As an entrepreneur, you have to get really good at selling what you envision you want to provide and what you envision your ideal clients are going to be and your services are going to be, and not what you think you as the accountant or the founder can do. And I think that's [...]
Jetpack Workflow was really built to solve the problem of client work falling through the cracks. When I was talking with people, firm owners, they said, well, we have hundreds or thousands of recurring deadlines and due dates, payroll schedules and bookkeeping schedules, tax schedules, CFO schedules, and even with a small firm, that [...]
We've got some clients that have been going with us for over six years now and their team members are equally as good as any manager in Australia because they've been working for six years. One of our clients moved their Philippines team member who was doing SMSF work to Australia to be the [...]
On Friday 31st January, I attended Brisbane MYOB Incite 2020. The first stop of MYOB’s national roadshow and first time we’d hear from the MYOB’s new CEO, Greg Ellis. I have included a snippet of Mr Ellis’s talk in the accompanying video and shall focus my commentary to the apps marketplace. With a rapidly growing [...]
What's the most dangerous thing you've ever done? It's an interesting question. One thing pops to mind but I have a little caveat with this one at the end because I'm honestly not sure if it happened to me or my brother. It's this weird childhood memory thing where it's blurred together. I [...]
Here's my email to people who hold their Xero subscription with me, about Hubdoc + the Xero subscription price increase – you’re welcome to use it. Hi Tl;dr- You’re receiving this email because you hold your Xero subscription with me. From 18 March 2020 Xero business subscriptions are increasing by $2 per month and [...]
The biggest thing is time savings, and then, of course, if you're paying people by the hour time savings can also save money. And the other part is automating a lot of this stuff helps with cash flow. That's a really big part of it, cash flow, because you can make decisions based on [...]
We've built a business partner portal on top of Employment Hero, which allows one of our business partners, be they accountants or HR consultants, bookkeepers to manage hundreds of clients, dozens, hopefully thousands of clients through one portal, so you can look in. You can see where every client is at in terms of [...]
Inspired by my talk with Heide Robson on her podcast Tax Talks (episode 168), I’m publishing a series of articles about Accounting Apps. You can listen to the original recording here. No one is a dummy. Everyone is intelligent. Everyone has the skills and expertise in their own particular area. And what we're trying to [...]
Inspired by my talk with Heide Robson on her podcast Tax Talks (episode 167), I’m publishing a series of articles about Accounting Apps. You can listen to the original recording here. What are Accounting App? When I talk about apps, I use the term accounting apps. These are applications that connect to online accounting solutions. If [...]
