Before paying the taxman, why not talk to us about how we can use digital signage to increase profits and generate more sales.

If you do need a digital signage solution then contact us info@advertiseme.com.au and we’ll help you achieve your digital signage goals.

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We recently were advised by our accountant that we should invest in an accounting software tool so we can better track our expenses and project future financial growth of the company. There are many off the shelf accounting software products on the market. If you walk down to Office Works or search online, you will find software packages that could either be affordable or just too expensive. Some are easy to use whilst others are just too complex but to be honest with you, there isn’t a perfect product out there that does exactly what you want. Every user and business has different processes so a one size fits all approach to accounting software cannot be used here, but what I can say is that if you have basic accounting requirements then you may be in luck. What I’ve done is compared and detailed some of these software packages so we could make a suitable decision of which product we should be using and hopefully at the same time we can also help our readers find a solution that meets their needs. We decided that using a SaaS (Software as a Service) online package would be the most cost effective solution since you are not required to pay extra for software upgrades – everything is done online. Here’s our list, it’s not the most comprehensive but it’s a start (keep in mind we compared product versions that had similar benefits and costed roughly the same):

Software Package	MYOB Live Accounts	Xero (business)	Saasu (pro)	Freshbooks	Zoho Invoicing (premium)	Freeagent
Price	AU$25 per month (includes GST) +11c for each bank transaction over 100	US$29	AU$25 per month (min 3 months) 12 months gets 1 month free	US$29.95 per month	US$25 per month	US$20 per month
Number of accounts	Unlimited	5	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Number of users	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	N/A – 1 for each additional account	3 + US$5 per additional users	Unlimited
Contacts	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Number of Invoices and expenses	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	500	Unlimited
Link Bank accounts	Yes – unlimited	20 reconciled bank statements per month	Yes – beta test	Don’t think so	No	No
Support	Yes – unlimited	Yes – unlimited	Email only	Customer Support Mon-Fri / 9am-6pm ET	Yes	Yes – unlimited
Backup	Yes – data is safe and backed up	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Free Trial	Yes – 30 days	Yes – lets you raise a maximum of five new invoices and reconcile 50 bank statement lines. The trial is also limited to a maximum period of 180 days.	Yes – 20 Transactions per month	No – 30 day money back guarantee	Yes – 5 invoices per month, 2 users	Yes – 30 days
Mobile access	Not sure	iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Windows Mobile	Not sure	Yes, iphone	Not sure	No
Payroll	No	No	25 employees	No	No	No
Other Features		accept credit card payment, invoice workflow status, resend invoices, API support, multi-currency	multi-currency, point of sale hardware + software, items and inventory, connectors, CRM/Activities, time based timesheet, inventory, ebay connector	access online payments, Timesheets, Document Sharing, Support Ticketing	Remove Zoho logo from outgoing emails	UK Based company (not ideal for Australia), timesheet,

Now based on the above comparison we decided to trial the SaaSu (pro) package.

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What’s interesting is that one guy in the US is making a living just by wearing other people’s t-shirts and promoting their business – in fact he makes roughly US$84,000. That’s a pretty good figure. For our company, we have a blue polo shirt that has our company logo at the front and back (the back being bigger). We are also looking at using shirts with small screens for digital advertising but for now here is a photo of our current company shirt:

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We’ve done some research and below is a list of ways to advertise your iphone app for free:

• Get your family, friends, colleagues to try out the application. Get feedback from them and get them to recommend the app to their friends
• Announce it to the world through social networking – use facebook or twitter to promote your app, even get your friends to share your link on their status. Create a fan page on facebook and a twitter account.
• Join various forums and announce the availability of your app. The biggest iphone forum is http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/
• Make sure you develop a cut down version of your app and give it out for free. Most iphone users will not buy your app straight away unless they trial it. That way you have a chance to up-sell your app if they like it.
• Update your email and forum signatures with a link to your free app.
• Get companies to review your app, e.g gizmodo, cnet, appdictions, whatsoniphone.com, iphoneapppreviews, etc. If they like it then they will definately review it for free.
• If you have guts then create a forum dedicated for your app so you can get others to provide positive and negative feedback.
• Think of an innovative idea to generate PR with companies e.g free advertising on your application
• Get on the News…

Good luck and if there’s any other ideas on ways to advertise your iphone app for free let us know.

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Happy Birthday advertise me!!!! What’s so special about this year is that on the 10/10/10 Advertise Me turns 5.

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Seems to have happened after the upgrade to 1.4.2. Is this a bug or do they just want to lock it down to those two sites?

I feel so frustrated!!!

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After searching on the Internet for a while I couldn’t figure out what the issue was. I used a bit of logic and applied the trial and error method and found the solution. The solution is quite simple. All you have to do is go into the Like Button settings page and click iFrame for the Type.

error message facebook i like

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