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Online Tools to Help You Work Remotely

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With business needs and technology evolving year after year, working remotely is becoming a necessity for most individuals and businesses.

However, sometimes working remotely isn’t as easy as it sounds. There is a lot that can go into it regardless of your industry. It takes discipline, determination, and quite a bit of help from technology. Here are some online tools to help you work remotely, effectively and efficiently.

1. Video and Conference Calling

Working from home can sometimes feel isolating. As humans, we need interaction with other people. It is important not to isolate yourself and have the ability to connect with people face to face.

It not only creates a community, but it also allows you to feel connected to your clients, team, and colleagues.

These are some ways of achieving this:

  • Schedule check-ins with your team. It helps you make sure that things are not falling through the cracks and gives you all quality time together.
  • Microsoft Teams, Skype, and Whatsapp are all good online options to consider.

2. Messaging Channels

Messaging channels are great to keep it feeling like an office environment. These are also great ways to contact your colleagues or team without the hassle of long threads and having a million emails to get through. Have a channel that is dedicated to non-work-related chat, this can be a channel whereby you have normal conversation and reconnect as a team and as people.

Some great messaging apps include:

  • Slack has a searchable history feature that allows users to easily find past chats and shared information in less time. This app will even let you share documents like PDFs, images, and videos.
  • Microsoft Teams is not only a great app for video and conference calling, it is also a great messaging platform, thought of as an alternative to Slack.
  • CloudApp is one of its kind – this is a visual communication platform that brings screen and webcam recording, GIF creation, and image annotation features securely to the cloud.

3. Project Management

Managing people and projects remotely can be a nightmare. But it doesn’t need to be. These apps will help you keep everything in tow.

  • Trello is a visual project management software. All your work happens on Boards. Boards are divided into lists, which represent different stages in a project and populated with cards. A Card represents a specific task and can contain due dates, chat boxes, attachments, and more.
  • Todoist is a smart to-do list app. Perfect for remote workers seeking simplicity.

4. File sharing

There is one app that does this perfectly and that is Dropbox. It is easy to use and is immensely popular and used by millions of people around the world.

All you need to do is upload your file to your Dropbox account and then share access to it with your colleagues. Easy!

5. Cloud-Based Accounting Software

Firstly, the cloud is a platform to access data and software online anytime from any device. This platform keeps data secured and up to date. How can this help you?

Quick Books Online is a cloud-based accounting software that allows multiple people to access and work on an account from a variety of devices, while your data is kept secured and up to date constantly.

These are some of the benefits you get with using QuickBooks Online:

  • Dashboards allow you to get a snapshot of your business. This includes Profit & Loss, Overdue Invoices, and Bank Balances in seconds.
  • Your data is secured with the same encryption technology used by the world’s leading banks. QuickBooks Online Security.
  • QuickBooks integrates with ABSA, FNB, Nedbank and Standard Bank to allow you to import your bank statements easily.
  • Know where your business stands and have ready access to 65+ reports in a single click. Get a clear view of the overall state of your business with the Company Snapshot.
  • Get enormous flexibility by customizing how your invoices and receipts look and what information they contain.
  • Handle multiple currencies and track currency gains and losses.
  • Give your employees access, while maintaining control over what information they can view or modify with multi-user collaboration.
  • Take your business with you anywhere, anytime and access QuickBooks Online on any Internet connected computer, tablet or phone using any operating system.
  • Free Mobile/Tablet App
  • Your accountant has free access to your financials
  • If you need help, free and unlimited support is just an email or phone call away.

Working remotely requires extra focus and tools to help you get work done fast and well. We hope that this blog has given you some advice on how to do just that.

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How to Digitise your Business through Social Media Marketing

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With a lot of companies and people working remotely and the country going into lockdown, there is no better time to focus on digitising your business.

 

Most people will be spending a lot more time online. With that being said, this is a peak time to market your business and services on social media. This can help you reach more potential customers and ultimately increase your business leads, while your customers can contact you directly from the chosen platforms.

Wondering where to start? Here we have some tips to help you digitise your business and market on social media.

