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Two of note:
- I just launched Actual Social Network – I will eventually turn that into one of the network theory sites (dealing specifically with your actual, or physical social network, but for now it just leads to the main site, I really like the LaunchPad WordPress theme for pages like that.
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Description: In their own words, Bidsketch is “Simple proposal software made for designers”. I found that to be true. It simplifies and organizes what often frustrates me most; writing proposals for new projects.
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A months and a half ago I installed HelloBar, I believe on a recommendation from Andrew Warner of Mixergy. I installed it on both this blog and JargonDatabase.com. I had high hopes for it but got almost no traffic to my main site from it. In retrospect, this is not surprising. Traffic to either site comes in from Google as a specific inquiry, with no native interest in Stronico itself. It is to be expected that my beta offer was not met with enthusiasm.
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As the entire city and all of my consulting clients are snowed in today, I’m experimenting with small business financial software InDinero, proposal writing software BidSketch, and project planning software Tom’s Planner. Reviews coming soon.
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Several days ago I decided to use PayPal’s Website Payments Pro system for the Stronico credit card processing system. At the time, I thought PayPal was the obvious choice. It had relatively low fees (about $60 per month), no setup fee, and it seemed to be the 800 pound gorilla in the space, so how bad coudl it behard could the setup be?
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Several months ago I finished reading Brain Rules by John Medina and I’ve been raving about it ever since. Medina is a noted brain researcher and the book contains the 12 things he wishes the lay public knew.
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After writing yesterday’s post on lessons learned from eight years in business, I thought I would come up with my listing of great books that have helped me starting out.
I follow Tyler Cowen’s notion that if you you finish every book you start you’re wasting time on crap. On average I finish less than half of the books I start. Since I’ve gotten a Kindle I’ve upped my selectivity considerably. Before anyone asks, I have yet to finish Getting Things Done by David Allen.
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For some reason the blog posts about QuickBooks Pro 2010 are the most popular ones on the entire blog. As I’m doing accounting this morning, here are what I would change.
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First things first, I have not seen the Apple iPad. I am an enthusiastic owner of an Amazon Kindle. I honestly don’t see what the hype is about. Granted, I never do with Apple products, but I can’t even see it from Apple’s point of view this time. The Kindle is perfect at what it does, largely because it doesn’t do that much. You read order, download, and read books on it. Period. The Kindle does that effortlessly and the e-ink is easier to read than paper. The pages are consistently sized (an under-reported feature of the Kindle that helps quite a bit) and the battery lasts forever. The Kindle also weighs almost nothing and you do not have to choose between it and a laptop in terms of weight or space. In sum, the Kindle solves the problem of “I want to read something” quite well.
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