Sammy Singh, Founder of CFO Base, accepted into Forbes Agency Council
CFO Base is excited to announce that our CEO, Sammy Singh has officially been named as part of Forbes Magazine Agency Council for Finance
CFO Base is excited to announce that our CEO, Sammy Singh has officially been named as part of Forbes Magazine Agency Council for Finance
From staying in an abusive relationship, to joining a Twitter mob that bullies others, to not speaking up against corporate and political malfeasance, things stay bad for a long time because people are too dependent on money. Whether money is a need or a want, it ruins a person’s ability to stand up for what they know is right.
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The other day I was recording a podcast episode with my co-host Eric Siu and he wanted to discuss something in particular. He wanted to talk about how I got to 62,000 Instagram followers in a very short period of time and without spending any money on ads or marketing. Eric is a great marketer […]
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I’ve always been the type to squeeze a lot in my life. A flurry of children, a boisterous puppy and a global role as GM of Global People Experience are my norm on a slow day.
The post The colours and courage of mental wellbeing in the workplace appeared first on Xero Blog.
It’s World Mental Health Day this week. So we asked Dr Nick Taylor, the founder of Unmind for his views on how we can raise awareness and encourage more discussion in the small business workplace.
The post Making Mental Health Matter in Small Business appeared first on Xero Blog.
Sometimes a human touch truly does beat a machine’s algorithm. Xero’s advisor partners are specialists who understand their clients’ needs. As of today, they can put that specialisation to work simpler than ever.
The post Advisor-powered recommendations: a smarter way to advise appeared first on Xero Blog.
Who says you have to spend money to get more traffic? For today’s blog post, I thought it would be fun to break down all of the free SEO tools. Sure you may know of some, like Ubersuggest, but there are many more options than just my own tool. Now before I dive into the […]
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If you are a business owner who is burning out and wishing to cash out, here is some perspective of someone who did. He sold his baby for $2.8 million and regrets his decision every day.
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In the final post of our Making Tax Digital Countdown series, we speak to accountant Linda Gibson from Gibson Whitter. She unpicks some of the challenging questions you might have from using spreadsheets to poor internet access, and touches on what’s next on the horizon for digital tax.
The post The final countdown to Making Tax Digital for VAT (part 3) – your questions answered appeared first on Xero Blog.
Over the last few years, large corporations have become obsessed with the mental health and wellbeing of their employees. And they’ve made a lot of progress – from providing fresh fruit and gym memberships.
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There are only a few days to go until the final Making Tax Digital for VAT deadline. So we’ve been asking some of our accounting partners to answer any last minute questions you’ve got.
The post The final countdown to Making Tax Digital for VAT (part 2) – your questions answered appeared first on Xero Blog.
Google released a major update. They typically don’t announce their updates, but you know when they do, it is going to be big. And that’s what happened with the most recent update that they announced. A lot of people saw their traffic drop. And of course, at the same time, people saw their traffic increase […]
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We’re back bigger than ever with this year’s NZ Roadshow, travelling from Whangarei to Invercargill, visiting 18 locations across the country. We’re hosting 39 awesome events that are tailored to accountants, bookkeepers and small businesses.
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Earlier in the year, the Government introduced new digital tax rules impacting small businesses.
Time has flown by. We are now quickly approaching 7th October. This is the final deadline that businesses over the VAT threshold have got to be ready by.
The post The final countdown to Making Tax Digital for VAT (part 1) – your questions answered appeared first on Xero Blog.
Everybody can retire when their investment income is enough to cover their basic living expenses. But when it comes to retiring early (before 60), there are different levels of difficulty. The hardest type of early retirement is retiring early while raising adolescent children. Once you have children, you suddenly realize that retiring early without children is like going for a walk in the park. It seems so easy, you wonder why more people don’t get on board!
In this episode I discuss subjective and objective reasons why retiring early with children is nearly impossible, followed by some potential solutions.
Read more here, https://www.financialsamurai.com/how-to-retire-early-with-kids-a-nearly-impossible-task/
Xero’s app marketplace has over 800 apps which help small businesses and their advisors reach their goals. Each month we celebrate an app partner who stands out for helping small businesses thrive.
The post SuiteFiles: Making file management a breeze in the cloud appeared first on Xero Blog.
Since our last Brexit blog, a lot has changed. There has been a new Prime Minister, Parliament has been suspended, and two deals have been refused.
The situation changes every minute.
The post The impact of Brexit on small businesses: where to turn appeared first on Xero Blog.
New research by Xero has revealed that payday problems are widespread across Australia with 43 percent of workers experiencing issues with their pay, rising to 49 percent for those employed by small businesses.
