http://bookkeepingteam.net.au stuff Wed, 26 May 2010 01:24:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You've started your bookkeeping business, and you're struggling to find bookkeeping clients. I Just Want Bookkeeping clients "Please help me, I just want some bookeeping clients" - is a common theme to emails we receive from bookkeepers, whether they've been in business for a while, or just starting out. We were working ... http://bookkeepingteam.net.au/bookkeeping-business-how-serious-are-you/ Are you starting a bookkeeping Business or a Hobby? Kirsty has been having some real challenges getting her bookkeeping business started - and a large part of that seems to be her whole approach How you think about your business, your attitude towards your business is very important - it's the main ... http://bookkeepingteam.net.au/starting-a-bookkeeping-business-or-a-hobby/ If you're like most bookkeepers, you really don't want to go out and meet new people. You're like a rabbit frozen by the car headlights - and any type of business breakfast / networking function is the last place you'd want to be When you arrive there, you may be totally ... http://bookkeepingteam.net.au/sourcing-bookkeeping-clients/ Today we asked Kirsty: " Do you have a business plan for your bookkeeping business?" It's exciting to start a bookkeeping business - but do you have a "road map" to take you where you want to go? As the saying goes:"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail" Without a business ... http://bookkeepingteam.net.au/simple-business-plan-for-your-bookkeeping-business/ All you want is bookkeeping clients, so the first thing that many bookkeepers do is to print up some business cards, put an advert in the local paper and sit back waiting for the phone to ring. How easy is that! Then they wonder why the phone is running red hot with ... http://bookkeepingteam.net.au/getting-kirsty-started-day-two/ Kirsty has been working as a public accountant for a number of years, and has finally decided to quit her job and start her own bookkeeping business. She's living in the suburbs and has been used to commuting 90 minutes each way to work every day. Like many bookkeepers that join our ... http://bookkeepingteam.net.au/helping-kirsty-get-started/ When you start out with your bookkeeping business, have you considered the image that you are projecting? After all, like it or not, you can only make a first impression once. That's right, you can only make a FIRST impression ONCE. Are You Projecting a Professional Image? We are amazed by the number ... http://bookkeepingteam.net.au/start-bookkeeping-are-you-projecting-a-professional-image-2/ Ask any accountants, or any experienced professional bookkeepers, and they'll tell you : "There's bookkeepers and there's bookkeepers" And since 1st March 2010 [in Australia], "there's bookkeepers, and there's bookkeepers and there's bookkeepers!" What does that mean? Until 1st March 2010, anyone in Australia could start a bookkeeping business and call themselves ... http://bookkeepingteam.net.au/theres-bookkeepers-and-theres-bookkeepers/ Every freelance independant bookkeeper needs bookkeeping clients! It's always interesting meeting a small business owner who's just decided to take the plunge and outsource their bookkeeping. When it comes to having a handle on their finances, many small business owners just don't know what they don't know!! By that, they just ... http://bookkeepingteam.net.au/bookkeeping-clients-who-needs-them/ One bookkeeper who started on our Bookkeepers Marketing Program last week picked up her first client yesterday, and was so excited!! She had been very nervous in anticpation of the first meeting with the client, and emailed us yesterday saying she's got her first bookkeeping client. Why should we be surprised? We ... http://bookkeepingteam.net.au/surprised-at-finding-first-bookkeeping-client/