“Cloud Stories is the world’s coolest accounting podcast”
A guy on the Internet told me this once, and of course I choose to believe him…
The Cloud Stories podcast shares stories from the Accounting Technology world, the stories behind the people who build or use Accounting and Business Apps. It explores:
- How to implement and integrate Business Apps with online accounting software to automate processes, improve productivity, and profitability;
- How to build a business developing Business Apps;
- How to adopt Accounting Apps, build your own preferred tech stack, and introduce Accounting Apps to your client base.
“David, I listened to you on the Cloud Stories podcast with Heather Smith. You had a great interview with her.” Blake Oliver
“She’s awesome. I mean it’s all her. She is a great interviewer.” David Leary
FINTECH DOMINATE COVID ECONOMY Sep 23 2020 Cloud Accounting Podcast
Hmm…so what is a Cloud App, Business App, or Accounting App?
Cloud refers to the Internet and App refers to Application. A Cloud App is internet based software solutions. You can access Cloud Apps centered around the accounting eco-system here: Xero App Marketplace, intuit quickbooks Apps center, MYOB Add Ons, if you click through to make sure you select the correct country location.
By sharing Cloud Stories from the community listeners gain insights into how small businesses and advisory services can thrive in a brave new world of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robots. Over the years, Heather Smith has interviewed Accountants • Bookkeepers • Business Consultants • Cloud Advisors • Cloud Integrators • Developers • Small Business Owners • and Solution Providers • who have generously shared their own Cloud Story on the popular podcast. Listen in now!
To help you jump in and find interviews of interest to you – here’s links to interviews with Accountants + Bookkeepers + Accounting Salon members
Delivering Practice Management Solutions for Professional Services | Celso Pinto
"So for us to be able to find the right positioning, what we want to do, and having it resonate with our target customers, that made all the difference". [...]
An Australian-built Business Streamlining Payroll and Employee Management | Jon Arrigo
"The idea was to try and eliminate as much of the unnecessary work as possible via automation. That’s really where Microkeeper hats were. Having the ability to be able [...]
A Female Fintech Entrepreneur Transforming Technology | Amreeta Abbott
"I’m really big on communication. You have to have 'the conversation'. I think too many people hide behind compliance and don’t actually engage and you need this guidance. I [...]
App Advisory for Accounting Professionals | Kellie Parks
"Communication is a key piece. Keeping it consistent, keeping it on brand, keeping it meaningful and actionable to the client." – Kellie Parks, Calm Waters Cloud Accounting. Kellie Parks [...]
Building a Reconciliation Solution for eCommerce Businesses | Shopify Stripe Square | Michael Astreiko
"It's our main goal to make reconciliation possible. It's not only about having the right inventory but also having the right cash flow and your accounts perfectly reconciled." – [...]
How to Double Your Clients’ Profits in 5 Easy Steps | Aynsley Damery
"We've created simplicity in numbers. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication as a great designer once said. And so everything about that is stripping back the complexity of business, making [...]
Never Talk Directly to Clients About Cash Flow, and Other Secrets From the Cash Flow Queen | Martha Yasso
"Clients value that. They will pay for that person that's going to listen and provide... That's all your clients want, they want it off their plate, and that's freeing. [...]
Presenting, Storytelling and Communicating for Accountants | Alexandra Bond Burnett
"When I talk about influence and being an influence is about using your powers for good. If you think about the best teacher you ever had at school and [...]
A Restaurant Solutionist Creating Magical Client Experiences | Kristen Nies Ciraldo
"There’s something in our social connectivity that is enhanced by the act of sharing food, in my opinion, and it’s why we need independent restaurants particularly." – Kristen Nies [...]
Why an Accountant Started a Bookkeeping Business | Meryl Johnston
"One of my beliefs is about setting an example. I am always reading, listening to podcasts, learning, thinking about things...I also try and convey that to the team to [...]
Accountants empowering their client base through podcasting | Tim Garth and Dan Osborne
"What we want is for our customers to be able to take the bull by the horns with their own information, their own understanding, and make some decisions, and [...]
How hosting a podcast helped this bookkeeper develop active listening skills | Alexi Boyd
"This is the advice we give to all of our clients. Get the business name nailed, get the business name registered under your umbrella or whatever organisations you are, [...]
Orangilicious Secrets to Building and Running a Highly Engaged Community | Catherine Walker
"Who I am online is exactly who I am in person. I guess that could be a decision point. Decide who you’re going to be. I would say be [...]
Supporting Your Clients and Yourself Through Uncertainty | Dylan Burgess
Today I’m speaking with Dylan Burgess, Partner Relationship Manager of Float Cash Flow Forecasting. Dylan is based in Sydney, and prior to joining Float, he spent several years at [...]
20 Trends Changing the World of Work and Transforming the Nature of Careers in Accountancy | Kevin Fitzgerald FCCA
Subscribe to the Accounting Apps newsletter here. Kevin can you share with us a bit about your background? Kevin: Yes, and thank you [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Building Communities, Influencer Marketing and Customer Experience 2.0 | Alison Ball
"The really successful communities are the ones where people really understand that the more you give, the more you get. And so I think of it as like ask [...]
Has a black swan event changed this Evangelists views on niching? | David Leary
"Ultimately, if you're in the small business space and you're building an app that adds on to either QuickBooks or Xero, you're building apps really for accountants. You can't [...]
How to Build Culture While Working Remotely | Brian Walsh
"Employees always come before the customer, because if you have happy employees and if you have a really good healthy culture in place, then your employees are going to [...]
Sitting in the passenger seat with founders helping them achieve their dreams | Martin Zych
"What we're doing as accounting and finance professionals is helping to drive smart decision making. So if we can paint that picture correctly, we're able to help and kind [...]
A Cloud Integrator for the Construction Industry | Robert Hudman
"I don't want the accounts team feeling like they've got to navigate through this world of construction software. We should have those two systems talking to each other, and [...]
Building a multi-disciplinary professional services business | John Knight
'Mongolia was about me taking myself out of my comfort zone. That was about me stretching myself to think differently. That was about having a bit of a breather, [...]
Bridging the People Advisory gap | Will Lopez
I just believe it's actually the personal side of the profession. When you look at GL advisory, a lot of the deliverables are around an impersonal deliverable. We're looking [...]
What the future of banking can mean for accountants and bookkeepers | Yoseph West
We're seeing the government actually provide FinTech banking charters in the US, which still it's very early days on it. But our belief is that over time, we'll actually [...]