0076: How Our QuickBooks Backup Saved A Contractor's Company

This Podcast Is Episode Number 0077 And It Will About How Outsourced Bookkeeping Saved A Remodel Contractor's Company

Over the years I have spoken to hundreds of contractors about backing up their QuickBooks

Some contractors have acted on the idea, and others, not so much. There are two kinds of contractors who use computers:

1. Those who have yet to experience fire, flood, theft, bad bookkeeper or hard drive crash
2. Those who have and are now passionate about spreading the word about backups

This particular contractor is one of the nicest, gentlest and friendliest people you will ever meet; typical of all good contractors!

He is a large and powerful man having worked in construction for over 30 years. Let just say he knows how to communicate in a gentle but firm way to get his point across to his employees and trade contractors.

He was not particularly interested in the fact that we have remote servers and that our clients QuickBooks files are backed up every night.

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Being A Gentleman - He listened politely while I told him all about the benefits of having his QuickBooks backed nightly and the fact that he could get to his QuickBooks from anywhere there was internet connection.

Once I shut up he let me know he decided to hire our services because we could get his bookkeeping on track and help him build his construction business.

The rest was nice but not very important since he did not plan on having any fire, flood, theft, bad bookkeeper or hard drive crashes.

A Short While After We Began Working Together Tragedy Struck!

He Sent The Following Email:

"On July 27, 2008, Sunday evening around 6:30 pm my girlfriend and I just got home from an overnight hiking trip.

When we arrived home we had discovered that we had been robbed. We immediately called 911.

As we walked through the house we discovered that our computer was gone along with many other valuables. The computer had all the company business on it.

QuickBooks, invoices, all the subcontractors’ info, and everything to keep the company books.

We were at a loss for what to do. But as luck would have it, we had Randal DeHart as our accountant. He had all our info on a back-up system somewhere in a huge server.

So we called Randal to let him know that we would get a new computer as soon as the insurance company paid us.

Randal called us the next day, July 28th, 2008 and told us to come to his office. To our surprise he had gone to Office Depot and purchased a new computer and loaded it with QuickBooks and restored all our business information.

We are so appreciative that Randal had our backs, so to speak. We had told him that we would pay him for the computer as so as possible. But you know what he said……….

“No thanks are necessary and that if we just Pay-It-Forward, that’s all he asked.”

How’s that for a Good Accountant?"

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Replacing computer equipment is not standard operating procedure for us; however, in this case he really needed help to continue operating his construction company.

It is one thing for us to say we really do care about all contractors and quite another to demonstrate it.

I hope this real life story in this podcast helps you understand that outsourcing your contractors bookkeeping services to us is about more than just “doing the bookkeeping”; it is about taking holistic approach to your entire construction company and helping support you as a contractor and as a person.

We understand the good, bad and the ugly about owning and operating construction companies because we have had several of them and we sincerely care about you and your construction company!

That is all I have for now and if you have listened this far please do me the honor of commenting and rating podcast www.FastEasyAccounting.com/podcast Tell me what you liked, did not like, tell it as you see it because your feedback is crucial and I thank you in advance.

You Deserve To Be Wealthy, Because You Bring Value To Other People's Lives!

I trust this will be of value to you and your feedback is always welcome at www.FastEasyAccounting.com/podcast

This is one more example of how Fast Easy Accounting is helping construction company owners across the USA including Alaska and Hawaii put more money in the bank to operate and grow your construction company. Construction accounting is not rocket science; it is a lot harder than that and a lot more valuable to construction contractors like you so stop missing out and call Sharie 206-361-3950 or email sharie@fasteasyaccounting.com

Thinking About Outsourcing Your Contractors Bookkeeping Services?

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Need Help Now?

Call Sharie 206-361-3950

sharie@fasteasyaccounting.com

In closing, I want to caution you that we may or may not be a good fit for your contracting company. This guide will help you learn what to look for in outsourced construction accounting.

Thank you very much and I hope you understand we really do care about you and all contractors regardless of whether or not you ever hire our services.
Bye for now until our next episode here on the Contractors Success MAP Podcast.

Warm Regards,

Randal DeHart | Contractors Accountant

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