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When I started doing SEO on NeilPatel.com I used this advanced formula to rank for 477,000 keywords. Over time, my traffic started to flatline and I wasn’t ranking for many more keywords, even though I was continually creating more content. But then I figured out a simple hack that took me from 477,000 keywords to […]
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Paying bills is a time consuming task for all small businesses. We’re working to update this process in Xero to reduce friction and streamline it where we can.
The existing batch payments interface was one of the first features to be built at Xero.
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We’re pleased to announce that the Domestic Reverse Charge (DRC) is now live in Xero. The new feature will help you comply with your DRC obligations.
DRC intends to cut down on “missing trader” fraud, where companies receiving high net amounts of VAT from their customers have no intention of ever paying over to HMRC.
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Don’t make my mortgage refinance mistake that has so far cost me $1,005 in extra interest! Trying to refinance today is a real PITA. It’s a bummer because I pride myself on calculating all variables to make the best financial decision.
To read the post and hear a funny joke, click here.
You can take advantage of kinks in the system every day to improve your wealth and quality of life. Don’t just sit back passively and wait for your investments to make you wealthy. Also take some action.
Practice identifying arbitrage opportunities to prosper. See the post here.
As a small business owner it often seems like there aren’t enough hours in the day. And the struggle to stay on top of things is likely all too familiar.
With the ATO now requiring all businesses in Australia to digitally report their payroll information through Single Touch Payroll (STP), you may be finding it tricky to get your head around these new changes.
The post 3,000 Xero advisors (and counting) are here to guide you through all things STP appeared first on Xero Blog.
In case you missed it, Google has just changed up the rules for link building. It used to be that when people link to you, the link would either be a dofollow link or a nofollow link. Well, that’s now changed. They are now introducing 2 more link types that will affect SEOs. Now before […]
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Every week, there are a lot of funny things that make me scratch my head and wonder WTF. But it is precisely these funny things that make me so positive and bullish for you and me. Here are three examples that make me go “hmmmm.”
At Xero, we’re always looking for ways to support small businesses to succeed and grow. That’s why we were thrilled to sponsor the Trans-Tasman Innovation and Growth Awards this year. Run by the Australia and New Zealand Leadership Forum (ANZLF), the awards are all about recognising emerging businesses having an impact through innovation and collaboration.
The post Small businesses know how to impress at ANZLF Awards 2019 appeared first on Xero Blog.
The first half of 2019 had been decent for new blockchain-based startups, which managed to raise an aggregate of $2 billion, both from retail and institutional investors. It’s still way below the numbers we saw in 2018, but the regulatory scrutiny that emerged a year ago, as well as the strong drop in cryptocurrency prices, […]
The post Which ICO Projects Should You Monitor in the Upcoming Months? appeared first on Modest Money.
Google makes over 3,200 algorithm changes per year. That’s a lot of changes. Just think about that for a minute… and let that sink in. It’s roughly 9 changes per day. So how can you beat this gigantic company at their own game and rank high? Especially when you consider that they generate over $100 […]
The post 7 Advanced SEO Strategies I’m Trying to Implement Before 2020 appeared first on Neil Patel.
Playcentre provides a sense of community for families. Find out how using Xero benefits the volunteer treasurers at the 420+ Playcentres in Aotearoa.
Playcentre is unlike any other early learning service.
The post Playcentre Aotearoa: families learning together appeared first on Xero Blog.
Kirkland Lake Gold Ltd. (KL) shares have had a great run over the last year. It has grown by 150% since the beginning of 2019, and this doesn’t even include the dividend it pays out, which although isn’t very much, should still add up over time for long term shareholders. But how much higher can […]
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Does 1 + 1 = 2 in your marriage? Not according to the government. If you’re trying to figure out what combined net worth to shoot for as a couple, here are three frameworks to think about. Don’t get mad if you’re not there. Get motivated!
To read the post and see the charts, click here.
Now that global economic growth is decelerating, many investors are flocking to defensive, recession-resistant equities. This tends to happen during late stages of an economic cycle, as well as during mid-cycle slowdowns between periods of growth. For example, the consumer staples sector has outperformed the broader S&P 500 by over 9% over the past 12 […]
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After reaching my goal of publishing 3X a week for 10 years, I’ve decided to focus a little bit more on entrepreneurship. The formula of 90% fun / 10% business that got me this far isn’t going to take me where I want to go.
Once I became a father in 2017, the pressure was on to earn more to take care of my family since my wife doesn’t have a full-time job.
To read the post, click here. This podcast is more like a post-mortem of the post.
