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Your Staff Is A Form of Marketing

I ran into something today, and I wanted to write a quick post about it, at least as it relates to small business. Your staff is a form of marketing. What do I mean by that? I mean that any actions of even the most casual of backroom staff add to or take away from […]

Free Bookkeeping Software

For the better part of my career, I have relied on big-name software companies for work. I have always run Windows, almost always had a copy of Office installed on that Windows box, and had either MYOB, Simply Accounting, or QuickBooks for my bookkeeping needs. Doing this Freshbooks experiment has been enlightening. Whether or not […]

Freshbooks Experiment – Expenses

Well, I’ve had almost a full week of using Freshbooks for all my business bookkeeping. Today, I wanted to talk a bit about expense tracking. As I mentioned before, this is not a full-featured bookkeeping program. It won’t be tracking assets and depreciation. However, if I want to keep track of advertising, bank fees, and […]

Freshbooks – An Experiment

I have been a very loyal QuickBooks user for the past six years or so. Prior to that, there were several other programs I used, including MYOB (which is no longer available in Canada) and Simply Accounting. For the most part, they’ve all done their job and done it well. Are there things I’d like […]

Favourite Posts – Week of May 10, 2010

Despite my downright abusive treatment of Google Reader this past week, I still read a lot of great posts from my favourite feeds. Here are a few of those favourites. Enjoy! Wise Bread – Read Your Financial Statements Like a Banker Your balance sheet and income statement tell a banker more about your business than […]

Video Quick Tip: Eliminate Extra Excel Sheets

I ran into an annoyance yesterday, and I’m not sure why I haven’t tried to fix it before. As you know, I do a lot of work in QuickBooks. At least once or twice a day, this includes exporting reports to Excel so I can either save them or send them off to a client. […]