I love learning and I love teaching people what I learn. I thought it would be useful to create a page where you can come to to find out information for yourself on your bookkeeping/small business needs. I will update this page as I learn more things, so please keep coming back to it.
Please note: some of the links on this page may earn affiliate income. You can read my full disclosure here.
Bookkeeping Resources
Throughout a lot of my blogs I have created resources for you to download. To get the full list of those resources please click here.
Learning
Recommended Books
I love reading, I learn so much from reading. I want to share with you what books I recommend to read, so click on My Recommended Books page and have a look through.
If you are like me and don’t have time to actually read books you can also do what I do and listen to them through Audible. I love using Audible and would love for you to Try Audible and Get Two Free Audiobooks
Some books that I highly recommend you read and need a special mention are:
Think and Grow Rich: The Original 1937 Unedited Edition
You Were Born Rich
The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It
Software I use
Mailchimp
I love this program 🙂 I use it all the time… Its great for sending out newsletters to your ALL clients at one time. Its great to for capturing new people who are interested in your newsletters 🙂 It can tell you who opened your mail outs and if they clicked on any links that you included in the mail out.
Harvest
This is another program I love… we use to use spreadsheets to track the tasks we do for each of our clients. We would have them loaded on memory sticks and take the memory sticks with us… we would enter the info into the spreadsheets, then at the end of the month we would transfer all the information manually into our accounting program. Then we were told about Harvest… How that changed our lives… now we log in and track our time, right down to the last minute, then at the end of each month we invoice in Harvest and the invoices goes directly into our accounting program… awesome awesome program 🙂
Timely
One of my favourite books is The 4 Hour Work Week… I have read it several times and the first time I read it this is what stood out… How many times do you have to talk to some one to set up a meeting – ‘Hi lets meet’ – ‘Ok, when is a good time for you?’ – ‘I can do Monday at 10am’ – Sorry, that doesn’t suite me. Does Tuesday at 5pm suite you?’ – ‘Sorry that doesn’t suite me’ – and on and on it goes until you finally find a mutual time. Since finding Timely its – Hey, lets meet, here is the link to my calendar, book a time that suites you’… Timely is great for any industry, it comes with a mini website and you can take money upfront or part payments at booking time. Take a look 🙂
LastPass
How cool is this program 🙂 LastPass is an online password manager and form filler that makes web browsing easier and more secure… it syncs onto all your devices so you don’t have to remember any log in details for anything ever again 🙂
Evernote
This is another awesome program… I love it 🙂 Evernote helps me remember everything. I have notebooks and notes saved for everything. I can use tags to search for things… It syncs across all my devices. I can share notebooks and notes with my staff and I can keep things private. This is so good for helping me not to forget things 🙂
Trello
You need @trello! It’s like a whiteboard with super powers. (And it’s free!) Infinitely Flexible. Incredibly easy to use. Syncs with all your devices. It keeps track of everything, like a big to do list… so cool 🙂
Zoom
Zoom is this cool little program that I use to have my staff meetings – REMOTELY… I also use it to teach clients – REMOTELY… you can do meetings, webinars and much more. You can record meetings… It is really cool… you need to check it out 🙂
Dropbox
I have been using Dropbox for years… It’s a cloud bases storage for your files.
My Mentors
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” – Jim Rohn
I love this quote and it is quite true, but this doesn’t mean that you have to dump all your friends and find new ones 🙂 I have chosen to interpret this quote to mean that I needed to get 5 mentors to help me grow and develop my businesses. Following are some that I chose.
Dan Miller
I have been listening to, reading and learning from Dan Miller for quite a few years now. Dan is a Career Coach who helps employed/unemployed/self employed people. If you want to read to his blog, you can find it here or listen to his podcast here. He has also written a few books that I would highly recommend you read.
Andrew Carnegie/Napoleon Hill
Andrew Carnegie was born into poverty in Scotland in 1835. His family moved to the U.S. in 1848 with barely a dollar to their name. By 1901, Andrew Carnegie was the richest man in the world.
He became an Industrialist who made his fortune in the American Steel Industry.
From 1901 to the time of his death in 1919 he was a Philanthropist and had gave away 90% of his fortune – $380 Million ($4.76 Billion in 2015).
In 1908 he started working with Napoleon Hill to document all of the strategies that made him a legendary business man and philanthropist.
When Napoleon Hill began his career writing about success, Andrew Carnegie gave him his “10 Rules of Success” that provided a foundation for much of his work.
I love reading anything what Napoleon Hill has written, but in particular his book ‘Think and Grow Rich’. I have also read Andrew Carnegie’s Biography by David Nasaw, simply titled ‘Andrew Carnegie’.
Both Napoleon Hill and Andrew Carnegie are inspirational and I encourage you all to spend some time reading their books.
Michael Hyatt
Michael Hyatt is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World
He helps high achievers acquire the leadership skills necessary to win at work, succeed in life, and reach their potential.
I love listening to Michaels Podcast and reading his Blogs. They really help me grow and develop as a business owner and leader.
He has other books, one which I have read is Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
Pat Flynn – Smart Passive Income
Pat Flynn makes his living on the internet. He is one of my main recourses when I am needing to know things for Ask the Bookkeeper. From what to include in a website to how affiliate links work, Pat has all the answers. He has a blog and a Podcast that I read and listen to every week.
He also has a mini podcast called Ask Pat where he answers peoples questions. This podcast is 5 days a week and I make sure I listen to them all 🙂
Pat also runs a Facebook group called The Smart Passive Income Community that I am a member of. It is so good to connect with like minded people, be able to ask questions and have them answered and also to read other peoples questions and realise they have the same issues/problems as you do and you solve them together.
Pat also has a book called Will It Fly, it helps you work out if your idea is going to work before you put your theory into practice 🙂
