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Welcome to The Profitable Bookkeeper ๐Ÿ’š
Hi, I'm Vanessa โ€” certified bookkeeper, QuickBooks ProAdvisor, and mom of 2. In 2020 I went from zero to $1,200/month in 45 days doing online bookkeeping from home. I still have those clients today โ€” 6 years later. Now I make $2,500/month working a few days a month around my kids. One of the best parts of this career is you can make it as big or as small as you want. You control your income by how many clients you want to have. I choose to keep mine low while my kids are young. I built this community because I know how much I needed someone to just show me the real path when I was starting out. That's what this is. Here's exactly where to start: ๐Ÿ‘‰ Head to the Classroom tab and start with "Start Here" โ€” it's a free 5-lesson series that will take you from "I'm curious about this" to "I know exactly what my next step is." Go in order. Don't skip ahead. If you're ready to go deeper โ€” the Start: Your Bookkeeping Business classroom has the full A-Z curriculum covering setup, tools, getting clients, onboarding, running your books, and growing your business. Before you do anything else โ€” introduce yourself below ๐Ÿ‘‡ Tell us: - Your name and where you're from - What brought you here - Where you are right now: A) Just researching B) Learning and getting ready C) Actively looking for my first client D) Already have a client And drop one thing you're stuck on or one question you have. I read every single comment and I will personally respond. You don't have to figure this out alone. That's why this community exists. See you in the classroom โ€” and I'll see you Monday at the live Q&A. ๐Ÿ’š โ€” Vanessa
First Client Sprint Challenge
Happy Sunday everyone! I hope youโ€™re enjoying your holiday weekend. I just wanted to check in and see how many of you would be interested in doing a challenge to lock in that next client? Maybe itโ€™s your first client or 10th client โ€” either way I thought it would be a creative way to make a task that not everyone enjoys, but is obviously essential to the business, little more fun. Online bookkeepers seem to lean more towards being introverts so this is going to do two things: 1. Give you ways to find clients without stepping completely out of your comfort zone 2. And force you a little out of your comfort zone ๐Ÿ˜œ Both with the same goal โ€” getting clients. Who is interested in joining this challenge?
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Finish this sentence: โ€œIf bookkeeping worked out for me my life would look like _______.โ€
Letโ€™s talk tech โ€” where are you starting from?
Bookkeeping isnโ€™t just numbers โ€” itโ€™s software too. QuickBooks, spreadsheets, client communication tools, the whole stack. And Iโ€™ve noticed something in this community: Some of you are coming in completely new โ€” never opened QuickBooks, not sure what a โ€œchart of accountsโ€ even is, learning the software and the bookkeeping at the same time. Thatโ€™s a bigger climb, and itโ€™s okay to be there. Others already know the tech โ€” maybe from a past job, maybe youโ€™ve just poked around QBO on your own โ€” and what you actually need help with is the client side: how to onboard them, what to ask for, how to actually run the relationship. Both are completely valid starting points. But I want to know where you are, so I can make sure this community is actually helping you where you need it: Drop a comment: A) New to bookkeeping AND the software B) Know the software, new to working with clients C) New to both, but comfortable with tech in general D) Somewhere in between โ€” tell me! No wrong answer. I just want to build this out in a way that actually meets you where youโ€™re at. ๐Ÿ’š
Assets โˆ’ Liabilities = Equity
How comfortable are you with the accounting equation? ๐Ÿค” Assets โˆ’ Liabilities = Equity If reading that just made your stomach drop a littleโ€ฆ youโ€™re exactly who this community is for. No judgment here. Hereโ€™s the shorthand I learned when I was a new bookkeeper: What you OWN โˆ’ What you OWE = Whatโ€™s left OVER Thatโ€™s it. Thatโ€™s the whole equation. Three Oโ€™s, and suddenly it clicks. ๐Ÿ‘‰ Drop a number in the comments, 1-5: 1 = โ€œI panic when I hear these wordsโ€™โ€ 5 = โ€œI could explain this to my kidsโ€ Wherever you land, hereโ€™s something that will help explain it: Monopoly. Yep, the board game. Once you see your properties as assets, your mortgages as liabilities, and your cash pile as equity โ€” it stops being a scary formula and starts being something you already understand. This exact breakdown (Monopoly board and all) is inside Bookkeeper Launch, the training I recommend for anyone who wants to go from โ€œwhatโ€™s equity again?โ€ to confidently doing this for real clients. Itโ€™s the same foundation I built my own bookkeeping business on. If youโ€™re ready to stop guessing and actually get the fundamentals, Iโ€™ll drop the link below. ๐Ÿ’š Bookkeeper Launch
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