Accountants vs Clients

Ever have trouble getting your clients to pay? Are they frustrated by the cost and what they perceive as your work for them? What value does your effort bring to your clients? Joe Woodward explores these questions for Account Today podcasts and thinks that maybe it’s the accountants who need to change their thinking and business model. Listen Here. (Photo courtesy of USplash.)

Do you eBay? Do you PayPal?

eBay announced last Thursday that it would no longer use PayPal as its primary processing service.  Moving to Ayden, a Netherlands based firm and promising lower costs for consumers and a more streamlined customer experience.  PayPal was acquired by eBay in 2002 and spun off in 2014 after pressure from activist investor Carl Icahn.  The two remain contractually related until 2023.

EBay is dropping PayPal; if you’re a customer, here’s what you need to know

Stock Photography Profits to the Photographer

the hands of a young Christian child are folded in prayer over the book the Holy BibleImagine a site with amazing stock photos.  Now imagine that the majority of the profits go directly to the photographers.  That is exactly what Bruce Livingstone and Brianna Wettlaufer created not once, but twice.  Previously they owned iStock which billed itself as “by creatives, for creatives.”  This business was later acquired by Getty Photos.  As the amount of royalties paid to photographers began to lessen, the team decided it was time to start again.  Together they created Stocksy, where photographers are paid 50-75% of sales as well a 90% distribution of profits at the end of the year.  Next time you need a stunning stock photos, give Stocksy a look.

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