Bookkeeping! Every creative entrepreneur’s favorite topic. One of the first steps with setting up shop is to choose and set up a bookkeeping system for your business.

It can be challenging to navigate the murky waters of options if you aren’t totally clear on what you should be looking for in a bookkeeping system.

As a maker myself AND an accountant, an ideal bookkeeping set up for makers includes the following:

• Easy to use (user-friendly and easy to set up)
• Reliable (cloud-based)
• Makes tax-time easier (keeps a

You’re a small business owner, and sometimes as a creative you find it difficult to manage some of the more “business” aspects of your business.

You think you’ve finally got a system down with some of these tedious tasks, ahem, like taxes, and then you hear about just one more thing you should be doing.

Does the “should-do” list ever end?

How can you honestly remember to keep track of everything?

Well it’s time you sat down to really focus on taxes because it’s extremely important to …

You’ve got an Etsy shop, a website, you do craft shows or you do all three.

You think you’re doing okay.

I mean, you’re making stuff and it’s selling!

But how do you know if, when and how this can become your dream business?

We’ll be giving you a map that shows you how!

It’s like painting by numbers – you draw your own map with the help of magical formulas and numbers we’ll give you.

Don’t panic!

Formulas are your friends.

You enter numbers …

You need to raise your prices.

Have only about a quadrillion people tell you this about your products?

Or deep in your heart, you know you’re not getting paid what you’re worth.

But you really love making your products.

You could spend all day just making, creating and crafting in your workspace.

Just because you love doing it doesn’t mean you should undercharge!

In your business alone, new supplies need to be bought, marketing needs to be done and most importantly, your time isn’t free.

Take …