How Bookkeepers Can Find Field Service Clients

Field service businesses are a good market for a bookkeeper. There are many of them, most have one owner, and few owners want to do their own books.

They are also hard to reach. The owner is on a roof or under a sink during office hours, and rarely reads an email from a stranger.

Pick a few trades and learn them. A bookkeeper who knows how a pressure washer prices a driveway, or how a cleaner bills a weekly visit, sounds like someone who can help.

Ask your current clients for introductions. Owners in the trades know each other, buy from the same suppliers and often pass work to each other.

Go where they already are: trade supply stores, local trade groups, and the online groups where owners ask each other questions.

Talk about the problem they feel, which is paperwork after a long day. Getting paid faster and spending less time at month end matter more to them than tax rules.

QSP can bring them to you. If you choose, QSP lists you in a directory of bookkeepers who already know QSP. Business owners who need a bookkeeper can ask QSP for one, and QSP offers each introduction to one bookkeeper at a time.

You can also recommend QSP to a business. QSP pays you $50 when it makes its first payment to QSP, then $5 for each later month it pays, while you remain its bookkeeper. The business gets its first month of QSP free.

Your QSP bookkeeper account is free. Create one at qsphq.com/bookkeepers.