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Working Less to Earn More? Why Freelancing is So Darn Popular

EMPLOYEES IN GERMANY have the world’s shortest work week, according to SME Magazine. Their work week averages just 26 hours…

6 years ago

How to Reduce Your Fail Rate in Business by 50%

What You Can Do this Christmas DID YOU KNOW research shows that by taking just one short course on small…

7 years ago

Marketing for When Your Business Strategy Changes

Where lead generation services are useful CHANGING YOUR BUSINESS STRATEGY to include additional services will require an additional investment in marketing…

7 years ago

Should You Start a Business That You LOVE or a Business YOU CAN DO?

Pairing knowledge with a gap in the market CONFUCIOUS ONCE SAID: "FIND a job you love and you’ll never have to work…

8 years ago

There’s So Much Cool Stuff You Can Do With PowerPoint

PowerPoint: The Great Visual Aid to What You're Saying Many people don't realise what an excellent design tool PowerPoint is. It…

8 years ago

Performing Weekly Reconciliations in Xero

Why it Pays to do Regular Bank Reconciliations In our Xero Bank Reconciliations and Journal Entries Course, you’ll learn how…

8 years ago

Working Out Job Costs and How to Charge Your Clients

Why You're Underselling Yourself with Fixed Price Quotes I've written a number of blogs on how bookkeepers can work out…

8 years ago

What Bookkeepers Can Learn From Real Estate Agents: Facebook Advertising

Facebook - Great for Local Marketing In its decade of existence, Facebook has built up a wealth of data about…

8 years ago

What Bookkeepers Can Learn From Real Estate Agents: Using Video and Images

Focusing on Education Rather than Sales THE INTERNET HAS CHANGED the way businesses market their services to prospects, from a…

8 years ago

What Bookkeepers Can Learn From Real Estate Agents: Sales Pitches

Never Fear: A "Sales" Pitch Can Really Just Be a Conversation After you’ve set the correct prices for your bookkeeping services, it’s time…

8 years ago

What Bookkeepers Can Learn From Real Estate Agents: Setting Prices

Don't Reinvent the Wheel: Glean Relevant Info from the Property Industry As a bookkeeper, or someone thinking about becoming a…

8 years ago

MYOB, Xero or QuickBooks: Which Suits Your Business Best?

Which is the Pick of the Bunch? IN A PREVIOUS POST, we highlighted some of the biggest differences between QuickBooks…

8 years ago

QuickBooks Isn’t SuperStream Compliant, But It Doesn’t Matter!

How QuickBooks Palms Off Payroll I'm a fan of QuickBooks as the functionality is excellent and the cost of the software is still…

8 years ago

Are You a Bookkeeper Who Needs More Clients? Want My Advice?

FINDING PROSPECTS AND converting them into clients involves selling and most of us hate doing it, but wait... For those…

8 years ago

The New Year’s Approaching: Think About New Content Marketing for Your Business

The Value of Content Marketing The beginning of a new year, which is typically the quietest as people take a…

8 years ago

Why Partnerships Can Be Risky Business

An Understanding of Business Partnerships is Essential As we mentioned in our previous post about doing the necessary actions to…

8 years ago