I’ve been an SEO for roughly 17 years now. And one thing that has remained constant, no matter how much you know about SEO, there is just too much to do. So much so, that most SEOs don’t even optimize their own websites anymore. And if they do, you’ll find that their site doesn’t rank […]
The post Ubersuggest 6.0: Track and Improve Your Rankings Without Learning SEO appeared first on Neil Patel.
Xero’s app marketplace has over 800 apps which help small businesses and their advisors reach their goals. Each month we celebrate an app partner who stands out for helping small businesses thrive.
The post How A2X helps Amazon and Shopify sellers with e-commerce appeared first on Xero Blog.
Gold has proven an extremely popular investment over time. Investors are drawn to its “safe haven” status, meaning it tends to outperform equities in harsher economic times, and during other times of market volatility. This can be accomplished via investing directly in gold, either physically or through an exchange-traded fund like the GLD. It can […]
The post Newmont Goldcorp: Assessing The Outlook For This Gold Stock appeared first on Modest Money.
As mortgage interest rates tumble, the housing market is becoming more interesting. Inventory is already up in many of the nation’s once hottest housing markets, but the average credit score for qualified mortgage borrowers is also at an all-time high.
Due to these factors, I don’t see a recession as bad as the one we experienced between 2008-2010. Read the post and check out the graphs here.
When investors are looking for stable, low volatility income stocks, they rarely look in the direction of precious metals producers. In particular, silver stocks tend to be quite volatile given the massive price swings the metal can exhibit in the market. However, that doesn’t mean these stocks should be ignored outright. The share prices of […]
The post Wheaton Precious Metals: An Overvalued Silver Stock appeared first on Modest Money.
A self-avowed perfectionist, Anton Gerner was never interested in working for anybody else. Not a chance. Which is why when it comes to running his award-winning bespoke furniture business, he likes to take a hands on approach.
The post Crafting a Single Touch Payroll ready business appeared first on Xero Blog.
Successful house flipping is an art and a science. Some house flippers perfect it and go on to flip dozens of houses a year. Others have more modest goals, but make a profit on each house they sell. A major benefit of running your own house flipping business is that you get to change distressed […]
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Profiting from real estate as part of a short-term or a long-term investment strategy (for example, to complement your retirement plan) is a common goal for many investors. The flexibility of real estate investing makes it ideal as a full-time career path, a part-time business, or just as a hobby. Either way, there are some […]
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Ubersuggest started out as a tool that provided suggestions through Google Suggest. And although that’s great, everyone these days is using Google Suggest to come up with keyword ideas. There have to be more keyword ideas out there that get more search volume and aren’t competitive, right? Well, there are, and now with the new […]
The post Ubersuggest 5.0: Generate 1 Million Keyword Suggestions in 7 Seconds (Seriously) appeared first on Neil Patel.
In a world where low interest is commonplace, most people know that simply leaving money in the bank may not be the best idea. However, many people choose this as an easy option because they believe that investing in the stock market is too complex for them. As Sendhil Mullainathan wrote for the New York […]
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Don’t quit before giving your effort a chance to produce amazing results. If you can do one hard thing for 10 years in a row, I’m sure good things are going to happen. Here are some personal thoughts on how you can get to the 10 year mark and achieve your dreams as well. Let’s do this!
To read the post, click here.
Getting ahead is very competitive in America. Thanks to living in a capitalist society, we’re driven by money, fame, and success. As a result, not everybody can win.
Based on my experiences as a high school tennis coach for the past three years, I realized one of the best life hacks for Americans is to take advantage of Canada. If you have children and want to retire early, this episode is for you.
The team behind Bricks & Clicks are on a mission. Here to help Australian businesses embrace the power of e-commerce, they’ve got their sights set on large scale change. And they won’t stop until local retailers across the country are given the tools they need to become global brands.
The post Take your business from local to global with the Bricks & Clicks Roadshow: Next stop Wagga Wagga appeared first on Xero Blog.
The team behind Bricks & Clicks are on a mission. Here to help Australian businesses embrace the power of e-commerce, they’ve got their sights set on large scale change. And they won’t stop until local retailers across the country are given the tools they need to become global brands.
The post Take your business from local to global with the Bricks & Clicks Roadshow: Next stop Wagga Wagga appeared first on Xero Blog.
The team behind Bricks & Clicks are on a mission. Here to help Australian businesses embrace the power of e-commerce, they’ve got their sights set on large scale change. And they won’t stop until local retailers across the country are given the tools they need to become global brands.
