Mal: Does.. um.. does this seem kind of tight? Kaylee: Shows off your backside.

'Shindig'


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Strix - Nov 30, 2012 11:43:23 am PST #1069 of 1416
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I'd charge $60, and come down to $50. Iffn you want, I can also send you my writing contact template, though you may have one such. You'd need to tweak it, but the tweaks would be easy. It was vetted by a Real Live Lawyer.

Make sure you have a rider about # of revisions or edits, or a job you get paid $250 for ostensibly 5 hours of work will be for more like 15 hours of revisions.

JZ, go to the recalcitrant one with a plan and budget in hand, with backup info on how vital branding is when one is a small press? And that he is doing too many vital tasks that HAVE to be done by him, but that this DOESN'T, and it will leave him time to focus his energies on what he's needed for? Maybe?


JZ - Nov 30, 2012 12:01:33 pm PST #1070 of 1416
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Strix, the other business partner is gearing up to do just that. It definitely helps to have some specific options and a budget range to point to, as well as confirmation from folks who aren't either her or me that this stuff does matter and absolutely needs to be either a constant top priority or handed off to someone else, so thanks hugely to everyone who gave input. It helps so much.


beekaytee - Dec 01, 2012 1:41:35 pm PST #1071 of 1416
Compassionately intolerant

Thanks Strix! I would SO appreciate your template. Many, many thanks. You know the address.


NoiseDesign - Jan 28, 2013 11:27:00 am PST #1072 of 1416
Our wings are not tired

It's time for me to work on taxes for 2012. It's one of the aspects of owning a business that really get no enjoyment from. There are hundreds of receipts to make sure we have entered correctly into quicken for the year. No matter how hard we try to keep up on this during the year there is always a huge pile to go through before we can fill in the tax packet. Then I need to go through the tax prep packet from the accountant and check all the items that have a depreciation schedule to see if we retired or sold them during 2012 and if so find the selling price so that he can update all of those, then it will be time to work out what new items in 2012 deserve to have a depreciation schedule set up.

I'm tired just thinking about it.


Stephanie - Jan 28, 2013 11:43:01 am PST #1073 of 1416
Trust my rage

I am so with you. What kills me is that I actually offer tax prep services as part of our business, BUT there is no way I can do my own taxes because it is just too complicated.

I think I do a decent job of staying on top of it during the year (the extra attorney regulations sort of force me to) but still, the minutiae of all the receipts and what got sold/where I drove/etc, just wears me out.


NoiseDesign - Jan 28, 2013 12:19:51 pm PST #1074 of 1416
Our wings are not tired

It's just paperwork and documentation in general. It seems like I'm always shredding a metric ton of outdated or irrelevant paperwork and yet no matter how much time I spend I always have another huge pile that needs to be filed and saved, just in case I need to reference it. I'm currently trying to cull things that have been essentially cold filed for 10 years or more. I just had to purchase another four drawer filing cabinet just to house receipts and tax paperwork going back to 2005.


Liese S. - Jan 28, 2013 1:30:48 pm PST #1075 of 1416
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Yup. Me too. And crap, I'm glad you said something 'cause I forgot I still need to do depreciation. Which is doubly stupid in our case 'cause we're a nonprofit and they're not getting written off, but I still have to depreciate.

I have literally cases and cases of receipts to go through. Has anyone used a NeatDesk type product? The IRS will accept electronic receipts under a certain low dollar amount, I think, so I can do some of it through Expensify. But that still leaves piles to be sorted and filed and the important receipts I do have to keep are in the same piles as the coffee receipts.

If it worked well and integrated with my Quickbooks, I would totally pay that $500 to get it all behind me for once. And then maybe I could stay on top of it with their mobile app if I could just get into the habit of snapping and shredding the receipt right away.


Liese S. - Jan 28, 2013 1:32:19 pm PST #1076 of 1416
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I had to install a floor in my attic to get long term storage space. The ladder is still in my closet right now because I know I have more that needs to go up there.


beekaytee - Jan 28, 2013 1:33:58 pm PST #1077 of 1416
Compassionately intolerant

I'm not even thinking about my taxes yet, but I AM purging all my files. I've been through nearly everything in the files and, last night, recycled 30lbs of paper. I've got about 15lbs to shred or burn.

There is still too much in the drawers, though. I really need to JUST LET GO.

I've got so many marketing programs and examples of past work that I just can't seem to give up.

If I were hit by a bus tomorrow, no one on earth would care about all this.

Sigh.


NoiseDesign - Jan 28, 2013 1:52:45 pm PST #1078 of 1416
Our wings are not tired

I have a NeatDesk scanner, but there were issues with the Mac Software initially, so I ended up using it as a regular scanner. On the whole it was good, and it will stem the tide in the long run, but it's finding enough time to get it all set up correctly to begin with and then sticking to a good workflow.