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Client Engagement, Musings Kellie Parks, Certified Professional Bookkeeper Client Engagement, Musings Kellie Parks, Certified Professional Bookkeeper

“Dripping With Honey And Sprinkled With Cinnamon Sugar.”

I read this review description for a business, and it has stuck with me. It wasn’t for a bakery. Or a restaurant. It was for a women’s clothing store. It made me want to find the store just to see what was so great about the customer experience that it could draw a review so sweet and delicious.

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The Power of Client Collaboration and Communication

We work for our clients, but unlike many businesses, we need to collaborate to accomplish things. It’s not like many businesses where the interactions are transactional. Without cooperation on shared tasks and clear communication, we can not complete our work for them, and our workflows will remain incomplete, which is super frustrating.

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The Messy Middle Of Change - Part Two

I am big on change; I am always iterating on my business models, app stack, systems and processes - so, of course, that means there are trials along the way.

But as I love to say (so much so that I have trademarked it) “Change is hard. Not changing will be harder.”

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Protect Your Mobile Devices - Six Lessons Learned From A Stolen Phone Adventure

In September, amidst the joy of celebrating a wedding in Ireland, my husband and I encountered a hiccup: his phone was stolen. As we navigated through the aftermath, we gleaned valuable insights that I'd like to share with you to safeguard your devices and data. Here are six key lessons learned from our stolen phone adventure.

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Email Myths and Misconceptions - Part Three

This is part three in a three-part series, I talked about the misconceptions of email campaigns that can lead to ineffective strategies or missed opportunities.

Part One focused on using email campaigns, Part Two looked at deliverability, and Part Three is about maintaining good email campaign health.

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The Messy Middle Of Change - Part One

I am in the messy middle of a change, of a few changes, actually. I decided to hit myself up with honing my niche and all the required process updates, along with rationalizing two of my workhorse techs. I wanted to start 2024 off fresh, but I may have been a little ambitious.

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QBO Tech Tip - Bank Rules

I stinking love Bank Rules in QBO!

Bank rules are super helpful for taming the feeds’ excitement and automagically categorizing transactions, saving you hours of correcting or manual coding work.

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Securing Your Social Media - For The Sake Of You And Others

Securing your social media accounts is not just for your benefit; it’s for the benefit of everyone around you. Tight security allows you to feel comfortable joining all the fantastic Groups that give so much joy to our lives, knowing you have done your darndest to safeguard others in them.

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Email Myths and Misconceptions - Part Two

In a three-part series, I will run through several misconceptions about email campaigns that can lead to ineffective strategies or missed opportunities. Part One focused on using email campaigns, today - Part Two - looks at deliverability, and Part Three will be about maintaining good email campaign health.

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QBO Tech Tip - QBO In-cell Calculator

I have been working in QBO since 2012, and I didn’t know that you could complete calculations right inside transactions until 2014. That's two years of dragging out my calculator that I’m never getting back! I don’t want any of you to miss another minute of math efficiency.

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Marketing, Musings Kellie Parks, Certified Professional Bookkeeper Marketing, Musings Kellie Parks, Certified Professional Bookkeeper

You Are Not A Water Bottle

The way we market our services is often “water bottling”. We have lulled ourselves into services that every bookkeeping and accounting firm provides. 

But what if you engage in some navel-gazing of yourself and your firm and figure out your unique qualities?

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DDoS Prevention and Mitigation

What the what is DDoS!? And why you should care.

A DDoS attack is like an unexpected traffic jam clogging up the digital highway, preventing regular traffic from arriving at its destination.

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Crunching Numbers and Boosting ROI: The Undeniable Success of Email Marketing

I have blogged for more than a few years but what is fairly new to me, is my email campaigns. I didn’t think the effort-to-outcome ratio would make it worthwhile. I didn’t have a clear enough outcome of why I would send out emails. I wasn’t sure how to bring value to subscribers. And I was worried about being intrusive to people’s inboxes. Sound like you?

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