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Management Tips
With the election only a few days away, where do Bush & Kerry
stand on issues important to small business owners?
President Bush believes the best way for government to help small businesses
is to tax and regulate them less.
Senator Kerry believes more government programs are needed to help small
businesses grow.
However, there are many more details to consider on the issues important
to small business owners. The article provided below from MSNBC outlines
each candidates' position on seven key issues:
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Health care |
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Regulatory policy |
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Social Security |
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Stock market |
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Small business assistance |
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Taxes |
To learn more, read the following article from MSNBC.
Small
Business
and the Candidates:
Bush vs. Kerry on the issues facing entrepreneurs
Technology Tips
E-mail Hoaxes: Don't trust everything that comes
into your e-mail inbox!
We've all seen them - offers that look too good to be true, virus alerts
from Microsoft that are not actually from Microsoft, the list goes on
and on. How do you know which messages to take seriously?
Symantec Security Response uncovers hoaxes on a regular basis. These
hoaxes usually contain bogus warnings intent only on frightening or misleading
users. The best course of action is to merely delete these hoax e-mail
messages.
Use the page provided below whenever you receive what appears to be a
bogus message regarding a new virus, or promotion that sounds too good
to be true.
Symantec Security Response - Hoax Page
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Red Sox Are Finally World Series Champions!
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Red Sox win the World Series!
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The Curse of The Bambino has been
reversed and the 86-year wait is finally over!
On Wednesday night the Boston Red Sox became World Series
champions winning for the first time since 1918 - the last
year that Babe Ruth (“The Bambino”) played for
the Red Sox before being traded to our archrival - the New
York Yankees.
Insight Direct is headquartered in Boston, so to
celebrate our beloved Red Sox' victory we are extending
a special 10% sales discount through November on all additional
user and Mobile Tech license purchases.
To inquire about this Red
Sox 10% Off Sales Special, please contact
your Account Executive or complete this form:
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Next Customer Showcase: Nov. 4th at 4:00 ET
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Want to see how a carpet
cleaner uses ServiceCEO day-to-day?
On the first Thursday of each month at 4:00
ET we co-host an online meeting with a customer to let them describe
how they use ServiceCEO, discuss the impact of our software on their
business and share best industry practices via Q&A.
This month Fritz Thompson, President, Professional
Carpet Systems and a PCS franchisee will be our hosts.
PCS is world's largest flooring specialty service
company with 60 franchise locations in the U.S. Founded in
1978 and headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, PCS offers a
full range of cleaning services, including carpet repair, dyeing,
water damage restoration and carpet replacement.
“Thompson needed a solution that would help PCS’s
60 locations manage service appointments and finances. He first
settled for a small start-up that offered the latest technology
and a customized solution—until they went bankrupt about a
year later and left many PCS franchisees locked out of their own
systems.”
“That’s when Thompson went to his franchisees
and asked for their help looking for a solution that could meet
their needs. They decided to use ServiceCEO.”
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Professional Carpet Systems Customer Showcase
Thursday, 11/4 at 4pm ET
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Complete our
Sales Contact Form and an Account Executive will provide
you login instructions for the online meeting |
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Or, if you're already a customer with an active Membership
Plan, you can login through the Member
Center just like you do for the online training class |
Upcoming Showcase |
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John Eggenberger, Executive Vice President Mr.
Handyman
Handyman Services industry |
| Last Month's Showcase |
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Jon Lawrence, President Data
Balance
Computer Services industry
Watch
the video.
Note: View 'full screen' for best viewing. |
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New Data Conversion Quick Start Kit
Now Available
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Most ServiceCEO customers take
the extra step of converting the customer list and other pertinent
data used within their existing business management application
so it can be used within ServiceCEO. Insight Direct Data Services
provides data conversion consulting services to ensure the smoothest
transition possible.
The Data Conversion Quick Start Kit is designed
to help you import your preexisting customer data into a standard
Excel spreadsheet template so that our Data Services department
can quickly/accurately complete your data conversion. With this
kit, you will be able to identify the data you need to import into
ServiceCEO and organize it in the manner you want, maintaining 100%
control over the entire process.
Why Use the Quick Start Kit?
Why should you be the one to export your data into our standard
Excel spreadsheet templates, instead of just paying us to do all
the work? There are several good time-tested reasons for doing so:
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Cost
Standard conversions are easy and normally take just two
hours to complete, meaning that your costs are kept low. Data
existing in a proprietary format means that we need to perform
a customized data conversion, which takes more time and costs
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Accuracy You know
your data better than we ever could. Therefore, as you go through
the export process, you can verify the accuracy of the data
as it is sent from one format to another. |
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Verification Since
you are intimately familiar with your data, you can take this
opportunity to verify your data and, as needed, make any corrections
to it. Correcting the data at this stage will prevent the need
for costly, time-intensive fixes to the data once it is located
in ServiceCEO. Look at this data export as your opportunity
to start over with a clean slate. |
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Understanding ServiceCEO
Taking the time to export your data into Excel will also help
you understand how your data will be organized in ServiceCEO.
Grasping this underlying structure of the ServiceCEO database
will be a valuable aid when using the application. |
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