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Ever heard the phrase, “When given lemons, make lemonade.”? This just goes to show even an unsuccessful venture in your business can be turned around to your advantage. A little thinking outside the box is all that’s in order to do it.

Every business owner develops a business plan. This plan is meant to be a blueprint for you. It is easy to get off track when pursuing a business goal so a plan gets (and keeps) you moving forward.

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I just wrote a new article called “5 Reasons to Setup a Website for Your Bookkeeping Business”.

Check it out here: http://www.1stratebooks.com/tips/bookkeeping-business-website.htm

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I did an interview with Gabrielle Fontaine of TheFreelanceBookkeeper.com. She grilled me about the mistakes I’ve made and lessons learned when I was first starting my bookkeeping business. You can read it here:

http://www.1stratebooks.com/bookkeeping-interview.htm

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If there is one lesson that I have learned well as a freelance bookkeeper, it is this…if you don’t backup your accounting data, you might as well hang up your shingle.

I’ve always been one to do weekly backups and this practice has rewarded me time and time again. I’ve found that hard drives and motherboards are notorious for frying out, even when a computer is fairly new.

I’ve even had several hard drive failures on the same computer. I’ve always had backups of my essential accounting and administration files so this has never resulted in a major problem. The computer techiess were always able to restore all of my data so the only thing I lost was the down time in having my computer in the shop. Read the rest of this entry »

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Are you a freelance bookkeeper who is wondering what services you can offer your clients in addition to bookkeeping? Bookkeeping itself is a valuable skill, but some professional bookkeepers like to diversify and offer other services to their clients as well.

They do this not only to keep things more interesting for themselves but also to provide their clients more services and increase their revenue potential per client.

So here are five potential revenue-generating services for your bookkeeping business: Read the rest of this entry »

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Are you a bookkeeper who has spent countless days cursing your boss under your breath while dreaming of the day you’ll be able to start a bookkeeping business of your own?

Bookkeeping is a valuable skill and unfortunately many employers take this skill for granted and pay measly wages for a job that is the keystone to their entire business.

So how much money can you make if you started your own bookkeeping business? The short answer is probably much more than you’re making now. Read the rest of this entry »

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