Can I purchase a QuickBooks Enterprise subscription if I’m not already on an older Premier version or enrolled in a subscription?
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Feeling Overwhelmed? Hit Pause & Simplify
Simplicity is always within reach. You just have to know how to reset. Let’s walk through a process I use when things start to get a little too noisy.
Read MoreWhy Plant Location Is an Overlooked Competitive Edge for Print Distributors
In an industry where speed, accuracy, and logistics can make or break a job, your vendor’s manufacturing footprint can make the difference between winning a customer and losing one.
Read MoreBe Teflon Tough
If you are hustling in your business, you will surely encounter lots of rejection, unkindness, loss, and psychological pain. The key to success is to anticipate these events and have a “Teflon tough” mindset that none of these things will “stick in your mind” and keep you from success. I can think of way too…
Read MoreThe One Solution to All Your Business Challenges
There is only one source for all our business challenges. Most of us look outside of ourselves for all our challenges: It’s our prospect’s fault for not understanding our sales pitch It’s our customer’s fault for not placing their last order with us It’s our employee’s fault for not getting their work done on time…
Read MoreHow Does QuickBooks Online Automatically Calculate Sales Tax?
Ask the Accountant… Question: I’ve heard that QuickBooks Online automatically calculates sales tax. How does that work? Answer: Sales tax is calculated automatically in QBO, which is a big advantage and saves a great deal of time and effort to keep your sales tax rates current as you must do in QuickBooks Desktop. The sales…
Read MoreYou’re 2,000 of These Away from Being a Millionaire
I love Dan Pena. He tells the unvarnished truth. He has a great short (30-second) speech that you are 2,000 cold calls from being a millionaire. He’s right. But the problem, as he so truthfully says, is that most people don’t want to be a peddler. Check it out: Yes, most buyers are happy…
Read MoreHow LCV Changes How You View Your Customers
Are you familiar with the concept of Lifetime Customer Value (LCV)? If so, have you thought about it in terms of your own business? Have you ever thought about why LCV would even be important to understand or calculate? LCV is the value of the customer to your business over the lifetime of that relationship.…
Read MoreBe Forgetful
The older I get the more I hear people talk about being forgetful. Forgetting where people put their keys Forgetting why people went into the kitchen Forgetting where people parked their cars In my view, being selectively forgetful is a great thing. Most people will never achieve their full potential because of fear: Fear of…
Read MoreBe Careful If Using QuickBooks Live Bookkeeping
Ask the Accountant… Question: Do you have any experience with QuickBooks Live Bookkeeping? Answer: I have not personally worked with QuickBooks Live Bookkeeping, but I have had a couple of distributors come to me after trying to use this service. In one instance, a distributor had a QuickBooks file that he had not kept up…
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