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Make Your Numbers Makes Cents

Make Your Numbers Makes Cents

By: Julie Bonner
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You had the business idea. You created the business. And somewhere along the way the money stopped making sense — leaking out where you can't see it, a profitable year that left nothing in the bank, a tax bill that came out of nowhere.

The numbers aren't the problem. They're the scoreboard, and the game was already played by the time you're reading them. What decides whether your business makes money — and whether it's worth anything the day you go to sell it — is the financial system underneath it. The one you were never taught to build.

Make Your Numbers Make Cents is about building that system on purpose. Every episode takes something that's quietly costing you — pricing, cash flow, a 1099 mess, a leak you didn't know was there — and traces it back to the decision underneath, so you fix the cause instead of mopping up the effect month after month.

No jargon. No lectures. No pretending this is harder than it is. Just the financial thinking the big players have always had — and the rest of us were left to figure out on our own.

Hosted by Julie Bonner. More at coeurbridge.com.Copyright Julie Bonner Economics Leadership Management & Leadership
Episodes
  • The Myth that Match Prevents Your Financial Intelligence

    The Myth that Match Prevents Your Financial Intelligence
    27 Jun 2026
    For some reason, many people believe that math prevents them from being financially intelligent. Math is NOT the issue. Bookkeeping is a logical system, and you have to understand what you are looking at, and that is how a bookkeeper can help you make sense of your business in your financials.

    Meet with a bookkeeper: www.calendly.com/coeurbridge

    Obtain your full copy of the book, OWN YOUR NUMBERS, on Amazon

    Hosted by Julie Bonner. Bookkeeping and financial help for business owners — https://coeurbridge.com
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    7 min
  • How to Make a One-Page Business Handout for Clients & Referral Partners

    How to Make a One-Page Business Handout for Clients & Referral Partners
    29 Oct 2025
    When a new client or a referral partner asks what you do, do you have a clean answer ready to send? This episode walks through the one-page handout I use for my own bookkeeping business — who we are, how we got started, and the ways we help. Mine is a simple black-and-white PDF I email when someone inquires; no printing, no design budget, nothing fancy. You can take it as a template and build your own. It fits a service business especially well, and it's a solid starting point for just about any business that needs a simple way to introduce itself.

    Need our assistance? https://calendly.com/coeurbridge

    Grab Your Editable Handout: https://coeurbridge.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Coeurbridge-LLC-One-Pager.docx

    Hosted by Julie Bonner. Bookkeeping and financial help for business owners — https://coeurbridge.com
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    11 min
  • How to Get Steady Clients Through Referral Partners

    How to Get Steady Clients Through Referral Partners
    29 Oct 2025
    The cheapest, most reliable marketing for a service business isn't ads — it's people who send you clients. This is how you build a steady stream of them, on purpose. Start with your natural referral partners: people who already work with your ideal client but don't do what you do. For a bookkeeper, that's CPAs, enrolled agents, tax pros, financial planners, and solo CFOs — they all have clients who need bookkeeping and usually don't want to do it themselves. Bankers too: someone turned down for a loan over messy books is exactly who you can help. Find them on LinkedIn, in your network and just outside it, and ask for a short conversation. Most people say yes. The conversation is low-key — half an hour, often over Zoom. You're not pitching; you're introducing yourself: here's who I help, and if you ever hear someone frustrated with the financial side of their business, send them my way. Hand them your one-page handout so they've got something to pass along. Keep your antenna up, do them consistently — one a week if you're introverted, more if you're not — and reward the people who send you business with a thank-you gift or a credit. I'm highly introverted, and this still works because it's one person at a time, and you believe in what you do.

    Be sure to update your documents!
    Budget/Cash Flow: https://coeurbridge.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Sample-Cash-Flow-Forecast.xlsx

    Business Plan: https://coeurbridge.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/SCORE-Startup-Business-Plan-Template.docx

    Need our assistance? https://calendly.com/coeurbridge

    Hosted by Julie Bonner. Bookkeeping and financial help for business owners — https://coeurbridge.com
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    14 min
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