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Reprice your clients
Be strategic in your pricing
Meeting and beating client expectations
Do you struggle to manage client expectations? Would it be good to actually exceed client expectations? That would build a stronger trust with your clients. There’s a wide scope in the above questions which includes: • exploring the (obvious) importance of providing...
The Myth that keeps on living
Money equals time; does it compute?
Technology Blues
Are you a “professional”? Or a “technician”? And does the title matter in terms of your career or business. We have changed due to technology, some more than others – indeed some jobs are being replaced by machines, such as routine administrative tasks and manual physical tasks….
The Robo Bookkeeper
The World Economic Forum is a lofty and important gathering intent on “improving the state of the world”. It also points us to the skills required in 2022 that render some skills as declining and others growing in demand. Sadly, skills for precision, manual bookkeeping and accounting are declining….
Are You Ready for the 4th Industrial Revolution?
Australians now spend about half a day each week doing different tasks than someone with the same job five years ago, according to a recent research study. And that is an average with some sectors, like accounting and bookkeeping, at the extreme side of this trend. The world’s going to change a lot faster than most people do….
Exiting Old Habits
There are powerful forces at play in the accounting software sector; they will affect all accounting and bookkeeping professionals. Old work practices and traditional ‘tools’ of the trade are being relegated to the dustbins. Note the massive corporate activity being played out on the stock exchange with takeover plays for MYOB and turbo-charged valuations for Xero…
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Your price: your value
Inside every premium-priced firm is a speciality that enables that firm to charge well above average prices. The comparison with other trades and professions informs us. Plumbers who specialise in high pressure waste systems earn multiple times the hourly rate..
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Moving out of your comfort zone
Business is about people, it’s about interacting, and it’s about giving yourself to these people, comfortable and confident to do something with you. That’s a sales skill and that will not sit well with many accounting and bookkeeping professionals..
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Are you running a successful bookkeeping business
Bookkeeping principles are timeless. But what clients are looking for has changed due to automation. This puts pressure on bookkeepers to provide higher value services as business owners have expectation that compliance work can be automated – cheaply.
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Beating Automation: Marketing!
Automation (AI) will displace jobs in the accounting and bookkeeping sector; sadly our education system (including Certificate IV and legacy commerce degrees) can’t teach everyone to be smarter than robots when it comes to replicable activities. Yet, people, not machines, will always remain the trusted advisors for business owners. The missing link is marketing, which, in the words of one bookkeeping firm is “a huge hole..
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How much is your self worth?
Linking money and self-worth is a fundamentally flawed concept, but the fact remains that many, many professionals do not give themselves permission to value their time at anywhere near the rate that would be commensurate with the kind of training and experience they bring to the table..
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Articles on Best Practice
Reprice your clients
Be strategic in your pricing
Meeting and beating client expectations
Do you struggle to manage client expectations? Would it be good to actually exceed client expectations? That would build a stronger trust with your clients. There’s a wide scope in the above questions which includes: • exploring the (obvious) importance of providing...
The Myth that keeps on living
Money equals time; does it compute?
Technology Blues
Are you a “professional”? Or a “technician”? And does the title matter in terms of your career or business. We have changed due to technology, some more than others – indeed some jobs are being replaced by machines, such as routine administrative tasks and manual physical tasks….
The Robo Bookkeeper
The World Economic Forum is a lofty and important gathering intent on “improving the state of the world”. It also points us to the skills required in 2022 that render some skills as declining and others growing in demand. Sadly, skills for precision, manual bookkeeping and accounting are declining….
Are You Ready for the 4th Industrial Revolution?
Australians now spend about half a day each week doing different tasks than someone with the same job five years ago, according to a recent research study. And that is an average with some sectors, like accounting and bookkeeping, at the extreme side of this trend. The world’s going to change a lot faster than most people do….
Exiting Old Habits
There are powerful forces at play in the accounting software sector; they will affect all accounting and bookkeeping professionals. Old work practices and traditional ‘tools’ of the trade are being relegated to the dustbins. Note the massive corporate activity being played out on the stock exchange with takeover plays for MYOB and turbo-charged valuations for Xero…
.
Your price: your value
Inside every premium-priced firm is a speciality that enables that firm to charge well above average prices. The comparison with other trades and professions informs us. Plumbers who specialise in high pressure waste systems earn multiple times the hourly rate..
.
Moving out of your comfort zone
Business is about people, it’s about interacting, and it’s about giving yourself to these people, comfortable and confident to do something with you. That’s a sales skill and that will not sit well with many accounting and bookkeeping professionals..
.
Are you running a successful bookkeeping business
Bookkeeping principles are timeless. But what clients are looking for has changed due to automation. This puts pressure on bookkeepers to provide higher value services as business owners have expectation that compliance work can be automated – cheaply.
.
Beating Automation: Marketing!
Automation (AI) will displace jobs in the accounting and bookkeeping sector; sadly our education system (including Certificate IV and legacy commerce degrees) can’t teach everyone to be smarter than robots when it comes to replicable activities. Yet, people, not machines, will always remain the trusted advisors for business owners. The missing link is marketing, which, in the words of one bookkeeping firm is “a huge hole..
.
How much is your self worth?
Linking money and self-worth is a fundamentally flawed concept, but the fact remains that many, many professionals do not give themselves permission to value their time at anywhere near the rate that would be commensurate with the kind of training and experience they bring to the table..
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