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Weekly Wrap-Up: News You Can Use 5/11 – 5/17/2012

Published May 18, 2012 | By Nancy Smyth

There is so much news and information floating around the web – it’s difficult (at best) to keep up! I’ve added a WordPress plug-in that grabs information from my Twitter stream to help me (and hopefully you as well) keep up with everything. Look for the Weekly Wrap-Up: News You Can Use every Friday.

See what caught my attention this week in these topics: Accounting & Taxes, eBooks/Webinars/Videos, Payroll/Certified Payroll/Prevailing Wage, QuickBooks, Small Business/Organization/Productivity, Construction, and Social Media/Marketing/Website Design.

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Inbound Marketing

Published January 27, 2012 | By Nancy Smyth

Inbound marketing - the difference between potential customers finding your company vs. you looking for potential customers. Are you being found by the right people?

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eBook – Have You Built Your Google+ Business Page Yet?

Published January 20, 2012 | By Nancy Smyth

Google+ is the newest social media network and it offers so much more than than just the ability to incorporate a +1 button on your blog, create a business page, join a hangout.

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Free eBook: An Introduction to Lead Generation

Published January 13, 2012 | By Nancy Smyth

By now, many businesses understand that lead volume is based on a wide array of factors, ranging from social media presence, to blogging frequency, to online content.

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Free eBook: 25 Website “Must Haves” for Driving Traffic

Published January 6, 2012 | By Nancy Smyth

Today's free eBook discusses how important a website is to a business's online strategy and what it takes to have a great website that drives visitors, leads and revenue.

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QuickBooks 2012 Announced

Published September 7, 2011 | By Nancy Smyth

QuickBooks 2012 release announced by Intuit. Learn about new features and functionality. Last year we published a 142 page eBook on the features found in QuickBooks 2011; see what we have in store for the 2012 version.

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Freebie Friday – QuickBooks Premier 2011, the Official eGuide

Published June 10, 2011 | By Nancy Smyth

Freebie Friday's are all about Free eBooks, sometimes they are eBooks that we've created and other times they are eBooks that we've found on the web.

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Freebie Friday-How to Monitor Social Media in 10 Minutes a Day

Published June 3, 2011 | By Nancy Smyth

Social media can be beneficial to your business, but it consumes a lot of time that none of us really has! Are you finding that social media is getting in the way of client time?

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Freebie Friday – Your QuickBooks file, the IRS & YOU eBook

Published March 18, 2011 | By Nancy Smyth

I turned our popular series "Your QuickBooks file, the IRS & You" into an eBook that can be downloaded and redistributed on your own website or in an upcoming newsletter.

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Freebie Friday – Email Etiquette eBook

Published January 28, 2011 | By Nancy Smyth

We use email every day, it’s a fast and effective means of communication, but it’s cold, impersonal, and used ineffectively. Do your emails "wow" recipients?

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Lesson 1-Getting Started; FREE QuickBooks for Contractors Training eBook

Published January 7, 2011 | By Nancy Smyth

This eBook is an introduction on how to use QuickBooks in the commercial/government construction industry. Its main objective is to introduce you to the basic features in QuickBooks. You’ll learn about the types of information you need to track in your business, and you’ll see how to enter that information and track it in QuickBooks

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Free QuickBooks Ebooks – FREEBIE Friday

Published December 10, 2010 | By Nancy Smyth

A list of the current QuickBooks related eBooks that we have available - I do have several new ebooks that are ready to go, but you'll have to wait until after the first of the year in order to have access to them.

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#QuickBooks for Contractors Freebie Friday Tracking Subcontractors Insurance

Published December 3, 2010 | By Nancy Smyth

This week’s QuickBooks eBook provides information, tips and training for setting up a system to track Subcontractors Workers Compensation and General Liability Insurance expiration dates.

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#QuickBooks for Contractors Freebie Friday Prevailing Wage Fringes

Published November 19, 2010 | By Nancy Smyth

This week's eBook provides information on paying and tracking prevailing wage fringe benefits, when you work on a government funded construction project that requires the submission of certified payroll reports.

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#QuickBooks for Contractors blog-Freebie Friday eBook Giveaway

Published November 5, 2010 | By Nancy Smyth

Welcome to the launch of "Freebie Friday's" here on the QuickBooks for Contractors blog. Each Friday we will be offering a free QuickBooks related eBook - so stayed tuned, visit often or sign up to our posts via email delivery.

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About Your Host:

Nancy Smyth, Sunburst Software Solutions, Inc.
QuickBooks Construction & Payroll Expert

I've been using and supporting QuickBooks products since the early 1990's. I've worked with thousands of contractors, assisting them with QuickBooks setup, Certified Payroll Reporting requirements, AIA Billing and Weighted-Average Overtime.

QuickBooks is a powerful product, but learning how to use it in your construction business can be difficult. I hope you find resources available here to be helpful.