Ida Peters

As a small business owner, you shouldn’t necessarily say “yes” to every project. Here’s how to decide if it’s a yay or a nay. When opportunity comes knocking, our instinct is to instantly and emphatically say YES!! After all, new clients and projects mean more income and who wouldn’t want more money? However, that instinct […] The post Yea or Nay: How to Decide Whether a Project is Worth Taking appeared first on FreshBooks Blog - Resources & Advice for Small Business Owners .

Tod Maffin, President of engageQ digital shares why FreshBooks takes invoicing to the next level with great customer support. Tod knew he wanted to become a business owner after realizing he didn’t want to work for anyone else. “At the time, I spoke at some big conferences around the world,” he recalls. “What ended up […] The post Meet Tod, Who Uses Invoicing Software with Stellar Customer Support to Help Him Run a Thriving Business appeared first on FreshBooks Blog - Resources & Advice for Small Business Owners .

The Reshape the World Challenge sponsored by FidelityLabs wrapped up last month. Here’s how it all went down. At FreshBooks, our mission is to reshape the world for self-employed professionals and their teams. But this can’t be done alone. So in May—with the help of our sponsors Fidelity Labs—we launched the Reshape the World Challenge. […] The post Meet 3 Businesses That Are Reshaping the World for the Self-Employed appeared first on FreshBooks Blog - Resources & Advice for Small Business Owners .

Great project management is a process that starts once the deal is closed and ends when the final masterpiece is sent. When you hear the words “project management” what comes to mind? Oftentimes, they’re associated with assembling work-back schedules and effectively managing scope creep. But stellar project management is so much more than that. The […] The post Master Project Management: Closing Deals and Delivering Amazing Projects [Free eBook] appeared first on FreshBooks Blog - Resources & Advice for Small Business Owners .

Today we’re announcing a new option for FreshBooks customers: Approachable Accounting. It’s full, industry-standard, double-entry accounting to help grow your business. Nobody knows the challenges of running a small business better than you. You need to master so many new things; from sourcing clients to pricing strategies. And then there’s accounting. It’s probably the most […] The post Introducing: Approachable Accounting appeared first on FreshBooks Blog - Resources & Advice for Small Business Owners .

In this blog post, we are checking back in with Joe. After reading Parts 1 & 2 of our blog series on PayPal, Joe has his PayPal account linked to his Checking account and is paying vendors through PayPal AND receiving payments from customers through PayPal . But now, Joe has a major problem on his hands. Because customer payments and vendor expenses are now commingled in his PayPal account, Joe is having a hard time making sense of everything. What’s worse, a vendor payment shows up as one amount on Joe’s monthly PayPal statement, but then the same vendor payment shows up as a different amount on Joe’s monthly bank statement. Joe just doesn’t understand what’s happening, and the fear of the unknown is making him nervous. Joe is desperate for a workflow because, obviously, PayPal has a mind of its own. If you are also paying vendors in PayPal and receiving customer payments , you may have run into the same confusion as Joe. For some clarity, keep reading this final segment of o