Beating Automation: Marketing!

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...
How much is your self worth?

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...
The Art of the Upsell

The Art of the Upsell

Accounting and bookkeeping professionals as well as lawyers have great difficulty identifying themselves as sales people. “It’s not professional to sell to your client” is a constant refrain. Yet, in the real world new customers and clients need to be ‘sold’ on using...
Menu pricing: does it work

Menu pricing: does it work

Adam Smith, the father of economics, believed that economic progress was most possible by the division of labor into specialist groups. That an organization could be hugely more efficient by breaking down production processes into many small tasks, performed by...
Chasing New Revenue Streams

Chasing New Revenue Streams

Add new revenue streams to your firm or practice! How many time shave you had that headline dumped into your email inbox? It’s the current mantra of vendors, trainers, consultants and, yes, even membership sites and professional associations. For sure there are a...