Wind up the Specialist Inside You

Wind up the Specialist Inside You

Lawyers do it; general medical practitioners do it, accountants do it. And most bookkeepers do it too. They mostly are generalists. After all, an accountant does accounting and a bookkeeper does bookkeeping, right? You wind yourself up each day and off you go. Here’s...
Are You Tech Ready?

Are You Tech Ready?

Disruption hurts those who aren’t prepared for it. Fairfax didn’t understand the potentially disruptive effects of the internet when they were approached by the people behind SEEK to buy into their online jobs website. Their classified revenues were decimated. In the...
Are You Paying Yourself Enough?

Are You Paying Yourself Enough?

Drive, charisma, ambition, determination, passion are some of the qualities that allow bookkeepers and business owners to beat the odds and launch themselves into business, find their first customers, surmount near-impossible hurdles and conquer new markets. You own a...
Niche is the New Black

Niche is the New Black

You know which clients you want to service but are ALL your clients worth serving? It makes a lot of sense in professional firms and business to keep your clients and to create ‘lifetime’ clients. But it may pay to narrow your target market or niche – i.e. the clients...
Are We At a Tipping Point?

Are We At a Tipping Point?

We’re on the cusp of a revolution the likes of which we have never seen before. There will be jobs that disappear; there will also be new jobs and new ways of doing business. Consider the big new names in business that didn’t even exist 15 years ago: Uber the world’s...