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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.

Drive for Show Putt for dough

It is great to look at KPI’s (Key performance indicators), and business statistics and comparisons, but you need to ensure that the figures that you are working with are correct in the first place.   The ATO has a list of common GST mistakes :- here   More to add here!!!

2008-05-17T19:55:00+10:00May 17th, 2008|0 Comments

RESUME

A resume, even that one sitting on linkedin, should be reviewed quarterly.It should include; Budget ~ details of how you achieved against the budgetMetrics ~ define and state the business metrics and then how you achieved against themTeam ~ it is important to demonstrate how successful your team was, and how you worked with them.This [...]

2017-03-01T14:34:36+10:00May 17th, 2008|1 Comment

Orbiting the Giant Hairball – Recommended Read

I can highly recommend "Orbiting the Giant Hairball A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace” By Gordon MacKenzie. It is a really easy read, with pictures throughout (I love picture books!). You can actually borrow it at the Brisbane City Council Library http://elibcat.library.brisbane.qld.gov.au/uhtbin/webcat/ on special loan for a week, they ship it up from [...]

2020-01-28T09:16:02+10:00May 17th, 2008|0 Comments

STEP UP & START UP

An event to assist young entrepreneurs to get off on the right foot in business is being staged at QUT’s Brisbane Campus on May 27.Step Up & Start Up is the result of a young man operating in the entrepreneurial space himself. Chris Davis, who operates his own event business, Greymouse Conference, said his idea [...]

2015-02-01T06:56:41+10:00May 13th, 2008|0 Comments

Practical tips for a paperless office

Is a paperless office for a soloists a practical reality? In my article Small business record keeping: Dealing with the shoebox Marc Fraser from Melbourne raised the possibility of maintaining financial source documents electronically.This article was published at Flying Solo.To read the rest of the article and leave a comment, please click here.from Heather Smith [...]

2008-05-05T22:32:00+10:00May 5th, 2008|1 Comment

FREE BUSINESS TRAINING ~ SCORE

This may be of interest to you – some free training opportunities. SCORE, an American organisation offers several free, online business workshops to help you start, manage and grow your business. If you need help creating your competitive advantage, managing your cash flow, or determining your business structure, then visit SCORE.org and get started today. [...]

2020-01-28T09:16:03+10:00May 3rd, 2008|0 Comments

Search Engine Optimisation – Spider Simulation

Here is another site that you can have a quick look at. Enter your website address, and it will simulate how a spider sees your website;http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/spider-simulator/Once you have done that, you can test a site that appears higher on the rankings than your site, and perhaps you can make some changes.from Heather Smith ~ MYOB [...]

2020-01-28T09:16:03+10:00May 3rd, 2008|1 Comment
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