Case Study: The Networking Studio
About:
Whether you’re early in your freelance editing career, an industry veteran making the transition to freelance work, or an experienced freelancer who wants to network with less stress and more to show for it, Networking for Freelance Editors will show you how to
identify and dismiss the stale, stress-inducing ideas about networking that are holding you back;
discover an easy, incremental approach that gives you a foundation for building professional long-lasting relationships; and
leverage your strengths to create a networking practice that gets results.
By reimagining your approach to networking, using the worksheets provided with Networking for Freelance Editors, you’ll build the network you need right now—and the one you can rely on tomorrow. Conquer impostor syndrome, wasted effort, and overwhelm—and grow a network that provides support, connections, and opportunities.
Source: https://www.networkingforeditors.com
The Challenge you were experiencing that necessitated a change and led you to Certum Solutions?
We don't like doing accounting but as a small LLC we needed to hire someone who could look over our books and make sure we were doing things correctly (income-expenses, W9s) and could help us properly file our LLC partnership taxes
How did you hear about our company?
In an ad in an IBPA magazine (and we love and respect IBPA, and know all of their offerings are going to be great)
What trends in your industry drove the need to use our product?
As indie authors with products, most of our successful peers are using Shopify and online direct sales and we need to make sure we are doing things correctly
What were you looking for in a solution?
Someone who could teach us how to do things better, what opportunities might be out there for us as a small woman owned biz
What made our solution stand out over others that you researched? T
hat your biz was also small and woman-owned, and you seemed to have an interest in authors and books
What feature of our product was most appealing?
Your enthusiasm and optimism of finding solutions for us and helping us grow.
How did you implement/introduce our solution?
Conroy showed us where we were making accounting/balance sheet mistakes, and how we needed to file taxes for our LLC correctly
How did our team help with implementation?
Through phone calls
How has our solution helped since implementation?
For the better accounting and tax filing yes, but we still hope you can help us figure out tax reporting on Shopify
Has this solution saved money and/or increased productivity?
Not yet! Hopefully next year
What have you been most impressed with?
The kindness and great disposition from everyone on the team
Results you achieved with Certum Solutions?
Can you share any metrics/KPIs that show the success you have enjoyed with our service? we are too young, so unfortunately not yet, but I hope we can next year.