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BillQuick for iPhone – A Pictorial Introduction

Did you hear? Did you see the press release? Stupendous! Colossal! So much in the palm of your hand. Unbelievable! It’s. . .BillQuick for iPhone! What’s the best part? It’s FREE!

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3 FAR Best Practices

Know the Rules So You Can Play the Game – The rules come down to what costs – overhead expense and other expenses – are allowed so you can obtain the highest benefit. A proactive firm utilizes multiple labor codes. Times Are Changing – The days of generating an overhead rate based on tax information [...]

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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. [...]

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3 Ways to Handle Bills from Vendors

A question from a soon-to-be BillQuick Customer (I’m positive kind of guy!) echoes similar questions asked in demos and training by architects, engineers, accountants and other professional services firms. We use subcontractor engineers to support the existing billable employees.  We have a mark up for the cost of the subcontracted engineers.  What is the correct [...]

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3 Tips To Control Email For Maximum Productivity

Time is money. In today’s economy it is no longer acceptable for utilization to fall below 70%. Even with time for professional training, vacations, and staff meetings, firms want and need utilization to be consistently (well) above 80%. Email is the top medium through which clients and colleagues communicate with us. Email is also a [...]

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10 Things You (Probably) Don’t Know About BillQuick Timers

Bad experience with timers in another application? You might have dismissed the stopwatch timers in BillQuick because of a bad experience with a quirky, always-crashing timer in another application. It’s time to overcome that bad experience. Don’t think timers fit how you work? Balderdash! In the field, use the Web Suite Mobile timer. At your [...]

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Free Webinar – BillQuick Tips & Tricks

Schedule time to earn your Sergeant’s Stripes as a BillQuick Super Hero. Join Shafat Qazi, CEO of BQE Software for BillQuick Tips & Tricks on September 20, 2011. Learn about hidden features that save you time. In the free, hour-long webinar Shafat walks you through the day-to-day insights and features that you can use immediately [...]

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Project Profitability – A Conversation

Many elements interact to maximize firm, manager and staff efficiency. Without these efficiencies, project and firm profitability is never consistent or reasonable. A recent call from a BillQuick customer brought out a common scenario. Please spend a few minutes to see if there is something in this conversation that helps your firm. [This conversation was [...]

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