AP Automation
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Back to Basics – What is Automation?
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With the flurry of recent webinars, I am reminded that us automation nerds can’t get too far away from the general public. There are still a lot of people out there that don’t have any real good idea what accounting (AP and Payments) automation is. When training sales folks, I tell them they have to keep…
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Where do invoices go when you automate?
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I used to have a standard set of jokes I told as a teenager. One of the jokes in my set was, “Where do bad grapes go when they die?” “They go to raisin hell”. I know you are laughing… well probably not… That joke is where I got the phrase for the topic of…
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I always get nervous for some reason…
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I am very proud of the number of presentation I do each year. Last year it was 588 in 9 different countries. Now, before you think I fly all over the world and never see my wife and four kids, 577 of those presentations were done over the web. I do a lot of webinars…
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You can rent YOUR car…. Really? (8/15)
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I couldn’t believe when I read the post from Tech Crunch. There is a company out there, FlightCar that has just started in the San Francisco area that will facilitate a transaction to allow you, the owner of your car, to rent it to a total stranger while you are not using it. My first thought…
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Want a free book?
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Encore! Encore! That’s what I was going to title this post, but I shamelessly decided to sell out and use the old “free” word to get attention. It’s true, you can get a free copy of my book The Argument to Automate – How Innovation Can INSPIRE Not Fire if you read this post. However,…
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INSPIRE Not Fire!
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I hope when you saw the picture associated with this post that it brought back fond memories of Donald Trump. Putting aside his famous line (and his awesome hair), we are just getting over one of our country’s worst economic speed bumps as far as firing is concerned. The line “INSPIRE, Not Fire” comes from part of…
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Update on the Princess!
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The Princess and the Paper is ready. The editing, proofing, and testing has been completed. The testing took me a long time… Four kids, over fourteen years and countless, “Dad, read that book again!” If you have kids I am sure they are like mine, having a certain book that you have to read over…
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Can Accountants think motivationally?
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Don’t worry, I looked it up “Motivationally” is a word. The dictionary said, “the act or instant of motivating”. One of the quotes that I catch a lot of grief about is a line in The Argument to Automate, where I said that “accountants got into the business of accounting so they wouldn’t have to…
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What I learn in the last 12 hours about Cost Per Invoice
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I had an interesting conversation with a person who sells Accounts Payable Automation. She lives and works in San Diego… so the first thing I asked her was, “if you looked out your window do you see any celebrities?” She said, “No.”I thought that people who live in Southern California see celebrities all the time… oh…
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Guess what I got in the mail?
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I was sitting in my office, and I’m sure I was doing something important, when a very well dressed co-worker dropped off a package. It was none only than the final proof to my third book. This one I am very excited about, but also extremely nervous about it. I have also done more “field” research for this…