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Directory Of Bookkeepers and Bookkeeping Services
2007-12-29 03:04:00 Many bookkeepers and bookkeeping services are looking for new clients, and have a limited budget to advertise. Similarly many business owners are wanting a bookkeeper and have found newspaper advertising to be ineffective. Hence the need for a Directory of Bookkeepers and Bookkeeping Services . Here business owners who are looking for bookkeepers can advertise a job ... More About: Small Business , Rect
Bookkeeper Needs More Clients
2007-12-28 08:36:00 There’s many variations of headlines that bookkeepers use to advertise their business. How many of them are successful? Bookkeepers invest their hard earned cash on newspaper advertising hoping to attract new clients. Want to know more? Contact us for a free initial consultation. Wanna know a secret about why newspaper advertising rarely works for an independant ... More About: Clients , Needs
Who Cares? It?s Not Our Job
2007-12-26 22:54:00 What happened to the times when people had self respect? When people actually cared about what they did? What happened to craftsmen? They are still around, but it seems that the “almighty dollar”, or is it the corporate executives, the trades unions, shareholders or the “Generation Why” no longer seem to understand the concept. There’s ... More About: Small Business , Ares
Happy New Year
2007-12-26 09:01:00 Where did 2007 go? And What is in store for 2008? For many people, the time between Christmas and New Year is an opportunity to take stock of the situation and put together some plans, set some goals for the New Year. We’ve all written new year resolutions and some have even lasted as long as ... More About: Small Business , Happy , Happy New Year
After Hours Bookkeeping Service
2007-12-24 07:17:00 When the telephone rings mid afternoon on a Saturday, would you decide to take the call? If the mobile phone is turned on then someone must be expecting to answer it. If you do not want to talk business out-of-hours then try turning the phone off, or just don’t answer it. Well, officially we were on Christmas ... More About: Small Business , Service , Bookkeeping , Hours
Where To Find a Bookkeeper
2007-12-22 03:18:00 Many business owners are very good at what they do, but have little idea about how to expand their business, and how to find new clients. Bookkeepers are no different. They are not interested in marketing, or promoting their own business. Many bookkeeepers expect to stick an advertisement in the paper and the telephones ... More About: Small Business , Find
Christmas Function Showered With Orange Juice
2007-12-17 04:23:00 There’s a busy restaurant on the Gold Coast overlooking the Broadwater that we will not be returning to. There’s nothing worse than going out with a group of people and being seated on a long row of small square tables all pushed together. The tablecloths were a nice touch, but when the waitresses placed the drinks ... More About: Christmas , Small Business , Orange , Juice , Function
Getting Results from Websites
2007-12-10 00:38:00 We’ve built, managed and maintained our website for a number of years, and continue to see an increase in traffic volume. More importantly, we’ve seen an increase in business volume as a consequence. In late January 2007, we built a website for a client who understands how websites can help increase business turnover. An increase in ... More About: Results , Websites
A Great Feed, Beyond Dessert and Coffee
2007-12-08 21:47:00 Each year we invite our bookkeeping clients to join us in celebrating Christmas by getting together and having an informal dinner. Our goal is to surprise our guests with an evening that is remembered long after the end of dessert and coffee This can be reflected in the choice of venue, and takes some effort to ... More About: Coffee , Dessert , Great , Feed
How to Advertise Bookkeeping Services
2007-12-08 01:36:00 This email is typical of many that we receive: I am doing some self employed bookkeeping and tax returns and would like to go full time with this but have no idea where potential clients look for bookkeepers. I have some clients through word of mouth but to earn a living from this I will need ... More About: Services , Bookkeeping , Advertise , Vert
Bookkeeping For A New Business
2007-12-07 00:48:00 Erika has just started a new cleaning business, and wanted help with her bookkeeping. She’d organised an Australian Business Number [ABN] and spoken with her accountant. She’s isnt registered for GST at this stage, and as is typical for many starting out in small business, she’s spending more than she’s making, just setting everything up. ... More About: Small Business , Bookkeeping , Sine
No Tax Returns for Five Years
2007-12-03 10:38:00 “I need help! I need it now - can you give me a quote to get my bookwork upto date?” As bookkeepers, we are often asked to sort out the paperwork for businesses that have got in a mess with their bookwork. The worst case to date was a client who brought around a sportsbag full ... More About: Years
Bookkeeping: Starting out
2007-11-26 01:33:00 We get many enquiries from people wanting help working from home starting their own bookkeeping business. The hardest thing is knowing how to take the first step, and looking for your first client. Before Elizabeth contacted us, she was lost and not sure where to start. After speaking to us, she now has some direction ... More About: Bookkeeping , Starting Out
Does Your Business Need a Bookkeeper?
2007-11-24 21:54:00 Do you find that you just don’t have the time it takes to handle all the bookwork by yourself? If your books were audited by the Australian Taxation Office, would they find a clean, neat and tidy set of books to work through? Consider this: The more time the ATO need to spend looking through your ... More About: Business , Sine
Bookkeeping Rates - How Much For A Bookkeeper?
2007-11-23 08:18:00 That’s a great question: “How much should I be paying a bookkeeper?” Why outsource your bookkeeping? Why hire a bookkeeper for your bookkeeping? It’s a question we get asked often - and there’s no right or wrong answer. Sometimes it’s like asking how much should you be paying for fuel. It can depend what day it is. If ... More About: Bookkeeping , Rates
Do You Want a Cheap Bookkeeper?
