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EP541: Andrew Seguin - Double The Revenue: Systems And Delegation That Scaled His Firm To $2M - Part 1 of 2
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See what the team at The Successful Bookkeeper has on right now → Andrew Seguin was already running a strong bookkeeping firm when he last appeared on this podcast — at $1 million in revenue with a team of eight. Two and a half years later, he's back with a $2 million firm and a team of fifteen. In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Andrew walks through the real work behind that growth: the systems he built, the delegation habits he had to form, and the profitability metrics that changed how he runs everything. Chapters [00:00] Opening quote on delegation [00:42] Introducing Andrew Seguin [02:30] From $1M to $2M: the story [05:30] Getting out of the weeds [09:00] Building training systems that scale [13:00] Managing change without overwhelming the team [17:00] Introducing the effective hourly rate [23:00] Building the profitability dashboard [28:00] Time tracking: getting team buy-in [34:00] Pricing strategy and the 3-month clause Getting Out of the Weeds Even after hitting $1 million, Andrew was still deep in the day-to-day — doing bookkeeping, managing clients directly, and holding too much tax knowledge himself. The path to $2 million required him to deliberately reduce his own workload. "I was probably still doing a lot of day-to-day work," he says. "I knew I had some goals for '24 and '25, which was to reduce my own workload." That meant hiring a dedicated payroll team, bringing on a tax specialist, and doubling down on the pod structure — senior and junior team members working together as a unit. Delegation Starts With Systems, Not Just Trust One of Andrew's clearest lessons: delegation without a proper training system is just dumping work on people. He invested heavily in building a training package so that new hires could learn the firm's tools, standards, a…