EP207: Jennifer Hume - How To Set Up The Right Systems In Your Bookkeeping Business

Michael Palmer: Being in Mastermind and being in Pure Bookkeeping, you are signing up for work. But if you put in the work, you come out the other side. And putting the systems in place and knowing that my employees can actually churn out the same information that I do is, is pretty amazing. 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 Welcome back to The Successful Bookkeeper. I am your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a fantastic one. Our guest is the owner of Coronation Bookkeeping and Tax Service, which was started in 2015. She has a strong passion for business, bookkeeping, and going above and beyond for her clients. Jennifer Hume, welcome to the podcast. Thank you for having me, Michael. Yeah, it's great to have you. You know, before the show we were talking, you've been listening for a while. I have. I've been listening to your podcast, oh gosh, for at least 2 years now. I love it. Well, thank you. And it's always interesting to— this is likely the venue that you even were introduced to myself and to Pure Bookkeeping and all the stuff that you've been working on. So it's kind of just interesting now that you're on the show. And I always just love hearing that people get value from listening. It's actually surreal. I remember being in Florida 2 years ago almost, reading the Successful Bookkeeper book that I had got, and that is what launched me to actually contact you when I got back. And I was lucky enough to sign up just in time to be part of the first mastermind group.

Jennifer Hume: Fantastic. Yes. Well, let's, let's talk about all of that because today what I want to do with you is, is take a deep dive into your business journey and look at it in stages. Sound good? Sounds good. Yeah. Well, tell me a little bit about you and your career and life and what it looked like before you started your bookkeeping business. Sure. So I came into bookkeeping through my dad's business. I was working for him as a material handler, and unfortunately he saw the market crash. We were flipping homes back in 2008. 2006. And he foresaw kind of the market crash of 2008. So he stopped buying houses and went out and