 

  1. Start with a Plan

Before you begin creating social media marketing campaigns, consider your business’s goals. Starting a social media marketing campaign without a social strategy is a recipe for disaster and panic.

 

  1. Meet Your Marketing Goals

Now to consider your business’ goals and how to meet them. Here are some questions to ask when defining those goals:

  • What are you hoping to achieve through social media marketing?
  • Who is your target audience?
  • What platforms would your target audience use and how would they use social media?
  • What message do you want to send to your audience with social media marketing?

 

These goals are important and will help you do a stellar job on social channels. But you also need to understand how those goals can help your business. Social media marketing can help with several goals, such as:

  • Increasing website traffic
  • Building conversions
  • Raising brand awareness
  • Creating a brand identity and positive brand association
  • Improving communication and interaction with key audiences

 

  1. Choose the Right Platforms

There is no shortage of social media platforms where content can be shared. Sharing your content on the right platforms is crucial to your success.

 

When determining which channels to use, you should consider your customers (audience) and your business. It’s important that you create accounts on the platforms your target audience uses, so they can easily connect with you. You should also consider which sites best fit your products.

 

  1. Create a Content Plan

Scrambling to create posts at the last minute can lead to low-quality content and panic. A lack of organization can lead to repetitive posts or a lull in your presence on one or more of your channels. Creating social media content calendars or content plans can help avoid those mistakes and lead to more effective posts. Content plans also help you create goals and strategies for meeting them and track your progress toward them.

 

To make a content calendar, use a regular calendar for each social media channel and plan out your posts in advance, complete with hashtags, links, images and other content.

 

Make sure you post regularly and offer truly valuable information that your ideal customers will find helpful and interesting. The content that you share on your social networks can include social media images, videos, infographics, how-to guides and more.

 

  1. Consistent Brand Image

Using social media for marketing enables your business to project your brand image across a variety of different social media platforms. While each platform has its own unique environment and voice, your business’s core identity, whether it’s friendly, fun, or trustworthy, should stay consistent.

 

  1. Sharing Links

While using social media for marketing is a great way to leverage your own unique, original content to gain followers, fans, and devotees, it’s also an opportunity to link to outside articles as well. If other sources provide great, valuable information you think your target audience will enjoy, don’t be shy about linking to them. Curating and linking to outside sources will improve trust and reliability, and you may even get some links in return.

 

  1. Competitors

It’s always important to keep an eye on competitors—they can provide valuable data for keyword research and other social media marketing insight. If your competitors are using a certain social media marketing channel or technique that seems to be working for them, considering doing the same thing – but make yours better!

 

  1. Keep Track of your Success

You can’t determine the success of your social media marketing strategies without tracking data. Google Analytics can be used as a great social media marketing tool that will help you measure your success, as well as determine which strategies are not working. You can also make use of Facebook Business Manager, Twitter Campaign Manager, LinkedIn Campaign Manager, etc.

 

  1. Community Management

Have someone dedicated to checking your platforms. This means that someone will monitor the comments, inbox messages, and reviews, etc. posted to your channels. This is a good way to show your customers that you are there for them and gain potential new customers.

 

  1. Address Problems Quickly

Hopefully, you receive mostly positive feedback on social media. Occasionally you may encounter someone who is upset, argumentative or has something negative to say about your company.

 

You should carefully monitor mentions of your brand on social channels, so you can catch issues before they escalate. If you spot a problem, engage with the person by publicly apologizing if necessary and offering to solve the problem over a direct message exchange. This way, people who see the post know you were responsive but don’t have to see all the specifics of the issue.

  1. Provide Value

Perhaps the most important thing you can do on social media to provide value to your followers. Create something that your audience will find useful. It could be something that tells them something they didn’t know before, makes them laugh, entertains them or anything else that’s beneficial in some way.

 

This aspect of social media is what attracts the right customers to your business, makes people want to follow you on social sites and helps content to spread. Master this, and you’ll be a big step closer to a successful social media marketing campaign.

 

With nearly 3 billion active users, social media is a potential goldmine of new customers and current patrons who could become repeat customers. Create a good social campaign, and you’ll be able to connect with some of those people and grow your customer base.

