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September 8, 2011 

855-687-1024 www.BillQuick.com   2011 Overall Rating 5 Best Firm Fit Small and mid-sized firms. Strengths Feature-rich SaaS version available, which can synchronize automatically with the desktop product. Native iPhone & Android apps. Free Lite version available. Tracks personal time off hours & approvals. The most extensive integration options with accounting software among products reviewed. Strong...…

Dustin Wheeler

September 8, 2011 

877-520-1525 www.imaginetime.com   2011 Overall Rating 4.25 Best Firm Fit Small firms, especially those taking advantage of the tax software integration available. Strengths Ribbon interface similar to Microsoft Office. Integration with tax software & QuickBooks. Synchronization with Outlook, including viewing staff calendars side-by-side. Potential Limitations No SaaS version. Summary & Pricing ImagineTime is a time...…

Dustin Wheeler

September 8, 2011 

888-340-6425 www.Chrometa.com   2011 Overall Rating 4.5   Best Firm Fit Small firms with simple billing needs, or firms of any size for timekeeping. Strengths Innovative system for automatically tracking time. Integration with several accounting programs and other billing programs. SaaS software that can aggregate time from multiple PCs. Potential Limitations Limited invoicing capabilities. Works...…

Dustin Wheeler

September 8, 2011 

888-849-8059 www.abaksoftware.com   2011 Overall Rating 4   Best Firm Fit Small and mid-sized accounting firms, especially those integrating with certain accounting software (Sage Simply Accounting, Sage Accpac ERP, Avantage and Acomba). Strengths Three-level approval system for time & expenses. Web-based interface for a few of the program’s functions. Potential Limitations Help file is difficult...…

Dustin Wheeler

September 7, 2011 

I wasn’t in New York City 10 years ago. My first visit wasn’t until 2003, on a fall day similar to when I watched the towers fall on tv. In July 2003, I went to Ground Zero, well- as close as I could get, about half a block.

Isaac M. O'Bannon

September 6, 2011 

I had a very interesting conversation last week with a colleague in an accounting firm about PR agencies. She knew I had previously worked in two agencies, so she wanted my input as to whether I thought PR agencies were worth the cost. That got me thinking that if she had some questions, others might...…

Scott Cytron

September 6, 2011 

I wasn’t in New York City 10 years ago. In fact, my first trip to the city wasn’t until 2003, on a fall day similar to what I saw two years earlier, when I watched the towers fall on tv. In July 2003, I went to Ground Zero, well- as close as I could get,...…

Isaac M. O'Bannon

September 1, 2011 

By all accounts, broadband speeds have leapfrogged forward in the US over the past year.

Dave McClure

September 1, 2011 

Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is a collection of tactics that are applied to your website to help it rank better in the results when people use searches to find people and businesses they need. SEO, as an industry, literally changes every day. Search engines, like Google, constantly tweak how they rank and present search…

Justin Spencer

September 1, 2011 

Accountants and accounting firms have long suffered from the false stereotype of being stodgy, even predictable and boring. Even more so, the auditor: that truly numbers-focused researcher of data whose sole purpose is to determine the propriety of an organization’s financial reporting and their internal controls over financial reporting. Perhaps only actuaries are more maligned…

Isaac M. O'Bannon

September 1, 2011 

As the regular readers of this column know, I like to reference rock’n’roll from the 70s. This time, as I sit down to write my column about listening to your customers, one of my favorite songs from the Wings comes to mind.

Rene Lacerte

August 31, 2011 

Most of us have built our businesses based on relationships. Some have built a reputation around a specific expertise. Others have built a business based on service levels. All of these strategies are still extremely important, but an increasingly important factor in the last 15 years is being found on the web. Many of us…

Randy Johnston