EP268: Lee-Anne Scott - Break the Cycle of Unpaid Invoices & Grow Your Bookkeeping Business

Michael Palmer: Everybody needs that extra cash flow to help them be more innovative, to hire their staff, to train their staff better. And I think by us standing together and being the changemakers, we can really start to drive a cultural change across the world that will then hopefully in 10, 20 years' time, our payment landscape will look completely different. 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 guest is from the UK, the United Kingdom, and she is the founder of Intelligent Revenue Limited. Leanne Scott, welcome to the show. Thank you very much. I'm great to be here. Glad to have you. And I'm actually excited about today's topic. And I'm not going to reveal that just yet because I know intelligent revenue. Our listeners probably thinking, what the heck is intelligent revenue? And I like the sound of it. But before we get into all of that, Leanne, please tell us about you and your career journey leading up to this point where you're doing what you're doing.

Lee-Anne Scott: Okay, well, fantastic. So I started my entrepreneurial journey really young. It was back probably when I was about 8 or 9, I decided to— I was going to make scrunchies. And so I found fabric, and I went to my first market. Fast forward many years later, and I started a communications company. And I've been very involved in digital marketing for many years, and how you get how to get people to open your emails, how to get more interaction with them. But as we all know, running a company is hard work. And so with that came the pains of not getting paid at times, and having to figure out how to get those payments in. So I've done sales, I've done online marketing, web development, very much how to connect with your audience. And that brings me to today, where we live in the UK, and I run a digital marketing marketing agency, and that's where Intelligent Revenue started. Very cool. Well, we'll get into a little bit of what Intelligent Revenue does, but just with regard to your career journey as an entrepreneur, I mean, you, you started