 

In case you missed our previous blog, here we talk about how to digitise your business through digital marketing: here

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2020 Trends for Accountants

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Technology is always evolving and the advent of innovations in the world is boosting economic growth at a global level.

Accounting is no exception. It plays an important role in any business. By being up to date and organized, accounting software can provide accurate, relevant, and valuable financial information, leading to better business decisions and assist in reaching the desired business growth.

Here are some of those trends you can expect to see this year:

  1. Migrating to Cloud-based Software

Cloud-based software has already made its presence in accounting. By adopting this, you can establish your practice as a leading brand that provides up to the mark CPA services.

QuickBooks Online is a perfect example of this.

Find out more here.

Products such as QuickBooks Online allow you to store & access data, utilize inbuilt tools and features from anywhere, anytime. As well as automated bank feed reconciliations, expense claim tracking, inventory control,  multi-currency processing, etc. Everything is automated.

  1. Potential of Internet

Using the internet allows your bookkeepers and accountants to have two-way conversations with colleagues and clients. There are many applications out there for face-to-face virtual interactions as well as being able to expand and assist clients across the globe.

  1. Millennial Clients

Slowly but surely the younger generation of “Millennials” will start taking the lead in most aspects of almost everything. Many business owners that fall in that category are willing to explore beyond standard business approaches and systems. Cloud-based accounting is the exact reflection of something they would expect. The era of millennials means that accountants need to handle completely different types of clients who prefer a greater level of proactiveness, enhanced operational transparency, and a personalised approach.

  1. Social Media Platforms & Accounting

Platforms such as LinkedIn, allow firms to market their services more broadly and keep connected with clients, colleagues, and partners. Such platforms also help you stay updated with the latest trends in the accounting and business sectors and how they make a difference in their work.

The number of social media users worldwide in 2019 hit 3.484 billion, up 9% year-on-year. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram can be used for B2B and B2C with a massive number of users as well.

  1. Artificial intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (A.I) is an exciting prospect for accountants as there is the potential to effectively add a ‘virtual’ member to the team that is available 24/7 to answer multiple questions and carry out simple tasks even when the office is closed. This emerging technology will be used in the day-to-day running of businesses allowing complex and repetitive tasks to be automated with A.I, machine learning, and robotics with extreme accuracy.

2020 brings with it new opportunities and digitisation is the key trend that will dominate the profession. Accounting firms that are looking for sustainable and long-term success will need to ensure their clients can accomplish any task relating to their finances on a mobile device.

In conclusion, digitisation is becoming a must for all businesses, and it is shaping the trends that we will see in accounting. Something that every business needs to keep up with to strive and make sure they not only stay relevant but that they can offer the best and most up to date solutions for their clients and business.

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How To Digitise Your Business Through Digital Marketing

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Firstly, what does it mean to digitise your business? Well, digitalisation is when you use digital technologies to change a business model and provide new revenue and value-producing opportunities. Digitalizing your business can give you a competitive advantage by doing things better, faster, and cheaper than your competition.

Digital marketings any form of marketing products or services that involves electronic devices.

Having your business digitised in this day and age is imperative to make sure you stay relevant. The vast majority of the population are on their phones or computers 99% of the day. Therefore, making sure they see your ads and business is a must.

 

Why digital marketing matters:

Just think of it this way, Google and Facebook generate more revenue than any traditional media company because they control more eyeballs. That’s why digital marketing matters, it is where people’s attention is. It is the easiest and best way to onboard new clients and boost your business. Let’s be honest, not many people are as receptive to pamphlets and cold calling as they used to be.

The 7 big categories of online marketing are:

  • Search engine optimization (SEO)
  • Search engine marketing (SEM)
  • Social Media Marketing (SMM)
  • Pay-per-click advertising (PPC)
  • Email marketing

And now to break them down.

SEO will help optimise your website and bring you to the forefront of Google – ensuring (if done correctly) your business will appear on the first page of the Google search results page. Which ultimately is the goal, right?

