Tag: Bark.com

Bark.com is a project bidding website that is based in the United Kingdom. Their goal is to help businesses find a good bookkeeper or accountant but they work in many other fields too.

The problem with Bark.com and other project bidding sites like Airtasker.com is that their main goal is to build their own brand and their own profile – NOT yours.

Bark reaches out to as many bookkeepers, BAS Agents and Accountants as they can find and then uses Google Ads to find leads and almost spams you with constant leads they receive. You then need to compete with other bookkeepers in their system.

Some of these bookkeeping leads are from tiny businesses who are looking for the cheapest possible price but you won’t know that until you pay your lead fee. 

EzyLearn Digital Marketing Courses Google Adwords Training CoursesEzyLearn student and Registered BAS Agent, Jo-Anne, used Bark.com when she first started her business. Hear about her journey starting a bookkeeping business.

The best alternative is to create a WordPress website and learn how to use Google Ads yourself to attract website traffic and convert that traffic to real people via an online inquiry form.

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Welcome to Bookkeeping Academy Member: Gina Diprose

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I wrote about the Bookkeeping Academy membership a couple weeks ago and how it’s our aim to help our students get discovered for bookkeeping work after they complete their course.

Gina has 10 years experience in every aspect of operating and managing a tourist and caravan park in her home state of Tasmania and she loved the bookkeeping side of the work so much she wants to do it for other businesses.

She learnt how to use Xero and loves how it means she can do the work from anywhere – even Zeehan in Tasmania’s west.

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You Don’t Need a Cert IV in Bookkeeping & Accounting to be a Contract Bookkeeper

Christina from Glenmore in Sydney graduated from the Xero Complete Training Course & Certificate and runs several businesses

Starting a bookkeeping business has been a go to option for many mums returning to the workforce, particularly if they did accounting and office administration work before having children.

I’ve been writing about starting a bookkeeping business at this website since we started our bookkeeping blog and as you can see it doesn’t have to cost a lot of money.

Since the GST, however and the creation of the Registered BAS Agent some things have changed.

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Which Job Site is Best For Part-time, Casual and Contract Bookkeeping Work?

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Why smaller job sites are not always best for smaller, one-off jobs

WHILE AUSTRALIA HAS NO shortage of jobs sites, only one of them dominates the Australian job market: Seek. It’s the largest and most profitable job board in the country — and the operator of leading sites around the world, in China, Southeast Asia and Latin America.

In Australia, Seek controls 85 percent of the online recruitment market, with 173,000 job listings and average monthly traffic of 19.2 million visitors; nearest competing job board Indeed, the aggregator owned by Japan-based Recruit Holdings, has 106,000 listings and average monthly traffic of 9.3 million visitors.

But there are many smaller websites where accounting jobs can be found.

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The Best Job Sites for Accounting & Bookkeeping Jobs

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JOB SITES ARE IN ABUNDANCE in Australia. The market leader is Seek, which controls 85 percent of the online recruitment market. Most job site advertisers use Seek because they will get the widest and potentially best range of job applicants and job seekers.

Typically, if you’re looking for a good-quality job that doesn’t tie you to a specific industry — the way journalism ties journalists to the media industry, or construction work ties builders and plumbers and cabinet-makers to the construction industry — you’ll find it on Seek. But here are 8 more website you can use.

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Working Less to Earn More? Why Freelancing is So Darn Popular

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EMPLOYEES IN GERMANY have the world’s shortest work week, according to SME Magazine. Their work week averages just 26 hours due to strict workplace relations laws that promote a healthy work-life balance.

Sweden is also known to have implemented a 6-hour workday, or 30-hour work week, following research which has found that countries with shorter working hours generally have higher disposable incomes, greater productivity, and a stronger economy as a result. How can you do this in Australia?

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The Risk-Free Way to Become a Freelancer

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IF YOU’VE EVER DIPPED your foot into starting your own business, while keeping a steady income flowing from elsewhere, all at the same time, then you’re far from alone.

During the global financial crisis and in the years that immediately followed it, a funny thing happened to the job market: it birthed a freelancer economy, of which a third of Australians in the workforce are a part, and many of these freelancing individuals are also working at (an)other job/s.

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