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As a QuickBooks Consultant, your business life is inextricably connected to the success or failure of QuickBooks software. Consider yourself a partner of Intuit, the makers of QuickBooks. As a partner, it is up to you to make your experience and concerns that you've learned from working with your clients known to Intuit. Intuit has come to realize that such feedback from its "field users" is extremely important in determining the future of the software. So use their feedback form to make yourself heard. The easiest way to find Intuit's feedback forms is to go to our website at www.realitycheckonline.com, click on Support, and click on "Free Customer Care Support from Intuit". In the left sidebar, you'll see three feedback form options. Use them so we can all stay in business!

What Next?

Over the past several months, I've posted general info covering pricing, scheduling, professional education, tech gadgets, QB troubleshooting, etc. Now it's time to go in-depth. Who's out there and what specifically do you want to read about? How old is your QuickBooks consulting business? How many clients do you have? Let me know what direction you want to go...

Pricing for Optimization

This is the last of my pricing suggestions. Once you've become somewhat of an expert in QuickBooks and you've specialized in a certain aspect of QB or a certain type of business, you should be getting more business than you can handle. It's time to adjust your prices to weed out some unwanted clients and optimize your dollar return on time spent. Calculate your desired (be reasonable) annual salary and divide that by 52 and the total number of billable hours you will schedule every week. For example, if you want to make $65,000 a year and schedule 16 billable hours a week, then you should charge $78 per hour. Remember that you will be working more than 16 hours a week, however your main income comes from billable hours. Of course, this depends on making sure you meet those 16 billable hours a week. $78/hr is not an unreasonable price to charge and your serious clients will realize this (general computer consultants usually charge more than this per hour). You may want to gradually increase your price to your target price so you don't lose some of your favorite clients by giving them a 1-yr discount as a thank you for their past business.