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Starting a Bookkeeping
Business From Home
One of the great points about starting a bookkeeping business from home is that you will be providing a much needed service. Many entrepreneurs hate paperwork. So selling your service should not be a major problem. Also, you can work part time or full time, and you can visit your customers or work online. Your potential customers will be small businesses. Most of these will already use the services of a qualified tax accountant to file year end returns, and also for tax advice. Bookkeepers offer a connected but essentially different service. One of your main tasks will be to get the books of account and paperwork organised during the year so that the tax accountant has better information to work with. You may also be helping customers plan and improve their cashflow, and perhaps assist with payroll calculations. Not too many years ago, you would have had to visit your customers' premises to complete their accounting records by hand. You can still do that if you wish, but computers have made the job much easier with Quick Books software or other easy to use accounting programs. You can even work online book keeping from home. Of course, this widens the scope of your possible customer base and makes it much more viable for you to find customers if you are based in a very rural area rather than a town. LEARN ABOUT STARTING A BOOKKEEPING BUSINESS FROM HOME
One of the best places to learn more is in our interview with Syliva Jaumann. Sylvia is author of Secrets to Starting & Running Your Own Bookkeeping Business: Freelance Bookkeeping at Home and How to Get Bookkeeping Clients Quickly: The Bookkeeping Business Marketing Guidebook. Sylvia is a well known mentor to people looking to start up as freelance bookkeepers. She publishes a variety of useful information products about running a bookkeeping business, and she also runs an online forum where you may find useful information. You can also find some more articles about
sucesss in bookkeeping
from James Carlin - practical advice and information for anyone without formal accounting qualifications who wants to make money from this line of work part time or full time.
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LEARN FROM THE EXPERTS You can read some great advice on real home based businesses in our series of expert interviews
SELLING on eBAY
Skip McGrath, author of many books including The Complete eBay Marketing System talks about how a novice can get started selling on eBay. HOME STAGING
Debra Gould, the 'Staging Diva' provides great tips for a business focused on improving the internal decor of homes making them easier to sell. FREELANCE BOOKKEEPING
Sylvia Jaumann, author of Starting & Running Your Own Bookkeeping Business, advises on starting a bookkeeping business from home. RESUME WRITING
Teena Rose, author of The Ultimate Resource to Building a $100,000 Resume-Writing Business, explains why resume writing is in demand in tough economic times. FREELANCE TUTORING
Dr Alicia Holland-Johnson, author of Becoming a Better Tutor, explains what subject areas are in demand and how to find customers. HOME BASED COURIER
Sam Knowlton, who runs the CourierPros web site with Bob Lavendusky, advises how a freelance courier can compete against national courier companies. SELLING USED BOOKS
Joe Waynick, author of Internet Bookselling Made Easy! How to Earn a Living Selling Used Books Online, advises how to get started by selling books you already own.
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