After retiring in August 2009 and project managing his daughter, TJ’s, wedding in June 2010 Steve was looking for something else to do to fill his time. Steve has worked for Blue Chip IT companies for a number of years and TJ is an experienced Senior IT Recruitment Consultant.

After retiring in August 2009 and project managing his daughter, TJ’s, wedding in June 2010 Steve was looking for something else to do to fill his time. Steve has worked for Blue Chip IT companies for a number of years and TJ is an experienced Senior IT Recruitment Consultant. She also has bookkeeping qualifications and experience in customer service. Steve and TJ decided to combine their skills in order to run their own Rosemary franchise and offer their customers the best possible service.

How Steve and TJ got involved with Rosemary Bookkeeping

“I attended a Franchise exhibition in Reading, where I met Lisa and Claire who represented Rosemary. I was impressed by their enthusiasm and I mentioned to TJ that I had come across a franchise opportunity that would suit both of us,” explains Steve.

Steve and TJ decided to join Rosemary together because it fulfilled the criteria that they were looking for. “We are able to work part time, work from home and we discovered early on that we could achieve repeat business,” says Steve.

Steve and TJ’s secrets to success…

“Two years on and we’ve built the business to cover TWO franchise territories! We love the challenge of building this business in a market place that continues to grow. We currently have 17 clients and are flat out busy with 2 bookkeepers working with us to undertake some of the client work,” explains TJ.

What Joanna Dennis, Franchise Development Director of Rosemary Bookkeeping says:
Steve and TJ bring commercial acumen to their bookkeeping business. Both highly experienced and totally proficient, Steve, TJ and their team intelligently process the work, undertake regular networking events to attract new clients and seem to act as a magnet for new business enquiries!”

About Rosemary Bookkeeping

Rosemary Bookkeeping is a British Franchise Association accredited franchise, based on a successful business which was established in 2002 and offers a unique bookkeeping system which is built around charging clients per transaction rather than per hour.

The Founding Partners have over 60 years of business and bookkeeping experience between them in the essential business disciplines of accounting, operations, sales and marketing.

According to the Federation of Small Businesses, over 4 million customers NEED this service. By law, all businesses in the UK are required to keep records of their transactions which later are used by an accountant to file for tax and often VAT. Managing these transactions through bookkeeping is often the biggest headache to the small business owner and a task that is left at the bottom of the pile.

There is a growing network of established Franchise Partners in the UK either running their franchise as a management business with bookkeepers undertaking the work for them or working on client accounts themselves.