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Offer up the office ping pong tables to the competitive jigsaw players and unleash the introverts!

2017-03-01T14:28:06+10:00April 19th, 2015|

Do you like jigsaw puzzles? I wrote about our family tradition for doing puzzles at Christmas times in Xero for Dummies. The competitive jigsaw players will stay up all night at our family functions to complete a jigsaw. Its serious stuff! We only ever do jigsaws designed by Ray Cresswell, you can google them, or try  ozgemtoys. [...]

5 things you need to know about the Debtor Tracking solution Satago

2021-01-19T11:35:10+10:00April 13th, 2015|

There are a number of Debtor Tracking solutions that connect beautifully with Xero. I’m gradually working my way around testing all of them. Satago came across my radar when Steven Renwick was letting people know he was coming out for Sydney Xerocon – and had free blue sunnies to give away. These sunnies are now a must [...]

Training Videos to help you educate and empower the Xero community

2017-03-01T14:28:10+10:00March 28th, 2015|

I’m excited to let you know I’ve been working with the phenomenal Xero U team – to produce educational videos. Drawing on my inner Steven Spielberg I’ve been writing scripts, recording audio and capturing screen demonstrations. Then I package it up and the extraordinary team at Xero U take my creation and magically tweak it [...]

Ep.13 Steven Renwick – transforming an Oxford MBA assignment into a Cloud Credit Control Solution success story

2021-05-17T03:21:17+10:00March 6th, 2015|

Highlights of my conversation with Steven Renwick Offering cloud credit control and accounts receivable solutions to small business turning Oxford MBA projects into a cloud success story utilising the crowd equity funding platform seedrs to launch Satago partnering with Experian to offer free access to credit data on UK businesses Subscribe to Episode 13 of [...]

Ep.12 Barry Dowling – TransferMate Global Payments – Minimising costs and complexities associated with foreign currency payments seamlessly from within Xero

2021-01-20T18:34:53+10:00February 20th, 2015|

Highlights of my conversation with Barry Dowling Spending time understanding your client Using client feedback to tweak the solution offered Achieving the milestone of $5US billion in transfers Using referral links as a marketing strategy Subscribe to Episode 12 of Cloud Stories on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/cloud-stories-heather-smith/id908333807 Transcript Heather:        Heather Smith here. Welcome to Cloud Stories. Today I’m [...]

Ep.11 Tejaswi Raghurama – ZapStitch – Growth hacker automating accounting for ecommerce stores

2021-05-17T03:25:33+10:00February 14th, 2015|

Highlights of my conversation with Tejaswi Raghurama Save 300 administrative hours per month Automates accounting for ecommerce stores Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India Increasing monthly recurring revenue and reducing churn Subscribe to Episode 11 of Cloud Stories on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/cloud-stories-heather-smith/id908333807 Heather:        Hello. It’s Heather Smith here. Thank you for joining me today. I hope [...]

Ep.10 Hannah McIntyre – Crunchboards – Demystifying the numbers and making analysis, super simple, easy and beautiful

2021-05-17T03:26:50+10:00December 22nd, 2014|

Hannah McIntyre and Amy Harris Crunchboards Highlights of my conversation with Hannah McIntyre Inspiration for launching CrunchBoards The early design of CrunchBoards Working in a global community Business support in Britain Moving from compliance to value add Subscribe to Episode 10 of Cloud Stories on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/cloud-stories-heather-smith/id908333807 Hannah, what did you like to do when [...]

Writing opportunities

2017-03-01T14:28:12+10:00November 2nd, 2014|

If you’re a blogger with a speciality, you might want to consider listing yourself on https://www.sidekicker.com.au/ https://www.odesk.com/ https://www.elance.com/ I spoke with a friend at a local PR firm, and she said they had a budget of $750 per 350 word blog post for someone with “a unique business expertise”. She said the first place they [...]

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