Ask The Expert

Catch our live Ask The Expert Q&A session with Clive Rich to learn the secret to better negotiation.

Clive Rich is a law-tech entrepreneur, professional negotiator and digital media  executive. He is the Founder and CEO of LawBite, a law-tech business taking SMEs from ‘Idea’ to ‘Ideal’ as they start, grow and succeed (www.lawbite.co.uk).

Through its proprietary Cloud-based  Platform, LawBite democratises the law for SMEs by providing access to  affordable, understandable and speedy legal advice. The Platform has serviced over 30,000 SME enquiries and is increasingly driven by machine learning and data science. A qualified barrister, he has been a lawyer for over 30 years and is  also a CEDR accredited Mediator and a CiArb Arbitrator. He has also written ‘Law  for Small Business for Dummies’, part of the successful ‘Dummies’ Series.

As a negotiator, he has crafted agreements for and with a broad spectrum of  multi-nationals, major organisations and brands around the world, including  Apple, Microsoft, Vodafone, Tesco, Napster, SanDisk, the Royal Opera House, Fox  Television, Pepsi and the BBC. He is the author of “The Yes Book: the Art of  Better Negotiation”, published by Random House and has also designed and  successfully launched a negotiation App called “Close My Deal”, enabling people  to understand the basis of successful negotiation and apply the skills to everyday  scenarios.

As a digital media executive, Clive has successfully run profit centres for  companies such as Sony and Bertelsmann, including digital businesses and the  business side of Simon Cowell’s Syco TV joint venture with both companies – negotiating global deals for X Factor, Got Talent and American Idol.

Our fully interactive Q&A sessions are hosted by a different business expert every day. Pick up valuable tips and advice and discover practical positive steps you can take in the months ahead. You ask all the questions — add yours in the comments section of YouTube or Facebook or use the #QBATE hashtag on Twitter.

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Catch our live Ask The Expert Q&A session with Johann Goree who'll be sharing tips on how to kickstart your business.

Johann Goree CMgr FCMI - A Chartered Manager and the Managing Director of OnPoint Accounting Group who help accountants and bookkeepers maximise the value in their business now, and when they decide to exit their business.

Johann is a QuickBooks Advanced Certified Pro Advisor and works with the firms in the OnPoint Accounting Group to digitalise and automate their workflows allowing more time to be spent working with business owners helping them achieve their goals.

Our fully interactive Q&A sessions are hosted by a different business expert every day. Pick up valuable tips and advice and discover practical positive steps you can take in the months ahead. You ask all the questions — add yours in the comments section of YouTube or Facebook or use the #QBATE hashtag on Twitter.

#QuickBooks 

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Catch our live Ask The Expert Q&A session with Ketan Makwana to get advice on navigating change as a business owner and showing leadership.

Business strategist and all-round disruptor Ketan has been working on business growth and strategic management for over 20 years. Ketan founded Enterprise Lab in 2011 as a response to the emerging skills gap in enterprise and industry; the agency has gone on to now operate programming in 26 countries and won numerous awards for its cutting edge approach and results.

Ketan has expertise within the IT, Electronics and Healthcare Industry where he has developed and delivered strategies that have positively impacted the industry. After losing his job in 2009 to the economic crash, he went on to build his first business, an outsourcing agency which he went onto sell to a major recruitment firm within 18 months.

Ketan is passionate about people and processes; he thoroughly enjoys building strategies for growth and taking people through a journey of self-development. His work has been delivered through advising, consulting, mentoring and training - having served all levels of the enterprise eco-system.

Ketan continues his mission to impact and disrupt economies for prosperity through building expert networks, investing in fast-growth businesses and inspiring leaders to strive for growth through innovation and disruption.

Our fully interactive Q&A sessions are hosted by a different business expert every day. Pick up valuable tips and advice and discover practical positive steps you can take in the months ahead. You ask all the questions — add yours in the comments section of YouTube or Facebook or use the #QBATE hashtag on Twitter.

