Let's get something out of the way: you don't need QuickBooks. You don't need a bookkeeper. You don't need a $50/month app with 200 features you'll never touch. What you need is a system. A simple one you'
Tax season gets all the attention in February, but the thing that actually keeps a small business running month to month is knowing where you stand financially — right now, not three months from now when your accountant tells you. The formula I use more than any other isn't
Most small business owners fall into one of two camps. Either they track nothing — running on gut feel and checking their bank balance when it gets scary — or they track everything, drowning in spreadsheets full of numbers that don't change any decisions. Both approaches waste your time. The
There's a moment every freelancer hits — usually around month three — where you realize the way you're running your business makes you look like you're winging it. Because you are. Your invoices are Google Docs with your name typed at the top. Your "contract&
Tax season. If you're a freelancer or small business owner, there's a good chance you're about to lose a weekend digging through bank statements trying to figure out what counts as a deduction. I've spent 30 years in business analytics and I&
You don't need QuickBooks. You don't need a bookkeeper. And you definitely don't need to spend $30 a month on software to track what's coming in and what's going out. What you need is a system. A simple one that
Most small business owners track their money in one of three ways: a messy spreadsheet they built at 2 AM, an accounting app they're paying $30/month for but only using 10% of, or their head. None of those work. I spent 30 years building dashboards and analytics