Posts by Melinda Phillips Zumski

Importing your web sales into QuickBooks

Posted by on Jan 8, 2009 in Business Tips | 0 comments

Importing your web sales into QuickBooks

Image via Wikipedia Did you ever wish you didn’t have to manually enter your web sales into QuickBooks? Have you wished that you could just press a button and have the information automatically import in? You can! T-Hub is a great solution if this is all you need or want to do. Trust me, this can really save you a lot of time and headaches! Once you install T-Hub, you do a one-time set-up and mapping into QuickBooks. And then voila – when you have new web sales, you can simply launch T-Hub and ask it to look for new orders. You will then see a list of web orders. Simply press a button and instruct T-Hub to bring these into QuickBooks. Sales...

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Desktop Sharing – What a fabulous tool!

Posted by on Nov 18, 2008 in Business Tips | 1 comment

Desktop Sharing – What a fabulous tool!

Image via Wikipedia Have you tried desktop sharing yet? There are many simple, free tools that are available. What I really love about desktop sharing is that it makes it really easy to go through a small question, challenge or problem. It is also a great training tool – people can watch EXACTLY how to do things in a particular program . . . and while I am very fond of writing up procedures, I find that many people are visual learners – they really learn how to do something by seeing it in action and then being able to repeat those tasks . . . So which solution is best for you? I have tried several so far. Yugma has been a pretty good one that I...

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Contracting Newsletter

Posted by on Nov 15, 2008 in Procurement, Small Business News | 0 comments

Contracting Newsletter

View Larger Map The Business Outreach Committee has introduced a Contracting Newsletter to assist DBE and SBE firms in doing business with Bay Area Transportation Agencies. It will provide one document that offers links to agency procurement information, information on upcoming DBE and SBE events, and agency contact information for AC Transit; BART; Central Contra Costa Transit Authority; Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District; Metropolitan Transportation Commission; San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency; SamTans; and VTA. Newsletter Related articles by Zemanta BART plans to hold line on fares (sfgate.com) San Francisco Board of Supervisors and...

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Remember the Milk

Posted by on Nov 8, 2008 in Business Tips | 0 comments

Remember the Milk

Image via CrunchBase Have you tried Remember the Milk yet? It is a simple, open-source tool that helps you electronically record and track To Do lists . . . I started using it after a recommendation from a colleague who really likes to combine it with Google Aps. If you have Google Aps (another free resource), you can connect your Remember the Milk to both your Google Aps email account and/or your Google Calendar. I like the fact that I can have it right there on my screen when I am working on other common tasks like my calendar or using my email . . . and I can schedule my tasks as well. I find this really useful for things that don’t have a real...

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