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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…

Paul Barnes

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…

Paul Barnes

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…

Paul Barnes

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…

Paul Barnes

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…

Paul Barnes

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…

Paul Barnes

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…

Paul Barnes

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…

Paul Barnes

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…

Paul Barnes

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…

Amanda Wilcox

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…

Paul Barnes

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…

Paul Barnes

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