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To all our Canadian users: Before you head out for some fun this long weekend, don’t forget that the GST rate will change from 7% to 6% as of July 1st 2006.  You can read instructions on how to update your system in my earlier blog post. Have a great long weekend!

Fritz and Stephen, those talented experimenters from EepyBird.com, will be appearing on Late Night with David Letterman (along with Kate Bosworth and Broken Social Scene) tonight at 11:30pm ET. If you haven’t seen it yet, take a look at the magic reproduction of the Bellagio Fountain they create with 200 litres of Diet Coke and …

Since we provide an online invoicing tool that integrates with a number of payment gateways to help you collect credit card payments online, we often get calls asking for a recommended gateway to use.  Our answer is always dependent on the needs of the caller.  Our questions are usually: Do you process a large number of transactions per …

As a follow up to a post I wrote about dealing with larger customers, once again Jim Logan in his Cash Flow Blog has some good suggestions for composing a good collection letter. With a FreshBooks system you can use his advice and have it sent automatically with the automated late payment reminders. Here is …

Only one month after the PayPal debacle with VeriSign payment services, PayPal is at it again.  The problem started yesterday, as mentioned by W. Newell and me in some comments here.  I started this cryptic error when trying to login to my VeriSign Manager: Error (4024) An error has occurred. Please try your request again …

Join me this Thursday at 1:00 PM for a tele-seminar with Andrew Goodman of Page-Zero Media.  Learn how to effectively manage a Pay-Per-Click Campaign on Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing and/or MSN AdCenter. Go here to find all the Google Adwords Teleseminar details. Recommend …

Cheers to Portfolios.com, who awarded the BrandMurder site bronze in its “Web Design” category. “The Portfolios.com International Awards Show, honors excellence in Illustration, Photography, Graphic Design, Web Design and Advertising throughout the world of individuals and companies.” We used BrandMurder to let everyone know we were rebranding from 2ndSite to FreshBooks. It was a fun …

Do these logos look familiar? Are you very confused about what they are for? I can help. If you see these logos on a website it means that it supports ‘RSS’. What can RSS do for me? The main benefit of using RSS is that you will be notified when a webpage is …

Earlier this week Michael spoke with John Jantsch, author of Referral Flood, who has great advice about how to generate more referrals for your business. I listened to the call and took notes – here they are in point form. How to generate more referrals for your business Michael McDerment & Jon Jantsch – free …