Archive | Advice RSS feed for this section

Free Webinar – No-Hassle Time & Expense

Welcome to BillQuick 101: No-Hassle Time & Expense! Wow! Look at that line forming behind you — owners, principals, engineers, architects, accountants and stretching around the corner . . . firm staff! Oh, gosh. Starbucks and donuts! Look, that guy has sandwiches for the office. Everyone around the conference table for an hour. Ooohhh! Chocolate. [...]

Read more

Business Tip: Profit Per Invoice, Per Project, Per Client

No Profit No Firm The first four words I heard as newbie on my first day. Is this the mind-set of your firm? Are you sure? Often a service professional thinks it is only important to capture time for Hourly projects. You need ‘hours’ to compute the bill, so obviously you need to track them. [...]

Read more

Paperless Offices

Do you care for your environment? If you do, take a moment and think about this:  The paperless office, once predicted as a result of information technology intervention, is far from being a reality. It is estimated that 90% of business information is still stored on paper. Surprised? There is more…

Read more

Why Do I Need SQL Express?

Before answering this end-question, let’s start with What is SQL Express? SQL Express is a FREE database from Microsoft. It is the ‘baby brother’ of the enterprise-level Microsoft SQL Server database technology. They share a lot of DNA. SQL Express can handle up to 4 gigabytes of data. Of course, by the time you hit [...]

Read more

End of the Yellow Brick Road

If you are not the principal or owner of your firm, please pass this blog post to them. At a recent conference, a keynote speaker, Leslie Shiner of The ShinerGroup, discussed  an important question that every professional services firm should ask: What’s at the End of Your Yellow Brick Road? The question is really asking [...]

Read more

3 Ways To Succeed In Tough Times

How do you get more clients? Cut fees? Discount? Low-ball bids? If you think this is a good strategy, you are in deep trouble. These tactics are EXCEPTIONS to a positive, profitable strategy to stand out from the crowd and succeed. But everyone else is doing it and it’s the only way I can compete [...]

Read more
Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 41 other followers