Calc Avg Number of Days Btwn Two Dates w/Multiple Criteria

[kissellj]

This is my first post and hope I can explain our need clearly.

I need help trying to find average number of days between two ranges of dates based on multiple criteria.

We operate an events company and we'd like to find the difference between our client's event dates and the date they contacted us so that we can get an idea of how far out our client's are contacting us before their event.

We collect a variety of data from our clients: Date of First Contact, Date of Event, Type of Event (wedding, birthday, etc.), Service Needed (DJ, photography, etc), Did the Client Book (Yes, No, Potential).

I've been trying to come up with a function to do the following:
1- Determine if the client is a WEDDING CLIENT and a DJ CLIENT
2- If so, find the difference btwn the DATE OF FIRST CONTACT and the DATE OF EVENT
3- Find the average of these dates

COLUMN A = DATE OF FIRST CONTACT
COLUMN B = DATE OF EVENT
COLUMN C= TYPE OF EVENT (Wedding, Birthday, etc.)
COLUMN D= TYPE OF SERVICE (DJ, Photography, etc.)

Any help is much appreciated!

[Villeroy]

Subtract the dates and the result will be the difference in days.
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[kissellj]

Thank you for the reply.

I have created an array to subtract the EVENT DATE from the DATE OF FIRST CONTACT:

EVENT DATE: =SUMPRODUCT(('Leads Sheet'.F1:F9999=Wedding)*('Leads Sheet'.K1:K9999=DJ)*('Leads Sheet'.E1:E9999))

DATE OF FIRST CONTACT: =SUMPRODUCT(('Leads Sheet'.F1:F9999=Wedding)*('Leads Sheet'.K1:K9999=DJ)*('Leads Sheet'.A1:A9999))

Where Column A is the range of dates for Date of First Contact and Column E is range of Dates for Date of Event.

I was hoping to take these sums and subtract them but I get a negative number. The sum of DATE OF FIRST CONTACT that meet my criteria is 7587585 and the sum of EVENT DATES that meet my criteria is 6875203.

Even if this number was positive, we have received 145 total wedding clients interested in DJ services this year. When I divide the difference of these dates by 145 I get 15,830 days which is incorrect.

Thoughts???

[ken johnson]

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