Doralee Billings is an entrepreneur and innovator with more than 25 years of corporate experience in bookkeeping and office and financial management. With a life-long love of dressmaking, she established her own clothier business in 1996, specializing in the creation of custom-designed dresses and wedding gowns.

The first challenge she faced was to find an accurate way of pricing her work. She discovered that an adaptable pricing system to fit all types of garments simply did not exist for the custom clothier business. Doralee soon developed her own pricing method - comprehensive, simple to use, and one that provides for profit evaluation upon project completion.

Doralee also found that this detailed-oriented business required her to be highly organized, not only in the process of designing and creating gowns, but in the bookkeeping side of her business as well.

Working through her own practical experience in dressmaking, and drawing on her extensive office and financial background, Doralee created SOS / Small Office Solutions, a company specializing in small business planning and office organization. Through SOS, she developed The Small Office Survival Kit For Custom Clothiers, an easy-to-use system of bookkeeping, tax-recording, project management and office organization tailored to the needs of custom clothiers like herself.