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About the HP Folio 13 UltraBook

By Becky McCray

HP offered us the chance to review an HP Folio 13 UltraBook, and to give away another one to you. Enter the giveaway at Sharing the HP Folio 13, deadline is Friday! (June 15, 2012) I’m a sucker for a great keyboard. I’ve worked with the Folio 13 for a couple of weeks now, and […]

June 14, 2012 Filed Under: rural Tagged With: review

Accept credit cards with PayPal Here

By Becky McCray

PayPal, a huge name in accepting online payments, is jumping into the world of local small businesses accepting credit cards with PayPal Here. It’s a new service, not fully rolled out yet (as of March 2012). The PayPal Here triangle reader is sure to remind you of the Square reader. It strikes me as quite similar to Square, but […]

March 27, 2012 Filed Under: entrepreneurship Tagged With: review

Review: The official guide to QuickBooks 2012

By JNSwanson

I’m not a QuickBooks user. I don’t run a small business. But I’m a family member, the family member that understands computers. I’ve spent time with parents and in-laws trying to troubleshoot and explain and update and install. Recently, a family client wanted to update the QuickBooks version used to run a family business. Since […]

January 23, 2012 Filed Under: entrepreneurship Tagged With: Jon Swanson, review

Converting to Square for credit card processing

By Becky McCray

I have a bricks and mortar liquor store. We have used traditional credit card merchant processing for five years, and we just switched over to Square. I’ll tell you why we converted and how we did it. Our Old “Traditional” Merchant Processing Yes, I really do have a liquor store. Our traditional merchant was Retriever […]

December 12, 2011 Filed Under: Best of, entrepreneurship, finance Tagged With: review

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