Stuart Bradley's Posts Accounting & Payroll | Free Trial - No Card Required‎ Tue, 06 Jun 2023 09:32:33 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kashflow.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/kashflow-icon-2.png Stuart Bradley's Posts 32 32 Are you satisfied? https://www.kashflow.com/blog/are-you-satisfied/ https://www.kashflow.com/blog/are-you-satisfied/#comments Mon, 16 Sep 2013 11:32:22 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=63742 When KashFlow began, it included just a handful of very basic features – simple sequential invoice numbering, the ability to mark invoices and paid or not paid and…well, that was about it. From there, Duane added new features by getting in touch with the first twenty customers and asking ‘Ok, what should I add now?’ […]

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]]> https://www.kashflow.com/blog/are-you-satisfied/feed/ 2 How to Outsource Your Life https://www.kashflow.com/blog/how-to-outsource-your-life/ Fri, 23 Aug 2013 10:10:33 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=63406 Over the past ten years or so there has, quite rightly, been a lot of discussion around whether or not the ‘traditional’ way of working is relevant anymore. With working from home and the prevalence of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policies on the rise, there’s no doubt that things are already changing. A cursory […]

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]]> Judge not lest ye be judged… https://www.kashflow.com/blog/judge-not-lest-ye-be-judged/ Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:16:58 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=63107 The title of this blog post is (apparently) one of the most misquoted verses of The Bible, so maybe it’s not a problem that our founder Duane Jackson has decided to completely disregard it… In September, Duane will be going all Simon Cowell and judging one of the largest and longest running competitions for British […]

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]]> How to lose MailChimp accounts and alienate people. https://www.kashflow.com/blog/how-to-lose-mailchimp-accounts-and-alienate-people/ https://www.kashflow.com/blog/how-to-lose-mailchimp-accounts-and-alienate-people/#comments Tue, 09 Jul 2013 13:32:47 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=62760 Part I: Ch-ch-ch-changes This year at The Business Show we decided to do something different. Not ground-breaking by any stretch of the imagination, but different to what we previously did. In the past, we used to frantically try to set up trial accounts for anyone and everyone that came to our stand. Of course, these trialists generally […]

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]]> https://www.kashflow.com/blog/how-to-lose-mailchimp-accounts-and-alienate-people/feed/ 6 Clowns to the Left, Jokers to the Right… https://www.kashflow.com/blog/clowns-to-the-left-jokers-to-the-right/ Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:23:22 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=62000 In the cola wars, it’s rare that contenders other than Pepsi and Coca Cola are mentioned. This shouldn’t be that surprising – they have billion dollar budgets (Coke spent just shy of $3bn on advertising in 2010 alone) and employ megastars like Beyonce (Pepsi) and Taylor Swift (Diet Coke) to advertise their products. To get […]

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]]> Facebook Advertising Sucks https://www.kashflow.com/blog/facebook-advertising-sucks/ https://www.kashflow.com/blog/facebook-advertising-sucks/#comments Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:06:22 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=61814 Last year, we ran a large scale advertising campaign made up of a number of different elements. One source that performed much better than we were expecting was Spotify – we tracked a substantial amount of trialists and experienced a lot of positive interaction on social media while the advert was running, not to mention […]

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]]> https://www.kashflow.com/blog/facebook-advertising-sucks/feed/ 14 FinTech 101 and #sizzle8 https://www.kashflow.com/blog/fintech-101-digital-sizzle8/ https://www.kashflow.com/blog/fintech-101-digital-sizzle8/#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:18:16 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=61557 Watch out, ‘the cloud’, your days as a media darling may be numbered – FinTech is the new buzzword. But what is FinTech exactly? Sadly, nothing to do with robot sharks, FinTech actually refers to the current wave of innovation in the sphere of financial technology. Last night a few of the KashFlow team attended […]

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]]> https://www.kashflow.com/blog/fintech-101-digital-sizzle8/feed/ 1 The Office of the Future https://www.kashflow.com/blog/the-office-of-the-future/ https://www.kashflow.com/blog/the-office-of-the-future/#comments Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:34:10 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=61109 The past couple of weeks have seen a lot of debate around the subject of home-working. At the end of last month, Marissa Mayer revoked the right of Yahoo employees to work from home. Although this kicked up a lot of fuss, the subject is clearly a contentious one at Yahoo! – there are rumours […]

