by admin | Feb 23, 2017 | Articles, Marketing
Cold calling sucks. Let’s face it, as professionals we think it’s beneath us to pick up the phone and cold call a prospect. The alternative however is worse: waiting for the phone to ring or, even worse still, is the referred prospect whose first question is “What’s...
by admin | Feb 14, 2017 | Articles, Technology
Everyone loves paper; it’s tactile and appealing. But it’s also so yesterday! “Doing the books” cannot mean –literally – handling paper, be they print outs or receipts or paper invoices. For sure, most practitioners work towards being paperless but too few operate a...
by admin | Jan 31, 2017 | Articles, Technology
Each year it seems, we are running harder to stay in the same spot. In an end-of-year survey we asked accounting and bookkeeping professionals what were there biggest challenges going forward into 2017. Some said ‘Getting more clients’ others said ‘Keeping up with...
by admin | Dec 7, 2016 | Articles, Marketing
Business owners hate the ‘paperwork’ of the business; increasingly software solutions, especially SAAS platforms, are cutting a swathe through the paperwork of SMBs. No software solution, however, can address the individual business owner’s challenges especially when...
by admin | Nov 30, 2016 | Articles, Expansion & Exit
In Sydney’s trendy Paddington the cost of walking your dog is $15 for a half-hour walk (inexplicably, $17.50 for a German Shephard). One particular dog walker manages to walk up to five dogs at a time (I am puzzled as to how she collects their droppings). It seems...
by admin | Nov 24, 2016 | Articles, Marketing
Work as we know it, is changing. Think about the gig economy – the on-demand, mobile workforce leveraged by the likes of Uber – which is attracting armies of ‘workers’. For many it’s a dream job: when you want to work, you simply turn on your smartphone, accept the...
