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Jun 19, 2009 4

Streamtime Demo Experience – Outstanding Studio Management Application


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So we recently finished our demo with Kate McLeod over at Streamtime<"http:" rel="nofollow" title="Streamtime" target="_self">Streamtime<"http:" rel="nofollow" title="Studiometry" target="_self">Studiometry<"http:" rel="nofollow" title="Streamtime" target="_self">Streamtime<"http:" rel="nofollow" title="Studiometry" target="_self">Studiometry<"http:" rel="nofollow" title="Studiometry" target="_self">Studiometry<"http:" rel="nofollow" title="Studiometry" target="_self">Studiometry<"http:" rel="nofollow" title="Streamtime" target="_self">Streamtime<"http:" rel="nofollow" title="Streamtime" target="_self">Streamtime<"http:" rel="nofollow" title="Streamtime" target="_self">Streamtime<"http:" rel="nofollow" title="Streamtime" target="_self">Streamtime<"text">

  • Contacts
    • Correspondence
    • Notes
    • Maps
    • Directions
    • Active Quotes
    • Active Orders
    • Work in Progress Jobs
    • Invoices
    • Budget
  • Job Quoting
    • Tenders & Orders
    • Tasks
    • Quote Notes
  • Job Tracking
    • Job Schedule
    • Tasks
    • Task Schedule
    • Task Gantt
    • Projects
  • Job Invoicing
    • Job Details
    • Invoice Summary
    • Quote
    • Time & Materials
    • Purchase Orders
  • Live Reporting (This is where it gets fun)
    • Client Contact Report
      A report that shows the details of correspondence items which have an active reminder event found within the date range specified.
    • Client Contact History Report
      This report shows the correspondence history for a contact.
    • Sales by Sales Code
      An invoice sales history returning cost price, sell price and gross profit for each Client Manager by Client Sales Code.
    • Sales by Client
      An invoice sales history by client showing Client Manager, total costs, sales and profit.
    • Client Budget by Month or Year
      A summary report of the clients budget screen in Contacts for a specified client by month or year.
    • Quoted vs Actual vs Invoiced
      This report gives the totals from the Job Invoicing Summary Screen listed by Job showing totals for Quotes, Time and Materials plus PO’s and invoices that have been generated against a job over a date range.
    • Quote vs Actual
      Allowing you to compare quoted Time and Materials and Costs to Actuals and see how effectively your staff are quoting and working on jobs.
    • Timesheet Weekly Summary
      This report shows a staff members timesheet for a seven day period from the start date specified.
    • Timesheet Billable vs Non-billable Summary
      This report shows the total hours and percentage spent by each staff member on billable and non-billable work in the date range searched.
    • Company Profitability Report
      This report shows a break-down of the income for each cost matrix CAT.
    • Client Profitability Report
      This report shows a break-down of the income of each Client by cost matrix CAT.
    • All Client Income Report
      Utilize this report for a summarized understanding of what your client returns.

    • Overview

    As you can see from the above, just for the main features we’ll be using in the application, that it has a massive amount of features and functionality. We feel that it will be a perfect fit for our company and will allow us to budget, quote and manage projects much more reliability than we have been before, not to mention we’ll be able to be more accurate with our estimating and quoting in the future. We’ll have access to all previous jobs and be able to go through and copy items and expenses over as needed to new jobs that require the same type or amount of work.

    All in all we feel that the application contains everything that we need in one and will make things much easier for us in the long run. Again the price point is a bit steep for some, but there is still a lot that comes with the application to combat the price. Maybe they would be willing to work with us on the price or give us a discount, who knows. Only time will tell.

    Jun 18, 2009 0

    VMWare Fusion & Windows XP – Bridged Network Issues on Resume


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    Jun 18, 2009 0

    Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update – Network Trouble & High Pings


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    Jun 18, 2009 0

    Streamtime Application Demo


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    We have an appointment scheduled with the Streamtime<"http:" rel="nofollow" title="Streamtime" target="_self">Streamtime<"http:" rel="nofollow" title="Oranged Software - Studiometry" target="_self">Studiometry<"http:" rel="nofollow" title="Streamtime" target="_self">Streamtime<"http:" rel="nofollow" title="Oranged Software - Studiometry" target="_self">Studiometry<"http:ca/streamtime/video-overview/" rel="nofollow" title="Streamtime Video Overview" target="_self">Streamtime Demo<

    Jun 18, 2009 1

    Streamtime Overview – Studio Management


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    Jun 17, 2009 0

    Submitted Comments & General Updates


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    Jun 17, 2009 0

    Twitter Apps = Bad – Why you should be careful what apps you use!


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    So the other day I decided to pop on our company Twitter account and check out a few things. I was shocked to receive the following message.<"text-align: center;">Picture 1<"text-align: left;">So I decided to do a little digging as to why our account was suspended. Go to the link graciously provided by the nice dialog above, I was able to asertain the following.<"text-align: left;">NO NO’s on Twitter

    • Do not use automated applications
    • If you use automated applications, pay close attention to your quote per hour and per day (Currently I don’t have hard numbers on this, but I’m pretty sure that your follow and un-follow’s can’t exceed 1,000 a day, used to be 2,000)
    • Do not do anything in mass (Twitter Karma)
    • If you do things in mass, keep it realistic (Don’t remove 2,000 people at once that aren’t following you back…)

    Needless to say we’ve submitted an inquery to try and resolve this. Hopefully we’ll just get a slap on the wrist and will be able to utilize our account again. I feel kind of ignorant, needless to say Twitter’s rules<

    Jun 16, 2009 1

    Studiometry Overview – Studio Management


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    studiometrytop 03bcropped Studiometry Overview Studio ManagementStudiometry<"http:" rel="nofollow" title="Studiometry" target="_self">Studiometry is really the end all solution. (For the most part) We don’t have to get rid of any of the other software we’re using either, such as Quickbooks<"http:" rel="nofollow" title="Studiometry" target="_self">Studiometry<"http:" rel="nofollow" title="Quickbooks 2009 Mac" target="_self">Quickbooks or sent directly to a CPA. (Proffered)

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    Jun 15, 2009 0

    Things are getting back to normal!


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    Finally things are getting back to normal around here. We recently moved into a new house and it has taken longer than we expected to get back up and running full force. We decided it was time to get out of our small apartment, which just seemed to get smaller on a daily basis and move into something that would accommodate us a little better. So we moved a few miles from our apartment, which were roughly 1,200 square-feet to a 3-year-old house in a small neighborhood that is roughly 3,000 square-feet. Oddly enough, our costs didn’t go up they pretty much stayed the same.<"http:" rel="nofollow" >100_2651.JPG

    Mar 13, 2009 0

    Social Networking Marketing?


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    So I’ve been reading up on a new type of marketing, whereas one utilizes social networking outlets to blast anything out there to the masses. We’ve all heard of Twitter, Facebook, Myspace and so on. But did you know that they are a huge untapped market, ready to be “cough” tapped.

    After reading up on doing this type of marketing, the first thing that popped into my head was, this is going to take a really long time to do. Why would I want to input the same thing over and over again on all these web sites. There is a really good reason for doing it, either by hand or automated. Yes I said automated, it can be done and it isn’t “blackhat” either. Check out the bottom of this post, you see the button that says “Bookmark & Share”? Mouse over that button and see what it does. I know, you’re saying “But Mike, this is for us to bookmark you, not the other way around.”.

    YOU’RE WRONG! Ok, now that I’ve got that out. That is incorrect, in order to get that button through OnlyWire’s<

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