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]]> https://www.kashflow.com/blog/the-office-of-the-future/feed/ 7 Social Media Policy? Eww. https://www.kashflow.com/blog/social-media-policy-eww/ Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:56:15 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=56410 A few months back, we completely revised the way we handled social media. The closest thing we’d ever had to a social media policy was (or at least can be translated from its original, cruder form as…) ‘don’t be stupid.’ If you have to think about whether or not posting something is a good idea, it’s […]

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]]> HOW TO: PR for Startups https://www.kashflow.com/blog/how-to-pr-for-startups/ Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:53:44 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=56408 When asked about the differences between marketing, advertising and PR there’s a story that my dad, who has founded two PR companies in the North East, likes to tell. It’s one of the better stories he tells, so I’m pretty sure he stole it. It goes like this – A marketer, a PR man and […]

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]]> Party Season https://www.kashflow.com/blog/party-season/ Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:44:46 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=56404 In the past couple of weeks, we seem to have had a lot of parties at KashFlow HQ. We had an welcome party at our new office…and drank a lot. Then we hosted a big Christmas party, #KFXmas, for around 100 small business owners…and drank a lot. And just last Friday, we had our staff Christmas do…and […]

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]]> Wait, the cloud isn’t an ACTUAL cloud…? https://www.kashflow.com/blog/wait-cloud-isnt-actual-cloud/ Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:40:08 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=55131 Ok, you probably already know that. But you might be surprised at how many people don’t – in a recent study in the USA, 51% of those surveyed claimed that stormy weather can interfere with cloud computing. So, while we’re probably preaching to the converted, we thought it might be worth doing a quick guide to […]

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]]> Are you onboard? https://www.kashflow.com/blog/are-you-onboard/ https://www.kashflow.com/blog/are-you-onboard/#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:48:13 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=54977 Every month, thousands of small business owners register to take a free trial of our online accounting software. Although SaaS is traditionally a self-service model, we recently created a brand new onboarding team whose sole purpose is to call trialists and answer any questions they have about KashFlow. Thanks to a great reception, and increasing numbers […]

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]]> https://www.kashflow.com/blog/are-you-onboard/feed/ 3 Five tips to get paid quicker https://www.kashflow.com/blog/five-tips-to-get-paid-quicker/ https://www.kashflow.com/blog/five-tips-to-get-paid-quicker/#comments Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:31:49 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=54427 ‘Money makes the world go round.’ That’s what a bespangled (possibly the only time I will ever get to use that word) Liza Minelli once said in Cabaret, and she’s probably right. If I didn’t already know that getting paid on time is important to people from working at a cloud accounting software company, I certainly […]

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]]> https://www.kashflow.com/blog/five-tips-to-get-paid-quicker/feed/ 3 #KFXmas (and a marketing dilemma…) https://www.kashflow.com/blog/kfxmas-and-marketing-dilemma/ https://www.kashflow.com/blog/kfxmas-and-marketing-dilemma/#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:24:17 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=54156 We’re dreaming of a pink Christmas… We love our customers. A lot of companies say things like that, but I hope that by now you know that when we say it we really mean it. That’s why every year we throw a big Christmas party for customers, trialists and any other cloud software, business or tech […]

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]]> https://www.kashflow.com/blog/kfxmas-and-marketing-dilemma/feed/ 2 Do you have enough followers to read this blog post? https://www.kashflow.com/blog/do-you-have-enough-followers-to-read-this-blog-post/ Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:21:23 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=53205 It probably comes as no surprise to some of you that a few members of the KashFlow Krew are Twitterholics – around 50% of staff here use it, and Management Today kindly voted Duane one of the top 50 entrepreneurs on Twitter (coming above two Dragons’ Den dragons, no less…). Although we have a dedicated community manager […]

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]]> The New KashFlow HQ https://www.kashflow.com/blog/the-new-kashflow-hq/ https://www.kashflow.com/blog/the-new-kashflow-hq/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:54:33 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=49217 As anyone who follows us on Twitter will have seen from a string of excitable tweets last week, we just moved offices. There are a couple of key reasons for the move, but the most important one is growth. As well as having outgrown our old offices physically (we didn’t have enough desks for the […]

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]]> https://www.kashflow.com/blog/the-new-kashflow-hq/feed/ 12 Free Money for Your Business https://www.kashflow.com/blog/smarta-100-free-money/ https://www.kashflow.com/blog/smarta-100-free-money/#comments Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:22:53 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=48860 We’re delighted to have been chosen as one of the Smarta 100! But this blog post isn’t just a blatant brag fest – we want to share some of the love. Voting is taking place for one of the hundred to win ten grand… So yes, we need your votes, but we know what the […]

