June’s issue of The Journey is all about money — but not in the cold, complicated, “you need to become a numbers person” kind of way. Instead, this issue focuses on financial clarity for small business owners: understanding what to charge, how to get paid, where money is going, what your numbers are really saying, and how better systems can help you make stronger decisions with less stress.
Highlights from this issue:
💸 Stop Discounting Your Value: Learn why discounting often creates bigger problems than it solves, and what to do instead when bookings slow down, prospects push back on price, or you feel pressure to lower your rates.
🧠 Build a Better Money Mindset: Explore how confidence, pricing, ideal clients, outsourcing, automation, and comparison all shape the way you think about money and lead your business.
🔢 Know Your Business Numbers: Discover the six numbers every small business owner should know by heart, including monthly revenue targets, overhead, tax set-asides, profit margin, average project value, and effective hourly rate.
💭 Understand Your Money Mentality: Take a deeper look at the emotions and stories behind financial decisions, and learn how fear, lack, comparison, and old patterns can quietly influence the way you manage money.
📆 Use Payment Schedules That Work for Everyone: See how structured payments can reduce sticker shock for clients, improve cash flow for your business, and make getting paid feel easier and more predictable.
💳 Fix the Way You Get Paid: Learn why payment methods, processing fees, deposits, invoice timing, and client convenience all affect cash flow — and how small changes can help you collect money faster.
📁 Keep Better Business Records Before Life Demands It: Read why clear records, organized invoices, cash-flow awareness, and pipeline visibility matter even more when personal or business circumstances change unexpectedly.
☕ Create a Money Date Ritual: Learn how a simple biweekly financial check-in can help solopreneurs review money in, money out, outstanding payments, and what is ahead with more confidence and less overwhelm.
📊 Stop Running Your Business on Guesswork: Understand why your bank balance is not enough, and how better bookkeeping categories, monthly reporting, and financial visibility can help you make smarter decisions.
🧹 Notice the Hidden Cost of Clutter: See how disorganization, duplicate purchases, unused items, wasted space, and lost time can quietly drain money and energy from everyday life.
⚙️ Cut the Cost of Manual Processes: Learn how delayed follow-up, manual scheduling, repeated communication, poor pipeline visibility, and unstructured data can leak time, money, and momentum from your business.
🚧 Protect Your Time With Clear Fees: Explore how rush fees, change orders, cancellation fees, and overtime charges can help prevent scope creep, protect your schedule, and make client expectations clearer from the start.
📈 Use Bookkeeping Reports to Understand Your Money: Get practical guidance on six key 17hats reports, including Profit & Loss, Sales Tax, Upcoming Receivables, Aged Receivables, Product Sales, and Client Sales.
📚 Make Bookkeeping Work for Your Business: Learn how better bookkeeping supports tax preparation, expense tracking, reporting, processing fee visibility, income organization, and better financial decisions all year long.
🛠️ Marketplace Tools for Money Management: Explore money-related 17hats Marketplace resources built to help small business owners strengthen invoicing, financial foundations, booking systems, dashboards, and business organization.
🚀 Feature Updates & Smarter Tools: Stay up to date with the latest 17hats improvements, including archived contacts in search, questionnaire CSV exports, editable scheduling locations, invoice issue date updates, SMS usage tracking, expanded questionnaire formatting, automated project tags, and pause/resume workflow controls.
This issue is a reminder that money clarity is not about perfection. It is about paying attention. When you understand your numbers, protect your pricing, simplify how you get paid, and build systems that support your financial decisions, your business becomes easier to lead. You stop guessing, stop reacting, and start making choices from a place of confidence.
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