EP165: Guy Pearson - Why Efficiency Is One Of The Keys To Your Success

Guy Pierce: I basically just tried to make the most out of this change in our industry and tried to enable it as much as possible as we head away from time, cost, paper, and being paid for data inputs into focusing on hopefully what we all went to university for, which is trying to figure out how to help a small business spend that last dollar they have for the greatest utilization rate. So, spend the last buck to make the biggest impact. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to The Successful Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I am your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a great one. Our guest is the co-founder and CEO of Practice Ignition, which is an accounting automation solution. Guy Pearson, welcome to the podcast. Thanks so much, Mike. It's great to be here. Hopefully everyone can understand my accent, but if not, bear with us and I'm sure we'll have a transcriber or a transcript. Underneath the podcast. We definitely will. We definitely will. It'll get— everybody will get used to the language from down under, which we— I don't know, like you probably— I don't know if there'd be any listener that wasn't familiar with Crocodile Dundee. You're probably cringing the fact that I even brought that up. Sorry, mate. I'm not packing a knife today. So it's safe on this side of the podcast here in Toronto.

Michael Palmer: Exactly. Well, I'll tell you, when I grew up watching that, you know, what was portrayed in that movie and as well Mad Max, you know, I went to— I went and lived in Australia for a couple of years. And when I went there, I thought, wow, it was this kind of desolate land down under. And it's not that at all. It's probably one of the most beautiful places in the world. And so anyways, we won't get too far down that track, but I'm sure most of our listeners love the nostalgic accent of Australia. Yeah, perfect. It is a bit more like Crocodile Dundee than Mad Max. So yeah, sort of both of them are not quite accurate depictions, but yeah, don't think that we're either going to kill everybody in the desert or you're going to get stuck in the middle of nowhere with crocodiles and big knives. You're