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Jason BlumerLet me walk you through a brief history of accounting technology.  As we review the past, we can hopefully extrapolate where the future of accounting technology is leading the professional accountant.

Humble Beginnings

Our journey begins with Intuit, the maker of QuickBooks.  Intuit’s founder, Scott Cook, realized that personal computers would replace manual bookkeeping and began Intuit back in 1983 with Tom Proulx. Since their IPO in 1993, Intuit’s QuickBooks product has enjoyed a huge market share of the small business accounting market.  From the desktop version eventually came the QuickBooks Online Version, until they claimed a 94.2% market share in 2008 (according to an Intuit press release). Read more

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Computer and Technology, Software
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700_0661Good customers demonstrate certain behaviors as they work with your company. I’ll list some of the behaviors of our great customers. I call them Investment Behaviors because they demonstrate behaviors from customers who are invested in your firm.

1. Invested customers tell you how you can improve, with a caveat that they still love you. This is common. We ask our customers to pay us to deliver super value to them. I think we pull that off… most of the time. And when we don’t, our customers typically let us know: “Hey, you guys know I love you and that you are awesome, but you need to step it up here.” We improve because they tell us specifically how to improve.

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CPA firm, Marketing and Branding
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