ESTIMATING BREAK EVEN POINT & OTHER STARTUP COSTS
Here are some tools to that can be used to help estimate the following values, which you can use when planning your business:
Number of customers needed to break even
Hard drive space needed
Monthly Business Expenses
Peak Transfer Volume (megabytes per day)
Downlink Bandwidth Required
Uplink Bandwidth Required
Hard Drive Space Used per ClientThis tool assumes you have 900 minutes per day in which to service clients’ backups (roughly the amount of time between 5PM and 8AM), and the average number and size of restores done during the daytime.Enter your own values wherever the numbers are GREEN.
You will input:
Your itemized monthly expenses
Additional Cost per Client, Monthly – Overhead charges per customer for things like postage and handling for sending bills, or any other charges specifically tied to each client.
Average Monthly Billing per Client – Experiment with your own figures by trying different monthly charges here.
Average Backup Size – This is the average size in megabytes (compressed) that each customer sends you during each backup session.
Average Retention Period – The number of days you will keep your customers’ data online before deleting old data or moving it off to offline storage.
Backups per Week per Client – The number of backups your customers will send you per week.The Legal Stuff: While we have done everything we can to make sure it is accurate, RBS does not guarantee the accuracy of these tools. Use them at your own risk, and verify your results independently. RBS makes no claims that the results calculated by these tools are good for any specific business. You should not make business decisions based solely on the results from this these tools. Use them only as a rough guide. Click for the Online Breakeven Calculator Click to download the spreadsheet. RBACKUP Version ALLkeywords: calculate prices pricing costs plan planning business plan spreadsheet calculator