Moving out of your comfort zone

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. Develop that...
Are you running a successful bookkeeping business

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.Your job until...
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...