Question: I have a few company files set up in QuickBooks Premier from businesses I started but no longer run. How do I delete them from the list of companies to open? Answer: These companies can be hidden but technically not deleted. Select “File,” “Open Previous Company” to see the list of all the companies…
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Question: When I try to enter a payment from a customer, it ends up in “undeposited funds” and not my checking account in QuickBooks. How do I fix that?
Your chart of accounts (COA) is important groundwork for your business to organize your financial transactions. The specificity of your COA will determine how clearly you can view your financial statements. You want enough detail to delineate categories of cash inflow and outflow that are important to your business, but not so much detail that your financial statements are a jumbled mess of detail.
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How do you step up and begin moving your business to better results? Well, first of all, you need to make some changes. Growth requires change.
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This is the second half of an article that covers my Bullseye method of pursing and landing large accounts as PART of your account prospecting effort. If you are just coming to the party, go back into Blog Historyville and read up on Part One before continuing here. Otherwise, you’ll just be half-effective—and Bold, Different and Memorable-type Peeps don’t do things by halfsies.
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I’ve made reference in previous installments of this Blog to Bullseye Account prospecting and several of you have asked for more information about this unique and effective way of targeting and LANDING large accounts.
Read MoreHow would you like to add a few BIG fish to your account list? Wouldn’t it be great to find two or three or 50? Well you can do exactly that if you learn how to go Fishing for new accounts instead of Hunting for new accounts!
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Dale Denham wrote a great post for us last week, “Promotional Products Suppliers Stink at Twitter,” that I wanted to follow up on. I thought it might be helpful to build off some of Dale’s ideas and show some examples of excellent Twitter feeds and talk about what we can learn from them.
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The account was history. That much he was sure of. It took two years to build credibility and a year to win the business. That was followed by two more years that he milked the cash cow he had created.
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As a business coach for the promotional products industry I hear lots of challenges that promotional sales professionals are facing. Here’s a recent dilemma that a new coaching client came to me with. Perhaps you can relate.
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