Category: Bookkeeping
Duplication of expenses and revenue is costing you money. Don’t skip reconciling!
Running and managing your business comes with a lot of responsibilities and seemingly endless tasks! The most tedious and least interesting of these can often get left undone as business owners prefer to focus on things they see as being more interesting or strategic. One task that it is important to not overlook is regularly…
The Pumpkin Plan Tidbit – Processes Drive Improvement
Last week we shared about what the pumpkin plan is and a broad overview. This week, let’s take a look at a small piece of what it means to successfully get your business moving in the right direction. This happens through the use of processes (and this is key) that can be taught to others.…
Pumpkin Plan – Start With What You Do Best
A few posts back, I referenced the book “The Pumpkin Plan”. If you have not read it and are a small business treading water to stay afloat, invest a few dollars and pick it up. You will learn something or find something from it that will help your business. What does it mean to pumpkin…
Partners in Mutual Success
One of the ways to make your business more referable, and who doesn’t love getting referred, is to work well with others. If you have successfully taken the time to figure out who you best serve, then a reasonable next step is to figure out who can help you grow the most via word of…
Know Who You Serve Best
Whenever I started to explore business books, that is to say when I started to dive into reading books that were supposed to help businesses grow, one of the first that I read was “The Pumpkin Plan”. I am not going to dive into all that is the encouraged to pumpkin plan our business. That…
Rethinking the Brand – Making Promises
In the last post, we put up a definition of a brand from Seth Godin. We presented the following idea as a strong way to look at how you define yourself as a brand. We suggested the following: Our brand is not our logo and website; it is the promises we make to our customers.…
What is your Brand?
In the world of business, there are several people that I appreciate. There are several voices that I tend to listen to. One of the primary reasons that I listen to the voices that I do, is they tend to rely on the customer more than the bottom line. They tend to view business as…
Gaining Clarity – Communication Is Still Key
How much do you share with your team? Not just your management team, but your whole team. Do they know how the business is doing in these ever-changing times? Do they know the truth or are they wondering what is going to happen to them and the company tomorrow? As the leader of a team,…
COVID-19 and the Bookkeeper
We are living in new and challenging times. Most people would agree with that. We are in a time of change that can be scary and exciting at the same time. Many of us with our businesses are in a place where change has happened through choice or by necessity. We have had to find…
Tools We Like – V-Reel
This is the third entry into the tools we like series. We have looked at a tool for the framework of our business operations. We have explored a tool for setting up the finances so that we start with profit in mind. Today, we can look at a simple tool for creating value in what…