If you want to weigh less, count your calories. If you want to work less, count your hours.

For most of the life of my firm (7 years and counting), I’ve held the belief that: the bigger the client, the higher level of service they need, the more I can charge (as long as I’m providing said services), and the more profit my firm makes.

NOT sponsored content…just what I do in real life.

There were a couple great follow up questions coming out of last week’s email that were worth answering here for the group.

I love this!! When we get busy, we forget about all the “going concerns” for each client and the impact it can have on our revenue.  Thank you for sharing this. We are in the process of acquiring another firm and this sheet will help so much with all the new clients we will inherit.

The first two years of my firm (with only two clients), I charged hourly…$50/hr. I was so proud of myself. ::rolls eyes::

I work with service providers like you do and I am thinking that having a standard chart of accounts would be beneficial.

Staying on the topic of email from last week, here’s a question from a fellow subscriber…Curious, at some point, would you be willing to share about the email filtering system you have in place?

"I have to remind my client to upload statements every month! Why can't they just remember??"

I’m a ruthless, semi-obsessed time blocker. It actually started about 10 years ago when I was still in my corporate job.

Here are a couple of podcast I've heard recently that are worth sharing...

Our oldest turned 13 this week. I don’t know how that’s possible since I can promise you that I was JUST pregnant with her...

a little background on me and my journey

sharing the results from the survey you took