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We asked a few THRIVEal member firms to provide us some videos on why they do what they do. Now we want you, our THRIVEal readers, to vote on which video should win a prize!
Prizes provided by Vend, Young Financial Advisors, and THRIVEal:
Joey Brannon’s Video
Magen Smith’s Video
Adrian Simmons’ Video
Now, vote above!
Honorable mention:
Sorry this update is so long (over 10 minutes) but we had a lot to tell you! Thanks for watching!
Pioneering the New Firm Coaching Course
THRIVEal’s Deeper Weekend Learning Gathering in Greenville, SC
Freakin’ Cloudsway (a hot new document management/accounting product going live soon) flew Jody Padar, myself and Greg Kyte out to SXSW to spend time with Kasey Bayne and the crew of Freshbooks at their ranch. Our motto was “CPAs Gone Wild” and we cleared out a deck of loyal Freshbooks users when we started the live podcast taping (sorry about that).
Jason Blumer, Jody Padar, Greg Kyte, Tom Hood and Kasey Bayne
Here is the final report:
First stop was Greg Kyte’s big gulp and the purchase of the lottery ticket:
Jason rides the mechanical bull at SXSW:
I love this video I found on Mailchimp! The video is about jeans. One of the most simple things in life that we wear everyday. The owners of Raleigh Denim are disrupting how they make and sell jeans. It’s a fascinating video about artisans – they call themselves “jean smiths”. People who hand craft one jean at a time for the care of their customer.
Makes me think about the CPA profession, and our opportunity to become artisans for our customers. I believe we can become more than just mass producers of tax documents, payroll transactions and paper producers. But to do that, we have to slow down. We have to slow down our growth and slow down who comes into our firms. No more growth for growth sake. We have to become problem solvers and we do that one customer at a time. When we slow down, we will be able to serve one customer at a time, and hand craft numbers one customer at a time.
We can become number smiths.
Hey THRIVEal members! You’ve been hearing about the Family Meeting for a while. Wanna know what to expect? Just watch the video of Jason and then register at the link below. See you at the Family Meeting!
Register here!
I had a great time speaking at the Right Networks Boston C4 Conference recently. I met a lot of new people and found some old friends (and some new wisdom) I wanted to pass along. Check it:
Eric Pulaski
Greg LaFollette
Joe Woodard
Find out more about the Scaling New Heights Conference here: http://www.scalingnewheights.com/index2012Preview.htm
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Jody Padar and I had an awesome time this past weekend in Washington, DC at the Sage Summit teaching a workshop titled “Got the Guts?”
It was all about taking a trek back in time to see where firms and technology have come, and how we can apply the past to what our firm will look like in the future. In a workshop style, practitioner’s literally from all over the world got in teams to try and discover what the group thought about the past and how to apply it to the future of their own firm.
Wow, it was awesome! We got to write on the wall, we played some Led Zeppelin, we passed pacifiers around, wore goggles and swim flippers (for the Waves of Innovation) and stood in chairs. Thanks to Sage and their innovations to make this happen. What a forward-thinking community! Thanks everyone. It was a freakin’ blast! Check out some quick videos below to see what everyone thought.
You can also check out some photos from the event on our THRIVEal Facebook page.
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