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Why the Grass is Greener when Bookkeeping for Landscaping Businesses is Outsourced
As a landscape business owner, your plate is full. You have a team of employees to lead, equipment to maintain, customers to please, and new business to win. Outsourcing bookkeeping for your landscape business is a natural and productive next step for you to...
4 Questions You Should Ask Your Accountant
If you really want to save money, call a professional. Hiring an accountant is a guaranteed way to save more of your hard-earned money and be in the driver’s seat of the rest. We want you to have more cash to live on and to pour back into your business. Investing in...
What You Need to Do Now to Work on Your Business in the Slow Season
Most businesses have their own slow season, so it’s not a surprise when it happens year after year. While you could spend your slow time vegging out in front of the television and hanging out with friends, I recommend that you continue to work on your business, so you...
Three Reasons You’re Struggling in Your Landscaping Business
Landscaping businesses can struggle for so many reasons. Many times the struggles are more closely related to money than to the actual landscaping work that is being completed. After all, you know how to do all types of landscaping and lawn care, because you...
How to Create a More Profitable Landscaping Business
Landscaping can be a profitable business. After all, we all know that many people rely on landscapers to keep their property looking amazing! So, what can you do to ensure all of your hard work is bringing in the profits instead of headaches? If you don’t...
What the Heck is Profit First and Why You Need it in Your Landscaping Business
Have you spent months, or even years, wondering where all of the money from your business is going? Does your Profit and Loss Statement show that you are making a good amount of money, but you never have any cash in the bank? I hear that from business owners all...
A Love Letter to my Clients
Hi! I’m SO happy you are here! Nothing (well, almost nothing) makes me happier than helping business owners experience the freedom and joy from having clean and solid financial information at their fingertips. I’ve heard so many stories of...
Are you tired?
Everyone is talking and advising and putting on the pressure to plan or to make resolutions. There is so much of it that it’s getting tiresome. Equally tiresome is repeating the same actions, the same patterns, and the same year as the one before it. I know,...
What Monet Taught Me About Accounting
No. I don’t apply impressionism to accounting. 😀 I do apply wisdom from great masters such as Monet though. Many people are familiar with the work of Claude Monet, a French painter, who used the impressionism style to convey some of the most beautiful scenes...
‘TIS THE SEASON…(to be budgeting)
Unless your name is Santa Clause or Buddy from the movie Elf (“I love Christmas! Christmas is my favorite”), I’m sure turning a blind eye to the holidays has its appeal. Just pretend they aren’t around the corner! Especially when all the department stores are pushing...