Month: August, 2010

11 things I love and hate about Twitter

I haven’t had my B2B Twitter account for terribly long, but I’ve had it long enough to know what I like and don’t like about it.
Likes:

Making connections with people in my profession and market.
Getting a real-time view of the sentiment and perceived needs of my market
Learning about software, leadership, marketing, and technology. And other random stuff [...]

How-NOT-to Guide for Using QuickBooks

Here are the quickest ways — the shortcuts — to running into trouble with QuickBooks:

Get a business owner — not a professional bookkeeper or accountant — to set up the books. This is like a business owner who is not in the construction business pouring their own concrete and putting in their office plumbing themselves. [...]

QuickBooks networking problems? Diagnose with the free tool

Intuit has a free, downloadable tool to help diagnose and troubleshoot connectivity and multi-user issues. The QuickBooks Connection Diagnostic Tool can help solve certain 6000 errors and H202 and H505 errors.
Their tool is compatible with QuickBooks 2008, 2009, and 2010 versions (for Enterprise Edition users, versions 8, 9, and 10.) It works under Windows 7, [...]

Wifi in the wilderness

My family was in Yellowstone National Park last week, and we needed to find a wifi hotspot so that my daughter could log in and add some college classes to her fall class schedule.
We saw this and went to the Visitor Center with our laptop:
Only one problem. That little graphic sign doesn’t mean wifi.
It means [...]

5 QuickBooks Online Tutorials

Cathy Iconis, CPA, has assembled a list of five free online tutorials for QuickBooks Online.

How to bill a customer
How to get paid
How to make a deposit
How to write checks
How to use online banking

Check it out: QuickBooks Online Tutorials (PDF)
Know of any other good online resources for learning QBO?
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