SEM is essentially Google ads. For example, when you Google a product or business, the first few search results will have “ad” at the bottom of them, this is a Search Text Ad. If you are watching a YouTube video and a banner for a product or service pops up, this is a Display Ad. It is just another way of getting your business seen because everyone Googles everything.

Social Media Marketing is creating content for social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Most people spend a huge amount of time on at least one of these networks, and if you have relevant content that is consistent, you are bound to attract attention and business.

PPC or pay-per-click advertising is businesses running Google ads and are only charged when a user actually clicks on their ad, hence the name “pay-per-click.”

Email Marketing is a highly effective strategy of sending emails to prospects and customers. Effective marketing emails convert prospects into customers. This could include banners on your emails, scheduled emails that go out to prospects, etc.

Now that we have the basics out of the way – the question is… how can digitising your business help with accounting?

We have drastically moved on from the days where you needed to write out receipts, keep boxes of slips and have to manually find and collaborate all of your company’s data. Because of everything going the digital route, it has made accounting that much easier and smoother, eliminating the chances of human error, as well as shortening the time it takes. With EasyBiz and QuickBooks Online, you can save up to 45 hours a month!

Instead of having to do everything yourself, QuickBooks Online allows you to run your small business seamlessly from the cloud. Because it’s cloud accounting software, your data is automatically synced across your devices so that your work is never lost. It also means you can run your business from the office, the car or the kitchen table.

Check out how EasyBiz and QuickBooks Online can help digitise your business today: Quick Books

That’s the scoop on how to digitise your business to save you time and money while helping you onboard new clients in an easier, more relevant way.

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 South African Budget Speech 2020

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The Budget Speech – an important time for South Africans and South African businesses in general. Shedding light on where we are as a country in terms of finance and what we can expect to happen during the next financial year.

It is vital information to have so you know how to prepare your business for what is to come in the business sector and make sure you plan accordingly to keep your business up and running fully.

In case you missed it, here is a summary of the events: 

  • The Finance Minister Mr Tito Mboweni announced on Wednesday, 26 February 2020 in the Budget Speech that much intervention is required to address the cost of wages in the public sector and has proposed reducing the public sector compensation bill by R160 billion over 3 years. 

This has been welcomed by many, but the trade unions are not happy.

  • One of the reasons the trade unions are unhappy is that the public sector employee compensation has remained at about 35% or so of the total expenditure over the last decade, wages are not the problem.

Looking closer, it seems that their statement is debatable and that the Minister is in fact accurate. The reason being is that the trade unions are referring to how much wages are as a ratio concerning other public expenditures.

However, the Minister is referring to affordability, which is an expenditure item relative to government revenue. If we had to accept the unions’ argument as a good measure, the government could just spend R200 billion more on goods and services funded through debt and the ratio of wages would, as a result, be corrected.

  • When compared to tax revenue collected over the last 12 years, another reality emerges. The public sector wage bill has not remained constant and has grown from just over 30 percent to over 40 percent. When compared to GDP, it has consistently grown from 10,29% in 2001, to 10,73% in 2011 to 12,3% in 2021.These increases might not appear large, but one must consider that that GDP equates to approximately R5.4 trillion. The wage bill has been tracking government expenditure growth at over 10% per annum.

This represents enormous growth in the affordability of the public sector wage bill as it relates to what government can afford and to what the country can afford.

  • The latter criteria of productivity are a lot more difficult to address given the lack of effective and transparent productivity measures in the public sector. Some have tried to analyse productivity like ‘Prophet Analytics’ in their 2012 quarterly Labour Market Navigator found that private sector employee productivity was 450% higher than in the public sector employees. In 2015 the Financial and Fiscal Commission found that the government was not doing enough to provide services “efficiently, effectively and economically”.

The Minister, in 2019, and this year in 2020 concedes as much, stating this year that civil servant’s salaries have grown by 40% in real terms but without the equivalent increase in productivity. These may all be persuasive rather than conclusive factual findings as it relates to productivity but seems to affirm what the public is experiencing daily.

In conclusion, South Africa cannot afford its public sector at the current level of stagnation and budget cuts for compensation and benefits are required. The second economic reality is that compensation only becomes problematic if it lacks concomitant productivity.

