What I’ve Learned From My Failures – Lesson #1

“Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.” Michael Eisner Lesson#1 – You Can’t Be Everyone This first lesson actually changes, depending on the business you’re working in. If you ever read The E-Myth, the author talks about the 3 roles that […]

Dropbox Tip For Windows/iPhone Users

Instead of giving you a long story about Dropbox, I want to give you a really cool use case that I just discovered recently. If, for some reason, you haven’t heard of Dropbox, please follow the link below to sign up immediately. To summarize, it’s a service/app that lets you sync up to 2GB of […]

Which Type of Owner Are You?

I just read a fun little article on the 3 types of business owners. Your picks are Doer, Thinker, or Whiner. I’m pretty sure I’ve been all 3 at different points in my career. In fact, it seems as though I cycle through all 3 in a very specific order.   I tend to start […]

Social Media & Your Small Business

In most forms of advertising, the big guys have an unfair advantage over the rest of us. Most small businesses don’t have the budget or marketing team in place to run Super Bowl ads, or have a billboard towering over every major market from Vancouver to St. John’s. The rise of social media, like Twitter, […]

(Audio)Book Pick of the Week

For the first in hopefully a long line of weekly book pics, I’ve decided to back to one of my all time favorites. Michael E. Gerber’s “The E-Myth Revisited” is one of those books that should be a requirement before you start your own business. A good friend of mine gave me a copy of […]

Should You Incorporate Your Small Business?

Silver linings can be hard to find sometimes, especially during tax season. One of the big questions you ask yourself when you start your business is, “Should I incorporate?”. The government may be giving you one more item to add to the Pro side of your chart. With the economic woes we’ve all faced, the […]

Add Your Dropbox Folder to Windows 7’s Start Menu [Tweaks]

If you’re a fan of file syncing service Dropbox, you probably open its auto-saving folder as often as your Pictures or Music. Why not add it to your Start Menu? It’s fairly easy to pull off with a few right-clicks. At the How-To Geek’s web home away from Lifehacker, he details how to add a […]

Changes to Google’s LBC = Great News For Home-Based Businesses

For many of us, our home address and business address are one and the same. As much as we want to promote our products and services everywhere we can, we don’t necessarily want our home address showing up in Google Maps when someone tries to enlist us. Google has recently made some changes to it’s […]

The Beginning

I just wanted to add the obligatory first post, to describe my plans with this blog. I’m a small business bookkeeper and consultant. I find small business fascinating, and an amazing challenge. Despite the allure of the big box store, or the fast food chain, there’s nothing like finding that little, locally owned store. You […]