The best thing Dad and I have ever done was to meet you all and become part of the Rosemary family.
TJ Sutherland
Franchise Partner
Dependent on how you run your franchise be it as an Associate Franchise or a Franchise Partner with a team of bookkeepers your day could be varied.
By law, all businesses in the UK are required to keep records of their transactions which are later used by an accountant to file for tax and often VAT. Managing these transactions through efficient bookkeeping is often the biggest headache to the small business owner. By dealing with the bookkeeping need of a client Rosemary bookkeeping franchise partners give business owners back the time to focus on running their business.
Dependent on how you run your franchise, be it as an Associate, hands-on, doing the bookkeeping processing yourself or managing a team to process the paperwork, on a daily basis, you will entail some of the following scenarios:
- Attending business networking events to create awareness of your services
- Undertaking desk based marketing activities to increase your social media presence
- Meeting clients to help them understand their business bookkeeping needs
- Delivering finished books to an accountant for a year end
- Delivering a finished batch of client work – discussing the reports produced with them
- Liaising with your team of bookkeepers to ensure they are happy
- Liaising with the HQ support team or other members of the network
Rosemary Bookkeeping franchise partner, TJ Sutherland, achieves personal ambition whilst raising a young family
TJ runs the busy Basingstoke area with support from her father, Steve Brown. Following a successful career in recruitment TJ started her Rosemary business in 2011 working ‘hands-on’ with her small business owner clients and now manages a team of bookkeepers allowing her to concentrate on sales with an expected turnover in excess of £100,000 in 2016.
With a background in recruitment TJ has proven that you dont necessarily need bookkeeping qualifications to start this franchise. With the support of the Rosemary HQ team, and wealth of information via the Rosemary Knowledge Banks she learnt on the job, every aspect of running a sucessful business from processing the paperwork to presenting the benefits of good bookkeeping to business owners at marketing events. As her business grew, she recruited, trained and now manages her team of bookkeepers which enables to be in charge of her diary, fitting in work around her family commitments. This sometimes requires some juggling but the majority of the time TJ knows she can meet her own personal ambitions of running her own business without detriment to her children.
A day in the life of a Rosemary Bookkeeping Franchise partner …
For TJ Sutherland, who runs Rosemary Bookkeeping Basingstoke, her day typically starts early as she has a young family but some mornings are particularly early as she attends a regular networking event, breakfast is provided but at least she hasn’t had to prepare it! These events are an excellent way of speaking to likeminded business owners seeking referrals and, hopefully, booking in meetings with potential new clients.
TJ has been trading since 2011 and having built up a successful business now employs staff to undertake the bookkeeping processing leaving her free to spend time with her clients as understanding their business better means that she can deliver better bookkeeping solutions for them. She can also concentrate on the marketing of her business, meeting new clients and accountants and also the internal administration of her own bookkeeping and running her own business.
Rosemary Bookkeeping offers various methods of communication with both the franchisee community and the Head Office Staff and directors. They also run various events throughout a week which are generally optional but are designed to help each franchisee with any aspect of their business. For example they have a webinar programme covering subjects such as marketing, sales, bookkeeping ad operations. They also listen to the franchises and regularly ask for topics to cover in these sessions.
TJ’s days are varied but flexible enough to ensure that she has an excellent work life balance.
