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Guides, templates, and playbooks on PTO accruals, policies, approvals, and the rest of small-business HR — written to be genuinely useful.

Small Business HR

Client Health Score: An 8-Question Risk Assessment for One Account

A scored, interactive check on one specific customer relationship — surfacing real churn risk while there's still time to act, instead of finding out at renewal.

The SimplyPTO Team·Sep 5, 2026·4 min read
Small Business HR

Cold Outreach Response Math: The Funnel Behind Every Closed Deal

A live calculator walking cold email volume through reply rate, positive replies, and close rate — to show how many emails one customer actually costs.

The SimplyPTO Team·Sep 5, 2026·5 min read
Small Business HR

Contractor Rate Converter: What Hourly Rate Actually Matches a Salary

Convert an equivalent salary into a real contractor hourly rate — accounting for benefits, taxes, and the billable hours a full week never actually delivers.

The SimplyPTO Team·Sep 5, 2026·4 min read
Small Business HR

Customer Acquisition Cost Calculator: What a New Customer Really Costs

A live calculator turning total sales and marketing spend into a real CAC number, then checking it against what a customer is actually worth.

The SimplyPTO Team·Sep 5, 2026·4 min read
Small Business HR

The Real Cost of Customer Churn (Calculator)

A live calculator turning a monthly churn number into the actual annual revenue and lifetime value at stake — usually larger than the monthly figure makes it feel.

The SimplyPTO Team·Sep 5, 2026·4 min read
Small Business HR

The Customer Escalation Ladder: When to Actually Get Involved

A visual ladder for deciding when a customer issue needs a founder or senior leader involved — before it's already a crisis, and without stepping in on everything.

The SimplyPTO Team·Sep 5, 2026·5 min read
Small Business HR

Discount Creep Calculator: What Habitual Discounting Actually Costs

A live calculator turning how often deals get discounted, and by how much, into the actual annual revenue quietly given away.

The SimplyPTO Team·Sep 5, 2026·5 min read
Small Business HR

The Feature Request Triage Matrix

A visual framework for sorting feature requests by real demand against how well they fit the product's direction — before they pile up in a backlog nobody revisits.

The SimplyPTO Team·Sep 5, 2026·5 min read
Small Business HR

Founder Salary Calculator: What to Actually Pay Yourself

A conservative model for founder pay — from ongoing profit, not cash reserves — so the number is a plan rather than a guilty guess redone every few months.

The SimplyPTO Team·Sep 5, 2026·4 min read
Small Business HR

NPS Score Interpreter: What Your Number Actually Means

A live calculator turning promoter, passive, and detractor counts into an NPS score, with context on what a given number typically signals.

The SimplyPTO Team·Sep 5, 2026·5 min read
Small Business HR

Sales Commission Plan Calculator: What Rate Actually Gets You to OTE

A live calculator turning target earnings, base split, and quota into the flat commission rate a rep actually needs to reach full on-target earnings.

The SimplyPTO Team·Sep 5, 2026·5 min read
Small Business HR

Sales Pipeline Coverage Calculator: Is There Enough in the Funnel?

A live calculator checking current pipeline against what's actually needed to hit quota at your historical close rate — before the quarter ends, not after.

The SimplyPTO Team·Sep 5, 2026·5 min read

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