In this 'special edition of the QBO Monday Minute I want to tell you about our upcoming QB Talks on June 30th at 2 PM Eastern (1 PM Central) which will be very special indeed. I told you last week that I was moving the date to give myself time to develop a program built around the 'live announcement' of our 2021 Top 100 ProAdvisors. Well, that is exactly what I have done. Over the course of the hour we will be giving you the names of those who made this year's list, but it won't be exactly a sequential listing in alphabetical order if that is what you were thinking. Nor will the list be presented all at once.
You see, if I were to tell you that I would read the names off (or show a list) in the first fifteen (15) minutes then maybe 200 people would show up at the start and about 20 minutes later after the names were read, the attendee count would drop to six people. Of if I told you the list would be read off during the last 15 minutes, then everyone would simply wait to tune in. "I'm not a total dummy..."
But our June 30 show is not just about the people who make it to the Top 100 list... it's also about the ProAdvisor of the Year and Top 100 ProAdvisor Program, so with me will be two of our Program's sponsors. Melio, is the simplest way to pay vendors and contractors, and best of all it works perfectly with QuickBooks.... but even better than that, they are one of our great sponsors for the ProAdvisor of the Year and Top 100 ProAdvisor, without our great sponsors the ProAdvisor of the Year and Top 100 ProAdvisor Program simply would not exist. That's why we appreciate our sponsors and love to give them the opportunity to participate in events like the announcement of the Top 100, as well as tell us about their products and services.
Another one of our sponsors that will be with us during the June 30 QB Talks webinar will be ADP. ADP lets you simplify Payroll and HR with software and services designed to meet your unique needs, and RUN powered by ADP Payroll works with QuickBooks. Earlier this year ADP sponsored a promotional series of articles, as well a webinar on the ProAdvisor of the Year/Top 100 ProAdvisor Program which yielded an article containing a quintessential set of qualities I refer to as 'the Right Stuff' written by Matthew Fulton. I simply have to say that without ADP's involvement as a sponsor in this Program we might not have ever had Matthew's contribution since they sought out his contribution to the article series as well as the webinar itself.
And that brings us back to the Top 100 names... we will be popping-up list of names at various times throughout our hour long webinar, the lists will contain this year's Top 100 ProAdvisors in random order. Your name (even if your last name begins with letter 'A') might appear in the first 10 minutes, or it might be on a list half-way through the show, or it might be on the last list we give out, or it might be on one of the other lists somewhere in between.
In other words, if you want to find out if you are on this year's Top 100, then you are just going to have to tune in, and stay tuned in for the entire June 30th QB Talks (or at least until you see your name displayed). Otherwise you will have to wait until Insightful Accountant publishes the list, and we have not announced the formal date of publication.