It is official

I have decided to start my own business!  It is small, but it is doing something I love, Accounting/Bookkeeping.  I had a job offer from a local Bookkeeping company and when I was telling my parents about it my mom simply said, "why don't you just start you own and charge what you know you are worth", pretty simple mom and a great idea, why had the thought never really crossed my mind?  Well I will tell you why, because there is no guarantee, that is why.  I don't wan to put forth the money and really the time if I don't know that anything will come of it, I need a safety net.  Que Andrew (my love, my partner, my encourage r), for him it was simple, if you build it they will come.  "Don't worry about the money, don't worry about the time".   I can honestly say it was never a pride thing (mostly because if I did "fail" then I still had the hardware and software to use as I wanted).  For me it really comes down to the money, I wanted a return on my investment (can you blame me?).  I guess that is pretty good thing coming from a small accounting/bookkeeping start up, right?   Hardware, check.  Software, check.  Now we just have to put together some advertising verbiage and get that baby in the DCR. We are going to start there for a few reasons, it is pretty inexpensive and there is no contact for listings.  I hope to have this done by mid November at the latest that way it allows for any small businesses to finish up 2011 with their current provider and possible switch to me in 2012.  I will keep you all posted as to how it is going, lets pray for at least 4 clients by 2012 (I already have 1 that I have been doing for about 3 years), so if you know of anybody in the market for an out of house accountant let me know.