#QuickBooks 

The world’s largest workforce works for themselves. We work for them by providing smarter business tools. QuickBooks is always backing you. https://quickbooks.intuit.com/uk/ 

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Catch our live Ask The Expert Q&A session with Glenn Collins to learn how to log government grants or schemes in your accounts.

Glenn Collins FCCA is Head of Technical Advisory and Policy at ACCA. He is responsible for advice and support to ACCA members on a range of issues, including audit, financial reporting, business and credit advice, taxation, company and business law, ethics, export and access to finance.

A Fellow of ACCA, Glenn Collins spent 16 years in public practice, specialising in audit and business advice, before joining ACCA where he has worked for over 20 years.Alongside providing advice to finance professionals, Glenn Collins also liaises closely with UK government departments, Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs, BEIS, Department for International trade and also agencies like the Charity Commission and Pensions Regulator. He also leads ACCA’s support for small and medium practitioners and is a member of numerous small business, tax and charity groups.

Our fully interactive Q&A sessions are hosted by a different business expert every day. Pick up valuable tips and advice and discover practical positive steps you can take in the months ahead. You ask all the questions — add yours in the comments section of YouTube or Facebook or use the #QBATE hashtag on Twitter.

#QuickBooks 

The world’s largest workforce works for themselves. We work for them by providing smarter business tools. QuickBooks is always backing you. https://quickbooks.intuit.com/uk/ 

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Catch our live Ask The Expert Q&A session with Aaron Patrick to pick up some accounting hacks and business advice.

Aaron is a Chartered Accountant and Head of Accounts at a state of the art accounting practice which uses cloud technology to make sure that clients have the information they need at their fingertips. Aaron is a UK Intuit QuickBooks Certified Trainer who travels all around the UK, delivering Core and Advance QuickBooks training to accountants. He is also a Director of AppleCore Group, a small family empire, which ensures that he practises what he preaches to all his lovely clients!

Our fully interactive Q&A sessions are hosted by a different business expert every day. Pick up valuable tips and advice and discover practical positive steps you can take in the months ahead. You ask all the questions — add yours in the comments section of YouTube or Facebook or use the #QBATE hashtag on Twitter.

#QuickBooks 

The world’s largest workforce works for themselves. We work for them by providing smarter business tools. QuickBooks is always backing you. https://quickbooks.intuit.com/uk/ 

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Catch our live Ask The Expert Q&A session with Kim Arnold to learn marketing tricks to help your business bounce back as coronavirus restrictions ease.

Kim Arnold is an international branding, marketing and communication expert.  She shows businesses how to stand out, get heard and connect with clients in our noisy world.  She’s spent over two decades getting legal providers, techies, consultants, coaches and many more to ditch their dry corporate jargon and bland branding so they get noticed by those who matter most.

She also shows leading organisations - including global law firms and FTSE 100 businesses - talk and write in a way that inspires action (instead of inducing a coma). Her first book, ‘Email Attraction – Get what you want every time you hit send’ was shortlisted in the Financial Times’ best business books: ‘Save time and get results […] completely rethink how you churn out emails.’ She is a Panel Tutor at The University of Cambridge Institute Of Continuing Education, where she teaches branding and marketing.

Our fully interactive Q&A sessions are hosted by a different business expert every day. Pick up valuable tips and advice and discover practical positive steps you can take in the months ahead. You ask all the questions — add yours in the comments section of YouTube or Facebook or use the #QBATE hashtag on Twitter.

#QuickBooks 

The world’s largest workforce works for themselves. We work for them by providing smarter business tools. QuickBooks is always backing you. https://quickbooks.intuit.com/uk/ 

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2ycNB3g 

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Catch our live Ask The Expert Q&A with Eva Mrazikova to find out the differences between being employed and being your own boss.

Eva is an AAT Licensed Accountant with almost 15 years of accounting experience, both from the industry as well as the accountancy practice environment.

She is experienced in bringing efficiencies into accountancy department functions (within practice, as well industry environment) with mapping out and streamlining of processes and making the best use of automatisation. As a digital accountant and trainer, she had advised businesses on data migration and training onto various cloud and desktop based accounting software, including payroll and bookkeeping processes, as well as ensuring that the internal staff training needs in those areas are all met.

