u/tinypepa

I started my own bookkeeping business about 5 years ago and I have only raised my rates maybe once since then. I know that I am egregiously undercharging my clients and I have struggled a lot with imposter syndrome so putting a price on my "worth" is hard.

I would like to raise my rates to keep up with rising cost of living (and I am going back to school for a master's in accounting) but I am not sure how much I should raise it by, when I should implement it, and how I should notify my clients.

I have several clients I charge $100 a month (I know this is so cheap) but if I raise them to $200 I worry they will complain about my rate doubling. So do I raise them slowly over time, and by how much? Do I wait until the new year to raise my rates or do it ASAP?

Reading this sub has convinced me that I need to charge more but I just don't know how to do it with confidence. To just put it in an email that is NOTIFYING them and not ASKING them if it's acceptable for them. My clients can afford to pay me more, but I had one experience where a client pushed back when I tried to bring up raising my rate and it's made me scared to revisit it.

Does anyone know where to get a good quality cutting board made locally? I am sick of the (fake?) bamboo ones that warp and the plastic ones that never feel clean.

I saw two years ago someone posted about a farmers market vendor who used to make them but he passed away.

Looking for something high quality that can last! Thanks in advance :)

I honestly love seeing people try pole for the first time, especially when they are people I love (got so excited to see Megan thee Stallion is taking classes!). Honestly they did pretty great, I am sure wearing Pleasers for drag is a big advantage. So who do you think deserved the win? I think Monét had a great flow!

I've been running my own bookkeeping practice for a few years now. Almost all of my clients have come to me through my dad, who is a CPA.

When it comes to reaching out to new clients on my own, I don't have a lot of experience, and something I'm running into now is - how do you explain what you do to clients without making it sound so easy that they could do it themselves?

I know that bookkeeping is not as easy as it appears, and that given the chance, many business owners will make a mess of their own books. But when I am asked to explain what I do, I think I might make it sound easy. I also don't want to pitch myself as being smarter than a potential client by saying something like "if I don't do your books, you'll screw it up, and it will cost you more down the road to get someone to fix it".

I've had a couple experiences with people who were looking for a bookkeeper without knowing exactly what they needed, and that's where I feel I have to explain to them what it is I do (and how it differs from an accountant) and maybe put my foot in my mouth.

If anyone has advice (or resources) on how to handle finding new clients without undervaluing your work, I'd appreciate it!

I have been struggling to find the right grip aid to use in my summer classes because we switch facilities and there are powder poles instead of chrome.

I’ve noticed that ever since I bought the blue monkey hands grip aid, it has never once worked for me. Instead of making my hands at all tacky, it just clumps up on my skin. Completely useless and likely makes my grip WORSE.

I have the green but it can be overkill when in class they want us to do spin moves on static powder pole. I know people swear by the red one, but I’m a little cautious to buy it because 1) I am doubtful it will work on my skin and 2) I don’t really want to support companies that use generative AI in their marketing (something I’ve seen from them lately).

I had slightly better luck with Grip Tite and I also have Dry Hands (the one with the hand print on the bottle), Monkey Hands Dry and Dancing Dust. But I can’t manage to find the right solution for me. My hands don’t *seem* terribly sweaty, I just need a little extra sticking power even after I use the MH dry hands.

Non giudicatemi perché sto ascoltando la sua musica per la prima volta solo adesso 🥲 comunque in questa canzone, dice «quattro in mate’» e mi stavo chiedendo cosa volesse dire!

I’m hoping to take some classes this summer and I am aware of these two options for pilates in Moscow - if anyone knows more places and can recommend a specific instructor, please do!
I’ve never done a pilates class before either so if you are experienced I’d love to hear about why you enjoyed a class! It looks like MMS has reformer classes and are less expensive, but maybe I would enjoy being in Sculpt’s studio environment more?

I’m an upper beginner (been dancing about 1 year) and in my classes we have only stage poles and rarely use spin (mostly because less than half of our poles can go on spin and they are scared of beginners hurting themselves) so when we CAN use spin, I feel like I lose all my grip strength in my hands.

I can do things like chair spin, fireman, rockstar spin on static no problem, but when we turn the pole on spin I am not able to engage my muscles and slide all over. Maybe it’s a psychological thing and I just need to use spin every chance I get just to build up the strength and get over whatever subconscious fear I have?

Basically just venting... But I batch imported over 75 sales receipts and they went through no problem, now I'm trying to match the receipts on the bank transactions screen and it won't let me, because "you cannot enter more than 21 characters in the doc_num field" - I used a reference number that is a long string of letters.

The problem with this is: 1) If I can't put that many characters in that field, it should prompt you at the receipt CREATION stage, not the matching stage, which means that now...

2)I have to individually edit each sales receipt and shorten the reference number. You can see "edit" in the dropdown list of batch actions on the sales transaction page... but you can't select it. So they're just teasing us at this point.

It should be possible to send selected receipts back to the batch creation screen for editing.

But no, we can't have any PRACTICAL updates to QBO... just more stupid AI features and UI tweaks.