We hope this has been informative and helps you prepare your business for the upcoming year.

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Do’s and Don’ts of Financial Year-End

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Financial year-end can be a headache for any person working in finance. There is so much to have prepared and ready for when the time comes.

Regardless of when it is, thinking about Do’s and Don’ts is imperative to a smooth financial year-end. We’ve found some of the best do’s and don’ts that should help you out and make this time less stressful!

The Do’s

  1. Training

Training is always a good place to start. Financial year-end training is a good way to refresh yourself on the process and get up to date with any legislative changes that need to be incorporated. It’s also important for new team members to understand the preparation plan in place so that the team can hit the ground running and complete all requirements before the cut-off time.

  1. Communication

Financial year-end is a team effort, and this extends outside of your HR and Payroll teams. Let your leaders and support teams know what your plan is ahead of time so that they can assist you where needed.

For outsourced payroll, teams should start communicating with their customers early on, in order to ensure that all involved know what to do well ahead of time. With everyone briefed in with plenty of time, any misunderstandings or issues can be dealt with early on, whilst also allowing ample time to gather payroll data.

  1. Review Everything

End of the financial year means going through 12 (sometimes 13) months of payroll data, so it’s crucial that any of the information being handled doesn’t get missed. Go through your payroll calendar to ensure all payments required to be reported within the current financial year are processed on time. Review overpayments, pay codes, tax numbers, and employee information so that the payment summaries and files are correct.

The Don’ts

  1. Don’t Procrastinate

Reporting needs to be done at the same time as your organisation’s regular pay run, so it’s vital that you stay on top of competing priorities for this time of year.

 

  1. Take Note of Legislative Updates

Ensure that you and your team are remaining compliant with legislative requirements. It’s important to check if there is any new legislation that might impact your end of financial year payroll and HR reporting.

  1. Team’s Leave

Every person in the team needs to work together to get through the end of the financial year successfully, so it’s important to be aware of everyone’s schedule. It’s best not to have any key payroll people on leave at this time, but things can still happen or get in the way, so don’t forget to have a contingency plan in place as a backup.

By keeping these tips in mind, you can have a smooth and successful financial year-end with a 100% chance of fewer headaches or mistakes. Financial year-end is a tough time for anyone, just take a breath, make sure you have all the data you need and everything should be fine.

For any payroll assistance or software, check out Quick Payroll to see how EasyBiz can make your financial year-end that much smoother.

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Business advice from people in the know

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This month we interviewed Shaun Brickell from Icily Live and got his advice, as well as opinions on business and how having a good accounting software, can make all the difference in your day to day tasks.

  1. What does your business specialize in?

Icily Live specializes in sales and rental of equipment to the broadcast industry.  We supply vision mixing solutions, cameras and audio-visual equipment to suit any environment wanting to stream, live broadcast or even just live to screen in houses of worship.

  1. How big is your company and how long have you been operating for?

This division of the business is a year old and has two full-time employees.

  1. How did you grow your business (from the ground up)?

As partners in business, myself and Craig Parrott both come from the industry.  I have been involved in Live Event productions for 20 years and Craig has a career in creative video editing and shooting spanning 10 years.

  1. What has your relationship with EasyBiz Technologies been like and where did you hear about them?

To be completely honest I did my own research into an accounting system that could seamlessly integrate into our online store with the availability of local support from EasyBiz Technologies.  QuickBooks, coupled with MyWorks Software Plugin to our WordPress (WooCommerce) site provided a balance of professionalism, the least amount of duplication and cost-effectiveness for our growing business.

  1. How has QuickBooks Online assisted you with day to day tasks?

QuickBooks allows us to be on the road, quoting and invoicing from our mobiles, iPads, and laptops as well as keeping an eye on online orders.  Service is everything in our business so being able to process quotes and orders while on the go is imperative.  In addition to this, we are able to keep an eye on online orders and quotation requests from our website.

