a few years ago i made the switch to macs. one of my concerns as a business owner was making a smooth transition. i had been interested in macs for years but held off mainly because i would be starting from the beginning. i was a windows power user. my natural skin care business up until that point had been running on the windows os. ive always been fascinated by macs but my own fear of learning a...
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getting started by kris olson have financial controls in place because i did not have the systems in place like an in house bookkeeper that keeps track of all income and expenses properly on quickbooks i could never tell exactly where we were and what trends were taking place for us to plan from. i could tell you what was in our bank account since i carried the checkbook with me and had to balance...
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everyday i get emails from small startups asking me how to manage time and reduce their expenses. well im not into this startup thingy but i thought id do these guys a favor so i went hunting for the best free time tracking software and stumbled upon actitime. in a nutshell actitime is basically a clear and simple way to register time expenses analyze employee performance prepare timesheets for...
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for a number of years the price of technology to run our businesses has been dropping quite dramatically. let me give you three general examples computer hardware computers far more powerful than the one with the pentium i chip that cost me 2500 a number of years ago now sell for a little over 500. according to the bureau of labor statistics prices of personal computer equipment have dropped 1...
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o jimmy atkinson escreveu este interessante artigo o tatulo explica tudo. reproduzo aqui apenas a lista dos programas proprietarios e das alternativas de cadigo livre. a importante ler o artigo original em inglas por causa de detalhes importantes e informaaaes adicionais ou para conhecer outras opiniaes nem todo mundo concordou com as dicas do jimmy. basicos windows vista os para ubuntu os ...
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patrick at cash money life wrote an incredibly detailed post for windowsusers about how to extend the lives of their computers. i bow down to patrick for all of his awesomeness and for having written that amazing post but what about mac users he and i discussed it and hes encouraged me to go ahead and write this response post for those of his and my readers that are apple computer users instead. i...
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no time for long introductions today. here are a few free marketing tools you can use for your business 1. free crm. crm customer relationship management is of course very important to every business and if you cant afford mega tools like salesforce.com then freecrm is great. you can manage leads keep a calendar write cases set up scripts and much more.a 2. free conference calls. want to look lik...
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after i wrote up zoho invoice review i got a call from intuit makers of quickbooks which zoho may integrate with some day. they had news for me intuit has a free webbased invoicing app too intuit billing manager. and its been out since september. well slap me silly. for some reason intuit hasnt publicized this neat little app. but my zoho writeup got under their skin and they called to give me a...
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a few recent events reinforce a theory ive been noodling over for a couple of years the new reality for anyone trying to build a business in the digital world is that the entrylevel price for customers is now zero. media companies need to pay attention and maybe discover some new opportunities. two examples from outside the media world on thursday adobe launched a free version of its powerfu...
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the above is another poster in the series ive done for blue flavor advertising some of their software and projects. ive got a huge response from these posters which brings up a rather interesting idea that were dabbling with here album art for programs. i considered this at first just advertisement but the bf guys have been great as usual and given me complete creative freedom. im basically allowe...
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one of the parts of building my business that will require a significant financial investment and soon is a new computer system. my current machine a 5 year old dell has just about reached the end of its theoretical lifespan. the starter crank on the back keeps rusting out and vacuum tubes are getting tough to come by these days...but seriously its gonna be new computer time soon. i can take comfo...
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digg url httpdigg.comsoftware50 proprietary programs we all hate and the os alternatives not every proprietary program can drive a person crazy right some like norton ghost are superb tools for anyone to use. but the fact that these tools are proprietary can drive open source fanatics up a wall. its not the price of the software that makes the real difference although its a reason to mi...
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