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November 23, 2022

A Week of Thanks

This great children's book by Tom Rath and Mary Reckmeyer was new to me when Julia mentioned it recently in our chat. The general concept is that young Felix gets frustrated with his sister's toddler antics and his grandpa explains that he has dipped from his sister's bucket. Felix is

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November 10, 2022

How Full is Your Bucket?

This great children's book by Tom Rath and Mary Reckmeyer was new to me when Julia mentioned it recently in our chat. The general concept is that young Felix gets frustrated with his sister's toddler antics and his grandpa explains that he has dipped from his sister's bucket. Felix is

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November 3, 2022

Are You Part of the One Percent?

Last weekend I did a nerdy thing on a rainy Sunday, I watched The Winning the Week Method Webinar by Demir Bentley on time management and productivity. Demir made the webinar a lot of fun and I learned some things. Since I pride myself on planning out my week, I wasn't

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October 27, 2022

Love + Work Reviewed

Recently, I read again a book that meant so much to me this spring, Love + Work by Marcus Buckingham. I remember when I first read the book, I was thrilled that its content confirmed and endorsed the principles behind how I ran our bookkeeping business, bookskeep.We’re a bit different than

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October 21, 2022

Making a Final Five-Star Decision

Now that you’ve determined what criteria makes an employee right for your company, you’ll have a much easier time trying to find a five-star employee. We now know the qualities that make moms a great fit for small businesses, and we’ve talked about the skills and aptitudes required for the

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October 14, 2022

Beyond the Books Recap

Last Thursday, Julia and I hosted the first Beyond the Books meeting for bookskeep’s women clientele. We have some fantastic momtreprenuer and female clients and I wanted the opportunity to bring them all together to share their stories and struggles, to create a support network. We created Beyond the Books

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October 6, 2022

Creating a Five Star Interview

Last week we talked about the qualities that we look for in Five Star Employees. We discussed how our roles as moms set us up perfectly to be excellent employees. In addition to these qualities, it’s important as a business owner that we also look for team members that have

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September 29, 2022

Moms Make Five-Star Employees

As I mentioned in my previous blogpost, Finding Five Star Employees, we have been refining our hiring process at bookskeep. Part of that intensive effort has been to understand the 11 Universal Qualities of 5 Star Employees and make sure that our questions during the interview phase uncover the true

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September 22, 2022

What does support 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 mean for Mompreneurs?

Support is a word that is as tricky as it is ubiquitous; it's a word we throw around to mean many different things. As moms, we support our kids in becoming well-rounded humans that will eventually contribute positively to their communities. As mompreneurs, we operate businesses that support our families

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September 15, 2022

Finding Five Star Employees

For the last three weeks, I have been working alongside two team members as we revamp our hiring process. This All In Intensive is being led by The All In Company. Danielle Mulvey is the founder of the company and she is a fellow Profit First Professional Mastery Member. This

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