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Update – New Job, New Life, New Everything?


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It has been a very long time since I’ve written a blog entry. For that I apologize, I do have a small reader base and I haven’t been taking blogging seriously. That will be changing however, as I plan on putting a great deal of time into this blog. Which will include my portfolio and posting some projects that I’ve been working on. You know, those things that keep me from actually being able to blog, outside of my full-time job of course.

Over the next few weeks I’ll be releasing some pretty cool entries dealing with how things have changed with me, in my work life, personal life as well as my digital life. I’ve recently acquired a new full-time job, which of course is taking 90% of my time. I’m also still in college for BA in Game Design & Animation, which roughly takes 40% of my time. So as you can see I’m spreading myself a bit thin trying to accomplish everything in life that I’d like to. Which does include writing on a successful blog.

I have a few tactics in place however that should allow me to manage full-time work, as well as full-time college workload, while still finding time to write on here. In the coming weeks I will be releasing some really interesting topics that I’m sure most of you will throughly enjoy.

I will also be writing about how my digital life has changed drastically, since I’ve made a major career change (Not working for myself anymore, more on this later.), in that I’m having to use my MacBook more and not being able to utilize my MacPro. How I’m dealing with moving files back and forth. How I’m keeping things organized and most importantly how I’m keeping my freelance work and my full-time work separate from each other, while keeping both of them separate from my personal life.

Starting Monday of next week I will be releasing entries on a more regular basis. My goal is at least three a week. So to start I’m going to start working on the blogging ideas I’ve been having and get them queued up to be released on certain days. If this method of blogging works for me I will continue to use it. Waiting to release entries until next week also lets me get ahead, giving me over a week to queue some great entries.

Weekly Coverage – Studio Management Reviews – Password Security, Management and Protection – VMWare Fusion Beta Notes and Thoughts


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Streamtime Demo Experience – Outstanding Studio Management Application


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  • 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.

    Streamtime Application Demo


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    Streamtime Overview – Studio Management


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    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:">100_2651.JPG

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