I wrote this article for an issue of iBusiness, but I thought I would share it here and also ask for some interaction so we can get into a dialogue.

Shoeboxed just verified that we shop local, how nice. We use Shoeboxed to send our receipts in to Outright.com. Outright is an online accounting program for sole proprietors or LLCs that are acting as a disregarded entitiy, basically people who file a schedule C. It helps you stay on top of your taxes. This system working together has made my life so much easier. Check out thow they work together here.

There have only been two men in my life that I would consider great men of business and those were my Grandfather, Earl  Wilder and Steve Jobs. I remember the first day I met Steve, it was in that dreaded scenario that everyone talks about, in the elevator at Apple headquarters in Cupertino. I was there for my Genius training in 2001.

Steve was know for his extreme focus that could at times come off as being harsh. But being a business owner myself, I know that focus. You are there in your...

All I can say is, "Wow". After 4 short months of life the MacAngel Academy now has students in 7 countries; Australia, Colombia, Italy, Norway, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines, United Kingdom and in the United States we have students in 23 states. I consider that quite a feat! 

We're starting to see some good content develop and students are starting to share their comments and reviews. This really encourages us and drives us to bring you more great content. 

I just wanted to take a moment...

This is a great video of John Mackey of Whole Foods on what industries he sees as taking up conscious capitalism first. He mentions technology and also the services industry and here we are. MacAngel is placed squarely in front of this movement. I am passionate about teaching companies how to embrace conscious capitalism from the inside out. 

 "People think that we’re just being altruistic. No. If all you wanted to do was to make as much money as possible, as rapidly as possible, I would...

I've been attending the "Waking Up the Workplace" webinar series over the past few weeks. It has confirmed what I know to be true. If you allow a space for your staff to be fully who they are, they will be more dynamic, whole, and healthy. Oddly enough companies that allow their employees to be authentic dramatically outperform their competitors. *Source:  Firms of Endearment: The Pursuit of Purpose and Profit by Wolfe,  Sisodia & Sheth, 2007

Globally the world is becoming a...

As we publish a preview of a lesson or a trailer of a training video, it will be available on YouTube also.  

Author, Tony Schwartz, who wrote, “The Way We Are Working Isn’t Working” said it best in a webinar I attended last week, “Technology is ahead of our ability to manage it.” Herbert Simon said  “a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” I could not agree with them more. There are so many things that fractionate our attention these days: instant messages, social media, SMS messages, and email. We are living in a world of urgency and it is stressing us out and overloading us....

WHERE:

1248 Third Street Promenade

Santa Monica, CA 90401

WHEN: 7PM-8PM

SUBJECT: I will be speaking about Daylite's role in business management. We will also be demonstrating Box.net cloud integration with Daylite.

WHERE 
2500 Hollywood Way
Burbank, California, 91505
1-818-843-6000

WHEN: 11am March 30th 2011

SUBJECT: I will be speaking about Daylite's role in business management. We will also be demonstrating Box.net cloud integration with Daylite. 

This is a perfect example of why using Daylite is preferable to being fully in the cloud. Last week Engadget reported that over 500,000 Gmail users lost access to their inboxes. Some of the users said that they had lost years of messages as well as chat logs after they were finally able to log in.

As a business owner, that is terrifying for me. But I can imagine for my client's who are law offices that it would be even more of a train wreck if they had important documentation in there. So...

In Issue#2 of iBusiness magazine I talk about how Daylite can help your business grow. Here is a link to a free preview of the article.

In that article we talk about making sure your data is in the right place in Daylite so that you can pull it out where and when you need it. 

I shared how to make a quick business procedures manual in Daylite. So that your staff can look up business procedures without leaving Daylite. Every time someone leaves the database, it costs productivity...

Carlsbad, California - MacAngel LLC launches the MacAngel Academy. The MacAngel Academy is a self-guided learning environment for small businesses that use Apple computers and devices. Lessons are not only on Marketcircle's products Daylite, Billings & Billings Pro, but also productivity, small business infrastructure, time management and conscious business building. David Allen of GTD fame states that you should have 1 trusted place for everything, MacAngel says that trusted place should...

This week in our newsletter I shared with our members what I took away from @DanZarrella's Science of Email Marketing webinar. This is an area where we can discuss what we learned in the newsletter.  

I used to use Direct Mail for sending our emails until we got too big for that to be viable. I also used to use MailChimp before we did the site re-design, now we are developing our own hosted email service that we hope to integrate fully with Daylite in the near future. If it works for us,...

Freedom to learn anywhere.

One thing I absolutely love about technology is the freedom that it gives us to be able to get our work done on our terms in our own space. I applaud Citrix for making this possible. 

I never would have imagined in a million years that Shannon Tweed and I would be in the same magazine. LOL. She's on the front and i am on page 24. And she's a Canadian too. Who knew?

iBusiness Magazine

We are developing our production timeline for MacAngel Academy lessons right now. We are moving the entire curriculum from our old training videos in to the MacAngel Academy at the rate of 3 per month. However, if there are specific things you would like to learn, this is the place to tell us. We might slip in a couple more as time permits. The more votes we get for a lesson, the sooner we will put it into the production schedule. Leave a comment below to tell us what you want to learn about...

We will be pulling in the older blog posts from the old site as well. We wanted to launch for MacWorld 2011, so we had to leave out some things but don't worry. It's all come back after MacWorld. I will also be blogging from MacWorld. Heather will be in the office, so if you have any administrative questions please get in touch with her. 

Our first lesson series is going to be on getting started with the infrastructure of Daylite. We have found this is what people need help with most! These will include things like:

• How to forward the ports on an Apple Time Capsule for External Connection to Daylite
• How to create a new database with Daylite Server
• How to set up Daylite server right the first time
• How to make your database available remotely if you do not have a static ip
• How to remove the excess nightly...