When considering the option to outsource any aspect of your business, consider that you are already outsourcing 99% of your business, with the exception of core operations. What? 99%? Don’t believe me? Just examine your expenses from A-Z. Starting with advertising, do you own an advertising firm, or do you pay for that service to…
Cloud-based, online accounting can be intense. It is all systems-driven and when set up correctly, it will make available reports on a daily basis only dreamed of in more traditional systems. There are a few reasons for this – firstly, bank and credit card feeds. Once you turn on your bank and credit card feeds,…
Do you want to create a massive breakthrough in innovation at your company? Do you want to imagine a whole new future where the impossible becomes possible? Words are powerful, and it is well-known fact of brain science that our minds cannot distinguish a future event from a current event when spoken in present day,…
Canada (and likely the USA too) is lagging far behind Kenya, Africa in it’s money transfer systems. I just read a survey in a QuickBooks Blog that states: Think about the business opportunity for a disruptive shake-up of our banking and credit card processing system. As our clients know, we are an advocate of Plooto…
I recently read a summary of a book called The Second Mountain, by David Brooks, and it inspired me to write this blog. One common thing all humans share is the goal to be happy. And we believe that being successful will make us happy. But what is success? Too often many of us adopt…
We all get so busy in our businesses and often forget to keep a pipeline of new prospects flowing for when things are slower… I know I do! It is so easy to stop marketing when you have so much work to do that you cannot imagine taking on new business. The very idea might…
I recently read an article that quite frankly shocked me. I didn’t think that our educational standards were quite so low in Canada. Nor did I realize that it impacts business as much as the article I have linked below implies. One thing I have noticed in Canada is how poor our technical infrastructure is.…
What? Risks of cloud-based software? As anyone who regularly reads my blog, you may be startled by that headline! Well, of course, there are risks in everything in life, and cloud-based accounting is no exception. The risk in using cloud-based accounting software is there, and I have written about this before, so this Blog is…
A system is designed to create efficiencies and ease and, most importantly, predictable outcomes. People should not have to think through each step. Systems need to be living organisms, where people are empowered to modify the systems (with oversight) to create an environment of constant improvement. When your business creates an environment of problem-solving people…
I get frequently asked if cloud-based accounting is secure. My answer – “what has you think desktop computing is secure?” The answer I hear most often is something like this – “I want to control my own data; I don’t trust putting it online. What if someone hacks into it?” The other risk people fear…