We are resuming our Tip of the Week posts. Several emails came in saying people loved our tips so we're bringing them back. You ask, we deliver. This week, it's all about Quickbooks.  We use this program like a bunch of small businesses do as well. I depend on it and when it does not work, I get grumpy. Just ask my staff. Solving two problems in one week made me decide to have this be our tip of the week. Hopefully you might find them helpful as well. By the way, these tips are for

I use Google Chrome as my browser and so do a lot of my customers.  There are some handy keyboard shortcuts I use all the time - and I thought I'd save the official list here for others as well. Tabs and windows Ctrl+N Open a new window Ctrl+Shift+N Open a new window in incognito mode Ctrl+T Open a new tab Ctrl+O Open a file in the browser Ctrl+Shift+Q (twice) Sign out of your Google Account on Chrome OS Ctrl+W Close the current tab Ctrl+Shift

Having issues with some functions when using ACT Premium for the Web from Google Chrome? It's probably because your Chrome was updated to Version 37. In the process of removing some functions inside Chrome, they also disabled one used by ACT Premium for the web. Here's the workaround.

Right click on the icon you use to start Chrome.  You need to add the following paramert to the start line:  --enable-show-modal-dialog

The image below shows how this should look.

A client of mine called me last week concerned about some of his information showing up on a competitor's blog. When we looked at the article, it was very apparent that entire paragraphs had been copied and used in the blog. This indeed was plagerism and he called me for advice on his next steps. My client started blogging at my suggestion and I've been giving him advice on how to properly blog, including blogging etiquette. Playing nice, asking permission, and insuring that he also cited his

Ever wanted to put together a dog and pony show to demonstrate your services and products? Of course.  Did you think it would take lots of time and money?  You would think that setting this up would probably be a major undertaking that would be a huge time-drain.  I thought so as well.  The first time I had an opportunity to put on a roadshow, I only had a 3 week  advance notice.  At the time, I was very busy and needed to come up with ways to make this happen

It's time for another Fast Tip article. This tip I will show today has been around a while. I just learned of it as part of my ongoing research on all things Google. Ever need to provide your email and know for a fact you are going to be spammed in return? Of course. We all have. Well, it turns out there is a way to give out your Gmail email with a little modification that you can then filter out of your incoming mail. All you have to do is add a + sign and some text after your name and before

This image is a screenshot of all of us during a video staff meeting. We're using Google Hangouts and headsets.  All of us have webcams - which pretty much come with newer laptops. Seeing each other in person is SO MUCH MORE effective than just participating on a phone call. The participants are in Chattanooga, Pikeville and Phoenix - but in reality we are all together in the same moment - and that's priceless.  We may never go back to just phone call meetings.   [caption id="

For the past two years I have been increasing my involvement in social business.  In the process I also kicked up the amount of blog articles I write.  When we switched our website to a Wordpress engine, it made sense to keep blogging current.  And it has worked in increasing the amount of traffic to our site and created additional business. That's all well and good but now comes the hard part.  In the beginning I had all kinds of information to write about.  News is