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Everyone thinks SEO is a long-term game… that you have to wait months if not years to see results. And, maybe that was the case a few years ago when content was still king. With Google making 3200 algorithm changes in just one year, their goal isn’t to make a website wait a year or two […]
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America is one of the wealthiest countries in the world. The top 1% have gotten really rich, but the middle class have fallen seriously behind. Let’s look at the data from the latest Survey of Consumer Finances by the Federal Reserve and see where we’re at.
To read the post and check out all the great graphs see: The Median Net Worth Of Americans Today
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Here’s my method to always get the lowest mortgage rate possible, no matter the interest rate environment. I’ve refinanced multiple mortgages multiple times in the past 10 years. During this time, I’ve probably saved over $100,000 in interest expense.
To read the post, click here.
Spending his childhood in the wilds of rural Queensland, John Knight wasn’t sure what he wanted to be when he grew up. Just that he’d like to work in “business” and that one day, he hoped to be a leader.
The post How to be an authentic and emotionally intelligent leader appeared first on Xero Blog.
The yield curve has officially inverted in 3Q2019. The 10-year bond yield is now lower than the 2-year bond yield. Let me explain from different perspectives why an inverted yield curve as an ominous sign and what we should all do to make sure we stay financially safe.
Please read: The Yield Curve: A Prescient Economic Indicator for more charts and analysis.
This morning, we were delighted to hear the news that iwoca, one of our longest standing alternative lending partners, received a grant of £10 million from the Banking Competition Remedies’ (BCR) Capability and Innovation Fund.
The post Xero partners with iwoca in successful bid to improve lending for SMEs in the UK appeared first on Xero Blog.
When it comes to jargon; the business world just can’t get enough. If we’re not focusing our efforts on ‘synergising’, then we’re hard at work ‘laddering up’ or ‘drilling down’. And then there are the acronyms…
What does it all mean?
The post Beyond the buzz: Why innovation is still the most important word we know appeared first on Xero Blog.
As a parent, you want the best for your kids. However, there’s a risk parents over-protect their kids from harm’s way. It is through difficulty and conflict that we learn the most. In this episode, we discuss the benefits of raising our son in Virginia, where he’d be a minority, versus in Hawaii, where he’d be a majority. I, Sam, grew up in Virginia and the conflict help give me a lot of motivation and grit.
To read the post, click here.
You’re probably already familiar with Google My Business. If you aren’t, as a quick recap, Google My Business is a simple way to claim your office address or storefront on Google. That way, when someone searches for your business, you’ll show up on the right side of a Google search like the image above. Or better […]
The post How to Generate More Traffic with Google’s New Features appeared first on Neil Patel.
A college degree is depreciating in value, yet tuition is at all-time highs. For those parents and students looking to attend a private university like Harvard, I’m not sure whether the cost, stress, and all the work to get in is worth it. The reputation of private schools and private school grads are getting sullied due to the college bribery scandal.
Read the post here.
National Women’s Month in South Africa pays tribute to the over 20,000 women who marched to Pretoria’s Union Buildings to ‘protest against the extension of Pass Laws to women’ on 9 August 1956 – now National Women’s Day.
The post Celebrating National Women’s Day in South Africa with inspiring female entrepreneurs appeared first on Xero Blog.
Retiring early is a dream come true for many. However, there are some not so obvious reasons why people want to leave work early, and they aren’t very flattering at all. Secretly, some early retirees are pretty miserable. Let’s explore why.
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Being the sole income earner can be brutally difficult and stressful. Money strains can jeopardize a marriage and can create a tremendous amount of resentment in the household. Here are some ways to cope to save your relationship and your children.
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Being the sole income earner can be brutally difficult and stressful. Money strains can jeopardize a marriage and can create a tremendous amount of resentment in the household. Here are some ways to cope to save your relationship and your children.
To read the article, click here.
In case you missed it, Google just published advice for SEOs on how to continually do well throughout their algorithm changes. Now, what most people don’t know is Google doesn’t just push out a handful of algorithm changes per year. They publish substantially more. Just to give you an idea of how often Google changes, […]
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We’re super excited for this year’s Xerocon London, which runs from 13-14 November 2019 and promises to be the best yet.
Xerocon London is an event where everyone thrives – including those who attend solo.
The post “I’m quite shy! If I can have a good time at Xerocon, anyone can” appeared first on Xero Blog.
Table of Contents: Which cryptocurrency to buy – diversification Look at the Problem the Coin Purports to Solve Does the Coin Project Face Competition? Examine the Roadmap Investigate the Team Bitcoin Ethereum Monero Litecoin Binance Coin NEO Cardano The first thing to say about cryptocurrency investment is that it does not provide a guaranteed windfall […]
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