The Excel Side Gig Playbook: Make More, Prove More, Risk Less

The Excel Side Gig Playbook: Make More, Prove More, Risk Less

Here are 20 high-leverage, non-training income streams for Excel Data Plumbers who want visibility, security, and a serious financial upside SUMMARY: Explore 20 Excel side hustles designed for Finance professionals using the EDP Strategy. These high-leverage ideas offer income, visibility, and protection in a layoff-prone, AI-disrupted world. In a world where layoffs are celebrated as…

AI is coming for millions of white-collar jobs. Is your job safe?

The Excel User Value Gap: Why You’re Underpaid, Overworked, and Nearly Invisible

Manual Excel work is wasting your time, stalling your career, and killing your visibility. This Excel strategy changes that. SUMMARY: Most Excel users are buried in repetitive, invisible work that burns them out and stalls their careers. The EDP Strategy replaces that drudgery with automated, AI-enhanced workflows—unlocking visibility, value, and promotability. It’s not too late…

Here’s How to Make Excel Ultra-Productive—With AI’s Help

This all-Excel strategy ends Excel drudgework, automates your reports and analyses, and frees your team to deliver high-impact insights faster. With help from AI, Excel’s new era starts now! SUMMARY: You can end Excel drudgery with the EDP Strategy—automate updates, eliminate errors, and turn Excel into a fast, insight-driven system powered by Excel flowbooks and…

Tired of 70-hour workweeks and office mandates? Learn how Excel Data Plumbers land top jobs remotely—by delivering more value in less time.

Outcomes Over Hours: How to Win the Job Without Losing Your Life

With the EDP Strategy, you offer employers resilience, clarity, and leverage—without sacrificing your health or your personal life. SUMMARY: Layoffs and 70-hour workweeks are on the rise—but Excel Data Plumbers offer a smarter alternative. They deliver much more value in much less time by shifting the focus from effort to outcomes. Their Golden Portfolio, built…

Traditional Excel training fuels burnout. HR can fix it by building core competencies that unlock automation, insight, and meaningful work.

HR: Teaching Just Excel Skills Keeps Productivity Low—Here’s Why

Excel users regain recognition and energy when drudgework disappears and their insights fuel confident executive decisions. SUMMARY: Many companies are shifting to skills-based hiring and learning—but when it comes to Excel, this approach deepens the problem. Teaching only Excel skills reinforces burnout and low productivity. The solution isn’t more Excel skills—it’s a systematic, all-Excel method…

Turn raw data into persuasive stories. Learn how Excel, AI, and flipbooks deliver insights faster—with less scutwork and more impact.

How to Use Excel and AI to Tell Powerful Stories About Your Data

With help from AI, the EDP Strategy frees Excel users from drudgework, giving them time to craft data stories that move managers from confusion to clarity. SUMMARY: Data storytelling transforms raw data into clear, actionable insights. This article explains how Excel users can overcome time constraints and tool limitations by combining an all-Excel strategy with…

Explore how interactive Excel flowbooks empower Data Plumbers to uncover insights faster—using slicers, reflows, and strategic data plumbing.

A Dozen Examples of Highly Interactive Excel Reflows

Static dashboards waste time. Dynamic dashboards eliminate the waste—and make interactivity possible when you need it. SUMMARY: Every Excel dashboard must be ready for interaction when it’s needed. The Excel Data Plumbing Strategy makes that possible, starting with one command and scaling to any future view. The gallery below shows more than a dozen real…

One Plumber vs Ten Pasters: The $100K Monthly Advantage

One Plumber vs Ten Pasters: The $100K Monthly Advantage

Here’s how companies lose tens of thousands of dollars per employee, per month by failing to upgrade their Excel workflows. SUMMARY: Manual Excel work drains time and talent. This article shows how Excel Data Plumbers, using the EDP Strategy and Excel flowbooks, can outperform traditional copy-pasters by 10x—saving $100K/month per employee through automation, reusable templates,…

Discover how the Excel Data Plumbing Strategy ends Excel scutwork, fixes its errors, and transforms its flowbooks into strategic assets.

How to Cure the 10 Worst Excel Problems that Companies Have

Excel’s ten biggest problems are solved with a clear strategy that standardizes design, automates data, and ensures accuracy. SUMMARY: According to ChatGPT, companies suffer from ten persistent problems with Excel. An all-Excel strategy—with help from ChatGPT or Copilot—solves all of them by standardizing workbook design, flowing data smoothly from sources to outputs, and automating repetitive tasks without…

McKinsey mapped the model. Excel Data Plumbing delivers it—empowering teams to move faster, decide smarter, and lead from the front line.

How to Power McKinsey’s Operating Model with Excel & AI

The EDP Strategy turns Excel from a bottleneck into a growth engine, delivering speed, clarity, and frontline empowerment. SUMMARY: McKinsey outlines a new model built on speed, decentralization, and frontline initiative. An all-Excel strategy—with help from AI—delivers the infrastructure to make that model work—turning Excel from a bottleneck into a strategic engine. It empowers teams,…