{"podcast":{"title":"The Successful Bookkeeper Podcast","slug":"the-successful-bookkeeper-podcast-404887","podcast_index_feed_id":404887,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-successful-bookkeeper-podcast","website_url":"https://www.thesuccessfulbookkeeper.com/podcast","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fURSEReYj6Swwzcr7OQ0ogv3nUiYOrzt0kAX9sQ09IY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lZmRl/YzcyMDQwZmQ2NGUw/YTk4MGY1NTAzNGQ3/N2NhZi5wbmc.jpg","author":"Michael Palmer","episode_count":542,"summary":"The Successful Bookkeeper Podcast is a weekly show to help increase your confidence, work smarter and build a business you love. Each week you'll listen to inspiring guests who will share their success secrets, so you can take your bookkeeping enterprise and life to another level. Some of them include New York Times Best-Selling Author of E-Myth, Michael E. Gerber, Pure Bookkeeping Co-Founder, Debbie Roberts, the host of The Productive Woman podcast, Laura McClellan and the author of *I Know How She Does It*, Laura Vanderkam. If you're a bookkeeping business owner who is looking for an uplifting, entertaining and informative podcast exclusively for YOU then you have arrived at the right place! Get ready because your journey towards success begins — now. Your Host Michael Palmer is an acclaimed business coach who has helped hundreds of bookkeepers across the world push through their fears and exponentially grow their businesses and achieve the quality of life they've always wanted.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-28T20:19:17.185129+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-successful-bookkeeper-podcast-404887"},"episode":{"title":"EP541: Andrew Seguin - Double The Revenue: Systems And Delegation That Scaled His Firm To $2M - Part 1 of 2","slug":"ep541-andrew-seguin-double-the-revenue-systems-and-delegation-that-scaled-his-firm-to-2m-part-1-of-2","published_at":"2026-07-21T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-successful-bookkeeper-podcast-404887/ep541-andrew-seguin-double-the-revenue-systems-and-delegation-that-scaled-his-firm-to-2m-part-1-of-2","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-successful-bookkeeper-podcast-404887","url":"https://www.thesuccessfulbookkeeper.com/podcast/andrew-seguin-double-the-revenue-systems-and-delegation-that-scaled-his-firm-to-2m-part-1-of-2","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/d773add2/8f836edb.mp3","summary":"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. 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