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[Jill]

Hey everyone! Just wanted to alert you to the fact that for the first time in High Rankings Forum history, we have an outside vendor as a sponsor. Please welcome FreshBooks!



I know that many HRF mods already use FreshBooks and I've heard a lot of great things about them. Michael McDerment has been a forum member here for ages and FreshBooks has also sponsored the High Rankings® Advisor on numerous occasions.

If you have any questions about FreshBooks or our new ad, please feel free to post it in this thread. The folks at FreshBooks will be happy to answer your questions!

Jill

[jehochman]

What I really need is a place to receive my checks, deposit them in my account, and update the Freshbooks invoices as paid. Any chance Freshbooks could set up a partnership with a bank to provide lockbox services?

I'd like to be fully mobile so I could travel and take my business with me. The one remaining anchor, and pain point, is that I have to receive the checks and deposit them, or have somebody do it for me.

Freshbooks is one of my favorite tools.

[Hyperformance]

Yes, I noticed that Ad.

It's hard to miss when it's the first real Ad I have ever seen here...and I do not visit all that often -

Commercialization, it's all around us. Gotta keep the lights on ya know.

Congratulations

[1dmf]

Well I gave it a whirl, not of any use to me , I'm employed and I don't think it's about to replace my companies accounts department or Sage software.

I wish you and them both luck!

[Fresh Sunir]

Thanks Jill for having us! And thanks for introducing us. We're big fans of the community here, seriously, and thought we'd offer to support you because we believe in what you're doing. If anyone has any questions about FreshBooks, I'd be happy to field them here.

[Jill]

Welcome, Sunir!

[redsonia!]

Welcome to the forum, Sunir! And thanks for being a sponsor!

[nethy]

There was a thread about window size affecting the visual performance of a site.

When i make the window smaller the freshbooks banner goes all funny.

[Jill]

Yeah, that's unfortunately a problem with our forum coding. Not sure if there's much we can do about. Or should I say much I (personally) can do about it!

[1dmf]

lol - oh yeah , floating div problems?

maybe positioning would solve it

[Randy]

Well, as of IE7 Internet Explorer does support the CSS min-width property. So I suppose that could be applied to the overall page or even the top layer, for everybody other than IE6 users.

Note however that I've not tested this to see if IE7 employs hasLayout to min-/max-width or min-/max-height, or if they do if the hasLayout in IE7 is as buggy as it was in the previous version. It's an idea anyway, one that would be fairly easy to test.

[Michael]

Howdy all,

It's been a while since I've been in the forums, but it's a real honor for me and FreshBooks to be introduced to Jill into the HR community in this way. Why is it a big deal? Well...from 1999-2004 I used to run an Internet Marketing shop...we did SEO, design and development for small businesses. I was a regular reader of Jill's newsletters and the huge lurker and occasional poster in the forums...in fact I remember the weekend these forums went live...I read every single one of the first few hundred posts...honestly it was really exciting...but I digress...

Somewhere along the line I built a tool to invoice my clients and track time on projects. Very soon we realized we were not the only people who needed a tool like this...something that helped us spend as little as time possible collecting money from our clients, a tool that always let us know who owed us money, how much money they owed, and then made it easy to collect that money (i.e. automated late payment reminders, online collection, recurring billing). I was using Word before and it was a total pain and I did not want to make the move to QuickBooks because it was way more tool than I needed.

Anyway...fast forward to 2007 and the little internet marketing firm has transitioned into a product company that now has over 200,000 users and is growing double digit month over month. It's been a ton of fun building our product and meeting our clients, and if any of you HR folks are ever in Toronto, please come pay us a visit at our office - we'd love to meet you.

@jehochman: we offer the ability to collect and manage online cheques thorough some of our partners. Drop us a line if you'd like more info.

@Everyone else: thanks for the warm welcome and again we are delighted to be here.

- Mike

Edited by Michael, 26 July 2007 - 09:40 AM.

[Bradley]

That's a very cool story Michael. I wish you continued success and will give FreshBooks a trial run.

[Jill]

Yep, as you can see, Michael registered here in April '04 so he's definitely an old-timer to HR.

Freshbooks is actually one of the very few companies I'd even allow to advertise here because most companies that would want to are all scammy SEO software that most likely doesn't work -- or worse -- will get you banned.

So it's really fantastic that Michael and Sunir were interested in becoming sponsors, because they actually do have a really cool product which should be worthwhile to a good portion of our members!

[qwerty]

Just a general question: how many projects do I need to track per week or per month for this to become cost-effective? I've been using Excel to track my work and Word to generate my invoices for years. Both of my templates do the math for me, so it's usually a matter of opening the status report, opening a paid invoice, changing the name and date information on the invoice, plugging in the information from the status report and sending it out.

On average I do that for probably four clients a week, and it really doesn't take me very long.