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What is it about journalists that are always coming up with stories aimed at frightening the pants off of us small business owners. The latest threat courtesy of the Globe and Mail is targeted at all of you who are running your business from your home PC without any serious protection: In the cyber underworld’s …

We run an office and a technology company and I find faxes a pain. They come in and they need to be sorted and stored, so they take up space and paper. I also find maintaining our fax machine a pain. Our fax machine is a nice little Panasonic – but it is old school …

I just updated my preferences in Rackspace’s Noteworthy hosted email service. They confirmed my changes when they reloaded the page with RED TEXT like this: I thought I had done something wrong. Here are some of the physiological effects of the colour red: Red increases the pulse and heart rate, …

In just three months, our forum has grown to almost 200 members with over 1000 posts.  This accomplishment has been the direct result of our FreshBooks community members.  We at FreshBooks would like to thank all of you for being part of the FreshBooks community.  I would also like to take this opportunity to officially announce the winners of …

Episode 2 of FreshBooks “Build Your Business” Fall Teleseminar Series Introduction to Pay-Per-Click Advertising (46 mins 12 secs) Listen using the MP3 player below or download the podcast here. In the second of our Fall teleseminar series, Andrew Goodman, author of “Winning Results with Google AdWords”, shares his knowledge and answers your questions about how …

I’ve been trading emails with Nick from Pipeline Deals today, when I mentioned that I work on a PC platform he said: “WHAT!!  Are you a designer?” He did add a smilie to those words I have since removed…for effect.  Anyway, this was my response: “Yes, I’m one of those rare designers that are loyal to PC’s. So far, …

With the release of our ground mail invoicing service, we wanted to let people know that they can send one piece of ground mail for free from their FreshBooks account. So we added a little notice to our Subscribe page. Here is our orginal subscribe page: Here is our …

Okay, no hate mail please, I know it’s not even October yet. But listen, how many of you leave your Christmas shopping until the last week, or even day? Exactly. So in the run up to the jolly holiday season I’ll be occasionally posting links to cool/geeky (same thing) gifts in the hope of averting …

Since almost the beginning of releasing FreshBooks (formerly 2ndSite), we have been sending out emails to our userbase to keep them informed of new releases and other interesting news.  We have always tried to keep these emails to a minimum even though the temptation to send more is huge.  Everytime we send an email, our website …