EP419: Peter Cook - Following The Plan: The Bookkeeper’s Journey

Peter Cook Emyth Series 4 (May 28): Will typically see really kind of often quite exhausted bookkeepers in this transition to business phase who are looking after their own clients, then reviewing the work from their team to make sure it's up to scratch, doing all the stuff you need to do to manage the business, still trying to do the marketing to get new clients, still doing the sales and actually making less money than they were in terms of what they get because they're paying their team. This is a kind of the most challenging phase of the journey, often because it feels like, well, wait, why am I even doing this? And this could. This was easier when I was on my own. 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'm your host, Michael Palmer and today's show show is going to be a fantastic one. Our guest needs no introduction. He's been on several times. And this is part of a series of episodes where we're going deep into E Myth Bookkeeper and doing a deep review of each chapter. His name is Peter Cook. Welcome back to the podcast, Peter. Hi, Michael. Thanks for having me.

Michael Palmer: Thank you for being on the show and I'm looking forward to this episode because we're going to dig into chapter six, which is the Bookkeeping business journey. Now for you listeners that are just joining us now in the show notes, you will see the series listed out where you can jump back. I recommend, well, you could listen to this one and then jump backwards. I don't think you'll. No spoiler alerts there, I'm sure. But we also this is E Myth Bookkeeper and if you don't have the book, you can go to thesuccessfulbookkeeper.com and we have a wonderful opportunity for you to get access to this book and all sorts of other valuable business building resources. So we recommend you do that and got a real great special offer for listeners as well if you go there. Peter, we're talking about the bookkeeping business journey. Tell us about this chapter.

Peter Cook Emyth Series 4 (May 28): So I think a lot of entrepreneurs, a lot of business owners and bookkeepers in particular set out growing their bookkeeping