How I Cut $6,000 a Year From My Tech Stack (and Run My Business for Just $99/Month)

I was spending $600/month on business software… and none of it spoke to each other. Now I run my entire business on one $99 platform — here’s how.

The Costly Tech Trap I Fell Into

For years, I thought I was being smart about my tech stack.
I had the “best” platform for every individual thing:

• Calendly for bookings

• Acuity for certain appointment types (don’t ask 🙈)

• A premium email marketing platform

• Jotform for client forms

• Plann for Instagram scheduling

• Storrito for Stories scheduling

• And about six other subscriptions I’d convinced myself were essential.

On paper, it looked like I was running a high-tech, high-performance business.
In reality?

It was chaos.

The Hidden Price of a Messy Tech Stack

I was spending over $600/month — more than $7,200/year — just to keep these tools running.
But here’s the kicker: none of them spoke to each other.

That meant:

• I was constantly exporting and importing data.

• Zapier “patch jobs” were breaking on me mid-launch.

• Client details were being lost between platforms.

• My VA was spending HOURS a week manually updating spreadsheets and double-handling tasks.

The tech was meant to save me time.
Instead, I’d become the accidental tech manager in my own company.

And the truth?
That “accidental job” was stealing my attention from strategy, leadership, and revenue-driving activities.

The Moment I Knew It Had to Change

One late night, I was prepping for a workshop launch and juggling six logins, trying to pull the right list for a segmented email.
The data wasn’t matching.
I was annoyed, tired, and frustrated…

…and that’s when I realised:
I wasn’t running my tech stack.
It was running me.

I knew something had to change — not just for my sanity, but for the health of my business.

The Switch to an All-in-One Platform

I started researching “all-in-one business platforms.”
What I wanted sounded almost too good to be true:

• One login.

• One dashboard.

• Email, SMS, booking, funnels, pipelines, automations — all in one place.

Then I found the platform that changed everything.
Yes, it was $99/month.
Yes, it replaced over $600 worth of monthly tools.
But the cost saving wasn’t even the best part…

What Happened When I Streamlined

When I moved everything into one platform, I was able to ditch:

• Calendly (bookings)

• Acuity (more bookings — why did I even have two?)

• Email marketing platform (all my email campaigns + automations live in one place now)

• Jotform (built-in forms with automation triggers)

• Plann (social media scheduling is integrated)

• Storrito (Stories scheduling is integrated too)

And that’s just the shortlist.

Now:

• Bookings automatically trigger confirmation emails and SMS reminders.

• New leads are automatically nurtured with pre-built email sequences.

• Clients are moved through my pipeline without a single spreadsheet update.

• Social posts, Stories, and campaigns are managed from the same login.

Everything speaks to each other — no more duct tape, no more Zapier emergencies, no more wasted time.

Why Female Founders Fall Into the Tech Trap

If you’re a female founder reading this, there’s a good chance you’ve fallen into the same trap I did.
We want “the best” of everything — the best CRM, the best scheduler, the best marketing tool — without realising that “best” in isolation doesn’t equal best in execution.

We’re told to “invest in the right tools,” but no one tells us that:

• The cost of fragmented tools is higher than the subscription fees.

• The energy drain of context switching kills creativity.

• The time spent managing tools is time you’ll never get back.

The $99 Solution That Changed My Business

Here’s the truth:
I didn’t just save over $6,000/year when I switched to an all-in-one platform.

I:

• Increased capacity (I can take on more clients without hiring more admin help).

• Eliminated bottlenecks (automations mean I don’t have to chase people or manually update data).

• Simplified my day (I now have one login, one learning curve, one source of truth).

That $99/month isn’t an expense — it’s one of the highest-ROI investments in my business.

Your Next Step

If your tech stack feels like a patchwork quilt that’s falling apart at the seams, I want you to know you don’t have to keep duct-taping it together.

I’ve put together my exact 7-Figure Tech Stack so you can see:

• The all-in-one platform I use.

• How it’s set up to save me hours every week.

• The calculator to work out how much you could save by making the switch.

You can grab it here, and while you’re there, you’ll get access to a free 30-day trial so you can see for yourself what it’s like to have one system that actually works.

💻 Steal My Tech Stack + Get Your Free Trial →

Because running your business should be about impact and income — not endless logins.