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Colin Timmis Says 'Position Yourself For Success By Starting With The Numbers' People pay first who they feel pressure from, so people will pay you when they feel pressure from you.

By Daniel Newman

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Entrepreneur Colin Timmis founded South Africa's first cloud accounting practice in 2011, Real Time Accounting. Then, a few years after being appointed as South Africa's first Xero partner Colin became Xero Country Manager South Africa. Xero is the emerging global leader of online accounting software that connects small businesses to their advisors and other services.

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