The bookkeeping tech stack we use for our clients makes it easy for them to keep their bills, invoices, and receipts organized. Also, it allows us to get data in a more real-time manner. This lets us give our clients the most accurate books possible! Here are some of our favorite apps from our bookkeeping tech stack.
UX design is the way that a person feels when interacting with a system, service, or product. The name of the game with UX design is making the product functional and practical. You need to do this while maintaining a subtle but pleasing visual style. UX plays heavily upon cognitive psychology which dictates positive or negative reactions. While the term is new, the concept of UX has been around for decades. Many people feel that Walt Disney was one of the first UX designers because he was obsessed with the guest’s experience. However, Don Norman is credited with coining the term “user experience”. The term first appeared in Norman’s acclaimed book, The Design of Everyday Things, which was published in 1988.
Firm handshakes, passing out business cards, and a room full of industry professionals sharing hors d’oeuvres have inevitably become things of the past. The upside? Physical location no longer limits us. We can virtually network. Connecting from the comfort of your own couch allows for the new potential to make lasting relationships with other professionals in your field.
Tim in marketing suggested that the company run a month-long sale on your most popular product. You happily agree and start allocating funds to run a successful ad campaign to promote your sale.
Two weeks in, your sale exploded, but you’ve run out of your inventory.
Companies around the world have notched nearly a year of remote operations in their proverbial belts. With that experience behind them, employers and employees alike are all asking, “what now?”
Employees have enjoyed the benefits that come hand-in-hand with the remote experience. Including, increased flexibility and balanced schedules. They’ve also faced challenges like lack of infrastructure and poor connectivity, less than ideal ergonomics, isolation, and burnout.
Many employers are eager to return to offices and get things back to the way they were. Others have jumped feet-first, embracing the innovation and change that this past year brought. Some are enjoying increased productivity and employee engagement. All are searching for ways to remain competitive in both the talent and consumer marketplace in 2021.
A few weeks ago, I published a series of articles about what I called “duct tape leadership.” It talks about fixes and patched-together solutions that project teams end up using. They use these solutions when their work is out of alignment with the organization’s priorities.
I suggested lots of things that team leaders can do to create more strategic alignment, lead more intentionally, and foster a team environment that’s more conducive to sustainable success.
But, the reality is that many of the challenges faced by project leaders come from gaps with strategic leadership. They have little to do with the size and complexity of their projects. That is to say, challenges have everything to do with the executive leaders and sponsors who decide which projects to pursue.
“I can’t wait to get back to the office” is a common refrain that misses the complexities of current work from home situations. As Anne Helen Petersen writes for The New York Times.
“But people don’t really want to get back to the office. They want to get out of their apartments, their houses, their parents’ houses. People want their children back in school, and also out of the house. They want to see people’s faces again and have conversations with people who are closer than six feet from them. But that doesn’t mean that they actually want to be back in the office. At least, not the way the office was before.”
In 2019, my wife and I took our two sons out of school, packed our cherished items into a 5×10 storage unit in Vermont, and got rid of our home and everything in it to become full-time digital nomads. It was both liberating and challenging to say goodbye to everything we owned. Not to mention, our friends and family that we visited with frequently.
As a digital nomad, you make a lot of sacrifices. You give up the comforts of home, the possessions that once brought you joy, and deep interpersonal relationships. You give these up in exchange for cultural variety, food experiences, architecture, and a new perspective. It’s rewarding, but it’s also incredibly complex, emotionally.
A new work schedule has become our new lives – Here’s a typical schedule for those working from home or at distance.
Oh, I almost forgot – text messaging and phone calls available from wake-up to bedtime.
We want to do this as early as we can to minimize taxes. And cost segregation helps real estate owners minimize taxes. Reinvest tax savings into your growing business. Use those additional funds to invest in items that further reduce your taxes. When it comes to your tax return, this is one of the few times when losses are actually a good thing! Cost segregation is one of the most effective ways to create losses when you are a real estate investor or your business owns real estate.
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