Hello, friends. Today, we’re taking a brief detour from BABs and Best Ofs: I’m thrilled to introduce Mary Ellen, who’s here to discuss her journey from corporate to running her own bookkeeping business, and how LIBBY (Life by the Books) helped her get...
If you’ve been thinking about starting a bookkeeping business, discovered my program LIBBY, and have been thinking, “Wow, this seems amazing…but would I actually use all of these tools? Are they going to have value for me?” then I have good...
Escaping your full-time job and starting your own business is not an easy journey, but it is entirely doable. Stories like Christy’s prove it. So if you think it...
It's been a while since I've focused on Life by the Books, and that wasn’t an accident. I've just started to really value BABs as a bookkeeping program as well, and I recognized that I may have been underestimating how important it is for everybody to get their...
I’m not going to lie: I'm ridiculously giddy about covering this topic, because I have a lot to say about the cost of procrastination.
The story starts with me ending up behind on podcast episodes. We’re on Episode 173 now, and after 173 episodes, it can be...
Today’s topic is as simple as four words:
What do you want?
You Have Permission to Want
This question was spurred by a conversation I recently had with two of my best friends about something personal.
We were talking about someone we wanted...
Today, we're going to talk about the best way to get new clients.
This is a conversation that comes up all the time. It’s in my DMs. It's in my Facebook group. It’s even inside the LIBBY group!
Despite LIBBY giving my students a lot of different strategies to...
In my last post, we discussed the importance of retaining clients. This week, I want to expand on it a little bit; it truly is the secret sauce to building a bookkeeping business that's actually simple, scalable, and sustainable.
Retaining clients long-term is the thing...
Today, I want to talk about the Big Bad Wolf of Bookkeeping: artificial intelligence technology.
A lot of people have been wondering if artificial intelligence technology is going to huff and puff and blow the entire bookkeeping industry down. So if you have ever feared...
Over the past couple weeks, I’ve been reflecting back on what I would do if I had to try starting a bookkeeping business all over again.
I’ve gone over what I did before that I would do again and what I would do differently this time around. Today, I want to...
Last week, I talked about five things I would do differently if I was starting my bookkeeping business over. Today, I want to go over five things that I did right.
Here are five things I would do again if I was starting my bookkeeping business over!
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Today, we're going to be talking about regrets.
Just kidding. They're not really regrets, but I do want to talk about some of the things that I would do differently if I was starting my bookkeeping business over.
If you could wave a magic wand and bring me back, these are...
Today, I want to go over the five most common pendulum swings you’ll experience while starting a bookkeeping business.
This is one of the concepts that we talk about repeatedly inside of my program Life by the Books, as we often get to witness that concept in action...
In today's post, I'm going to talk about the nineteen things that you need when starting a bookkeeping business.
If you want a really deep dive into this concept, you’ll want to check out my Six Secrets episodes on the podcast, or the associated posts here. But in...
Here at Profits + Prosecco, we're about halfway through our summer vacation.
I know everybody has a slightly different summer schedule. My kids’ summer vacation is ten weeks long, and we're five weeks through it. It’s crazy to think that in five weeks,...
Let’s talk about what happens when you fall prey to the toxic loop of doing it all yourself.
Maybe you’ve found yourself feeling like you need five times the clients that you currently have in order to make the money that you want. But in spite of this, you...
I have a treat for you all today! Please welcome Grisell Cano, an active member inside my Life By The Books bookkeeping course. We’re going to go over her bookkeeping journey, from what life was like before, during, and after the Life By The Books bookkeeping...
Welcome back to the Six Secrets to Starting a Simple, Scalable Bookkeeping Business. Today, instead of showcasing Become A Bookkeeper, we're going to be showcasing Life By The Books.
Life By The Books focuses on building a business that actually supports your life, so...
Today I’m joined by a special guest - a student of BABs and Libby. Lourdes Auquilla is a highly motivated college student who’s already started her own bookkeeping business. She brought her unique perspective to the latest episode of the podcast, and I’m...
This post is a little bit different, as I’m recapping a run-through I did of some responses I received on a bookkeeping client lead form. This focuses on what clients struggle with on the numbers side of their business, and I went through 141 of these inquiries to see what...
This post is all about the shame surrounding being overqualified as a bookkeeper. I was inspired to do this post from an application for one of my programs, where a CPA filled it out and wrote that something that’s stopped them from starting their business is that they...
We’re all in it to make a living, right? Well, that’s why I want to talk about something related to your income in today’s post. Here, I’ll break down how to make $10,000 of monthly profit in your bookkeeping business while employing a team.
In...
In today’s post, I’m recapping my conversation with LoriAnn, who is a virtual bookkeeper and the CFO of The Creative Entrepreneur. She also started working with me through taking the BOB (now Libby) program, and she shares a lot about how that has affected her...
This post is going to be shorter than usual, but that doesn’t mean it’s just as valuable! I was struck with inspiration to record a podcast about this topic, and this post accompanies the episode. Here, I talk about something I have been thinking about - conscious...
