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Mobile Business Traveler: Where are the Mobile Translators
Mobile Business Technology
August 5
For now we're reduced to actually learning a foreign language ...
ramon ray_80
Why Windows 7 Will Be Worth The Upgrade: No Comparison to Vista
Technology & Your Business This Week
August 5
Windows 7 will be out on October 22. According to what I've been reading, it's slated to be a pretty good operating system - a much better version than Vista and better than XP.
robert guild_80
What to do when vendors bill for an entire purchase order before the purchase order is complete.
The QuickBooks Blog
August 5
You have issued a purchase order and received some but not all items to be delivered under the purchase order. QuickBooks limits the amount of bills entered against inventory to the total of items received. If you want to pend entering the bill until the purchase order is closed, here is a way to to do it.
vicky tamaru_80
Why Conversational Marketing Requires Fundamental Business Change
Branded Entertainment
August 3
Basically, if we are increasingly more reliant on building long-term genuine relationships with our customers, we’re also more reliant on building long-term genuine relationships with our employees, vendors, and agency partners. There is simply no way around this fact.
lee odden_80
Social Media Roadmap Boosts Small Business SEO
Search Engine Smarts
August 3
Throwing keywords at social media tactics isn't as effective as developing and implementing a plan to reach specific marketing goals.

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We generally see our customers want to avoid extra work because the vendor overinvoiced the company. The bill should reflect the items delivered / work performed.

Readers might want to check out Coupa (www.coupa.com) for a more advanced purchase order, receipt and bill capture system that is pre-integrated to Quickbooks (http://marketplace.intuit.com/AppID-3209-Overview.aspx and http://www.coupa.com/e-procurement/innovations/quickstart/). As one solution, you may want to do 3-way matching (PO, Receipt, Bill). The application knows that the overinvoice has occurred and pings the right user to confirm receipt of the items / work. If the user confirms that the vendor has satisfied what they've issued a bill for, then the invoice can be approved and sync'ed to Quickbooks. There are some other ways in Coupa to do this too, so we invite people to learn more and even try it out.
By: Noah Eisner on 8/5/09 at 7:01 PM
What to do when vendors bill for an entire purchase order before the purchase order is complete.
Google's latest lab project, Google Wave offers real time translation when working in groups. Also, I have a really nice phrase app from CoolGorilla for my iPhone. It's categorized as your post mentions. But what makes the app more useful than a phrase book is that it offers audio samples of the phrases.
By: Steve on 8/5/09 at 5:56 PM
Mobile Business Traveler: Where are the Mobile Translators
I agree! SEO is one of the tactics used by many in online marketing. This is the efficient and more effective thing to do. At any rate, it still won't save many from needing payday loans no faxing for car and insurance payments. Obama and the White House have hailed the actions of Congress, as they are in favor of keeping the short term loans from Cash for Clunkers going.
By: Santiago R. on 8/4/09 at 4:49 AM
Social Media Roadmap Boosts Small Business SEO
Yee Haw. You make me sick.
Is that what gets you off at night?
The fact that you "follow rules"?
Is that really what does it for you?
You're just another sheep hoping you'll be the first one in line. Unbeknownst to you for the slaughter.
You probably kissed all your teachers asses didn't you.
In hopes of winning some sort of 'atta boy'?
When they start chipping people you and your pathetic friends will think it the new 'blue tooth'.
And beg to be chosen.
Don't think twice babe it's alright..
By: Dissent is the Highest Form of Patriotism on 8/4/09 at 12:45 AM
eBay Ditches All Non-Electronic Payments
I would agree with the reasons you have stated. I have tried to purchase a few items online and found a few websites that were just hard to navigate and eventually did not end up purchasing anything from them.
Difficulty in finding the product can be disastrous in keeping an online business going. If they have a search field it always seems that it brings up something totally opposite of what you're looking for.
Great advice...hopefully some of those difficult website owners will see this post!
By: Kim Shuford on 7/31/09 at 10:48 PM
9 Reasons Why Customers Are Not Buying More From You Online

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