a year spent buried in your company emails.

Taking Back Control

How do we know? Because we used to struggle with this too. We built Basecamp as a way to wrestle our business back from the grasp of email. And after failing to find an out-of-the-box project management solution, we built our own. It was simple, and it worked. Almost overnight, projects ran more cleanly, and employees got more done.

Since then, countless other startups have used it to do the same.

Of course, the only real way to understand just how incredible it feels to break free from doing everything with email is to try it for yourself. Take 90 seconds to sign up right now and give Basecamp a try. We’ll give you 30 days to explore the tool free of charge (we don’t even ask for a credit card). If you like it - and we’re pretty sure you will - it’s just $99/month for your entire team.

And as most of our users tell us, that’s a small price to pay to take back control of your startup.