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August, 2007

How to create an invoice: FreshBooks 101

by Aaron Adams  |  August 31/2007  |  , ,
How to create an invoice: FreshBooks 101

In this ongoing series, we’ll demonstrate why FreshBooks is the smarter, faster alternative to small business accounting software. How to create an invoice: four easy steps FreshBooks has always been great for e-mail invoicing and time tracking, and this week we unveiled an all-new interface to make things even easier. To highlight our brand new …



FreshBooks (totally) redesigned

by Mike McDerment  |  August 28/2007  |  , , ,
FreshBooks (totally) redesigned

After countless hours of testing, we’re pleased to announce the total redesign of the FreshBooks interface. Highlights of the new release include: account statements; lighter, faster pages; a colour picker that is really fun to use; support ticketing has received an interface update; and again, total interface redesign. Big sexy cake We’ve …



Vote for FreshBooks panels at SXSW!

by Mike McDerment  |  August 24/2007  | 
Vote for FreshBooks panels at SXSW!

Quick! To the Batmobile! Err… well… not exactly… Ben, Sunir and I all entered panel submissions for the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas next March, and we need your help to get those panels approved. I spoke at SXSW last year and the conference was amazing. Austin is a neat town, the conference is well …



When you are Selling, Leave Something Behind

by Mike McDerment  |  August 22/2007  | 
When you are Selling, Leave Something Behind

A few years back I spoke with a sales guy at PC World about buying some advertising. Every month since we’ve received a copy of PC World and every month that we do, I am reminded of that sales guy, PC World and buying their advertising. That’s the power of leaving something behind. We built …



Fresh Faces: Heather Villa

by Sunir Shah  |  August 17/2007  |  , , , ,
Fresh Faces: Heather Villa

Fresh Faces: Real customers share the real benefits of using FreshBooks Photo of Heather VillaHello, my name is Heather Villa and I’m the founder and CEO of IAC Professionals. My company is a single source solution for businesses needing help in accounting, taxes, legal, company …



Fresh Faces: Shawn Hesketh

Fresh Faces: Shawn Hesketh

Fresh Faces: Real customers share the real benefits of using FreshBooks Photo of Shawn HeskethI hate billing. Or at least I did, until about two weeks ago. “Before FreshBooks, I frequently spent half an hour or more just creating an invoice.” Like most graphic designers …



Trust me, I’m a professional

by Aaron Adams  |  August 13/2007  | 
Trust me, I’m a professional

We get about a million feature requests each day here at FreshBooks. (Yes, that’s a highly accurate estimate.) Most of them sound like, “why don’t you have this feature? So-and-so does it.” Or even better, “why can’t you do this? If you did, I wouldn’t have to use such-and-such anymore.” Here’s why you should jump …



API happenings and going-ons

by Ben Vinegar  |  August 10/2007  |  , ,
API happenings and going-ons

In case you missed it, we re-released the FreshBooks API in late June. Here’s a quick look at what’s happened since: Several kind users have contributed Ruby, Perl, and Symfony (PHP) client-libraries that make it easy to integrate with the FreshBooks API. Looking to make a quick buck? A number of our customers are hiring …



Review: Cloudmark Desktop spam filtering

by Mike McDerment  |  August 9/2007  | 
Review: Cloudmark Desktop spam filtering

Earlier this year (February-ish) I switched to Vista Business. When I switched I started using Microsoft’s native spam filtering software. Microsoft’s spam filtering software downloads updates nightly, and for a while it worked fine, but recently I’ve been barraged by spam and I finally snapped. I needed a solution, so I went back to Cloudmark …



On Service: Empower your employees

by Daniel Tsang  |  August 8/2007  | 
On Service: Empower your employees

Customer ServiceYou can have the best customer support staff in the world, but they’ll be terrible at their jobs if you don’t empower them. A few months ago I had ordered a pair of Klipsch B-3 speakers from BestBuy at 20% off from their online sale.  I had selected the online …




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