Life of E's

Comment: This is in response to Syna’s post of June 25, 2007 about buying a laptop — (just scroll down the page to see the original post).  I had the same problem.  It took me forever to decide what brand/type of computer to buy.  My problem is that I don’t know too much about computers.  [...]

Tags: Billy Simms, laptop, laptop purchase

Question: What is your opinion on getting some Quickbooks training?  Quickbooks Pro is new to me and I’m a little lost.  I don’t want to start off making mistakes and I want to learn the right way.  I was quoted $275 for a personalized 3 hour course in which the instructor will come to my [...]

Tags: accounting, Marie Gibson, QuickBooks training, QuickBooksPro, QuickBooksPro Advisor, tutorial

Question: Hi Meggin, What is the easiest way to set up a method of accepting credit card payments from clients? Posted by Jeni Blakely | 7/21/07 Answer: I will do additional research on this, but here is what I did.  I went through Card Service International and my contact was Jessica Hawkins-Olguin.  Her number is [...]

Tags: Card Services International, credit card payment, credit cards

Question:  If we have written articles, do they have to be published before we can post them on our web site? Posted by Billy Simms | 07/20/07 Answer: This is the GREAT thing about having a website.  You can publish articles, e-books, or whatever you have written right on your site so that others can [...]

Tags: articles, Jeff Herring, online articles, publishing articles, website articles

Question: I’ve been doing more writing lately and I would like to have articles published in magazines and on the internet. However, I worry sometimes that my grammar, punctuation, and other “mechanics of writing” knowledge is lacking in some areas. Should I be overly concerned about this? Before something gets published, I’ll need to have [...]

Tags: editing, editor, elance, proofreading

Question: Can you give us some advice on the best way to file and organize our business receipts? Posted by Billy Simms | 07/20/07 Answer: I think for all members of MEMc, we need to be careful about making this more difficult than it is–so I use a fairly simple system and it works great [...]

Tags: accounting, business receipts, organize, processing, purchases, QuickBooksPro, receipts

Question: When we sell our services (staff development, etc) and products (books, CD’s, etc), do we include a sales tax?  For example, if we have a book that we are charging $20.00 for, is the final price $20 or do we have to include a tax? Posted by Billy Simms | 7/14/07 Answer: There are [...]

Tags: price, sales tax, tax

Question: At what point in our career (if ever) should we consider buying a copy machine?  I know this is long-term planning, but I’m just curious.  Do you have a copy  machine?  I went yesterday to have copies of a handout made.  I was told that color copies usually cost between 50 cents and one [...]

Tags: copy machine, lease, purchase

Question: I am in the process of buying a logo on elance.  My logo is in color – but I plan on getting colored business cards.  Do I need to ask for a different logo that would work with the color of card I want – or can the printer I choose play with the [...]

Tags: business cards, cards, elance, logo