EP327: Spotlight - Lasse Kalkar - Transforming Your Bookkeeping With Automated Services

Spotlight: Google Sheets with live data from QuickBooks, you know, gives the ability to create these very tailored dashboards. And at the end of that, what's really good about that is that it's actually a way for the bookkeeper to, you know, increase the fees for their services because they're now providing a lot more value to the client. You're listening to the Spotlight Edition of The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Louis Prosperi. 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 Louie Frosberg. Today's Spotlight episode is going to be a good one. Our guest is the co-founder and CEO of LiveFlow, the cloud-based app that connects QuickBooks Online to Google Sheets and Excel, allowing you to save dashboards that automatically update with the most recent QuickBooks data. The app has been growing fast inside the Successful Bookkeeper community, and now I'd like to welcome to the show Lasse Kalkar. Yeah, thanks a lot for having me, Louis. It's great to be here. And yeah, I'm really excited to share a little bit about our story and how we got to build LifeFlow and how we can hopefully help even more bookkeepers to make it easier for them to make these, as you said, time savings in terms of closing the books for their clients and really just help these bookkeepers to build a better practice for themselves over the long run. So yeah, really excited. And yeah, let's get started.

No worries. And by the way, I'm looking forward to this too, because honestly, uh, I say with regards to tools and resources, anything that allows the professional bookkeeper to provide advisory services or to provide data outside of QuickBooks and put it in a cool format or a format that meets the customer's needs is always needed. So I say, tell us a little bit about your background and your journey to where you got today? Yeah, sure. So I took a sort of slight unconventional journey, as in, when I grew up, I somehow got into sort of reading about building companies and selling things. And I was just like, I don't know, since I was a teenager, I was just always super fascinated about the idea of building a company, of taking something from basically thin air to building something that adds