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Re: Comparison of book-keeping systems

CH — Fri, 25 May 2007 19:17:12 -0000

I don't mean to ruffle any feathers here and I suspect by the tone of your reply that you took offense to my comment. That wasn't my intension.

Perhaps I don't understand what you mean by "multi-currency" in the context of a billing application. I've been around accounting software for decades and when someone says "multi-currency", certain functionality comes to mind, as it does with most other accounting professionals. What do you mean by it?

Btw, I don't see my comment as specious. When I see something that does not appear to be correct, I speak up.

Re: Comparison of book-keeping systems

CH — Fri, 25 May 2007 17:47:29 -0000

This is not correct. Neither Freshbooks, nor Blinksale support multi-currency. They do, however, support the ability to select a currency symbol, but proper multi-currency requires a LOT more than that (i.e., the ability to bill a customer in another currency and account for it in your own.) Further, neither one is an accounting application, so throw out the double-entry bit as well.

FWIW, my company doesn't support multi-currency either, and we don't intend to. At least not for now.

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Re: SaaS not catching on

CH — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:15:23 -0000

Integration is also not a big deal. Tons of SaaS offerings have good integration with other offerings. SaaS vendors get this and it's only a matter of time before the most requested integrations are available.

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Re: Prediction for 2008: consumers say goodbye Microsoft - Hello Apple

CH — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:07:41 -0000

I've been around a long time as well and I have two points to contribute:

1. Leopard being "talked" about in the tech blogsphere is not the same thing as market adoption or a forthcoming, general market trend. check out the awareness/adoption stats on google apps vs the amount of airplay they get on blogs for reference. virtually no one outside the tech blogsphere has even heard of them.

2. nothing about a mac makes me want to use it. I'm not exactly a windows fanboy, but i quite simply do not believe the pain in moving away from my current computing environment, to a set of apple products is going to bring me a large enough of a return. windows works fine. mac probably also works fine, and it probably has many of the same problems (including security problems) that windows has. PCs are "sticky", given the hardware expense, software expense, and the peripheral expense -- so what's the real motivation to move? if I were buying my first machine, I might go with a mac, but as an overall percentage of the pc market, how many are "first-time pc buyers"? in my mind, apple may have the majority of first-time buyers, they will have a cut at the upgrade market, but overall, in my mind, general windows users are relatively safe. I really do not see a lot of them moving, as your post attempts to foreshadow...

Re: 5 Things You Need To Succeed Before You Start a Business

CH — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:53:01 -0000

I'll add a number 6: keep your burn rate so low, it's essentially on the floor. That way, #4 becomes nearly moot.

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Re: When Your Blog Gets Pitched, Pitch Back

CH — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:54:55 -0000

Cool idea. I really like these posts that suggest a twist on something completely normal.

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Re: When Your Blog Gets Pitched, Pitch Back

CH — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 13:02:31 -0000

While that is a great application of your blog post's point, we're not in a position to do that just yet... We're bootstrapping right now, and as you can probably guess, cash poor. :)

Thanks for the offer, though.

Re: Exposed: The Pros and Cons of Freelancing

CH — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:28:00 -0000

Another "con" can be: making sure you get paid. Contractors and freelancers often have this problem -- clients are happy with the work, but stretch their payment terms out, or they're unhappy with perfectly acceptable work, so they withhold payment. Unfortunately, part of your job as a freelancer is also to manage the business. Fortunately, there are great tools to help manage these aspects of the business.

Re: 100 Million Websites - How Many To Go?

CH — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:06:50 -0000

Thanks for contributing this article to the Carnival of Home Business, 10th Edition! See the other entries at the SimplifyThis Blog

Re: Free Teleseminars from FreshBooks

CH — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:19:29 -0000

They do have a good product, but they are certainly not the only game in town for online invoicing and payments. Keep an eye on us over the next month:

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Re: The Local Value Add

CH — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:43:47 -0000

Also agree. Local businesses should focus on the hard-to-find and unique, non-commodity type goods. When they do this, they don't have to compete on price.

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Re: Two Cool Points of View

CH — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:47:17 -0000

I'm not surprised. They both seem very down to earth. I heard that Liz was helping to judge a small business contest the other day along with Carolyn Kepcher from The Apprentice:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/11/29/microsoft.co...

Re: Selling the Soul of the Business

CH — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:03:31 -0000

Interesting post on how successful businesses can leverage their competencies and drive additional revenue. I can see how mature businesses may take this approach to get a step up in revenues, but I think some smaller, less mature businesses may think that they are really giving away the farm. I think it takes a certain amount of maturity to go this route, and those who do will see significant upside.

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