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 | 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 | 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 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 | Sep 22, 2021 | Content Marketing, Online Business Startup, Online Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation, Virtual Assistant, Work Remotely
There are dozens of different website builders available from TELSTRA Online Essentials to Wix and they all promise ease of use, powerful features and the promise of more traffic, more conversions and more MONEY. One problem with these website builders is that most...
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 | Aug 17, 2018 | interview skills, job searching, jobs, linkedin, Online Business Startup, resume
When was the last time you thought about what it means to have a good headshot? With the pervasiveness of social media profiles and their rapidly increasing importance for job seekers, having the appropriate photo to represent yourself is very important. If you’re on...
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 | 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 | Oct 17, 2014 | Career, Online Business Startup, Uncategorized, Virtual Assistant
There are lots of reasons why it’s a great time to start your own home-based business. I’ve talked about the perks of working from home on this blog, for instance. But perhaps one of the best reasons to start your own home-based business is that in today’s job...
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 | Sep 22, 2014 | Online Business Startup
We’ve published a series of blogs about franchises lately, and for those would-be entrepreneurs who are interested in running and managing a home-based contracting business of their own, and being their own boss, we have a number of opportunities available. These...
by The Career Academy | Sep 18, 2014 | Online Business Startup
You’ve reached the final post in our series of blogs about franchises. We’ve saved till last the topic of owning multiple franchises, and specifically, how you go about acquiring multiple franchises. In our Small Business Management Course, we encourage you to think...
by The Career Academy | Sep 15, 2014 | Online Business Startup
In our series of posts on franchises, we have covered an abundance of reasons why people might buy a franchised business, such as buying into a replicable system, or corporate image and brand, or the fact that the business is already up and running – and we’re not...
by The Career Academy | Sep 11, 2014 | Online Business Startup
A big part of starting any new business is researching the market. This ensures that your business idea is viable; something we cover in our Small Business Management Course. Researching the market and keeping abreast of industry trends is also extremely important,...
by The Career Academy | Sep 8, 2014 | Online Business Startup
Workface is now offering a range of flexible home-based contracting and business opportunities in the areas of: safety and compliance education and training bookkeeping and MYOB web design and internet marketing, and IT support and VoIP consulting. If you believe you...
by The Career Academy | Sep 5, 2014 | Online Business Startup
Perhaps you are considering starting your own business, but you’re not quite sure you have what it takes to start something entirely from scratch. If so, you may be better suited to buying into a franchise. We’ve been publishing a series of posts about franchises,...
by The Career Academy | Sep 3, 2014 | Online Business Startup
We’ve recently published a series of posts on why people buy franchises and why buying a turnkey, or already established, business can be extremely advantageous. In keeping with all the talk about franchises and franchising, we have recently introduced a range...
by The Career Academy | Sep 1, 2014 | Online Business Startup
When you start a new business, you need to think about your brand. We refer to this in our Small Business Management course, and go into some detail about choosing business names, web domains and the like, and encourage you to think about your great business and brand...
by The Career Academy | Aug 29, 2014 | Online Business Startup
We’re looking for entrepreneurs, or would-be entrepreneurs, to join us and become involved in a whole range of different business opportunities, including opportunities as consultants or contractors in the areas of: safety and compliance education and training...
by The Career Academy | Aug 16, 2014 | Online Business Startup
We’ve been talking about franchises recently, because we’re looking for entrepreneurs to join us and start their own franchise. In keeping with this, let’s explain what makes a franchise such an appealing business opportunity. One of the main reasons we know...
by The Career Academy | Aug 12, 2014 | Online Business Startup
Helping people to realise their dream of owning and operating their own business is something we’re passionate about here at Workface. It’s why we offer a number of training courses to help you on your way to financial freedom, such as our Small Business Management...
