My business is at a complete stand still
A few days ago, QuickBooks Online suffered a short term outage. Man oh MAN, you would have thought that the world was coming to an end, reading some of the comments online about this! I’ll admit: I had a minor panic attack, because I was scheduled to present a four...
FIRST PERSON to get TSheets Certified!
This just in! I am officially certified in TSheets.com Time Tracking Software. Because I won't be able to make it to the live certification training happening at The Sleeter Group's Solutions14 Conference, the great people at TSheets Time Tracking gave me a special...
Why I Hand Write My To Do List
I know. I know. You're thinking: "Hand write? What the what??" I love my iphone, my ipad, my MacBook Air. I've said over and over again: if I could do everything for work from my phone, I would be in heaven. I work remotely, I leverage technology to do everything I...
Move Your Practice Online Series: Step 11-Build a good website, and put a blog on it.
Hello Dear Readers! This is our last installment of our Moving Online series. You can check out the other installments here: Step 1:Join the QuickBooks ProAdvisor Program Step 2: Find Technology that will allow you to work remotely Step 3: Offer an incentive to your...
Move Your Practice Online Series: Step 10-Form Strategic Alliances
We're finally nearing the end of our Moving Online journey! This is the second to the last step in the series. A strategic alliance - which needs to be nothing more than an agreement to share referrals back and forth – is an important aspect of owning a business, and...
Move Your Practice Online Series: Step 9-Create a Network
When I say “create a network”, I mean that you have to find people that are smarter than you, that have not just MORE knowledge and experience than you, but also DIFFERENT knowledge and experience. One of the steps in this Moving Online series that we’ve talked about...
Using QuickReviews to Grow Our Business
Change is good. I’ve always looked forward to new experiences. As a rule, I embrace change. This year has been one of change for Kildal Services LLC. We instituted our Base Plus billing, rather than continuing to try to make standard packages work. We began using a...
Step 8: Use video conferencing apps to “meet” your clients
Hey there! We’re in the home stretch of our Moving Online series. We’ve talked about the ProAdivsor Program, finding the right technology, offering incentives to get existing clients to move to the cloud, bringing new clients on as remote, providing flat fee billing,...
Forget Everything I’ve Ever Said About Billing Packages
That's right. I said it. For years I've had standard bookkeeping packages and offered them to clients... In reality? I just couldn't get them work. I even tried given them names: "Bronze, Silver, Gold" and assigning set services in each level. Didn't really make a...
Move Your Practice Online Series: Step 7-Market Yourself
Ten years ago, when I decided to join the QuickBooks ProAdvisor Program and start my own bookkeeping practice, doing any sort of marketing was, quite literally, the furthest thing from my mind. I had no idea that I was doing it already on a small scale, nor was I able...
After 10 Years of Using QuickBooks Online, I Still Learn Something New Every Day
So... I use Intuit Online Payroll for Accountants to process payroll for my clients and my own practice and this quarter, my Michigan Unemployment was calculated as $189.00. However, when I processed the return and payment on the state's website (you can't pay...
Move Your Practice Online Series: Step 6-Specialize
I hear the term “Jack of all trades” quite often, but I never seem to hear the last half of it – “Master of none”. I don’t know about you, but I do not want to be thought of as a jack of all trades. I want current and potential clients to know that I am an expert in...