We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Alisha Thomas a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Alisha thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. To kick things off, we’d love to hear about things you or your brand do that diverge from the industry standard

We make bookkeeping pretty. “Pretty” and “Pink” aren’t things that you normally think of when you think of accounting. We are here to change that. Wait. What? helps creatives, like designers, photographers and artists with their numbers. We teach bookkeeping through our bookkeeping course, outsourced bookkeeping and consulting for those who don’t know where to start. The part of business that most creatives hate is the financials and bookkeeping. Normally bookkeepers and CPAs can be boring and hard to understand. I’m Alisha Thomas, the owner and founder of Wait. What? Consulting. I have a unconventional background. I went to school for art and then later was co-owner of a kooky company that wound up on Shark Tank. Most bookkeepers and CPA one – don’t have an art degree two- actually owned a multi-million dollar selling company. We take all this knowledge and help creative businesses actually understand their bookkeeping and confidently grow their businesses.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

@waitwhatconsuling
Alisha Thomas started Wait. What? Consulting in 2019 to help fellow creatives with the numbers side of their business.

We make your bookkeeping pretty!
We can fully take over your bookkeeping
We can teach you how to do your own bookkeeping
We can do a consulting call if you don’t where to start

Conversations about M&A are often focused on multibillion dollar transactions – but M&A can be an important part of a small or medium business owner’s journey. We’d love to hear about your experience with selling businesses.

Even if you don’t think you are ever going to sell your business – run it like you are going to sell it. I have helped others sell their business and the best thing did was organized their business to sell. From a bookkeeping perspective- keep your personal and business money separate! Keep track of there your income is coming form. Where are you making the most money and how much money does it take to support that review stream? Also, from an organizational standpoint – it sounds silly if you are one person, but document all your processes and standardize them.

What’s been the best source of new clients for you?

Old fashion referrals. (Instagram doesn’t hurt, too) but people referring us has been the best.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://waitwhatconsulting.com/
• Instagram: @waitwhatconsulting
• Facebook: @waitwhatconsulting
• Other: Here’s a link to our Quickbooks Course for Creatives – Artistic Accounting -https://alisha-s-site-4f1c.thinkific.com/courses/artistic-accounting

Image Credits

drewe and kate branding