The One With Passive(ish) Income
TL;DR
Short(er) and sweet(er) headline section this week because I put my whole brain & heart & soul into THIS VIDEO for this community. It is just me sharing my ideas, not one of my typical live stream interviews.
🎥 Passive(ish) Income for Accounting/Bookkeeping/Tax
It is a smorgasbord of ideas, and I truly think everyone in our industry could find a passive income idea from the ones I share in this video.
I believe that once you get a taste of what it feels like to make some money in your sleep, the wheels of your brain will start turning and you’ll start to see income opportunities all over the place.
So, which of those ideas that I shared in that video will you try?
After you finish the newsletter, make sure you grab the tiny bit of passive income from Uncat 😻 (a.k.a. this Starbucks gift card 👇) and learn how to easily ask clients about their uncategorized transactions.
And please VOTE for both the Bookkeeping Side Hustle Community AND for Uncat in the Accounting March Madness Bracket before midnight tonight! Yesterday Bookkeeping Side Hustle had the 4th fewest votes! Embarrassing early performance, but the contest isn’t over! And you might win a trip for 2 to Hawaii!
Deals Deals Deals
💰 Are you ready to go from QBO Clueless to QBO Pro! You can join the QBO Gym* for hands-on practice so you can to gain the clarity, competence and confidence you need to excel as a bookkeeper. Use GYM20MARCH for $20 off.
💰 The Ambitious Bookkeeper (vote for her in the March Madness Bracket, too!) is about to start a new cohort of her ELEVATE program* where she takes experienced pros and teaches them to offer (lucrative) CFO/Controller services. Use discount code KATE to save some $$$ (discount code works on all of her courses).
Please always send me any news of deals that you hear about!
Be There or Be Square
Items with a “+” are hosted by me. All these events can be viewed and registered for in the DESCRIPTIONS of each event on the Bookkeeping Side Hustle Calendar.
📅 +Mondays in March: Bookkeeping Side Hustle Community Co-working Hour. Join me on on Zoom Mondays at 11am EST. Zoom link (password: HUSTLE). Come hang with me and do that whatever terrible thing that you’ve been putting off.
📅 March 22: Intro to Xero. Join Xero for a demo of the platform and learn if you want to start serving clients on Xero. Register HERE.
📅 March 23 and March 28: Bookkeeping Buds is hosting 2 events: One about Business Insurance and one is the collaborative evening “Magic Hour”. Check them out on the community calendar.
📅 March 24: Close a Deal on Your Lunch Break* with Shanita Jones, CPA.
📅 March 27: Workflows Made Simple 5 Day FREE Challenge. This 5 day challenge is what Alyssa Lang is famous for. It is meant for bookkeepers and accountants from all stages that want to learn how to document and extract workflows, set big goals, organize their tech stack, bring all their workflows and tech stack into a project management system to help them move faster. Sign up HERE* for free.
📅 March 29: Top Time-Saving Hacks for Accounting Professionals. I’m on a panel put on by new free accounting community called The Grove. Advice about time saving TECH hacks is not my strong suit, but I do have some things to say about how to get a lot of stuff done. Register HERE.
Featured Posts
🌶️ Brittney Medbery asked how long did it take you to replace your 9-5 income?
🌶️ Can you run a bookkeeping biz from an iPad? Cindy Dearmin Mayberry got some good responses, check it out and add yours.
🌶️ Caroline Passamore wondered why most new bookkeepers struggle to find clients. Great discussion.
🌶️ Speaking of Passive Income… folks shared how THEY are making passive income in this community thread. Lots of great ideas to inspire you.
Help You Hustle
💪 Shanita Jones is doing a workshop called “Close A Deal On Your Lunch Break”*. She built her very successful accounting firm while working in corporate accounting. She knows how to close deals on her lunch break!
💪 Katie Thomas (very large following of other accounting industry folks) is hosting a free video challenge in April. Y’all, use the challenge to make some friends and get some practice! Details here on LinkedIn. Don’t be shy!
💪 I heard an interview with a real-life bookkeeper who works for QuickBooks Live and I honestly thought it was one of the more interesting stories I’d heard in a while. This man is not your average bookkeeper. It is kinda neat about how the part-time Intuit jobs let him accomplish his priorities in life. If you want to apply for the Intuit jobs, learn more here.
For Fun
💀 “You can’t solve any problems, but you can identify them” - this Venn Diagram is pretty spot on. Thanks Joana Linares for sharing.
😹 Little eyes are always watching - who else has a little accountant in training at home?
Jobs
💼 If you were hired by QuickBooks Live or TurboTax Live, don’t forget to fill out this form so I can send you one of the T-Account Mousepads as a celebration gift!
Also, if you were given a job offer by Intuit can you add your timeline to this thread because folks are wanting to know how long is the wait from job offer to start date.
💼 I spy 3 openings on CloudAccountingJobs.com.
💼 Check out the Job Post Guide in the Facebook group - more jobs have been added.
Don’t forget the standing opps on my Find A Freelance Job article. 1099 and W-2 opps.
Kate Builds In Public
🎢 I spent $40 in Facebook ads over 4 days ($10 per day) advertising my FREE once-per-month office hours for FreshBooks users. I had 7 people register. 2 people attended. Last month when I did this, I shared with y’all that there were ZERO people that attended. Upward!
Next month for my free April session, I’m going to start advertising 8 days out. My whole goal for this is to get more members of my paid office hours membership.
🎢 I finally sold an accountable template to a stranger who watched a YouTube tutorial, which was my goal with that video!
I have a video about Accountable Plans on my client-facing channel. I explain the concept and walk through the template. Then say they can get a copy from me if they don’t want to fiddle with rebuilding the template on their own.
I intitally priced it at $149 to start and every time someone reached out to buy it and I told them how much it cost, they didn’t buy it. So I would decrease it by $10 the next time someone inquired about it. This client who finally purchased got it for $69. I guess I’ve landed on a market price!
🎢 I got 1 new training client (at my 2 hour minimum for new clients) and THREE of my old training clients have come back for another hour. I think bookkeeper relationships are pretty sticky. Once I do a good job training them one time, are they really going to take the time to interview/investigate someone else?
I love the “get-in-and-get-out” aspect of screen share trainings, BUT, my current problem is wrapping up the call right at 1 hour. I really need to get better, because every additional minute reduces my effective hourly rate.
🎢 All 3 of my kids are less than 3 years apart, and we are in the heat of the elementary school years. In this 2 week time frame, I get to shepherd the following:
Family pizza lunch day
2 book reports (with visuals!) due this week
1 Ben Franklin costume
1 Moses costume (at least my kid didn’t get assigned The Burning Bush like one of his classmates did!)
Spirit week for all 3 kids, to include 80s Day, Career Day, “Decorate Your Own Mask Day” (are you kidding me???), and Sports Jersey day (this one is easy as they will all be forced to wear Baylor University shirts).
I’m momming so hard! So grateful that my business gives me the flexibility to handle drinking from this crafty fire hose!
From The Vault
⚡ Learn about S-Corps and Accountable Plans and the template I finally sold this week in this interview with Josh Standley. You can get his resources to white-label and resell here on his website. SCORPHUSTLE gets 20% off. (This is NOT an affiliate link, BTW.)
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