During my time at Sage Insights, this time in Washington DC, I always have the pleasure of sitting down with Executives who are directly responsible for the ACT Database Software. But this time, I’m taking you with me, well….sorta. I have some questions for them about the product, future direction, and a bunch of things that affect [...]

It’s here, tax day in the USA. As I stated in he above video, I had a little surprise this year. I have never owed taxes before, but things are different this year (thanks to a record-breaking 2007). For anyone who purchases the ACT! software from my site before 12pm EST April 16th they [...]

2007 was my first full year back in the state of Ohio (BTW, we love it here!).  I grew up here and pretty much knew what to expect.  At least, until I heard from my CPA. Ehem… Turns out, as a result of a record breaking 2007, I owe the state of Ohio *bigtime* (Federal wasn’t [...]

Recently Microsoft released .Net Framework 2.1.  It appears that the ACT! Database Software has issues with this latest update.  And ACT! is not alone, I’ve heard unconfirmed reports that QuickBooks software (and others) that use Microsoft’s .Net, are having issues with the latest release from the Redmond, WA giant. I encourage anyone running ACT! 2007 or [...]

Disclaimer: This was written with business owners in mind, I talk about ACT! later in this post… In my quest to know if I had what it took to start and run my own business, one man told me he read a book that totally changed the way he ran his floor cleaning business. E-Myth [...]