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Keeping It Simple – Are You Trying To Herd Cats?!

Keeping It Simple – Are You Trying To Herd Cats?!

By Chenine Humphrey, CPB DFA    hərd /verb:   (with reference to a group of people or animals) move in a particular direction. For 30 years I was a bona-fide cowgirl.  Working the 9-5 corporate-world by day, I would transform into this alter-ego during my...

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How Can I Attract My Ideal Client?

How Can I Attract My Ideal Client?

By Cathy Badry, BComm I know that if I want to succeed in my bookkeeping business or any business for that matter, I need to attract the right type of client to me.  But how can I do that?  What do I need to do to ensure only the best clients are knocking on my door?...

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Keeping Things Simple by Defining Your Ideal Client

By Maura Joy Lustig You’ve‌ ‌heard‌ ‌it‌ ‌said,‌ ‌“Less‌ ‌is‌ ‌More”.‌ ‌Ironically,‌ ‌we‌ ‌enjoy‌ ‌our‌ ‌work‌ ‌more,‌ ‌and‌ ‌build‌ ‌our‌ ‌businesses‌ ‌more‌ ‌successfully‌ ‌once‌ ‌we‌ ‌clarify‌ ‌the‌ ‌type‌ ‌of‌ ‌client‌ ‌we‌ ‌are‌ ‌targeting‌ ‌with‌ ‌the‌...

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Accounting Technology at Your Service

Accounting Technology at Your Service

By Susan Pruskin ​Remember when all accounting transactions were recorded in big black ledgers by hand? The person who could balance those pages was a superhero. Then came the computer, but it was fuzzy at best in the beginning. Almost as clunky as those big ledgers....

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Disruption…. It Won’t Happen To Me!

Disruption…. It Won’t Happen To Me!

By Chenine Humphrey, CPB DFA I love reading business books and do so on a regular basis.  But every once in a while I like to throw in an easy-reading non-business novel.  By chance I picked up a copy of “The Eighty Dollar Champion” and dove into the pages about a...

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The Human Side of Technology

The Human Side of Technology

By Tanya Hilts, CPB When The Bookkeeper Connection Network asked me to write about keeping the technology “human” and not letting automation get in the way of that connection with your clients, I felt this topic was made for me. My background of over 30 years of...

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Getting Directions – Knowing how to get where you want to go

Getting Directions – Knowing how to get where you want to go

By Chenine Humphrey, CPB DFA I was traveling in my vehicle through a part of the city that I had lived at one point in my life. Although it had been many years since I had traveled through that part of town, I thought I knew my way around and set out with a direction...

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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going

By Shelley Rudiger, FCPB DFA ​This is an anonymous quote that was included with one of my Daytimer pages (yes that is how old I am that I still have a paper daytimer, but in my defense I keep it at home so no one knows) and is one that you have probably already heard....

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Social Media and Your Business

Social Media and Your Business

By Debrah Burleigh, CPB I know there are a lot of reservations with social media for some people, here are some comments I hear: “I am too busy”, “I don’t know what to share”, “I don’t want to share my personal information”, “it doesn’t work”, “our sales are good we...

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