by Donna Robson | Apr 16, 2022 | Bookkeeping, Online Business Startup, Online Marketing, Sales Training Courses, Start a Bookkeeping Business, the Career Academy, Virtual Assistant
Regularly updating your Xero bookkeeping service ad to reflect your skills growth and flexibility will help you you find your ideal clients. When you place your first ad for Xero Bookkeeping services you are likely to receive a burst of initial enquiries followed by a...
by Donna Robson | Apr 3, 2022 | Bookkeeping, Online Business Startup, Online Marketing, Sales Training Courses, Search Engine Optimisation, Xero Training
Project bidding sites such as Bark and AirTasker may seem like an attractive way to find new bookkeeping clients, but who really wins—you or the middle man? Project bidding sites provide an online platform for service providers to quote for contracting projects. The...
by Donna Robson | Mar 21, 2022 | Bookkeeping, Online Business Startup, Online Marketing, Sales Training Courses, Uncategorized, Virtual Assistant, Work Remotely, Xero Training
Grow your Xero bookkeeping business by offering training and consulting solutions. As a Xero bookkeeping tutor, you will encounter many different scenarios that provide opportunities to increase your earnings potential. You can guide prospective clients to enrol in...
by Donna Robson | Mar 13, 2022 | Bookkeeping, MYOB Training, Online Business Startup, Virtual Assistant, Xero Training
Use Microsoft Excel to keep track of sales leads for the ads for your Xero bookkeeping spend. When you’re receiving enquiries about your bookkeeping services from a variety of different sources it can be difficult to keep track of them all. Having a system in place to...
by Donna Robson | Mar 9, 2022 | Bookkeeping, Online Business Startup, Sales Training Courses, Virtual Assistant, Xero Training
You’ve received an enquiry in response to your bookkeeping tutoring ad, however, after asking a few questions and ascertaining their needs you realise that the solution to their problem falls outside of the scope of services you provide. That’s the end of the call,...
by Donna Robson | Mar 7, 2022 | Bookkeeping, Xero Training
Xero Bookkeeping Packages for A/R, A/P, Rescue Bookkeeping & Payroll Not all clients will have needs that fit within the predefined service packages offered by your business, however that doesn’t mean that you have to lose them as a client. By opening yourself up...
by Donna Robson | Feb 13, 2022 | Bookkeeping, Online Business Startup, Online Customer Service, Sales Training Courses, Training Courses, Xero Training
What to do when your bookkeeping prospect says “no”. You’ve placed an ad for your Xero bookkeeping services, you’ve received several enquiries and you’ve called them back to follow up only to discover that other bookkeepers are offering bonuses, incentives, giveaways...
by Donna Robson | Feb 12, 2022 | Bookkeeping, Xero Training
Are you feeling stressed and overwhelmed about your bookkeeping backlog? You’ve missed your BAS deadline, there is a box of receipts overflowing onto your desk, and you’re worried that the ATO is going to penalise you. That’s enough to keep any business owner...
by Donna Robson | Jan 26, 2022 | Bookkeeping, Online Business Startup, Online Customer Service, Online Marketing, Sales Training Courses, Training Courses, Xero Training
In an ideal world you would place your ad for Xero bookkeeping tutoring, your phone would start ringing immediately and your clients would be lining up around the block to book your services. Unfortunately converting a prospect isn’t that straightforward, but with a...
by Donna Robson | Jan 12, 2022 | Bookkeeping, Online Customer Service, Online Marketing, Sales Training Courses, Training Courses, Xero Training
Compose an ad for your services that sets you apart from your competitors and has potential clients clamouring to know more. Put yourself in your client’s shoes for a moment. Imagine that you are searching through ads online, looking for some help with Xero...
by Donna Robson | Jan 6, 2022 | Bookkeeping, Online Business Startup, Online Customer Service, Online Marketing, Sales Training Courses, the Career Academy, Xero Training
You placed an ad for Xero bookkeeping tutoring services and you’re starting to receive inquiries. Congratulations! However, before you start calculating your profits it’s important to gather some basic information from your potential clients – they’re...
by Donna Robson | Dec 22, 2021 | Bookkeeping, Career, Online Business Startup, Xero Training
Are you struggling to stay on top of your Xero bookkeeping? Keeping track of accounting and business transactions is a vital component of your business success but when you’re focused on growth and day to day operations, keeping up with bookkeeping tasks can quickly...
by The Career Academy | Aug 14, 2021 | Bookkeeping, Career, job searching, MYOB Training, Online Business Startup, the Career Academy, Xero Training
It doesn’t sound normal does it? Employers normally place job ads in Seek and write up a good job description so job seekers can find the job and apply. That’s the traditional job seeker approach but these are interesting times and how people find accounts...
by The Career Academy | Nov 19, 2019 | Bookkeeping, Career, job searching, jobs, MYOB Training
MYOB is still a leading accounting software company in Australia and lots of accounting jobs still ask for MYOB knowledge and experience. Learn MYOB now and leapfrog other job seekers in the job hunting process or just increase your own confidence to climb the ladder....
