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Clear Books Brings You Free Seminars!
As a small business, Clear Books knows just how many things there are to think about to drive things forward: marketing, office management, HR, SEO, excellent customer service...the list goes on! In our quest to go that extra mile for...
Mileage tool – driving you to success!
Regular visitors to the Clear Books Network will be aware of the suggestion of a mileage tool, which was submitted by Mohamed Aly. This idea is currently the most popular feature request, with a whopping 64 votes and 11 comments....
The key skills managers really want from their staff
Autonomous problem solving. An employee who raises a problem, issue or topic for debate is more valuable than someone who shies away or ignores a problem. This first step is to be commended. However, there is a second step that...
Introducing the new Clear Books. Designed with you in mind.
If you’re an avid reader of the Clear Books blog you will already know that we have been working our fingers to the bone designing a new theme to make Clear Books even more fantastic than it already is! And...
Musical chairs in the office
Including full time staff and contractors we have 21 people in our office. The table and seating layout is probably similar to the majority of small businesses in the UK, it's very departmentalised. We have a group of desks where...
Clear Books does Speed Networking
After the success of the first Clear Books networking event I am super excited to announce that we will be hosting our next event this month! I recently attended a Speed Networking event. I thoroughly enjoyed it and met a...
The power of networking
One of the goals I have been set this year is to attend networking events. As Marketing Communications Manager you might think I would be out and about meeting new people and spreading the Clear Books word all the time....
Open Payroll-Designing a New Brand
Corresponding with the recent introduction of RTI filing by HMRC, Clear Books has launched a new face to the Open Payroll home page inspired by the new Clear Books design. With this launch comes a prime opportunity to create a new and exciting brand...
Being the best versus making your customers the best
Clear Books has just been through the process of choosing software to project manage our development work better. It highlighted a really powerful marketing message. We did not seek the best project management software. We wanted the project management software...
2 important metrics to benchmark support
To begin with there was only one metric we thought the support team at Clear Books needed to track: customer happiness. If our customers are happy then that's all that matters, right? It means our support team are doing a...
Brand new invoice list released – check it out today!
As I’m sure many of you are aware, we have been working hard to improve the look and feel of Clear Books with our new user friendly theme. If you haven’t yet experienced the sleek new theme, enable it today...
How Clear Books thanks key customers for loyalty
Accountants are a key customer for Clear Books. If we successfully build a relationship and partner with an accounting practice they may sign up hundreds of their clients to our cloud accounting software. One of our initiatives with these key...
How will the £2,000 jobs tax allowance affect small British businesses?
For small businesses the 2013 budget brought with it the 'Employment Allowance' . This is a £2,000 saving on Employers' National Insurance Contributions for small businesses due to take effect from April 2014. Clear Books and Open Payroll, providers of online...
Clear Books RTI Pack
We held an RTI webinar last week which was attended by numerous Clear Books customers. For those of you who were unable to make this session we have created an RTI Pack from the webinar which explores the changes that will be...
Lessons learned from spending £100,000 on Google Adwords
Clear Books has spent more than £100,000 on Google Adwords. It has been our biggest marketing expense. When we first started spending on pay per click advertising Clear Books was one of a handful of new online accounting software...
Add your customers quickly with Companies House auto complete
Today we are excited to introduce a new feature that will save you loads of time when adding new customers. The Companies House auto complete feature will show you possible matches of Companies House registered companies when you start typing...
Customer happiness is a box of chocolates
Occasionally we fail in our mission to champion small businesses and a customer gets frustrated. At Clear Books when a customer has a bad experience we don't want them to dwell on that. We want to get them back on...
Scheduled Maintenance
Clear Books will be unavailable for up to 60 minutes between 03.00 and 07.00 tomorrow 14 March 2013 while we carry out some maintenance. Read More
We’re RTI ready! Are you?
If your business processes payroll you've probably received some alerts from HMRC regarding the upcoming RTI legislation. We've guessed that you now want to find out exactly what, why and how? There's no need to worry as Clear Books is here...
Our first networking event was a success!
Our first Clear Books community drinks event took place at the end of February and it was a brilliant success. We had 60 attendees from a variety of different business sectors, ranging from social media gurus to photographers. The main...
A curveball question to put a candidate on the spot
No calculator, pen or paper permitted. What is 49 squared? This is the question I ask interviewees at Clear Books. I particularly like this question because someone asked me the same question in an interview when I was at...
9 books every entrepreneur should read about leadership, teams, marketing and strategy
These books are sitting on the bookshelf either in the Clear Books office or at home. They are all well worth reading, covering topics on leadership, team building, strategy and marketing. Gung Ho, Ken Blanchard The One Minute Manager, Ken...
Clear Books introduces scheduled alerts for our accounting partners
We're pleased to announce a new feature for our accounting partners - scheduled alerts! This is a new feature in the Partners area which allows you to keep track of important events relating to your clients. An overview of the...
Clear Books launches its revamped Network
If you've had a wander over to the Network in the last few hours you will have seen a great transformation. We've spent a lot of time re-working, tweaking and building new functionality and user interfaces to make the Network...
The brand building dilemma of multiple products
We want Clear Books to be known as brilliant cloud accounting software. So what happens to your brand when you launch a new product such as payroll software? Can a brand be two things? This is a tricky decision to...
New look for Clear Books.
As you have probably already noticed, Clear Books has recently been going through a bit of a facelift. Bit by bit we are improving our look across the board and all for the better we hope. But is it better?...
Is a lack of focus killing my business?
There is an irony with me writing about focus - the jury is out as to whether Clear Books is focused or not. Cloud accounting software is our primary revenue generator at Clear Books. That should be our focus. But...
Clear Books adds functionality to new theme in Labs
We are extremely happy to let you know that we have been working hard on our new theme for Clear Books. We have introduced new features which include: Easily switch between our old and new experimental theme by using the...
It took four years to write our mission statement
Our mission statement at Clear Books is to champion small businesses. It's incredible how much time went into distilling what we do into that one sentence. A lot of time would have been saved if, rather than trying to be...