If you are a VAT registered business and still doing your bookkeeping manually, or using spreadsheets, then you really are missing a trick. Using accounts software like Sage 50 or Sage Instant accounts makes producing t...
Now Christmas and the New Year are out of the way, we can start thinking about 2012 and being ready for the end of the payroll tax year, as time never ceases to march on. Sage 50 Payroll 2012/13 is due for release in Feb...
Many of us realise the power of networking and how it can bring in new business, but how can you make sure you make the most of going to those meetings – and ensure that you remain in the forefront of people’...
How time flies when you are having fun! Alison at her desk. The Silicon Bullet Blog is now one month old, and what a month it has been! I have found creating my new blog both interesting and quite addictive. I have to se...
This week Paul at Silicon Bullet spent most of Sunday afternoon sitting through the Sage ACT! 2012 new release seminar online, and then taking the exam. What a fun way to spend the weekend! As a Sage accredited reselle...
Today I went on another course to help me improve my knowledge about blogging, this time run by the East Midlands eBusiness Club. The Club is a virtual support network which was created to help companies make the best u...
Sage released a 3rd update to the 2012 Sage 50 software on Thursday 17th November. You may have not been prompted to do this update yet, as Sage checks for updates automatically just once per week. Hopefully you have b...
Being new to this blogging lark, I have been looking for hints and tips to try and help me to be a good blogger. I was really pleased to find that a good friend of mine, Alison Neale, was running a free webinar today cal...
I had a call this week out of the blue from someone who needed Sage training. As part of our monitoring of new leads we always ask people how they came to hear about us, as I do quite a lot of networking and social medi...
Don’t forget when you have done a good job to ask your customers to tell people about it – word of mouth referrals are the best source of new business, and you also find out about which parts of your service ...