The Only Person Who Knew How To Drive The Boat Was The Skier. A waterski story turned business lesson: you can’t do it all alone. Delegate or automate—especially your QBO bookkeeping.

Avoid the discount trap when pricing rentals or accounting services. Your price should reflect value, not just hours worked. Hidden costs, emotional toll, and expertise matter. Set a floor price, protect profitability, and never undervalue your knowledge.

Why are we so polite to rude people? Often, kindness is instinct or avoidance of conflict—but there’s a limit. Respond with grace, protect your team’s confidence, and know when it’s time to let toxic clients go.

Changing your QuickBooks Online Accountant (QBOA) login email requires updating your Intuit account, QBO profile, and company settings. This step-by-step guide ensures smooth transitions, secure access, and accurate client communications when updating your QuickBooks login email address.

A viral Instagram video showed a smart car parallel parking in a huge space. At first laughable, it revealed a lesson: don’t judge too quickly. In life and business, ask, listen, stay kind, and consider alternative perspectives.

Not every provider is for every client. The best matches happen when providers set expectations, create calm experiences, and add value beyond the service. Ideal clients recognize this and build lasting relationships grounded in care, trust, and professionalism.

Be proud of what you did, not what you wish you had. Insights on hiring, tech adoption, client fit, and productivity hacks for firm owners—plus a smart quiz to build your perfect accounting tech stack.

Cloud technology saves time, protects data, and keeps workflows running—even when hardware fails. A clean, cloud-based tech stack ensures catastrophe readiness, allowing businesses and individuals to switch devices seamlessly and stay productive without costly downtime

Hiking Vail’s trails taught me lessons for business and life: celebrate your own wins, don’t compare to others, and keep pushing growth. Success isn’t someone else’s race—it’s about charting your own path and owning the journey.

Standardizing your accounting tech stack creates efficiency, reduces redundancies, and ensures seamless integration across tools. By auditing, rationalizing, and streamlining apps, firms eliminate confusion, cut costs, and establish a high-performance, secure ecosystem where every tool serves a clear purpose.

Clean up your QBO Products & Services for faster invoicing, accurate reporting, and smooth integrations. Use categories, naming conventions, price rules, and CSV/RightTool batch edits to fix bloated lists, map items correctly, reduce tax errors, and scale across inventory, sales.

Innovative small firms redefine success. They charge premium prices, work fewer hours, and fiercely protect boundaries. These firms prioritize lifestyle, client experience, and smart use of technology—proving you don’t have to be big to be impactful, profitable, or fulfilled in today’s accounting world.

Build business freedom by recording simple screen-share videos of repeatable tasks. Stop overthinking—just document, link in your PM tool, and use AI like ChatGPT to extract processes. Empower your team, boost autonomy, and uncover hidden inefficiencies. Just hit record.

Discover how to overcome resistance to change in accounting firms. Learn practical strategies to reduce pushback, build team buy-in, and implement new tools and workflows with ease—ensuring progress, improved efficiency, and stronger client experiences in a fast-evolving industry.

Avoid using QBO's “Find a Match” for posting multiple payments—it can cause search issues, reconciliation confusion, and partial matches. Use best practices to manually match payments for cleaner records and fewer headaches.

Streamline your firm like a pro kitchen. Discover cloud tools, automation, and smart integrations that turn tech clutter into a sleek, efficient workspace. From accounting apps to client communication, learn the must-have ingredients for a modern firm that runs like a well-prepped kitchen.

Many track health or business data—but is it actionable? Learn why clean, outcome-focused KPIs matter more than vanity metrics. From skewed step counts to misleading financial dashboards, discover how to build reliable, tech-enabled KPIs that drive real results in your business and life

Client onboarding doesn’t have to be a headache. With a few smart cloud-based systems, accounting pros can turn a clunky, repetitive process into something smooth and stress-free. It’s not just about saving time—it’s about making a good first impression and setting the tone for a strong client relationship

Attract the right clients with the right mix of channels, content, and tools—just like birds flock to the right feeder. Tailor your setup to your niche and watch them come back again and again.

Just like choosing which birds to attract to your yard with the right feeders and plantings, you should design your business to attract ideal clients. Define what you want, set boundaries, and create systems that welcome the right fit—and gently guide the rest to fly on.