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One of our followers on our Twitter account had tweeted an article on social networking. The article points out that both online and offline social networking are very similar, giving some tips that apply to both along the way.

David J. Greer is an accomplished industry executive who provides tailored, senior-level support in Sales and Revenue Generation, New Business Development, Product Performance, and Industry Relationship Management. On his website, Greer presents a series of articles aimed at inspiring business owners and managers in achieving their goals.

As small businesses become aware of the importance of technology in order to succeed in a competitive environment, SaaS is getting more and more common. As to bookkeeping, web based tools can offer several advantages, both in terms of costs and quality.

If you are running a small business or you just started your own company, hopefully you’re spending most of your energy on your core business. Accounting can be one of those things that has to be done but doesn’t always get the attention it needs. That’s ok, providing you have the right systems in place to be compliant with laws and regulations and save money.

We recently started our own corporate Twitter account. So far, we’ve been using it as an easy way to communicate our customers, prospects and partners, but it is something more than a new fashionable way of finding new business opportunity: it is a way of building and maintaining relationships.

Don’t worry, this is not a new kind of virus or fraud that can irreparably damage your computer or drain your finances in a second. Still, if you collect all your emails, never clicking "delete" even when the message is not relevant to you, then your email mayb suffer from the disease that Enrique Dans, a Spanish professor and El Pais columnist, calls “Diogenes Syndrome”.

To succeed in today’s business environment, being excellent in one field is not enough. What makes a difference, now, is being multidisciplinary: it is being capable of understanding concepts from other departments, of comprehending processes and connections between different areas of business, of building relationships and networks. This works both if you are willing to become a top manager in a big corporation or a successful entrepreneur and, we will see, it can be a good idea also if you are a professional accountant.

On March 23, Intuit released the R7 update to QuickBooks 2009. In a comprehensive post on his blog Practical QuickBooks, Charlie Russell outlines some of the most significant changes:

A survey from Intuit shows that in these hard times for economy, small businesses are more likely to turn to their accountants for advice.

Intuit polled 250 small business owners and 250 accountants in January and compared the results with a similar research they did in July 2008. Here some interesting results about their concerns:

You can like numbers or not, you can be a precise person or an airhead artist; in any case, if you are a business owner, you have to deal with bookkeeping. The end of April is approaching and, as you start to think about tax forms, deductions, and audits, this is the moment you realize the hard truth so well expressed by Benjamin Franklin: "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes".