Archive:

Download API version 1.13 With the introduction of our new ground mail feature, we have made a small update to our API.  If you are not familiar with our API, you can read more about the FreshBooks platform here.  You can now send invoices via ground mail using the API as well as normal email …

Episode 1 of FreshBooks “Build Your Business” Fall Teleseminar Series Generate Referrals for Your Business (55 mins 30 secs) Listen using the MP3 player above or download the podcast here. The first of our Fall teleseminar series last week was John Jantsch, author of “Referral Flood” and twice voted best small business blogger by Forbes …

Great businesses are extraordinary. They do things you don’t expect, things that make you pause and think. Google has long bucked conventions…free service, spartan home page, revolutionizing advertising…and now, a FOR PROFIT charity. Unconventional. High Minded. Well intentioned. Well done and good luck. Recommend …

Today is the first in a series dedicated to those crazy people who don’t spend every waking moment reading our blog. Here are five great blog posts for small businesses you may have missed. Streamline Your Collections “As a follow up to a post I wrote about dealing with larger customers, once again Jim Logan in his …

We have been experiencing an increase in the amount of comment spam on our blog lately, so I’ve put some time into finding a way to combat this evil enemy. Hopefully this post will help others in their battles against COMMENT SPAM! We have been running the Akismet plugin that comes packaged with the WordPress …

Here is a web app I just fell for: BubbleShare. I just got back from holiday in Peru. I travelled with 14 people, trekked the Andes, saw Machu Picchu and generally had a great time. The group is now reconnecting by email and I said I’d find a service where we could all share our …

This Fall we are going to help you build your business. I’m delighted to announce our Fall teleseminar series where you can access specialists who will help you: • Generate new clients for your business • Analyze and improve the results of your website • Better manage the projects you undertake Meet the experts:

Here is one of the best tips I’ve ever seen: A very useful time-management “trick” I learned while working at Cisco (after facing many long days in which all I did was participate in other people’s meetings back-to-back from 8am to 6pm) is to formally schedule meetings with yourself using Outlook or any scheduling tool. …

I am often asked about being a soloist: an independent consultant. “How do you find work?” “Is it difficult to balance all the things you need to do?” “How do you market your services?” I thought I would try to scribble some thoughts that might help would-be soloists in taking the plunge — or avoiding …