Welcome!
Welcome to the latest issue of the IDNAC Newsletter! This months issue is
packed with lots of exciting items - pull up a comfy chair, sit back, relax and have a good read.
Roxanne & Nancy would like to take a moment to give a heartfelt thank you to Jim
Zachman (Real Time Accounting, Inc.) for his generous donation of QuickE-Docs(sm), to
help us coordinate our efforts in putting this newsletter together. What an awesome tool!
To learn more about QuickE-Docs (and Real Time Accounting), read this months Developer & Advisor
interviews.
Stay tuned for more great stuff!
In this Issue
The IDNAC Forum/Site
The "Talk to the IDN Advisory Council" Forum
Etiquette Section
Email Etiquette - What is it & Why is it Important?
Dear Andy Advisor & Dear Danny Developer
This months questions for the "Dear Abby's of Integration"
Marketing & Website Tips
Designing Your Site for Search Engines
Question of the Month
Let's have some fun!
Articles
Working Remotely - What Is It and What Does It Mean To You?
Part III in a Series of Articles on Working Remotely - By Roxanne Brown
Developer Interview
Real Time Accounting - James Zachman
Advisor Interview
Dennis Najjar of "Balance Your Books, LLC", talks about using Real Time Accounting.
Planning an event?
skOOchie makes it easy & fun!
Teamwork - The Mantra for Modern Times
Or are we as independent as we really think we are?
Survey's, Survey's, Survey's
Please participate in our survey's
Preliminary Highlights of the Advisor & Developer Survey's
Other Items
Do you have a story to tell?
The IDNAC Forum
What is the "Talk with the IDN Advisory Council" Section for?
This section of the forum has been designed to provide you with a direct means of communication
with members of the IDNAC. While all of the sub-forums in this section are important, it's the
General Information forum that you should keep a close eye on,
read why......
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Etiquette Section
Email Etiquette - What is it & Why is it important?
Email has become the accepted "norm" of communication for most of us, with potential clients and business associates,
but are we really communicating a professional appearance with our email communications? To find
out ways to improve your email communication and ensure your email makes it through Spam and/or Junk Mail filters,
click here
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Ask the Experts Column
The "Dear Abby's of Integration"
Each month "Dear Andy" and "Dear Danny" will
answer integration related questions submitted anonymously from the website.
To view this month's questions......
For Dear Andy,
click here
For Dear Danny,
click here
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Marketing & Website Tips - by Andrew Muollo, LeGrand CRM
Designing Your Site for Search Engines
Tips for making your website easy to find on the internet, also known as Search Engine
Optimiation (SEO). These "engines" are how people find you on the internet, and is the
key to your success. To read the rest of this article,
click here
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Question of the Month
Let's have some fun!!!
Anyone up for a little trivia? Can anyone guess what the 3 people surrounded by the "swoosh"
in the IDNAC logo represents? I've made a post on the forum, please submit
your answers there, Good Luck,
and remember - in order to make a post on the forum, you must be logged in.
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Working Remotely-What Is It and What Does It Mean to You?-Part III
What is the difference between remote access and file transfers?
Why would you use one service over the other?
Over the last two months, Roxanne has talked about both file transfer and remote access products (if
you missed these articles they are available from the
Newsletter Archive)
This month, Roxanne talks about using ASP's/Terminal Server/WAN. What are they? Why and when would you
choose this option? To read this months article
click here...
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Real Time Accounting, Inc. - James Zachman
Jim Zachman of Real Time Accounting, Inc. explains how remote access to clients' QuickBooks file on-demand
will allow ProAdvisors the added flexibility to not only help with bookkeeping functions, but allow them to
quickly troubleshoot any QuickBooks issues. To read the rest of this article,
click here
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Using Real Time Accounting - by Dennis Najjar
Meet Dennis Najjar, of Balance Your Books, LLC. Dennis left a job in the corporate world in the mid-eighties to
start his own practice. Read how using the services of Real Time Accounting has become an important part of
the "virtual support" he offers to clients -
click here...
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Planning an event? skOOchie makes it easy & fun!
skOOchie, by EventIQ, Inc., helps you organize guests for parties, meetings, customer events, and
other events - quickly and easily. To read more about why skOOchie was developed,
click here.
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Teamwork - The Mantra for Modern Times
(Or are we as independent as we really think we are?)
In reality, we are not independent, but "interdependent" (mutually dependent) upon
each other. In every area of life, people need to develop and cultivate a strong team, build
solid relationships, and learn to trust the people they work and/or associate with. To read
more about this important concept,
click here.
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Please participate in our survey's
We currently have 3 survey's running that we would like to ask you to participate in
- Rate this newsletter - This is a simple 2 question survey
where you can rate the contents of this newsletter and add comments or suggestions. This newsletter is for you, and your voices will be heard!
- Developer Survey - Solving Customer Pain Points.
This survey contains basic questions about your product, the Solutions Marketplace, Website/Materials & Working with Advisors.
- Advisor Survey - Working with Clients.
This survey contains basic questions about the types of clients you work with, the pain points you are asked to solve, and Finding,
Evaluating & Recommending Integrated Applications.
Your participation in these survey's will enable us to define what kind of educational resources are of the
most value to everyone, what the newsletter should contain, and what new features should be made available on the IDNAC site.
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Preliminary Highlights of the Advisor & Developer Survey's
Are you curious about how other Advisors & Developer's are responding to the current survey's?
Learn what Advisors want and need in order to evaluate 3rd party applications by
clicking here.
Learn what Developers would like to know about Advisors before referring customer to them by
clicking here.
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Do You Have a Story to Tell?
We are seeking Contributing Editors and/or Interviewee's from the subscriber community for upcoming
feature stories in this Newsletter. If you are an Advisor or a Developer with a story
to tell, an Advisor who would like to see an article about a particular Developer's product, etc. -
please Contact Us.
We provide the article and interview questions.
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