Hello, friends. Today, we’re taking a brief detour from BABs and Best Ofs: I’m thrilled to introduce Mary Ellen, who’s here to discuss her journey from corporate to running her own bookkeeping business, and how LIBBY (Life by the Books) helped her get there!

In case you ...

If you’ve been thinking about starting a bookkeeping business, discovered my program LIBBY, and have been thinking, “Wow, this seems amazing…but would I actually use all of these tools? Are they going to have value for me?” then I have good news…

I have LIBBY member Kris...

Escaping your full-time job and starting your own business is not an easy journey, but it is entirely doable. Stories like Christy’s prove it. So if you think it can’t ...

It's been a while since I've focused on Life by the Books, and that wasn’t an accident. I've just started to really value BABs as a bookkeeping program as well, and I recognized that I may have been underestimating how important it is for everybody to get their skills up ...

I’m not going to lie: I'm ridiculously giddy about covering this topic, because I have a lot to say about the cost of procrastination.

The story starts with me ending up behind on podcast episodes. We’re on Episode 173 now, and after 173 episodes, it can be hard to figur...

Today’s topic is as simple as four words:

What do you want?

Today, we're going to talk about the best way to get new clients.

This is a conversation that comes up all the time. It’s in my DMs. It's in my Facebook group. It’s even inside the LIBBY group!

Despite LIBBY giving my students a lot of different strategies to get new cl...

In my last post, we discussed the importance of retaining clients. This week, I want to expand on it a little bit; it truly is the secret sauce to building a bookkeeping business that's actually simple, scalable, and sustainable.

Retaining clients long-term is the thing ...

Today, I want to talk about the Big Bad Wolf of Bookkeeping: artificial intelligence technology.

A lot of people have been wondering if artificial intelligence technology is going to huff and puff and blow the entire bookkeeping industry down. So if you have ever feared ...

Over the past couple weeks, I’ve been reflecting back on what I would do if I had to try starting a bookkeeping business all over again.

I’ve gone over what I did before that I would do again and what I would do differently this time around. Today, I want to talk about t...

Last week, I talked about five things I would do differently if I was starting my bookkeeping business over. Today, I want to go over five things that I did right.

Here are five things I would do again if I was starting my bookkeeping business over!

Today, we're going to be talking about regrets.

Just kidding. They're not really regrets, but I do want to talk about some of the things that I would do differently if I was starting my bookkeeping business over.

If you could wave a magic wand and bring me back, these a...

Today, I want to go over the five most common pendulum swings you’ll experience while starting a bookkeeping business.

This is one of the concepts that we talk about repeatedly inside of my program Life by the Books, as we often get to witness that concept in action in t...

In today's post, I'm going to talk about the nineteen things that you need when starting a bookkeeping business.

If you want a really deep dive into this concept, you’ll want to check out my Six Secrets episodes on the podcast, or the associated posts here. But in the Si...

Here at Profits + Prosecco, we're about halfway through our summer vacation.

I know everybody has a slightly different summer schedule. My kids’ summer vacation is ten weeks long, and we're five weeks through it. It’s crazy to think that in five weeks, they’ll be back to...

Let’s talk about what happens when you fall prey to the toxic loop of doing it all yourself.

Maybe you’ve found yourself feeling like you need five times the clients that you currently have in order to make the money that you want. But in spite of this, you already feel ...

I have a treat for you all today! Please welcome Grisell Cano, an active member inside my Life By The Books bookkeeping course. We’re going to go over her bookkeeping journey, from what life was like before, during, and after the Life By The Books bookkeeping course. Let’...

Welcome back to the Six Secrets to Starting a Simple, Scalable Bookkeeping Business. Today, instead of showcasing Become A Bookkeeper, we're going to be showcasing Life By The Books.

Life By The Books focuses on building a business that actually supports your life, so we...