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🗓️ 7 May 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Side Hustle Show listener Kate Johnson started her bookkeeping business in 2017, and now serves several recurring clients. She targets an effective rate of $70 an hour, and is able to work from home.
With her youngest starting preschool, Kate found herself with an extra 9 hours a week. "I wanted to be a good steward of that time," she explained.
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Full Show Notes: $70 an Hour from Home as a Remote Bookkeeper
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0:00.0 | 70 bucks an hour from home. Here's how one side hustle show listener is getting it done |
0:06.0 | and how you can apply the same strategies to a business of your own. |
0:12.4 | What's up, what's up Nick Loper here? Welcome to the |
0:14.9 | sign hustle show because everything is learnable. Today I want to return to |
0:19.8 | the sign hustle idea of remote freelancing. |
0:23.4 | That is, what service can you provide |
0:25.6 | that other businesses or individuals |
0:27.8 | are happy to pay for? |
0:29.5 | My guest today is a long time side hustle show listener she's a mother of three and when her youngest |
0:35.6 | was starting preschool a few years ago she all of a sudden found herself with an |
0:39.9 | extra nine hours a week it wasn't a ton of time, but in her words she wanted to be a |
0:45.4 | good steward of that time and use it effectively. Kate Johnson ended up |
0:49.9 | starting a virtual bookkeeping service called Heritage Business Services, and today she serves |
0:55.5 | several monthly retainer clients and targets a $70 an hour effective hourly rate. |
1:01.7 | The important thing to note here is that while Kate had taken some |
1:04.3 | accounting classes in college, she'd never been paid to do accounting or bookkeeping |
1:09.1 | work. Her story illustrates that yes you can learn valuable new skills yes you can |
1:14.7 | take action and yes you can see results. Stick around in this episode to hear |
1:18.9 | how she landed her first clients why she decided to invest in her own |
1:22.4 | education and the surprising new side hustle, |
1:25.8 | all this work has spun off. |
1:28.0 | Notes and links for this one, along with the full text summary of our call are at |
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