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Important New VAT Rules for Digital Business Saving Tax

Important New VAT Rules for Digital Business

The rules around charging VAT are changing for digital business in the new year. Here's a reminder of the general rule for VAT on the…

Paul Barnes

Invoicing in less than 10 seconds Cloud Accounting

Invoicing in less than 10 seconds

Remember when your Grandad used to say, 'Time is Money'? At the time, I bet you thought it was load of rubbish, but as your…

Paul Barnes

Getting Your Taxes Right (Or, How Not To Be Like Jimmy Carr) Saving Tax

Getting Your Taxes Right (Or, How Not To Be Like Jimmy Carr)

It’s safe to say it wasn’t a laughing matter. He might be a comedian, but Jimmy Carr wasn’t having a giggle when the story broke…

Paul Barnes

Why your creative agency should listen to your mother’s advice Uncategorized

Why your creative agency should listen to your mother’s advice

What do your mother and kept promises have to do with running your creative agency? Well, when children, our mothers firmly encouraged us (i.e. forced…

Paul Barnes

XERO Feature: Inventory Items Cloud Accounting

XERO Feature: 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…

Paul Barnes

Getting Money Out of Your Business…The Right Way Saving Tax

Getting Money Out of Your Business…The Right Way

We’ve all had that revelation of what paying tax actually means.  Often, at first in our working life it is upon receipt of our very…

Paul Barnes

Meet Xero, Your New Accounts Rottweiler Cloud AccountingIncreasing Company Value

Meet Xero, Your New Accounts Rottweiler

Many small business owners find the hardest part about running a creative agency is the invoicing. Of course, the getting in of the money is…

Paul Barnes

Thank you! Uncategorized

Thank you!

Thank you for subscribing to our updates. You have our word that we will never, ever share, sell, rent or otherwise do anything naughty with…

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Xero Feature: Customer Customisation Cloud Accounting

Xero Feature: Customer Customisation

Regular readers will know how much we love Xero here and so every so often we show case a feature that we love.... Another great…

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Don’t make my outsourcing mistake Increasing Company Value

Don’t make my outsourcing mistake

This is a guest blog post, courtesy of Karen Reyburn of the Profitable Firm. Recently I was mulling over the amazing positives and the potential…

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Do you hate creating invoices? Cloud Accounting

Do you hate creating invoices?

We hear this a lot, and it's probably the biggest paradox in business. "I hate doing my invoicing." It's daft - there is literally no…

Paul Barnes

Taking your salary without any tax Saving Tax

Taking your salary without any tax

One of the first questions we are asked when we start working with a new client is “How should I pay myself?” The answer, you…

Paul Barnes

5 Ways to avoid underselling your services Becoming Profitable

5 Ways to avoid underselling your services

It's really difficult to get paid what you're worth, especially if what you do is service based (like most Creative/Digital businesses). But there are 5…

Paul Barnes

The 6 Reasons you should be using Contractors (and 3 reasons you shouldn’t) Uncategorized

The 6 Reasons you should be using Contractors (and 3 reasons you shouldn’t)

Joergelman / Pixabay Outsourced Contractors are members of your team that aren't on your payroll. For example, imagine a client asking for a 3D walk…

Paul Barnes

Forecasting didn’t work for Michael Fish, (but it can for you) Uncategorized

Forecasting didn’t work for Michael Fish, (but it can for you)

Everyone knows the story. In 1987, Michael Fish in his now infamous forecast told the nation not to worry as there wasn't a hurricane on…

Paul Barnes

The 3 Part secret of getting paid on time Becoming Profitable

The 3 Part secret of getting paid on time

With the rise of modern accountancy and cloud-based accounting systems like Xero, then this is becoming less of a secret, but here's the 3 part…

Paul Barnes

We didn’t design our own website Uncategorized

We didn’t design our own website

In theory, we could have though. There's loads of tutorials online showing us how to: Set up webhosting Install Wordpress, Buy and install a theme…

Paul Barnes

How To Maximise Your Profits (So You Can Spend More Money on Cake) Becoming Profitable

How To Maximise Your Profits (So You Can Spend More Money on Cake)

Want more money? Let’s not beat around the bush here – naturally as a creative agency you want to expand your skills, and learn new…

Paul Barnes

Why creating a budget will instantly increase your luck with the opposite sex Uncategorized

Why creating a budget will instantly increase your luck with the opposite sex

Creating a proper budget for your creative agency could be the difference between living happily every after with the most beautiful person in the world,…

Paul Barnes

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Iconic Art

Collaboratively administrate empowered markets via plug-and-play networks. Dynamically procrastinate B2C users after installed base benefits. Dramatically visualize customer directed convergence without revolutionary ROI. Efficiently unleash…

Paul Barnes