EP223: Ben Kelly - How To Overcome Tough Times In Your Bookkeeping Business

Ben Kelly: And I guess that's something I learned from the military as well. When you change a particular aircraft, you would go through an operational conversion that would convert you onto that particular aircraft. You didn't go out and make the systems to run that particular aircraft. They'd already been developed and documented, and you, you were then just indoctrinated into the operational system for that particular platform. Same with Pure Bookkeeping. You need to embrace the systems that Deb and Pete put together, which are just simply fantastic from a quality control point of view. Embrace those and move with the system. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to The Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I am your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a fantastic quick one. Our guest is a director of Nailing Your Finances, which is an Australian-based firm that provides remote and on-site bookkeeping services to a wide range of sectors. He's also a peer bookkeeping licensee. Ben Kelly, welcome to the podcast. Thanks, Michael. Good morning. Good morning to you. And, and we're having this conversation on just about complete opposites of our planet. Tell us a little bit about where you are right now, Ben. Well, I live in the far north of Australia, so at a place called Pirramon, which is just west of Cairns, which some people would know, uh, it's got a little slogan called 'where the rainforest meets the reef.' So we've got some of the oldest rainforests in the world here in the Daintree and also the Great Barrier Reef. So that's all within about an hour and a half of where I am. So beautiful part of the world, very, very, very enjoyable place to work from. And it sounds relatively remote.

Well, I think in today's world, nothing's really remote. As you said in the intro, we're on the opposite sides of the planet and we can talk, we can work. And I think that's one of the best things I've found about having Pure Bookkeeping. System is you can virtually put it in your hip pocket and travel the world. And I've certainly worked with it. I can remember a couple of years ago I did a couple of hours' work just