💡Why You Should Use Canva

Until a couple months ago I’d never used Canva because:

1. I don’t do cute little marketing graphics

2. I use pro tools like Photoshop and am too cool for it 😎

And I suspect most of us fit into one of those two buckets, but I am here to tell you it is so easy to use, and an easy way to dazzle your clients.

Here's a gif of a Wrapped video I made for the QuickBooks sample file, Craig's Design and Landscaping Services:

Grab the template here, it’s as easy as swapping out any text, images or video you want to use.

But what makes Canva helpful to me is how many templates there are, and how well search works. For example, results for Financial Summary:

Or Client Letter Christmas:

Even follow specific creators on Canva if you like their style:

It’s quick & easy to customize the designs on desktop or mobile, and in most cases completely free to use. They even have a growing number of video templates that are just as easy to customize.

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📅 This Week

• Lovely seeing a bunch of you at Digital CPA this week!

• The leading cause of heart disease among accountants

• Intuit put a sunset date on QuickBooks Desktop (US)

• Rightworks launched Spark: “ChatGPT...purpose-built for accounting”

• My guide to pushing through the internal voices that hold you back

• Google announced Gemini, their much anticipated new LLM. The biggest version Ultra is said to outperform GPT-4 on most tasks. It comes in three flavors:

  • Nano - A tiny version that can run locally and is now available on some Pixel devices

  • Pro - Now available for free in Bard, is said to be slightly better than GPT-3.5. I’ll be doing a tax research test tomorrow on LinkedIn & Twitter, as early testing seems to indicate it could be a killer research app due to citations & built-in fact checking

  • Ultra - The multimodal (not just text) version which is said to be better than GPT-4, but not yet available. Here’s a video of it in action

• How to develop a person to come work alongside you as your dream assistant in chief

• I contributed to Karbon’s ‘State of AI in Accounting Report’ - here’s a link to grab it

• If you ever wondered why birds hang out on powerlines, the answer might be wireless charging

😍From The Community

My private peer networking community Realize for firm leaders, now capped at 500 members. The next round of Mastermind signups close 12/15.

• 12/07 🎉 December Member Mixer 🥳 with Dymond

• 12/12 💘 Swiping Right - Crafting Client Communications with Kellie Parks

• 12/15 📃 Mastermind Group Signups Close

• 12/18 🌴 Take A Step Back

• 12/19 🏫 Hall Pass - Live Coaching with Brandon Hall

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