Gearing Up

Business Banking Business Budgeting Compare Banking Accounting Accounts Payable Insights Relay Updates

How to move clients from a manual accounting process to your preferred tech stack

Here's how Garrett Alexander, Co-Founder of Orsini & Associates, saved one of his clients $12K by convincing them to switch to his preferred tech stack.

By Leigh Doyle

Gearing Up8 min read

How to manage accounting client expectations using visuals

Megan Justice, owner, Crayon Advisory, LLC, uses infographics to help clients understand the tax preparation process and ensure a positive client experience.

By Leigh Doyle

Gearing Up11 min read

Hiring for a remote accounting and bookkeeping firm

How Nancy McClelland, owner of accounting firm The Dancing Accounting, has built a remote advisory team she loves by thinking creatively.

By Leigh Doyle

Gearing Up13 min read

How to grow your bookkeeping business with one app

When a firm is rapidly growing, staying on top of monthly bookkeeping tasks, reporting and communicating with clients can add up to endless hours of work. This lost time can slow growth and put client relationships at risk. Dave Kersting, CEO of Capovario, shares his one-app solution to make monthly bookkeeping more streamlined and efficient.

By Leigh Doyle

Gearing Up8 min read

How to qualify bookkeeping prospects using Acuity Scheduling

Cindy Schroeder, owner of Bright Bookkeeping and founder of the community Bookkeeping Buds, used automation to reduce the number of free consulting calls with prospects that go nowhere by 50%.

By Leigh Doyle

Gearing Up9 min read

Scale your firm with standard operating procedures in Karbon

In this episode, Phil Gaudiano shares how he created standard operating procedures in Karbon to ensure his firm delivered a consistent client experience.

By Leigh Doyle

Gearing Up8 min read

How to deepen your personal connection with clients — and communicate faster — with Loom

In this episode of Gearing Up, we talk to Andrea Rotondo about how she uses Loom to build personal connections with clients, speed up communication and save time writing out instructions for clients.

By Leigh Doyle

Gearing Up16 min read

Build a nonprofit donor dashboard with Google Sheets and Kindful

In this episode of Gearing Up, Clay Sandoz shares the interactive nonprofit financial dashboard he built with Google Sheets and data from Kindful.

By Leigh Doyle

Gearing Up11 min read

How to Simplify Client Intake with Cognito Forms with Safietou Russell

In Episode #1 of Gearing Up — Relay's interview series — Blake Oliver interviews Safietou Russell about how to simplify client intake with Cognito Forms

By Leigh Doyle

How to move clients from a manual accounting process to your preferred tech stack

How to manage accounting client expectations using visuals

Hiring for a remote accounting and bookkeeping firm

How to grow your bookkeeping business with one app

Stay on the money with Relay updates

How to qualify bookkeeping prospects using Acuity Scheduling

Scale your firm with standard operating procedures in Karbon

How to deepen your personal connection with clients — and communicate faster — with Loom

Build a nonprofit donor dashboard with Google Sheets and Kindful

How to Simplify Client Intake with Cognito Forms with Safietou Russell