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]]> https://www.kashflow.com/blog/smarta-100-free-money/feed/ 11 An ode to our support team. https://www.kashflow.com/blog/an-ode-to-our-support-team/ https://www.kashflow.com/blog/an-ode-to-our-support-team/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:29:28 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=48170 There’s a policy (but we don’t call it a policy, because ‘policy’ is a pretty horrible word) here at KashFlow that’s pretty key to how we do hiring – EVERY new hire has to spend two weeks on technical support before they start in the position they were hired for. If, for whatever reason, they […]

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]]> https://www.kashflow.com/blog/an-ode-to-our-support-team/feed/ 2 On yer bike! https://www.kashflow.com/blog/on-yer-bike/ Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:54:26 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=47341 The fact that lots of guys in the London tech scene love bikes shouldn’t come as a surprise. The amount of opportunities cycling offers to talk about carbon fibre and ‘lightness of body’ are rivalled only by the launch of a new Apple product. Ok ok, we’ll remove our tongues from our cheeks – honestly, it’s […]

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]]> Work Hard and Be Nice. https://www.kashflow.com/blog/work-hard-be-nice/ Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:24:43 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=42903 As well as being our PR company’s mantra, ‘Work hard and be nice’ is the only way to do business as far as we’re concerned. Innovations like Twitter and easy to use blogging platforms have changed the face of both social and business universes. Individuals like Robert Scoble have reached celebrity status simply by living […]

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]]> Thoughts and opinions are my own, not that of my employer. And so is my Twitter account. https://www.kashflow.com/blog/using-personal-social-media-accounts-small-business/ Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:07:54 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=34398 Thoughts and opinions are my own, and not that of my employer. It’s rare that I get through a day without seeing some variation of this phrase in someone’s Twitter bio. In case you haven’t noticed, several members of the KashFlow team are pretty active on Twitter. At a networking event last night, someone expressed […]

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]]> Stats/analytics/SEO expert wanted! https://www.kashflow.com/blog/stats-analytics-seo-expert-wanted/ Thu, 31 May 2012 09:02:08 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=30517 Yes, we’re at it again. We need a new marketing bod. However, since we’ve pretty much got words covered, we now need a numbers pro. Someone who thinks in binary and dreams of electric sheep. Though we are growing quickly, we still consider ourselves a startup and are looking for someone who is as interested […]

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]]> Live Blog – Digital Sizzle 4: an audience with Tech City https://www.kashflow.com/blog/digital-sizzle-4-audience-with-tech-city/ https://www.kashflow.com/blog/digital-sizzle-4-audience-with-tech-city/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 13:56:16 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=28121 Please note: The opinions voiced in this article are those of Stuart Bradley (me) or those of the companies alluded to within the article, not those of KashFlow Software Ltd. i.e. plz don’t sue. The validity of the Tech City Investment Organisation is probably one of the biggest issues currently under scrutiny in the London tech scene. […]

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]]> https://www.kashflow.com/blog/digital-sizzle-4-audience-with-tech-city/feed/ 3 HOW TO: Network at events. (Hint: Stop thinking about ‘networking’) https://www.kashflow.com/blog/how-to-network-at-events-stop-thinking-about-networking/ Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:41:43 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=25347 I came across this post on The Next Web over the weekend and thought it made some interesting points. Recent studies have suggested that, as a society, we’re actually regressing to our neanderthal roots – our compulsions to check our smartphones every five minutes are hindering our empathy and ability to communicate with other human beings. […]

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]]> HOW TO: Exhibit at events (and how not to…) https://www.kashflow.com/blog/how-to-exhibit-at-events-and-how-not-to/ https://www.kashflow.com/blog/how-to-exhibit-at-events-and-how-not-to/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:00:51 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=20402 Here at KashFlow, we love events. Although social media is great for gauging people’s opinions on products, features and ideas, you may find that you tend to interact only with people who either really love something you’ve done or really dislike it. The (sad) fact is, you might never get to speak to the other […]

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]]> https://www.kashflow.com/blog/how-to-exhibit-at-events-and-how-not-to/feed/ 5 The Future of Digital Money https://www.kashflow.com/blog/the-future-of-digital-money/ Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:26:45 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=19275 There is currently a divide in the world of digital money. This divide was exemplified by a panel at Monday’s London Web Summit, with two of the panelists (at least to some extent) working alongside credit card companies and two fighting against them. Ben Milne, of real-time virtual money exchange Dwolla, has previously stated that […]

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