Business Cleanup

I'm slowly taking baby steps to improve my business...

It's likely I will have spent about $500-$700 on accounting fees lately...but in the end, they've helped me sort out my Quickbooks and offered me training on how to get that sorted out. All this accounting is crazy. But as you can tell from my Tax tirade, it's best to get the accounting stuff in order to potentially save money in the long run in tax problems. Quickbooks is a nutty program...it's the accounting program of choice but you damn well have to be an accounting expert to know how to use the damn thing.

Luckily my accountant told me just the details I needed to know and I'm good enough to follow instructions. As I get better with it, I'm hoping the time I save not having to mess with my accounting stuff will save me down the line. It's all about opportunity costs.

I set up a online project management system today called Basecamp. I really like it so far. There's a Free version you can set up your 1st project in but any more then that you'd have to sign up for a monthly account. The cool part I really like about the system is that it allows me not only to set up my TO-DO lists and milestones in a calendar, but I can have my clients keep track of where I am.

I can ALSO have my project vendors look at the same thing so we can keep track of each other's progress. So far it's great. Well worth the $12/mo I signed up for if it saves me time tracking things. Cue the Jim Carrey voice "I like it a LOT".

It's going to save me the trouble of having to constantly answer my client's concerns "where are we? When will I see xxxxxx? When will yyyyyy be complete?"

Now I just need to find something that will send out "gentle" payment reminders to people. "HEY! Where's my money?!!" hehehe.