The 5 Business Mistakes You May Not Know You’re Making
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I have yet to meet a business owner who doesn’t admit to making at least one or two mistakes at some point over the years, and I’m certainly no exception! Being an entrepreneur or simply trying to keep up with the everyday running of a small business can be full of potential potholes to swerve and avoid.
However, while you’re busy avoiding making the more obvious mistakes, there are others lurking in the background which could be equally damaging to your business. Here are five that I see over and over again, and work on with my coaching clients.
Mistake #1 – Stagnation or No Growth
It’s vital to keep your business growing and evolving, and you can do this by taking stock of where it is and where it’s heading on a regular basis. My business model is quite different today to when I first started up as a life coach over 10 years ago. Back then it was all about booking as many one-to-one calls as possible into the diary. After a while I branched out with workshops and teleclasses. In recent years I’ve learned how to use the internet and create additional revenue streams, and now I teach and coach others to do this as well. I expect your business has changed too, just make sure you’re still the one in control of the steering wheel and you know where you’re heading.
Action Step – Take regular time out for evaluation, reflection and planning. ... Read more
5 Ways to Access Intuit’s QuickBooks Remotely
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(PRWEB) May 31, 2012
Whether you are a QuickBooks Certified Accountant, just working from home, or striving for that 4-hour workweek, today’s workforce demands flexibility. Part of that demand for flexibility includes remote access to QuickBooks accounting system. As the workforce becomes more mobile, there are now multiple ways to access your QuickBooks remotely. Here are 5 ways, including the latest cloud hosting access by Vedivi, to access Quickbooks from outside the office.
The first solution is Intuit’s Online QuickBooks.
QuickBooks Online is good for first time users, but limited in features and reporting compared to those found in QuickBooks Pro. If you have inventory or need job/project costing, this option will not work. ... Read more
Good Luck in Business is Hard Work
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Do you feel lucky? Luck in business is not just a roll of the dice that comes up in your favor. It's more complicated than that, say Thor Muller and Lane Becker, the co-founders of Get Satisfaction, an online customer community platform used by more than 65,000 companies. Good luck is hard work.
The best kind of luck — those unexpected discoveries we call serendipity — is the luck we attract to ourselves, they say. Good luck — serendipity — is part of a virtuous cycle. That notion was recognized early on by one of our nation's founding fathers.
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it," Thomas Jefferson wrote. ... Read more
What small business can learn from Google
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When I talk to people about Google and its organizational culture, they are equally fascinated and hopeless, believing that the magic behind Google lies in the deep revenue streams that make it possible to feed its employees three meals a day. Small businesses, especially, tend to dismiss Google as a wholly unattainable model for running a business.
However, I learned core lessons at Google that transformed the way I look at problem solving and strategic thinking. There were statements that I heard early and often that guided decision-making at every level of the organization. These mantras are at the core of innovation for Google but translate readily to any business to create agility, employee engagement and ultimately, stronger business results. Google's success owes far more to these mantras than the food in the cafes, and even better, they cost no money to implement. ....Read more
Evaluating QuickBooks Integration Applications
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As a consultant, you quickly realize that while QuickBooks is a robust accounting solution, it is packaged software and there are many different reasons why it may not be quite enough to meet the client’s needs. Intuit realized that they could have more, happy customers if they could leverage the resources of developers to fill in the gaps. In this article I’ll discuss the types of client needs that integrated applications can fill, how to evaluate a developer and their products, and how to get started expanding your practice by leveraging these solutions.
To learn more about the depth and breadth of integrated applications you can begin by visiting http://marketplace.intuit.com/. There are over 500 applications listed on the site that are available from developers who participate in the Intuit Developer Network (a group of trusted, independent developers and industry experts) and, as such, are using Intuit approved tools to create, read, edit, and/or delete transactional and list data in the QuickBooks Company file. There are several ways to search for applications, but for now let’s look at a high level of the types of applications which might be important to a small business. ... Read more