UPDATE: After quite a bit on the phone, Vistaprint tells me that the TIPPR deal WILL work on seemingly discounted packages like the Business ID package.
If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.
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beekaytee - Aug 08, 2011 2:01:38 pm PDT #307 of 1416
Compassionately intolerant
Ginger - Aug 08, 2011 2:07:03 pm PDT #308 of 1416
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Thanks, Bonny.
Liese S. - Aug 08, 2011 2:12:04 pm PDT #309 of 1416
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Sounds great, bonny. So glad you finally had a good experience with SCORE.
Strix - Aug 08, 2011 2:17:24 pm PDT #310 of 1416
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Bonny, insent, and if you haven't ordered with Vistaprint yet, let me send you a referral, if you don't mind. You might get extra savings!
smonster - Aug 08, 2011 2:17:26 pm PDT #311 of 1416
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Good stuff, bonny!
Strix - Aug 08, 2011 2:26:39 pm PDT #312 of 1416
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Also, I meant to add, on your rec, I looked up KC's SCORE and they're not too far from me, and I will be exploring theme.
I also may have found an accountant in KC who works with creative types for reasonable prices through a friend. WOO.
I haven't gotten any writing today, but I moved the printer to my office, cleaned and reorged the office for more efficiency, now that I have a better idea what I need, and am creating client management database and expense and budgeting...stuff.
Anyone have Excel docs they would be willing to share as a template? I suck ass at creating Excel, and will move to Freshbooks in a few months, when I (hopefully) can afford it, but I need to have a system in place NOW.
Strix - Aug 08, 2011 8:03:32 pm PDT #313 of 1416
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
OMG, y'all, this has totally been IT and research day for me. Not a JOT of writing done.
But I found a simple accounting and expense program, Overight, that's free for the first 30 days and $9.95 a month after that. It looks good, synch with my biz account and PayPal, calculates my 1099's.
Only problem I can see (so far) is no way that I have found to include expenses that don't come from my bank account. There are a few things I bought with the joint account before I had the biz account set up, but I have receipts.
I've also been updating the new-to-me laptop my sister gave me -- I moved the printer up and set it up. (Anyone know the cheapest place to get ink for a Lexmark X4560 -- which, btw, don't buy, because it fucking SUCKS as a networking printer.)
I'm also researching mileage and expense apps for my iTouch -- I'm looking at BizXpenseTracker as my top choice, but I don't know.
Also, does anyone know a cheap microphone that I can plug into my 2nd gen iTouch to use it as a recorder for interviews?
Oh, my god, I'm tired! But I got SO MUCH DONE today!
Ginger - Aug 08, 2011 8:13:29 pm PDT #314 of 1416
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Should I admit I use the "throw all the business receipts in a box" method?
Strix - Aug 08, 2011 8:28:56 pm PDT #315 of 1416
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I have an envelope right now. I bought a $1 mini-accordian file for my purse, but I haven't set it up yet.
I'm leery as hell about being audited as a contractor, and I KNOW I suck at financials, so I'm trying to set it all up to be as easy and accurate as possible to avert future messes.
Also, tomorrow, I burn everything to CD's AND back up on my external hard drive.
Mercury is in retrograde. I don't believe in astrology (much, usually) but if M in Retro makes me CYA my computer, which is my LIFE now, then so be it!
Stephanie - Aug 09, 2011 3:04:00 am PDT #316 of 1416
Trust my rage
Ginger, I do the same thing. Everything is entered on Quickbooks, but then I just throw it all in a drawer in case I ever need the hard copy.