EP232: Sharon Francisco - How Systems Can Scale Your Bookkeeping Business

Michael Palmer: If you want to run a marathon, what are the steps to be able to do that? To scale a bookkeeping business is exactly the same. What do I have to figure out to be able to scale it? And when I hit a glass ceiling— and they're glass ceilings, they're called glass ceilings because, you know, you can just smash through those if you figure it out. Yeah, it's, it's all there. If you want to scale a bookkeeping business, it is all there. If you're, if you're running a bookkeeping business at any level now, you can scale it to whatever level you want. 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 our guest today is joining us all the way from Brisbane, Australia. She has over 25 years experience with small businesses specializing in both business development, and supporting business owners to achieve their goals. Most recently, she spent 4 years building a bookkeeping business from 2 bookkeepers to 12 using the Pure Bookkeeping system. Welcome to the podcast, Sharon Francisco. Oh, thank you, Michael. It's, um, it's good to be here. It is great to have you here, and you've been on the show several times, and we'll have links to the episode for our listener to go and listen to those. And Sharon, it's great to have you back to share some wisdom. Your episodes are one of those episodes that I constantly hear our listeners say to me, oh, I love that episode with Sharon. I've listened to it like 5 times. Oh, how nice is that?

Sharon Francisco: Yeah. Well, I think it's a combination of, number one, you're somebody who understands and has empathy for other business owners trying to grow their business. And as well, you've gone and done it yourself. You've demonstrated that it's possible to grow a really successful bookkeeping business, which is inspirational for our listener. Yeah, I think, um, and I think also too, me not being a bookkeeper or an accountant, actually being crap at numbers, I think that's kind of a really interesting take on scaling a bookkeeping business. So yeah, I think it's just a unique sort of combination, which I think gives