Comments on: Cops and Robbers https://www.kashflow.com/blog/cops-and-robbers/ Accounting & Payroll | Free Trial - No Card Required‎ Wed, 29 May 2019 15:07:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Michael https://www.kashflow.com/blog/cops-and-robbers/#comment-2277 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:22:19 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=923#comment-2277 Quite appropriate. All tax is armed robbery. If you don’t believe me, try not paying it. Everyone knows this and has done for ever. Tax collectors were despised in the bible. It’s also unavoidable for most people, and essential for most stable societies. But that doesn’t change what it is.

]]> By: mang https://www.kashflow.com/blog/cops-and-robbers/#comment-2276 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:40:37 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=923#comment-2276 If you truly believed the VAT man was a burglar, and defended your opinion whether rationally or not, and stated that it brings you good PR, then it’s fine – sensible people can respect you regardless of whether they agree with you.

However, if you admit that the image is inappropriate, it shows that you say things that you don’t believe because the controversy brings you free PR, and well, it just feels disagreable, cynical, calculated.

I do like the way you use Twitter and forum posts for the PR side-effects, but it’s got to be done with integrity.

]]> By: Phil Richards https://www.kashflow.com/blog/cops-and-robbers/#comment-2275 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:51:01 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=923#comment-2275 Well thanks for the post Duane, I must admit to not having seen your Tweet but picking it off AccManPro.
I do follow what your up to, and am interested in watching your “jouney” in all this, I can see you getting some great publicity from it and I assume some sales.
I can see ” it works for you”, and admire the way you execute your PR, and enjoy reading it. IMHO, at the moment, this type of marketing does not sit comfortably with me at all for our firm of Chartered Accountants, and I wonder sometime whether the risk out weighs the benefits.
SAAS suppliers need credibility,trust and faith from their clients, I sometimes wonder whether your marketing damages that ? Who knows Duane, I dont for sure ! Time will surely tell, but in the meantime I am happy on the fence.
Phil

]]> By: Dennis Howlett https://www.kashflow.com/blog/cops-and-robbers/#comment-2273 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:29:25 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=923#comment-2273 Depends how you look at it. Remember that people who make business software decisions do so across a multitude of criteria. Being fun is all goodness but I’m not so sure about this. I don’t say it is a PR faux pas – those are your words – but I’d be concerned *as a professional* in being aligned with an organization that is implying the message I interpreted. Especially as it is based on a factual nonsense.

]]> By: Andy https://www.kashflow.com/blog/cops-and-robbers/#comment-2274 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:34:22 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=923#comment-2274 Dear Sir,

Having given this some serious thought here are some further icon suggestions:

– A snail to represent stamps and postage costs (snail-mail)
– A microscope for the accountant fees (as they go through everything)
– Maybe have another bank robber in a different colour uniform for the bank
– Pizza icon for office food and drinks entertainment
– And finally, a glass of white wine spritzer for Public Relations costs
– Oh yeah, and a black hole for corporate entertainment costs

We are available for further consultation should it be needed!

]]> By: Matt Chatterley https://www.kashflow.com/blog/cops-and-robbers/#comment-2272 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:16:05 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=923#comment-2272 It certainly raised a chuckle here when we saw it.

I suspect a lot of people DO feel it’s appropriate, as well (not sure I would go as far as to describe tax as daylight robbery, but hey ho).

Any other comedy icons planned for the future? 🙂

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