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We are presenting a webinar in partnership with Practice Ignition on Friday 27th May at 1.30-2.30pm.

In this webinar, hosted by Practice Ignition, we will show you the HOW TO’s of automating your client engagement process and how you are missing out on easy revenue by doing it the old way.

We will also go into detail around how menu pricing has become the new norm and how you can convert your existing services to fixed or value based fees.

Make sure you stay to the end where we will be sharing valu…

As bookkeepers, we’re always looking to systemise our work, and do the same in 30 minutes as it used to take us an hour to do.  Here is a round-up of some of my favourite apps for productivity and organisation.

 

17Hats

This is a fantastic all round CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and workflow software.  With just a little time setting this up it’ll handle all of your quotes, invoices, contact details, workflows and much more.

www.17hats.com $29/month

 

Trello

Sometimes you don’t need anything a…

My children are like most children. I want to give them interests and develop their social skills so that when the time comes, I know they can go out into the world and stand on their own two feet. I want to know that they'll have confidence to interact with others, and will have learned skills through their various extra curricular activities.

You know the stuff. Swimming on a Monday, football on a Tuesday, Cubs on a Thursday, badminton on a Saturday. Recently I've been wondering if, in my desir…

We all know that most of the accounting software providers give discounts if you sign up as a partner to encourage you to offer that software to your clients. Whilst these prices may be mentioned on company’s websites it can be hard to find out what the discounts actually are. I guess this is because if Joe Public could see these prices they would want to know why they can’t get them direct. For bookkeepers however, it can be frustrating when you are trying to figure out what software solution i…

On 28^th December 1978, United Airlines flight 173 took off from John F Kennedy International Airport in New York, making its way to Portland International Airport in Oregon.  It made a scheduled stop in Denver, Colorado before flying on towards Portland.

The flight crew on that day consisted of Captain McBroom, first officer Beebe, and flight engineer Mendenhall. Captain Malburn McBoom was a hugely experienced pilot.  One of the most senior pilots with United Airlines.  He had clocked up some 27,…

Our members are the heart and soul of The Bookkeepers Alliance. We understand that our members want to build relationships and network with other bookkeepers, both in their own locality and further afield. Our goal is to provide as many opportunities, over a variety of mediums, as possible to facilitate this.

Much of the work we do it online, but as The Bookkeepers Alliance grows we appreciate that there will be more of a need for face to face networking opportunities. To this end, we have dev…

Chancellor Phillip Hammond delivered his first Autumn statement on Wednesday, here are some of the key points for payroll

Its good news for workers aged 25 and over as Chancellor Phillip Hammond announced the National Living wage will rise 4% from £7.20 to £7.50 effective from April 2017. The rise will represent a 30p per hour increase on the current National Living Wage.

The Personal income tax allowance is set to rise to £11,500 from the current rate of £11,000 with a further increase to £12,5…

The new rules on salary sacrifice are coming into play on 6th April 2017 are you up to date on the changes? Here is a quick overview of what to expect,

Salary sacrifice for pension, Direct employer contracted childcare, Cycle to work, childcare vouchers, workplace nurseries and cars with emissions below 75g CO2 / km will all remain unaffected and employees will still continue to benefit.

Some of the benefits that you will see an impact on are Cars, Mobile phones, Workplace parking and white goods.…

1. Lastminute.com 

With over 1 million small businesses yet to reach their Auto-Enrolment staging date, it is essential to plan early.  Leaving it too late will not only create unnecessary time pressures but will increase the costs and could lead to a fine!  Unfortunately, 1 in 5 businesses now miss their staging date completely and as a result over 26,000 Compliance Notices have already been issued by the Pensions Regulator.

2. Auto-Enrolment has very little to do with Pensions!

Although Auto…

Are you worried that your website isn't doing its job? You see the visitors land on your page, but they never take up your offer of a free consultation? What's going wrong?

You know that if you could speak to to visitor you could explain what you do so much better than the words on your site. As bookkeepers we're great at converting people when we speak to them, and even more when we meet them face to face. So how do we do that?

First, you need to lose the free consultation offer. I've said i…