hey it's patti scharf CPA and co-founder caching clouds the leader in e-commerce
accounting welcome back to another Saturday slow down where I like to
remind everybody to work on their business and not just in their business
okay so sorry for the video in the car kind of thing I know like my buddy
Heather Smith hates these in particular but you know it's just been a whirlwind
week we last Friday we had an a meeting with all of our team usually we work for
motely but we were all in the same place and went through strategy and different
issues and stuff that are going on the business so that we can make things
better and we can do a little team-building and stuff like that
Saturday we went to Salt Lake City for scaling new heights we spoke on
ecommerce accounting best practices and then we went from there to zero con on
Sunday and just got back yesterday so trying to get this all cranked out
before before Saturday for your Saturday slowdown and I'm actually going to
solicit help from my husband and I wanted to ask him what he took away from
Zurich on in particular so Scott hi okay attend to the roads so zircons amazing
it's just great so just reaffirms our commitment to the Xero community xerocon
is amazing and the fact that all the time we spend investing in the
relationships with the executives and the product managers and people like
said and all of our favorite people at zero and others there are many others it
is worth it you know it every bit of time we spend talking to our peers and
sharing best practices or you know us telling them how we screwed up in our
business and and there's plenty of those we're still in business in doing well
talking to them about how they've screwed up and how they've had to learn
different lessons and what they're doing now and their practice to evolve and
have great cultures and everything else and then it's just really efficient a
bunch of our vendors who we work very closely closely with that we all
relationships with our there so we just have a chance to talk to really talk and
have conversations and connect and whether we're talking about accounting
or technology or culture or the keynotes or kids lots of conversation about our
kids and their kids and vacations and everything else that's going on it
really is worth it we're part of a community we're there to support each
other and that's part of the best part about it I feel like I get paid in hugs
while I'm there lots of talks a handshakes just to connect in person
because we're so virtual all the time that really is the best thing
there are point technical things and other things that we solve where we're
there but that part I just always feel both and energized and happy and
connected when I get to the end of the thighs arrow comm so was there anything
that you saw Dirk on that you thought was particularly interesting innovative
any companies in particular that people should be watching especially e-commerce
sellers or anything while we connected with a 2x a 2x accounting who we love
and talk to them a bunch about a 2x4 Shopify so if you're already using
Amazon a 2x4 Amazon to post your Amazon income properly we can now do it with
Shopify so we set up our 50-plus Shopify accounts turn them all on about three or
four weeks ago we're pulling in data and it's gonna help optimize how we're doing
a Shopify in composing so we're really excited about that
and actually I did a video on that last week I think what last week or the week
before so you should go check that out if you haven't already
we looked i'm always we're looking at like the financial dashboard tools that
we're looking at so we're kind of looking through you know future lis
spotlight fathom a couple others the live life plan and looking at each of
those of Jarabe and then there was another one Meraki or morovia or
whatever i've got their card and looking at how can we use those to provide more
insight to our clients and present it in more graphical better ways and
benchmarking and a number of other things so that was one of the things i
was looking at i looked at an interesting cash flow tool to see if we
can automate that finally we just haven't found
the adapts the e-commerce well enough so our controllers do spreadsheets because
it's the only way to get a decent useful functional cash flow to our clients and
then heard a cool person who did a we just saw their TED talk last week Kelly
McGonigal yep if you haven't seen the one about stress it's not that stress
will kill you but if you think stress will kill you then it'll kill you so
what stuff all right I think that's about it
I hope you guys have a good weekend I am unplugging for a little bit of self-care
this weekend and I guess that's it I hope you liked this video if you did
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