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Accept Failure as Essential to Growth

It’s no secret to seasoned entrepreneurs that making mistakes is essential to business success. The real secret is how to overcome the personal struggle to pick yourself up and try again. The ability to face your mistakes and overcome obstacles is what distinguishes...

Hiring and Keeping your Promises

So, your office is hiring right now. Seems like there’s more work than your staff can handle. I hope it’s because your business is growing!  But it could mean that you’re falling behind and I know what it’s like.  Yes, as a business owner for 34 years, I’ve had...

Rescue Your Workers from Robotic Work

The Typical Office Employee  For many people, going to college was a way to escape the monotony, weariness, and uncertainty of low-wage jobs. Their parents punched a clock and stood on their feet all day. These college-bound people dreamed of having a fancy desk in a...

Scale Your business with DPA

Data Processing Automation has a powerful role to play in scaling your business. When you use software tools to automate mundane, repetitive, computer-based tasks, your people can then focus on higher value work that leads to business growth. That could be as simple...

How to Achieve Painless Payroll Processing.

Like many other financial processes at a business, payroll processing is tedious and tense. Employees want to know that their paycheck is going to come on time. This is particularly critical in smaller businesses where only a few people are responsible for payroll. If...

Impossibly Fast, Perfectly Accurate Claims Processing

People file insurance claims in times of crisis and pain. The last thing they need is for their insurance company to be slow and sloppy. Fail them in their moment of suffering and they will never trust you again. But exceed their expectations with a faster turnaround...

The Promise and Problem of the Personal Computer for Business

In 1984, Steve Jobs wowed audiences by unveiling the Apple Macintosh computer, a marvelous device that promised freedom from IBM’s stodgy definition of what computers should be. The Mac was designed for consumers and marketed toward small to medium businesses. It was...

How companies are breathing new life into Legacy Software.

Many businesses use older applications to perform critical business functions. New software can be very tantalizing, every benefit looking like a dream come true. However, migrating over might cause businesses to run into compatibility issues. Thus, businesses refer...

First QuickBooks, now Sage. How DPA accelerates Accounting.

In my last article, I wrote about Data Processing Automation (DPA) reducing the amount of labor it takes to streamline accounting processes in QuickBooks. Specifically, it reduces the amount of time required to manually process and manipulate data. DPA typically...

500X your Accounting with Data Processing Automation

Every business has extra stress when it’s time to do the accounting. Tax season is especially frustrating because it often comes with long days, late nights, tense muscles, and overtime for your office staff. It doesn’t seem to get any easier from year to year. But it...

Business Strategies for Rising Inflation

It’s no secret that businesses are facing a period of rising inflation. Economists are comparing it to the Great Recession in 2008, but there are key differences. The current situation features higher consumer demand than in 2008, supply chain bottlenecks, and a...

Zoom in on Data Processing Automation

  Redundant and mundane activity is common in all organizations. Plus, it’s costly and inefficient.  Inefficiency in business administration costs money, wastes time, diminishes work quality, increases risk and prevents you from focusing on the strategic...