EP293: Lynda Artesani & Sarah Prevost - How Collaboration Can Elevate Your Bookkeeping Business

Speaker C: We've got firms with multiple partners and multiple employees, and we're able to analyze data that I never could do in the startups that I worked with initially. So having the ability to do that made my job fun again. 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 wonderful. Our guests are business partners who run Artesani Accounting Services, Linda Artesani and Sarah Provost. Welcome to the show. Thank you. It's nice to be here. It's great to have you both. And it's not often that we have two guests on the show. So it's always fun to have more. More is a better party, I think. Linda and Sarah, I'm looking forward to hearing your story. And I'd love for you each to tell us a little bit about your specific career journeys leading up to this point, and we can start with whoever would like to go.

Lynda Artesani & Sarah Prevost (April 19): I'll go first. This is Linda Artisani. So yeah, I've been doing this work for over 20 years. I've stopped counting all the individual years at this point, and I actually started out as a generalist like most everybody does. I mean, you try to get work and you get what you can get in and try to survive and pay the bills and pay yourself, which is the most important part. And it was about 2016 at the QuickBooks Connect that I kind of planted the seed that I wanted to move towards niching my practice. And that's— I was there taking in all the different, different sessions that I could to find out more of how I would do it. Fortunately, I was in a mastermind group, 97 and up, with Seth David. And that's where I met this lovely lady where we started to partner up. Yeah, so Sarah, you can tell your story.

Michael Palmer: Certainly, it was a journey. So mine was slightly different. I'd been doing accounting for a long time working for other people, and I just had enough feeling like an unheard employee, I guess you could say. So I took a big leap, um, and I just went out on my own and really just grassroots referral marketing, and it just kind of exploded. Same, same journey as Linda, you