Over the COVID-19 crisis period, Eva is advising businesses on HMRC guidance in terms of furlough, self employment support and various grants. She is also involved in budgets and forecasting and bringing efficient credit controls into place.

Our fully interactive Q&A sessions are hosted by a different business expert every day. Pick up valuable tips and advice and discover practical positive steps you can take in the months ahead. You ask all the questions — add yours in the comments section of YouTube or Facebook or use the #QBATE hashtag on Twitter.

#QuickBooks 

The world’s largest workforce works for themselves. We work for them by providing smarter business tools. QuickBooks is always backing you. https://quickbooks.intuit.com/uk/ 

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2ycNB3g 

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Catch our live Ask The Expert Q&A session with Sean Goldsmith to get strategic planning and franchise advice.

Sean is a Special Advisor to the Franchise Industry, a multi-brand Franchisor as well as a multi-unit, multi-brand franchisee with extensive international experience.

As the Special Advisor, Sean works with Franchise brands to redevelop their sales and operational structures so that they can be more profitable and better equipped to help their franchisees flourish. He is the co-founder of both the UK and South African Franchise Mastermind groups with over 350 franchise networks represented and has recently founded the Franchise Peer Board, a high-level professional development programme for Franchisors.

Sean is an ex-board member of the British Franchise Association and a very vocal advocate of Ethical Franchising across the board.

Our fully interactive Q&A sessions are hosted by a different business expert every day. Pick up valuable tips and advice and discover practical positive steps you can take in the months ahead. You ask all the questions — add yours in the comments section of YouTube or Facebook or use the #QBATE​ hashtag on Twitter.

#QuickBooks 

The world’s largest workforce works for themselves. We work for them by providing smarter business tools. QuickBooks is always backing you. https://quickbooks.intuit.com/uk/ 

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Catch our live Ask The Expert Q&A session with Judith Dugdale to learn how to maximise the value of your business.

Judith works with owner-managed businesses across the North West and her clients range in size and complexities from new startups to established and growing businesses across a multitude of sectors.

She heads the Digital Solutions team at MHA Moore and Smalley which is a dedicated team of people who help business owners improve their inhouse financial reporting function and bookkeeping efficiency, as well as providing proactive support to help those businesses grow profitably. The Digital Solutions team provides set-up, training and support on cloud accounting software and business improvement apps as well as ongoing advisory services. The practice is an Elite Intuit QuickBooks partner.

Our fully interactive Q&A sessions are hosted by a different business expert every day. Pick up valuable tips and advice and discover practical positive steps you can take in the weeks ahead. You ask all the questions — add yours in the comments section of YouTube or Facebook or use the #QBATE hashtag on Twitter.

#QuickBooks 

The world’s largest workforce works for themselves. We work for them by providing smarter business tools. QuickBooks is always backing you. https://quickbooks.intuit.com/uk/ 

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2ycNB3g 

Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QuickBooksUK/

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Catch our live Ask The Expert Q&A session with Aaron Patrick to pick up some accounting hacks and business advice.

Aaron is a Chartered Accountant and Head of Accounts at a state of the art accounting practice which uses cloud technology to make sure that clients have the information they need at their fingertips. Aaron is a UK Intuit QuickBooks Certified Trainer who travels all around the UK, delivering Core and Advance QuickBooks training to accountants. He is also a Director of AppleCore Group, a small family empire, which ensures that he practises what he preaches to all his lovely clients!

Our fully interactive Q&A sessions are hosted by a different business expert every day. Pick up valuable tips and advice and discover practical positive steps you can take in the months ahead. You ask all the questions — add yours in the comments section of YouTube or Facebook or use the #QBATE hashtag on Twitter.

#QuickBooks 

The world’s largest workforce works for themselves. We work for them by providing smarter business tools. QuickBooks is always backing you. https://quickbooks.intuit.com/uk/ 

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2ycNB3g 

Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QuickBooksUK/

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