How do you navigate the financial uncertainties of running a business? Anne-Marie Kaden, from Tiny Paws Bookkeeping highlights the importance of regularly monitoring financial health and utilizing key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure your business adapts and thrives in changing markets. She emphasizes managing labor costs effectively, planning for cash flow variations, and leveraging historical data to make informed decisions. Through strategic financial management, business owners can better prepare for seasonal fluctuations and unexpected expenses, ensuring sustainability and growth. Anne-Marie's insights offer valuable strategies for maintaining financial stability and maximizing profitability in any economic environment.
Main topics:
Main takeaway: When I talk about financial health, it's really in terms that are very specific to you, as a business owner, not necessarily the industry as a whole.
About Our Guest:
Anne-Marie Kaden has been involved in animal and pet care all of her professional career. She built and ran a successful pet sitting business in North Carolina from scratch to six-figures in just five years. She sold her first business in 2022. Anne-Marie knows and understands the pet care industry intimately and is now operating her second pet sitting business, Tiny Paws Pet Sitting in Colorado alongside her bookkeeping operation.
She holds a BS in Animal Science from Virginia Tech, which provided structure to what has become her life’s work. Anne-Marie has worked in both small- and large-animal veterinary hospitals, managed private equestrian barns, taught riding lessons, and worked on ranches as a wrangler and trail guide.
She and her family relocated to Monument, CO in July 2022 from North Carolina seeking bigger mountains and a more active lifestyle. Her husband, two kids and their canine partner, Percy, enjoy being outside, hiking, camping, and kayaking.
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