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Video: Four Tips to Boost Your SEO Rankings

Learn why SEO matters for businesses of all sizes and how you can manage your SEO in-house to boost your search result ranking. Discover tips on conducting keyword research, creating content, optimizing URLs and descriptions, and building links. With a focus on providing value to your audience, these simple tips can help you improve your website's visibility and credibility, ultimately driving more organic traffic. Whether you're just getting started or looking to improve your existing SEO strategy, this video has something for you.

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Video Tutorial Katherine Bunschoten Video Tutorial Katherine Bunschoten

De Minimis Safe Harbor Election: Small Business Guide [Video + FAQs]

When you purchase lower-cost assets for your business, you might be able to write off the amount on your tax return to simplify your bookkeeping and taxes. A fun shortcut to help you with tax deductions for fixed assets is called the de minimis safe harbor election. The IRS has guidance in place that determines whether the amount you pay for tangible assets would be considered an amount too small in the eyes of the law. If it is, you may take that amount as a tax deduction, also known as a tax write-off.

We’ll discuss fixed assets, so you know what purchases are acceptable under the de minimis rule; capitalization, so you know how the de minimis rule bypasses it; and the maximum amounts you can spend to stay within the de minimis safe harbor.

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QuickBooks Online Advanced Gets Powerful Reporting Updates in March 2023

March comes in like a lion, roaring into action with a flurry of updates for QuickBooks Online Advanced®, QuickBooks Online®, and QuickBooks Payments.

I’m especially excited about the fleet of changes that make QuickBooks Online Advanced even better for creating, comparing, and sharing custom reports. If you’re planning to grow your business, these tools can help you make decisions by keeping the right data at your team’s fingertips.

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Video Tutorial Katherine Bunschoten Video Tutorial Katherine Bunschoten

Video: QuickBooks Online Updates 2022!

These kinds of updates can save you a lot of time and help you get paid more easily if you take advantage of them. Goodness knows we could all use a little more rest and peace of mind at the end of the year! As always, let us know if we can assist you with your books, software conversions, or QuickBooks questions.

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Video Tutorial, Blog Katherine Bunschoten Video Tutorial, Blog Katherine Bunschoten

Travel Tips for New Business Travelers

Our economy has had quite the journey the last few years, and for many professionals that may have entered the workforce during Covid-19 shutdowns, travel might be a newer part of the job description. Even airports seem like they can’t quite get the hang of it (ask me sometime about my trip to Orlando and the missing checked bag that was waiting on my step when I got home a week later).

That being said, I have worked on hacking the airport travel experience lately (no more missing bags for me!) and wanted to provide my tips for a smooth journey, whether you are new to business travel, or you are, like me, learning to travel in a world full of oopsies as we get used to semi-normalcy again.

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QuickBooks Desktop Invoice Reminders [Video]

In this video, we describe how to go over automatic (or as automatic as possible) invoice reminders for your customers using QuickBooks Desktop. There’s a bit of nuance, but once completed, the software will draft the invoice reminders for you and remind you to send them.

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Video Tutorial, Blog Katherine Bunschoten Video Tutorial, Blog Katherine Bunschoten

QuickBooks Online Automatic Invoice Reminder Emails [Video]

Automated Invoice reminder emails are set up differently in QuickBooks Online Plus, QuickBooks Online Advanced, and QuickBooks Desktop. These videos go through the two different avenues to send automated reminders to your customer when their payment is due on the QuickBooks Online platform. I will add another post with the QuickBooks Desktop method soon.

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