by The Career Academy | Aug 15, 2018 | Bookkeeping, Career, job searching, linkedin, Online Business Startup, resume
LinkedIn is a serious place for you to promote your skills, be it in administration, bookkeeping or any other work-from-home or contract/consulting area. It is also a great way to promote your services as a virtual assistant. Members of our team were fortunate enough...
by The Career Academy | Jul 2, 2018 | Bookkeeping, job searching, Online Business Startup, resume
To get what you want, you need to first know what you want — and then ask for it. Knowing how to ask for things in business and in life can lead to achieving personal and financial success. Yet, why do so many people have such a hard time asking for things? Asking in...
by The Career Academy | May 31, 2018 | Bookkeeping, job searching, linkedin, Online Business Startup, resume, Social Media Marketing, Virtual Assistant
There are subtle differences between a CV and a resume When it comes to a CV or a resume, many job seekers think “What’s the difference?” In Australia, most employers would say there is little difference between a resume and CV, and in fact, the terms are...
by The Career Academy | May 29, 2018 | Bookkeeping, cover letter, resume
If you are completing an online training course in MYOB or Excel because you want to become a bookkeeper, changes are you will also benefit by a greater understanding of WordPress or Microsoft Word because these are the tools that will help you earn an income using...
by The Career Academy | Feb 28, 2018 | Bookkeeping, Online Business Startup
Now is a great time to be a bookkeeper! EVEN THOUGH THE job market is compressing, it’s a really great time to start a business, particularly a bookkeeping business. There are a great number of professionals branching out on their own and many of them need a contract...
by The Career Academy | Aug 13, 2015 | Bookkeeping, Content Marketing, Online Business Startup, Online Marketing, Virtual Assistant, Work Remotely
Do you recognise a sales lead when you see one? Sales leads are those opportunities that magically appear all of the time around you that ‘lead’ to a sale. An important aspect of being in business is to always be aware of these opportunities but many...
by The Career Academy | Sep 24, 2014 | Bookkeeping, Online Business Startup
Why Use a Business Name? A business name helps identify what you do and where you’re located. It’s also the logical way to separate your business from yourself. Getting a business name is one of the first steps in starting a business. Finding a Name that...
by The Career Academy | Jun 12, 2014 | Bookkeeping, Online Business Startup, Virtual Assistant, Work Remotely
Maybe you are thinking about starting a home-based business? Our training courses can provide you with everything you need – all in one place – to get up and running. We have provided hundreds of small business owners – a great many of them first timers, with the...
by The Career Academy | May 9, 2014 | Bookkeeping, Career, Online Business Startup
So many of our MYOB Course students have been running their own bookkeeping company as virtual assistants for a number of years; some of them now want to know how to become a Certified BAS Agent. This article is going to uncover what it takes to become a Certified BAS...
by The Career Academy | May 2, 2014 | Bookkeeping, Online Business Startup
When you decide to start your own bookkeeping business, or any sort of business for that matter, you will have to spend a bit of time networking. You know, schmoozing after work, talking shop, champagne in hand, with other supposedly like-minded professionals. There...
by The Career Academy | Apr 23, 2014 | Bookkeeping
People have all kinds of systems for filing their expenses; some do so by the name of the client or supplier, others do so chronologically or alphabetically, or some by date. How do you file? Storing Invoices and Receipts How do you store your invoices and receipts?...
by The Career Academy | Sep 27, 2013 | Bookkeeping, Online Business Startup, Virtual Assistant, Work Remotely
Maybe you are thinking about starting a home-based business? Our training courses can provide you with everything you need – all in one place – to get up and running. We have provided hundreds of small business owners – a great many of them first timers, with the...
by The Career Academy | Sep 18, 2012 | Bookkeeping, Career, job searching, Online Business Startup
Throughout our working lives, most of us will change career at least once to several times. It’s increasingly the norm that people will actually have several career changes and often this is thought by employers to be highly desirable as it demonstrates flexibility,...
by The Career Academy | Sep 17, 2012 | Bookkeeping, Career, Online Business Startup
Sydney Bookkeeper locations You may recall the Reinvent Your Career Expo we attended earlier this month. We decided not to give away a prize at the event even though many people told us its a great way to build a database. We would prefer to have...
by The Career Academy | Sep 14, 2012 | Bookkeeping, Career, job searching, Online Business Startup
We were thrilled to be a part of the Reinvent Your Career Expo at Darling Harbour on September 8-9th 2012. After enrolling hundreds of students into our popular online MYOB Training Courses it was exciting and exhausting speaking to hundreds of people face-to-face at...
by The Career Academy | Aug 17, 2012 | Bookkeeping, job searching
This blog post is aim at providing job seekers with some fundamental skills when looking for work after completing one of our MYOB Bookkeeping Training Courses and Microsoft Excel courses. If you have been out of the job market for some time because you have been...
