#53 - The Value of Staying Small

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🗓️ 5 January 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Today we’re chatting about the pros and cons of what it means to stay small in your business. Now at the beginning of the New Year we hear so many creatives talk about growing, and expanding, and increasing their social media presence and followers, but at the same time finding more intimacy and a close-knit community in their business and brand. So we're really digging into what it means to stay small vs. what it means to grow your business, and how you can maybe even have the best of both worlds.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Being Boss episode number 53 brought to you by Fresh Books Cloud
0:10.7	accounting.
0:11.7	All right you guys today it's just me and Emily, and we're going to be chatting about the pros and cons of what it means to stay small in your business.
0:21.0	Get your business together. Get yourself into what you do and see it through.
0:27.0	Being boss is hard. Blending work and life is messy. Making a dream job of your own isn't easy.
0:34.0	But getting paid for it, becoming known for it, and finding purpose in it is so doable if you do the work.
0:43.0	Being Boss is a podcast for creative entrepreneurs brought to you by Emily Thompson and
0:47.5	Kathleen Shannon.
0:49.7	Check out our archives at love Being boss.com. So I just got an email from Fresh books revealing
0:59.5	that coming soon they are going to have a card reader so like the kind that you attach to your
1:05.4	phone and can literally swipe a credit card this so if you're a service
1:10.1	provider that offers lots of services to local clients. Fresh books will now be an
1:16.8	amazing way to just take their credit card. Obviously they take online payments
1:21.8	as well but I just think it's so cool that they have a little what do you call that swiper card reader?
1:26.4	A little card reader?
1:28.0	Just techie solutions. It plugs into your iPhone jack or your smartphone jack and you can swipe people's
1:35.2	cards so that no more entering credit card info, just swipe and go.
1:40.1	One of the things that I really love about it is that there is complete transparent pricing whenever it comes to your card fees.
1:47.0	So the card reader itself is $29 and then the transaction fees are 2.7% plus 30 cents of each purchase and I can say
1:59.6	That is a pretty good rate. I feel like it's not bad. Yeah. So, um, check it out. I think that it is something that's going to help a lot of Fresh Books users.
2:10.0	Fresh Books is the easy to use online cloud accounting system designed
2:15.0	specifically for creative entrepreneurs. They are there to help you run your
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