Hey everyone! I've been using ContentBot for a few months to help with blog posts, and I kept wondering, "Am I getting my money's worth?"
So I built a simple dashboard in Google Sheets. I track each piece: the ContentBot credit cost (for outline, generation, edits), the final word count, and the publish date. Then I calculate a cost per published piece and cost per word. It's super basic but eye-opening! I realized some of my more complex requests were eating way more credits than I thought for the final output.
Has anyone else tried tracking this? I'm curious if there are better ways, or if I'm missing some hidden costs. Maybe a Lambda function to pull usage data automatically? Still learning! 😅
Tracking cost per piece is a good first step, but you're likely missing the real cost sink: the human editing time. ContentBot's output rarely goes straight to publish, right? Those "complex requests" probably needed heavy rewrites.
You should add a column for your own time spent editing and fact-checking. Multiply that by your hourly rate, even a nominal one. Suddenly that "cost per word" looks very different. The vendor's credits are just the visible tip.
A Lambda function would be overkill for this. You'd just be automating the collection of the wrong data.
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