  1. How has EasyBiz Technology and QuickBooks Online assisted in growing your business?

Being able to manage our online store and accounting system in one place means we have no errors in our stock control or pricing.  Utilising the MyWorks plugin allows us to update pricing from either QuickBooks or WooCommerce and the data is then automatically synchronized to the other.  If you have ever run an online business, you will know keeping pricing in sync is an ongoing time-consuming challenge that most small business owners don’t have the time for.

  1. How can accounting software assist a business in growing?

Having a dashboard with a quick overview of your current financial state really helps small business owners understand minute by minute where their business is tracking.  Having the category breakdown also assists me in understanding which categories are profitable and which are taking up space and consuming my cashflow.  All this can be viewed in real time, but running your own books and not having to wait until year-end for your accountant to tell you where things are going wrong.

  1. What are some tips you can give to someone wanting to grow their own company?

Start your business with a strategy.  Know what you DO and more importantly what you DON’T DO.  Don’t try to build a thousand-point business plan that consumes all your time.  Focus on 3 to 5 important areas in your business and do these well.  Every point in your strategy should include a measurement matrix.  If it can’t be measured, take it out.  Spend time understanding your customers and competitors.  Know what your customer’s touchpoints are and how your business can help them achieve their goals.  Know what your competitors are doing well and do it better and equally important, know where they are failing and be the hero in this space.

Sign up now and see how having trustworthy and reliable accounting software can assist you and your business too. This where we can help. Have a look at our products here EasyBiz Tech and let EasyBiz and QuickBooks assist you with your accounting and bookkeeping needs.

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Getting your finances back on track after the holidays

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That’s a wrap – 2019 is officially done and we welcome 2020!  The festive season is generally filled with a lot of great aspects like taking that well-deserved break, spending time with family and just being festive… with that being said, it does come with a price.

The festive season can put a serious dent in your finances. So, we have found some ways of getting your finances back on track!

  1. Set Financial Goals

Figure out what it is that you want to accomplish in the new year. Be it paying off debt, paying off your car or buying a house. Whatever it is, create a goal for yourself by creating a budget to help you stick to good financial habits and then reach that goal.

  1. Pay Off Debt

If you used a credit card, or even a personal loan during the holidays, it’s important to try to pay that off as soon as possible, because being in debt is not fun and it takes time and commitment to pay it off – lets also not forget the interest that normally gets added each month! Once you have paid it off, close your account or cut up your credit card. It just isn’t worth the stress!

  1. Be Frugal

Be careful with your money and how you spend it. Yes, getting home from work and having to prepare dinner can be a mission sometimes, especially after a long day and take-out might seem like the easiest route – but it’s not. It’s wasting money. Only spend money on the things you need, not what you want. This is the easiest way to save money and get back on track.

  1. Try Use Cash Only

Literally seeing the money leave your wallet will affect you more than just mindlessly swiping your card. Purely because you can actually see it and keep track of how much money you have left and making sure you are not spending money on the things you don’t need.

Unless you are a guru with your money, it’s one of the quickest ways people get into debt – not monitoring what gets spent using their debit cards.

  1. Find Ways To Earn Some Extra Money

Sometimes it’s not enough to just cut down your spending after the holidays. Sometimes, you need to increase your income as well. Find something that you can do on the sidelines that could bring in extra money to just help you that little bit extra.

  1. Don’t feel guilty

We all know that the festive season comes around the same time each year. We all know the New Year is filled with new beginnings. The year has passed so dust yourself off, stop dwelling over the fact that you overspent, and just promise yourself to do better next year.

  1. Work On A Budget For Next Christmas

As soon as you have gotten your finances on track – start planning for the next holiday season! That way you know throughout the year what you are working towards and how much you’ll need come the next festive season. You’ll be able to save money and make sure that your finances make it out alive afterward and you are not in the same boat as you are in now. Preplanning does wonders for creating good financial habits!

While the holidays are supposed to be fun and festive, you shouldn’t have to stress about money to make them fun. Take the measures and tips you need to make sure money is not something you need to stress about.

Check out some of our products and you can find one to help you manage your finances, for yourself and your business: EasyBiz Tech

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Time is Money

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“Time is money – It means time is a valuable resource because our time in this world is finite, so it’s better to do things as quickly as possible and get more done in a shorter amount of time…”

However, the idea that time is money has a long history.

