It is simple really. I did it — so I know!

Most small business owners cannot afford a full time accountant and they really don't need one. Many of them simply need a bookkeeper to keep track of their day to day operations so they can tell where they are financially and stay out of trouble with the IRS.

My clients drop off their receipts, their sales and income records, their bank statements and bank register (which lists deposits, withdrawals, checks, etc) at my home office. Then I organize the information into monthly statements and information for yearly tax requirements. The monthly reports explain to my clients how healthy their businesses are functioning so they can make decisions to improve their bottom lines and become more profitable.

Many of my clients needed my services for 5-15 hours per month. When I first started my business, it only took 5 clients for me to be able to replace my full time job income and transition to working from the comfort of my home.

Bottom line - there is great demand for home based small business bookkeepers. The business owners want to focus on their business - not on their darn bookkeeping. And because all small business must have organized records to be able to file their taxes every year - they need us!

There are so many small businesses out there that need bookkeeping help - the field is wide open for freelance bookkeepers who want to work from home.

If so, read on because I was in your shoes not so long ago. I made a successful transition from working at a $10 / hour bookkeeping job to running a successful bookkeeping business at home and making $45 / hour and much more.

I was doing accounting and bookkeeping tasks for an employer Monday through Friday and I hated it.

For one thing, my employers did not pay me what I was worth (a good bookkeeper or accountant is worth a lot!).

Plus I wanted to be able to raise my kids myself and not drop them off at daycare. So I started looking into how I could take my bookkeeping skills and start my own business.

What I quickly found out is that there are literally thousands of small business owners that are in desperate need of a bookkeeper.

Why are small businesses so needy for us freelance bookkeepers?

You see, small business owners need to focus on what will bring in income to their business. So if the small business owner is a landscaper, they need to be doing landscaping to bring in profits. When the landscaper does the bookkeeping for their small business it takes away from the time they could be working on the profitable part of their business so most small business owners tend to ignore their recordkeeping. In addition the landscaper is usually not skilled at bookkeeping or accounting so they waste a lot of time fiddling with stuff that not only frustrates them but also causes them to lose money they could be making if they were focusing on what brings in the income.

In my research when I first began my home bookkeeping business, I found many awesome entrepreneurial small business owners that were very hungry for my services and happy to pay me to do what they hated doing. When I did their bookkeeping it freed them up to do what they enjoyed and that created greater income for them. It was a win - win situation for them and for me and a very lucrative one at that!