Ideas & Stories

Networking in a Professional Services Firm

A word of mouth introduction or recommendation to a business is a powerful weapon in the sales and marketing toolbox of any business.  Compared with a ‘cold’ approach to a some unconnected target, a ‘warm’ introduction to a prospective …
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I dodged a bullet… and a big one too!

I had just arrived home when Mike (not his real name) called. Mike manages my Self-Managed Super Fund for a large fund manager. He rang to double-check on the payment … the urgent transfer of a very large amount of money from my super into my …
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Andrea’s Philosophy

Driving clever outcomes … with a passion! Andrea is not your typical Chartered Accountant. She may well be a highly experienced tax whizz, a guru with corporate structures and extremely capable of fixing all sorts of muddled affairs that she …
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Chris’s Journey

Crunch!  That sickening sound changed my life. Just 12 years old, my father and I decided to accept an invitation to join 2 family friends in a short flight from Melbourne’s Moorabbin airport. At 1000 meters on our landing approach, we hit a …
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