Originally, this phrase can be linked back to Benjamin Franklin, who wrote in his 1748 essay, “Advice to a Young Tradesman”, “Remember that time is money,” he then goes on to remind his reader of the cost of laziness. When you’re not working, he says, you’re just throwing potential earnings away.

“Time is money” isn’t something we can trace to any one individual; rather it’s a formula that seems to float in humanity’s subconscious and pop up every so often. Be it in literature or conversation with someone. The phrase embodies a wish for success and a need for a foolproof way to achieve it. Simply put, if you put in enough time…the money will come.

Not working as hard as possible could mean, as Franklin once suggested, an opportunity cost. However, it could be deemed worth it if how hard you work seems to be interfering with your ability to enjoy life.

One of the great laws of labour is that time equals money: The less time you waste, the more you can get done and the more money you can make.

How can you save time?

One way of saving time which could make you extra money is having the right software or systems in place to assist you. Making your day to day tasks that much easier and efficient. Technology has come a long way, almost keeping the idea of “time is money” in mind. Every day things are improving to make sure we can get as much done as possible in the shortest amount of time, because at the end of the day, who has enough time in a day?

EasyBiz has a lot of products and services to assist you in protecting your time – from local support to QuickBooks Online software packages, to training courses – we want to make sure that you stay on top of your game at all times, making the most out of your time.

See for yourself here: EasyBiz Tech

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Insights from a Small to Medium Enterprise Owner

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We interviewed Yolandi Ellis, Founder of Nissi Business Admin, and asked her what it is like being an SME. She covered everything from what her business does, how it started and then spoke about her relationship with EasyBiz Technologies and the use of QuickBooks Online.

If you are starting up your own business and need some advice, be it on business or partnering with EasyBiz Technologies and using QuickBooks Online, then this is the article for you:

 

  1. What does your business specialise in?

    My business helps startup companies get all the necessary documents relating to starting a business and assisting them monthly with bookkeeping and taxes.

 

  1. How big is your company and how long have you been operating for?

    We have been operating officially for two years and the business currently has 350 clients at this stage. This includes businesses and clients we do tax for.

 

  1. How did you grow your business (from the ground up)?

    I wanted to become a person of value in my community. Therefore, I had to get innovative and make sure that I was constantly adding value to other people and their businesses, as well as my community.

 

  1. What has your relationship with EasyBiz Technology been like?

    I was looking for an online bookkeeping system and came across EasyBiz the local partner for QuickBooks Online. EasyBiz have been very professional and prompt when assisting me with QuickBooks online.

 

  1. Where did you hear about EasyBiz Technology?

    I was looking for an online bookkeeping system. I happened to Google an online bookkeeping system and came across EasyBiz, seeing that they are a local partner of QuickBooks Online.

 

  1. How has QuickBooks Online assisted you with day to day tasks?

    It has made my daily routine much easier. I love the invoicing system and the fact that you can customise as you go. Loading clients and services as you go is also great because previously, setting all this up was always time-consuming for me.

 

  1. How has EasyBiz Technology and QuickBooks Online assisted in growing your business?

    This program is just adding more value to my business by being able to offer my clients reports on their bookkeeping systems etc. They will love this.

 

  1. How can accounting software assist a business in growing?

    By making life easier for the end-user.  Pastel is a very complicated software I have also tried Admin-Soft and Abacus and they are all programs that require set up and you cannot bend it as you need it because it has set rules.  So, QuickBooks online really makes things much easier.

  1. What are some tips you can give to someone wanting to grow their own company?

    Become a person of value, find what you love doing and you will never work a day in your life. Constantly add value to your clients, become a one-stop-shop in your field.  Help others grow their business by supporting your local businesses and small entrepreneurs.

We hope this has been inspirational to you. Either giving you that final push to start that business you have been thinking about or deciding what accounting software to go with.

One of the most important things is having a trustworthy and reliable accounting software to assist you in your day to day tasks. This is where we can help. Have a look at the products on offer here EasyBiz Tech and let EasyBiz and QuickBooks Online assist you with your accounting and bookkeeping needs.

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