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About Heather Smith

Heather Smith can help your business deliver powerful, engaging and educational content, through guest blog posts, educational instructions, video creation, podcasts, and social media blasts. She hosts the #1 independent Cloud Stories podcast Cloud Stories, authored Xero for Dummies, produces easy to follow videos on her YouTube channel and hosts the Cloud Accountants and Advisors Meetup and Xero Mastermind Facebook group. As a chartered accountant and chartered certified accountant and certified Xero & MYOB software advisor she has the knowledge, expertise and credibility to talk about your business solution to the accounting and bookkeeping community.

When You Know The TYPE of Customer You Want To Work With, Everything Gets Easier

90's SuperModel Linda Evangelista infamously said, "We have this saying, Christy [Turlington] and I… we don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day." What Kind of Client Are You Prepared to Get Out of Bed For? Well, it may not be as dramatic as getting out of 'bed', but what type of client do [...]

2021-04-16T18:39:00+10:00April 16th, 2021|0 Comments

7 Blogging Tips to Celebrate Being Named One of 7 Australian Accountancy Blogs We Love

I just found out that the wonderful team at Float the cash flow forecasting solution have written a blog called naming Seven Australian Accountancy blogs that they love, and I was included in it.  Thank you so much to everyone at Float for including my blog in that I'm really appreciative of that, [...]

2021-02-22T21:36:49+10:00March 1st, 2021|0 Comments

How XBert alerts help refine the Chart of Accounts

Here’s a super quick video showing how I use one (of the many) features of XBert to help me refine the Chart of Accounts. The Chart of Accounts is the foundational structure of Financial Statements. Regular refinement improves overall outcome. This video explains how to undertake this process, and is hopefully something that can be [...]

2021-02-22T13:47:39+10:00February 22nd, 2021|0 Comments

Networking in 2021

Before Covid 19 networking, hobnobbing, mingling and schmoozing were a natural part of our business lives. Overnight, we found ourselves restricted from attending in-person events. As 2021 unravels, I suspect we shall not return to large roadshows, or conferences anytime soon. However, in 2021, smaller intimate in-person events may fill that void for our own [...]

2021-01-23T14:09:27+10:00January 27th, 2021|0 Comments

Accounting Apps Newsletter 2020 Insights

An example of what the newsletter looks like I’m sharing with you insights from my Accounting Apps Newsletter analytics. My vision for the personalised bi-weekly Accounting Apps newsletter is to provide an informative, educational resource that’s an efficient and easy read for anyone who wants to enhance their Accounting App knowledge. The newsletter [...]

2021-02-05T10:09:13+10:00January 18th, 2021|0 Comments

The Future of The Accounting Profession | Kenji Kuramoto

"One opportunity this pandemic did give us is it has allowed us to bring people together from all over the world. That is what we have here today truly a gathering of some of the top minds in the profession from around the world to give us some insights into what they think they [...]

2021-03-04T12:03:15+10:00October 8th, 2020|0 Comments

How to provide constructive feedback to apps | Beau Gaudron

Make sure that it's not something that you're doing wrong. Make sure you've done your research, to ensure there is not another way to tackle the issue Beau Gaudron Tech Ninja Growthwise We were grateful to have Beau Gaudron Tech Ninja from Growthwise join us for a conversations, brainstorm, & ideas exchange, around this [...]

2020-10-01T12:39:46+10:00October 1st, 2020|0 Comments

The Medium platform – I have an account and here’s what I’ve figured out so far

I have a Medium account – you can find it and follow it here: https://heathersmithau.medium.com/ Honestly, I'm still trying to figure it out. The purpose of this post, it to keep track of my learnings, so it shall be active and updated periodically. I have a paid Medium membership, but you can subscribe for free. You [...]

2021-01-20T18:44:21+10:00September 25th, 2020|0 Comments
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