Are you a new bookkeeper or perhaps just getting off the ground with your bookkeeping business and want to find a bookkeeping mentor? I see a lot of comments in the Facebook groups about bookkeepers looking for a mentor. I’m going to share with you some of the thoughts I have about bookkeeping mentors and finding a bookkeeping mentor.

First of all, I don’t think that you’ll be able to find someone who would want to mentor one-on-one on a free basis. The reason is that as professionals and business owners (and myself being an owner of a cloud accounting business) we’re extremely busy. Unless you can find someone locally who would perhaps want to go lunch with you and mentor you, I personally think it would be a bit difficult to do that otherwise.

Another option is for you to find someone who’d be willing to mentor you and for you to pay them. I would say that might be tricky as well, because a lot of accountants and bookkeepers are busy running their business. Perhaps mentoring someone is not their main line of service, or it wouldn’t necessarily be a service that they would be interested in providing. While you might find someone who would do that, I think that first of all they’d have to be agreeable and willing to do it, and secondly, you’d have to be able and willing to pay for their hourly rate or consulting rate – which may be higher than what you’re willing to pay.

Another option would be to find experienced accountants and bookkeepers who have Facebook groups. There are several of us who have Facebook groups for accountants and bookkeepers and we interact a lot within the community and actually answer the questions of the community. That may be an inexpensive way (free actually) for you to get some level of mentoring or at least to ask some pressing questions and get feedback from someone who’s more experienced than you– someone who’s been there and done that and can give you the benefit of their experience.

So, I hope that this helps you to consider how you might find a bookkeeping mentor and keeping in mind that perhaps what you’re asking for may not necessarily be realistic. Perhaps instead the best place to start is in the free Facebook groups. I happen to have a free Facebook group, it’s called Five Minute Bookkeeping with QuickBooks Online. I have provided the link below for you to ask to be a member of this group. Make sure that you answer the two questions so that I can accept your request to join the group. I hope to see you there!

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