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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!

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Eva is part of GMcG’s DIGITAL TEAM, where she helps businesses maximise their efficiencies through the automation of systems and processes and also how to make the most of the data that is at their fingertips.  Eva has transitioned businesses, across a range of sectors, to the QuickBooks cloud platform, migrating from existing software as seamlessly as possible.  She also delivers training within the GMcG digital team covering bookkeeping, vat and payroll. Training can be “1 to 1” or workshops where the benefits of cloud and digital record keeping can be demonstrated. Eva has over 12 years of payroll and VAT compliance and oversees part of GMcG’s bookkeeping, payroll and VAT bureau. Eva is a full member of AAT.

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Nic and Andrea have both been full time self-employed since 2002. Nic quit his job as a Police officer and Andrea left her role at Amazon when they had their daughter. They then built up a small part time eBay business selling second hand goods and threw themselves into that in a big way. The business rapidly expanded until their small rented house was filling up with stock which was not ideal with a small baby. So at that point, they opened a high street shop, a place to base the internet business and a retail frontage to buy direct from the public and sell over the counter in a traditional way too.

The shop was an instant success, and they rapidly expanded their range and after a few years moved to a much larger shop. After 8 years of high street retail, they had achieved their primary goal, to buy their own house, and had even managed to pay off the mortgage in full. However, the high street was changing rapidly, and they were exhausted, so took the decision to leave the high street and go back to online retail exclusively....

Since that point they have experimented with several avenues, they specialised in clothing, and Lego, but have always come back to being generalists and having fingers in many pies. These days they no longer have any storage or office space outside the home and operate a much smaller enterprise than they have in the past but enjoy the lower overheads, freedom and lower stress levels this gives them. Now Nic and Andrea are selling a wide range of used and new goods primarily on eBay and Amazon, but also use other platforms such as Depop, Etsy and Facebook.

About 6 years ago, they started a YouTube channel, to share what and how they do it. This has grown to a scale beyond what they ever imagined. Almost at 47,000 subscribers and past 8 million views, YouTube is now a part of their business and a huge part of their lives.

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Luke is a partner at Alliotts within their Outsourcing and Corporate Finance teams. Luke’s role in the Outsourcing team provides him with the skills and knowledge to leverage technology to improve the quality and access to financial information for clients and has given him a detailed understanding of how businesses of varying sizes operate and the issues that they experience during growth.

Luke particularly enjoys working with growing businesses and deals with a broad spectrum of technology companies and has experience in dealing with clients of a range of sizes, from large private equity firms to startups.

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Join our fully interactive Q&A sessions 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.

Eriona is Chartered Certified Accountant, has Masters’ degrees in both Accounting & Finance and International Banking & Finance Law and has recently completed a PGDip in Financial Strategy from the University of Oxford. Eriona is a member of the ACCA UK Practitioners Network Panel, ACCA SME Global Forum, has been involved with the International Federation of Accountants Chief Executives Forum. Eriona has also been nominated for three awards for the Women in Accounting and Finance Awards 2020. Having worked in practice since she was 13, then taking over Major's Accounts, Eriona has implemented a digitisation strategy within the business which has made a huge impact on the practice and clients’ businesses; turning an established traditional practice into a digital one utilising technology to bring the accountant-client relationship much closer. Major’s Accounts is now focusing on providing advisory services to its clients, including business finance. Major’s Accounts has been nominated for Independent Firm of the Year, Greater London by the British Accountancy Awards.

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Join our fully interactive Q&A sessions 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.

Jeremy Stern is the founder and CEO of PromoVeritas – the European leader in promotional compliance. With an extensive marketing career – as European Promotions Director of Coca-Cola, European Marketing Director of Sega Games and other senior roles – Stern identified a clear gap between creative agencies working on brilliant ideas, and their clients who wanted to keep on the right side of the laws, codes and the consumer and to protect their budgets and reputations. In 2002 PromoVeritas was born with the simple aim of making sure that the back end of a promotional campaign is run as professionally as the advertising and marcomms, the front end.

PromoVeritas make sure that winners of prize draws are selected randomly and securely, all entrants to competitions are judged properly, and ‘golden tickets’ and codes for instant win Willy Wonka type promotions are fairly and securely distributed. The company has now grown in both scope and geography: overseeing TV voting, running campaigns in over 70 countries for hundreds of clients & brands, employing a team of more than 30 (lawyers, project specialists and client managers) and protecting thousands of promotions every year. Stern is an expert on all aspects of promotional compliance and the costly mistakes that others have made. His motto is ‘Run it Right’, and he is passionate about ensuring that brands avoid errors that will result in tighter regulation and government intervention (as exists in many other countries).

Stern is also the man behind all those TV shows that say  ‘….and the votes have been independently verified …’  and award-winning campaigns such as Cadbury’s Hunt the White Egg or Dairylea Does Your Pack Moo.

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With 44 years in his industry Brendan has driven Christy Engineering Solutions through recessions and ups and downs in the UK economy, managing to buck downward trends and maintaining steady incremental growth. Taking much pride in the total commitment, support, knowledge and expertise team Christy have shown in the face of the Covid-19 crisis. Often designing and building high end, sophisticated power units they have now turned their skills to manufacture a bespoke simple design ventilator actuator that can be further developed to assist the Nationwide and Worldwide push to resolving shortages in a group effort to save lives. Brendan’s marketing team are also reaching out to like-minded institutions gathering resources around the clock in order to enhance the supply chain in production of PPE & Autonomous Disinfectant Solutions to support our brave and gallant NHS. He is optimistic that in the face of this adversity we will emerge from this episode stronger, leaner and more united than ever.

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With over twenty years in practice Sam Gooding established a thriving, vibrant accountancy practice in 2014. By fostering new accountancy talent and playing to the team’s talents the practice has grown from strength to strength. Sam’s vision for Gooding Accounts has been built upon the foundations of loyalty, integrity and customer service. These core elements underpin our working practice, not only in our professional capacity with you but also in our work with the local community. The communication, advice and software support are what sets Sam and his team apart.

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Join our fully interactive Q&A sessions 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.

Luke is a partner at Alliotts within their Outsourcing and Corporate Finance teams. Luke’s role in the Outsourcing team provides him with the skills and knowledge to leverage technology to improve the quality and access to financial information for clients and has given him a detailed understanding of how businesses of varying sizes operate and the issues that they experience during growth. Luke particularly enjoys working with growing businesses and deals with a broad spectrum of technology companies and has experience in dealing with clients of a range of sizes, from large private equity firms to startups.

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Join our fully interactive Q&A sessions 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.

Right at the forefront of the small business battle to overcome #Covid19, Merlie Calvert is the CEO and founder of Farillio, an award-winning, 3-year old tech startup in the business and legal services sector. Farillio’s mission, which has never been more real or relevant, is to ensure that no small business struggles or fails because they can’t easily access key information and core materials that they need to succeed.

With over 20 years’ experience of business and legal practice, spanning international law firms, and a wide range of legal and business roles in industries including pharmaceuticals, music, drinks and FMCG, publishing, diamonds and insurance, as well founder and director level roles in several businesses, Merlie’s earned the label ‘super-connector’ and won awards for the way that she advises.

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