2007-11-21 13:23:00 “I can get a bookkeeper for half the price!” It’s not uncommon for prospective clients to confuse price with value for money. In any industry you’ll find cheap and you’ll find expensive - just go to a car sales yard. You can buy a car for $1000 and you can buy a car for $1,000,000. So ... More About: Cheap
How To Calculate BAS from MYOB
2007-11-20 03:53:00 “I’m quite proficient with MYOB, but I just need some help with Payroll, and BAS lodgements, can you help?” It’s great to get telephone calls like this - Sometimes we an even help people over the telephone, there and then. Some clients need us to spend a couple of hours with them training to use the ... More About: Calculate
Bookeepers! I Need Help Urgently
2007-11-16 00:31:00 When we received this email, we contacted the client to ascertain exactly how we could help with her bookkeeping needs. She’s needing help with taxation matters, and matters relating to GST following the sale of her vehicle; Then there’s the best strategy for closing the company down to minimise her tax liability. Can we help? Her bookwork ... More About: Gent , Urge
Restaurant Leaves Bad Taste Behind
2007-11-14 12:38:00 There’s a restaurant on the Gold Coast that made the promises but never delivered. No need to mention the name; just another example of extremely bad customer service. In August we approached them asking to make a booking for our Christmas function. They were too busy organising some pending some weddings. Then there was the ... More About: Restaurant , Taste , Bad Taste , Leaves , Aves
Customer Service Means Business
2007-11-10 23:38:00 Customer Service Means Business . We received a package from Madura Tea to compensate for us buying a box of Tea Bag Tea leaves when we thought we were purchasing Tea Leaf Tea. Look what they sent us!! Two boxes of Premium Blend Teal Leaves, a Box of Assam Tea Bags, and a Tea Caddy for ... More About: Customer Service , Customer , Sine
Are You Upto Date with Finances/Bookwork?
2007-11-09 23:50:00 Well are you? If you’re not upto date with your finances and your bookwork, then it could be costing you money. You could be paying unnecessary bank fees, late fees, interest fees and losing out on business because your suppliers may feel uncomfortable in fulfilling your purchase orders. There’s small businesses who just do not want ... More About: Finances
Service With a Smile
2007-11-08 20:47:00 Out of sight, out of mind - seems to be the approach to customer service by the Banks At branch level, where the Bank staff directly interact with the customers, the staff are doing everything they can to provide customer service - except for the blonde at the Burleigh branch who feels it’s more imprtant to ... More About: Service , Smile
Is Customer Service Dead?
2007-11-05 09:04:00 Remember old-fashioned customer service? It seems that these days shareholders do not really care about customers, and large companies believe they can treat customers however they like, because customers have no other choice. That seems to be the case with the supermarket chains who seems to be stocking more and more home-brand goods than displaying the ... More About: Marketing , Small Business , Customer Service , Service , Customer
Quickbooks Telephone Support
2007-11-02 05:39:00 As bookkeepers, not only do we use the Quicken Quickbooks Accounting Software, but we also can offer Quickbooks telephone support. A client referred us to one of their friends, who was in a desperate position and needed some Quickbooks training. She was calling from Reedy Creek on the Gold Coast, so we could have organised a ... More About: Support , Telephone
What You Learn MYOB Bookkeeping Course
2007-11-01 01:33:00 A lady contacted us as she’s just completing a MYOB Bookkeeping course. She’s excited about working as a bookkeeper and wants some help in starting out. Would it be reasonable to expect a MYOB Bookkeeping course to include some direction of the next steps to take for a bookkeeper starting out? This lady was quite desperate ... More About: Learn
Help! BAS is Due on Monday!
2007-10-27 07:45:00 It’s not uncommon for us to receive last minute pleas for help from new and existing clients needing their paperwork sorting out for the BAS lodgement. Even though the BAS lodgements are due on Monday 29 October, we can often organise to get an extension to lodge your BAS depending on the circumstances. We are in ...
Advertise Our Business on Your Website?
2007-10-24 10:24:00 Our website receives emails daily from individuals and small - to - medium sized business owners. Enquiries range from clients wanting MYOB or Quickbooks training. Clients that want us to regularly attend to their bookkeeping, and data files that need to be keyed again because they were not done correctly. We’ve had clients wanting MYOB ... More About: Business , Website , Small Business , Advertise , Vert
How To Start My Bookkeeping Business
2007-10-18 05:47:00 It’s a question that we often get asked. At present there’s no qualifications needed to be a bookkeeper. Anyone can start their own bookkeeping service. You can start by helping out your partner, husband or wife doing the books for their business. Maybe you’ve stumbled into bookkeeping at work, as an extra to your administration ... More About: Business , Bookkeeping , Start , Taxation , Sine
When does a Bookkeeper Become a BSP?
2007-10-14 04:37:00 The Government Treasury department is still seeking to understand what bookkeepers do, as the push to introduce new legislation continues. The Treasury seems to be digging a deeper hole in an effort to tighten up the legislation on Bookkeepers undertaking “Tax Work”. Our Bookkeeping service stresses to all our clients that we are NOT Registered Tax ... More About: Taxation
How Much Should You Pay A Bookkeeper?
More articles from this author:2007-10-09 10:20:00 An increasing number of smart business owners understand the benefits of outsourcing a bookkeeper. You can hire a bookkeeper starting at about $20.00 an hour on the Gold Coast. However, you get what you pay for. Many businesses don’t want to hire someone full-time, but most people want a full-time job. So, possibly the most ... More About: Small Business , Accountants 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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