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  • COMPLETE Xero Course includes Beginners to Advanced skills

    This Xero course is the most popular with job seekers and business owners because it gives them the training they need to do almost anything using Xero. These are the course topics: The Complete Xero Course takes most students 3-4 weeks to complete but you can learn it at your own pace and in your…

  • Career Academy updates for 2025

    Feel like you need a little something extra? Have you reviewed your life in 2024 and thought “I need to do more”? I reviewed our membership programs and in particular the tutoring programs and we’ve tweaked them to help you perform better. After you complete a course with us you are welcome to join one…

  • 2024 in Review – Most popular topics

    What most readers where interested in this year. There are a couple trends which seemed to dominate the small business course market in 2024 and most of them related to replacing your bookkeeper! It was the rise of automated bookkeeping services from companies like There also appeared to be a lot of ambiguity in job…

  • Jerry knows all about email..

    Jerry Lame is a serial entrepreneur and loves shiny new objects. He was a corporate employee but went out on his own to start a business and be his own boss – then things got messy. He needed to learn how to use Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks Online to manage his bookkeeping. He started doing…

  • I’m not sure what to say..

    Have you ever been in that situation? There’s lots going on and you have a lot on your mind yet you just can’t think of something to say? It’s like that with content marketing too. It can be challenging but if you are in sales and marketing you MUST find something to say. I was…

  • New menu items have been added for ‘Customers & leads’ and ‘Budgets’

    There have been some big changes in Intuit QuickBooks Online navigation that have given our course development team the nudge to create updated training material. All current students and members can access this material at no extra cost – that’s our Updates and Additions Policy. Some of the biggest changes relate to Customers and leads…

  • Why MYOB makes you log in after inactivity

    Have you noticed a change in how MYOB makes you login? They’re starting to do as they are told by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), that’s why. We’ve seen lots of login issues with Xero in the past when they focused on authentication for their users and now it’s MYOB announcing improvements in their security…

  • Are you Selling Your Property?

    They say that Spring is the season to sell your home but is that the case this year? Property buyers seem to be holding off leading up to Christmas in the expectation that the economy will be better in 2025. There is an expectation that interest rates will be coming down. What does that actually…

  • Do I need one to one training to learn MYOB and Xero?

    When I see this comment I wonder if it’s not just based on the fear some students have about learning by themselves. They’re worried about what happens if they get stuck on something, what happens if they don’t understand the instructions and wanting to know that someone will be available to help them. I started…

  • Do you need to learn Email Marketing?

    I must admit that I have written a lot about email marketing lately and it’s ever since Intuit bought MailChimp and our monthly bill went up and some of the features were stripped out. I then heard about Aweber increasing their prices massively and thought there must be something at play in the world of…