EP268: Lee-Anne Scott - Break the Cycle of Unpaid Invoices & Grow Your Bookkeeping Business

Getting paid. This is a crucial aspect of every small business, but it is not always easy to get clients to pay their invoices. Too often do bookkeeping business owners suffer because of late & non-payments. All businesses need that extra cash flow to help them be more innovative, to hire the right staff & to expand their client base. Lee-Anne Scott, founder of Intelligent Revenue, joins us this week to talk about the impact that the late-payment culture has on small businesses & shares how to break out of the cycle of unpaid invoices to keep your business growing. During this interview, you'll learn... Why the late-payment culture is so dangerous for small businesses How to get over the fear of collection & ensure that invoices are paid Ways that Intelligent Revenue is helping business owners use data & intelligence to have better credit control Connect with Lee-Anne on LinkedIn. Learn more about Intelligent Revenue on their website. A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT for Successful Bookkeeper podcast listeners!! Join us December 2nd, 2021 at The Successful Bookkeeper Summit - a two-day free virtual event featuring inspiring speakers from the bookkeeping, accounting and business worlds! Teresa is part of this incredible lineup and will be speaking about e-commerce. To save your free spot, CLICK HERE.    Time Stamps 1:39 - Lee-Anne’s career journey 3:01 - Obstacles she faced as an entrepreneur 4:53 - How unpaid invoices inspired the creation of Intelligent Revenue 11:54 - The late-payment culture & how the pandemic made it worse 18:49 - How Intelligent Revenue helps to solve this problem