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 [...]
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7 Year-End Reports for 2011 Success
December 7, 2010
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Throughout 2010, professional services firms have reported steady increase in projects being put out to bid and projects won. To be sure, economic recovery is uneven with some regions improving faster than others. What is clear is that BillQuick customers, our own internal analysis and general economic indicators show recovery is happening. Some of the [...]
Read moreYear-End Reports and Action Plan 2
December 9, 2009
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Continued from Part 1 Staff Billing From the Reports, Analysis menu, run this report for 1/1/09 to 12/31/09. The report shows utilization (hours and percentage of billable and non-billable time), total hours and effective rate for each employee. Compare employees performing similar jobs, against a benchmark rule of thumb. If available, compare staff effective rates [...]
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December 9, 2009
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It’s been a tough 2009 for many professional services companies. But there is positive news in almost all sectors. BQE’s own internal and external predictive indicators (honed over several recessions) point to the light at the end of the tunnel getting brighter and brighter every day. But good year or not, it’s time for year-end [...]
Read moreBillQuick & QuickBooks
October 29, 2009
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Have You Integrated? For years, new BillQuick Customers had used QuickBooks and other accounting packages to track time and bill clients. Many also spent hundreds of hours a year managing projects, hours worked and other data in Microsoft Excel. Still more hours went into preparing acceptable invoices with Microsoft Word. Now that BillQuick handles time [...]
Read moreIntroducing BillQuick Promise
October 6, 2009
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BQE Software is proud to announce a new service – The BillQuick Promise Package. Our Promise You will be up and running with BillQuick. BillQuick modules will be optimized to your company. BQE will stay on the job until the implementation is complete. The Problem The BillQuick Promise Package tackles a major problem with technology [...]
Read more#3 of the Top 3 Things to Start Off Right
June 26, 2009
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#3: Improve Your Marketing “Down cycles are critical times to improve marketing. Not the big marketing investments, but the touch points like your voice on the phone and replacing your throwaway business card with one that will be kept for years. There’s more bang from little things. Improving touch points will do more to improve [...]
Read more#2 of the Top 3 Things to Start Off Right
June 24, 2009
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#2: Collaborate and Partner “My company has assets—knowledge, expertise, know-how, services—that we know benefit clients. But we also don’t have all the financial assets we need to reach potential clients. We don’t want to just survive, we want to grow. That’s why we collaborate and partner with other companies. Simon and Garfunkel’s old song, “I [...]
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