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The Xero Journey for your Creative Agency: From Sales Lead to Cash in Bank Becoming Profitable

The Xero Journey for your Creative Agency: From Sales Lead to Cash in Bank

Rod Drury, Xero CEO and Founder, explained at Xerocon recently that "Accounting Software” was always a temporary category for where they are headed as a software…

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10 FAQs For Startup Creative Agencies Uncategorized

10 FAQs For Startup Creative Agencies

When you’re starting up a new creative agency, it all seems like smooth sailing at first. It’s exciting. Fun. New. Challenges are just that –…

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Xero’s New Payroll Feature Makes Life Easier For You And Your Employees Cloud Accounting

Xero’s New Payroll Feature Makes Life Easier For You And Your Employees

At the recent Xero conference in London, a very exciting thing happened. We say exciting, but we know that as accountants, we possibly have different…

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Eat Or Be Eaten: Use Xero To Rule The Roost Cloud Accounting

Eat Or Be Eaten: Use Xero To Rule The Roost

It’s perhaps the golden rule of everything in the history of our planet. Eat or be eaten. It was true years ago, and it’s still…

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Management Accounts: The beating heart of your business Cloud Accounting

Management Accounts: The beating heart of your business

Management accounts. Not a phrase that sets the pulse racing, is it? But they’re actually the beating heart of your business and the key to…

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Xerocon: a technology conference, not an accountancy conference Cloud Accounting

Xerocon: a technology conference, not an accountancy conference

If you know us, you’ll know we think Xero's the bee’s knees. But even if you know Xero, you may not know how big a…

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Digital Roundtable 14th April 2015 Uncategorized

Digital Roundtable 14th April 2015

Are you a senior Digital creative type? Are you a creative? Love talking digital? Like eating biscuits? Boy, have we got a treat for you.…

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Get your SAGE data converted for FREE to Xero until 31st March!! Saving Tax

Get your SAGE data converted for FREE to Xero until 31st March!!

The bad news: If you’re using SAGE, we put it to you that you’re a bit outdated. A bit behind the times.  You’re using an…

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Streamline your business with Xero Cloud Accounting

Streamline your business with Xero

Build a scaleable business using the latest technology Imagine how quickly your business could grow if you had the perfect systems in place. I want…

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Stifle innovation or create it? The financial directors of the future Uncategorized

Stifle innovation or create it? The financial directors of the future

When you think of a stereotypical financial director, what sort of image springs to mind? Probably someone stiff and uptight, fairly straight-talking and very conservative,…

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Small Business Accounting Capabilities Uncategorized

Small Business Accounting Capabilities

Being around a few of my friends this weekend who work for large corporates, it struck me that small businesses have an exceptional opportunity when…

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8 Simple Slip Of The Tongues That Can Lose A Client Forever Uncategorized

8 Simple Slip Of The Tongues That Can Lose A Client Forever

In a new pitch situation, there are times when you’d give your left leg to win a new client. They’re promising big things, it’s a…

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Account WatchList Uncategorized

Account WatchList

You may have noticed on the Dashboard page in the top right-hand side, a section called ‘Account Watchlist’. This section of Xero does exactly what…

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Xero Top 5 Apps Cloud Accounting

Xero Top 5 Apps

The word is out from Xero. They’ve listed their take on the top 5 add-on apps to your Xero online accounting application that will help…

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Creatives are from Mars, Accountants are from Venus Uncategorized

Creatives are from Mars, Accountants are from Venus

'My accountant doesn't understand me!' 'Accountants like numbers and facts. I have to have one, but there's no way I can explain how our creative…

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Xero Tips – Inventory Items Saving Tax

Xero Tips – Inventory Items

Many businesses sell or provide the same goods or services over and over again, and yet when raising invoices, they insist on re-creating the description…

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Don’t be the cheapest – someone will always out-cheap you! Uncategorized

Don’t be the cheapest – someone will always out-cheap you!

When you first start out as a creative agency, you really want work, don't you? So you offer to do work for free. You discount…

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5 reasons Creative Agencies Don’t Grow Becoming Profitable

5 reasons Creative Agencies Don’t Grow

You’re keen to grow your creative agency. Perhaps you’ve even noticed some increase in the number of enquiries you have been getting lately. You do…

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Paul Barnes Wins 2014 Finance Professional of the Year at Manchester Young Talent Awards Uncategorized

Paul Barnes Wins 2014 Finance Professional of the Year at Manchester Young Talent Awards

We are over the moon to be able to share with you all that Paul Barnes is Manchester's Finance Professional of the Year 2014! Last…

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Crush and Lovely Digital Agency use Xero Cloud Accounting

Crush and Lovely Digital Agency use Xero

Xero is perfect for Digital Creative businesses. This video profiles a New-York based Digital agency, and tells the story of how Xero has streamlined their…

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