EP234: Jeremy Allen - How To Create A Successful Work From Home Culture

Michael Palmer: We always looked at it as an edge culturally. You know, we offer our team the ability to work from home if they want. They could work in our office in Seattle if they want. But now we're extra thankful that we built this work-from-home culture and this best-of-class technologies that we use because now we need to. 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 great one. Our return guest started his bookkeeping business from his kitchen table in Seattle with one very part-time employee. Then he would grow a large staff that helped his enterprise mark over $1 million per year in recurring revenue. He has since grown, and as a result, System 6 Bookkeeping has become quite an incredible and inspiring success story Jeremy Allen, welcome back to the podcast. Gosh, Michael, I am so glad to be back and happy new year 2021 to you. It's crazy. And we were just chatting, we spoke back in 2017 and just, I don't know, I think 2020, it's like, you know, think of dog years. I think 2020 is one of like hyperdrive dog years because even when we're talking about 2019, it's like, wow, that's like when my kids were so young and I was so, it was like, So far back when I say 2017, I think if I said 2017, the beginning of 2020, I said, well, that was just yesterday, but now it feels like a lifetime ago. It feels like a lifetime ago. It really does.

Yes, indeed. Well, listen, you, you have been on the podcast before. We had you, it was episode 67, and I highly recommend our listener go back and listen to that. It was a fantastic, remarkable story of Jeremy's business, but for those that didn't listen to that episode first, Jeremy, tell us a little bit about your career journey leading up to this point.

Jeremy Allen: Gosh, you know, and I am so thankful for that podcast that we did back in '17, a lifetime ago. And I've referred to it a number of times. People will say, gosh, I'd love to hear a bit of your story and your journey and the System 6 story and how it unfolded. And so I point folks back to the podcast that you and I did a few