10 things to do while you wait for Billing Manager to come back online
The team is working hard and fast to make these maintenance updates successful. We’ll let you know when things have completed. But in the meantime…here are 10 things you can do while you wait!
1. Increase your reoccurring invoices and thus your profit. Learn how here.
2. Call a customer just to see how they are doing. If you wait for customers to call you it’s like giving a 2 year old a can of red paint and putting them in a white room alone. When you check back later, you never know what surprise you are going to get!
3. Start using twitter and say hi to us. Your customers are on it, so should you be. Create an account and then update your status with 140 characters. Use @IntuitInvoice in your update to tell us hello! We’ll start following you back!
4. Relax. When your head is full with a to-do list your creativity decreases. (Proven fact! at least on the Billing Manager team). Take an hour and go for a walk, get inspired and energize
5. Check out the new Intuit App Center. This contains lots of business apps that help you run your business better. Most of them have free trials (and some are even completely free!!). Examples include web conferencing, email marketing, expense management.
6. Participate in the Love a Local Business campaign. This monthly contest awards local business big money just having loyal customers. Submit a story about your favorite local business (or get your customers to submit on behalf of you!).
7. Spend money. Yes, it may sound counter-intuitive but keep listening. If a new customer brings you $100 of new revenue…then you should totally fine paying up to $99 to get them in the door. (Now hopefully you pay a lot less than $99, but as a business just starting out, getting customers is the first task you have in front of you!)
8. Be inspired. Watch David Weekly (founder of PBwiki) talk about how to give your ideas ex-lax. It’s a funny and motivating talk!
9. Zen your desk. With a clean and pristine environment you can be more effective and organized. Take 20 minutes…dust it out.
10. Comment on this blog. What other things did you do today?
December 6, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Is Intuit Billing Manage available for the QuickBooks Online Edition? It only seems natural that any business already running the online edition would be first to implement the web based applications that Intuit is releasing.
December 6, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Interesting you ask that. So anyone can use Billing Manager, it’s free. But I’m curious (since QuickBooks Online provides web invoicing) how would you like to use Billing Manager?