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by siganakis 4289 days ago
I've found that replacing a fancy dashboard of key stats with a simple daily email with 5-10 key numbers is far more valuable.

The dirty little secret of the business intelligence / dashboard industry is that no one logs into them.

A daily email helps with this problem, as people tend to read emails, even if its only a glance.

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I've gotten a lot of mileage from Mint's dashboards when trying to identify where I'm wasting money. I appreciate their email, but the dashboard is actually tremendously useful.