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Management Tips
Should you buy your business location or continue
to lease?
Next time you're writing a check for the rent, ask yourself "Would
I be better off owning my business location?"
Before making the decision to buy, you'll want to consider the following
factors:
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Amount of down payment |
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Tax consequences |
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Future growth needs |
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Your exit strategy |
To learn more read this Entrepreneur Magazine article by Mark Henricks,
titled Owning Up.
Technology Tips
Are you a QuickBooks user? Want to get QuickBooks and ServiceCEO
working together?
ServiceCEO can be set up to automatically update your QuickBooks general
ledger when financial actions are performed (i.e., jobs are closed, deposits
are made, etc).
This helps reduce errors often associated with double entry and cuts
down on amount of accounting work that is required to run your business.
The following solution is one of the over 200 articles available within
the online Member Center.
Integrating Quickbooks and ServiceCEO - Solution 00000159
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SparkleWash Creates Turnkey Franchise Solution
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Insight Direct chosen as SparkleWash's outsourced IT
partner providing software, training and technical support
services direct to each franchise owner
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SparkleWash and Insight Direct create
a standard template database and suite of services for SparkleWash's
75 franchise owners
“Insight Direct offered us a partnership model that
delivered their software, training and technical support services
directly to our franchise owners,” said Michael Klavora,
President, SparkleWash International.
SparkleWash headquarters’ staff evaluated ServiceCEO
for three months to ensure that ServiceCEO met all corporate
and franchise owner requirements.
Headquarters then worked closely with Insight Direct to
develop a standard template database so each franchisee
would have ServiceCEO pre-configured to the unique way in
which SparkleWash businesses operate.
The result is a turnkey franchise solution that allows
Insight Direct to get each SparkleWash owner up and running
with ServiceCEO quickly and decrease the costs of ongoing
training and technical support.
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Saving Time with Integrated Credit Card
Processing
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ServiceCEO’s integrated credit
card processing can save you as much as two minutes per transaction
when compared to processing credit cards with outside software,
like QuickBooks requires.
For a typical business the time savings alone can be significant.
For example, a business that processes 50 transactions per week
saves almost 7 hours each month!
In addition, you avoid double entry of sensitive credit card information
and the high likelihood of miss-keying entries. As a result, you
keep your customers happy by avoid mischarges.
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Improved Decision Making with Management
Reports
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Want to make better decisions for your business?
Are you using the reports available with ServiceCEO to help improve
your decision making?
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Which customers have bought your services in the past six
months and might respond to a special price discount? |
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How profitable are your scheduled service calls when compared
to emergency calls? |
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What service contracts or equipment warranties are set to
expire in the next month and need renewal? |
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Which sales representative has the best closing ratio and
why are they winning or losing the estimates and bids that they
have sent to prospects? |
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Which employees have the highest job performance levels? |
Although ServiceCEO ships with a wide variety of management reports,
you may have special reporting needs. If you want to adapt the existing
reports in ServiceCEO, the Integrated
Crystal Reports® Designer License is for you!
The Integrated Crystal Reports Designer License enables you to
customize ServiceCEO's existing Crystal Reports and generate the
specific information you need to run your business. You can change
the formatting and layout of a report, add fields, create and edit
the formulas that control the display of data from the ServiceCEO
database, and much more!
Once you buy the license, you're not on your own! The Crystal
Reports Tutorial shows you how to edit reports to meet your
needs. You can also learn from the experts attending our Crystal
Reports Design Class, which is free for Membership Plan customers.
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