While our dev team is busily working on our next big release, we’ve decided to release some new functionality that you can enjoy in the mean time. This morning we added a new vCard import tool which allows you to import client records from vCards into your FreshBooks account. vCards can be exported from [...]

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Firefox 3 was officially launched Tuesday June 17th, and after a quick run through our analytics, and since then (i.e. the last 48 hours or so) over 11% of visitors to FreshBooks have been using FF 3.0 - wow! A few of us FreshBookers attended Mozilla' s FireFox 3 Launch Party on Tuesday at Toronto' s Mozilla office. [...]

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People who see things differently and do things differently interest me. I' ve said before that perspective is everything. So, I was pleased to read about Jonathan Nelson of Providence Equity Partners this weekend in my beloved Fortune Magazine. Jonathan is running one of the world' s most successful private equity firms — #6 on [...]

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FreshBooks was featured yesterday in the Financial Post in an article titled, Road warriors’ bookkeeper : Freshbooks.com can help businesses simplify their bookkeeping. The online program lets you set up clients and create estimates and invoices, while managing and tracking projects and tasks While not a full accounting program (it isn' t going to file your taxes for [...]

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Entrepreneurs are artists — their business is the canvas. Here are seven reasons: Entrepreneurs create something out of nothing That' s what entrepreneurs do. Instead of using canvas and paints as resources, entrepreneurs take people and capital and create product and culture. Their is no doubt their fingerprints are all over the output. Jeff [...]

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FreshBooks was recently featured alongside Adobe, Microsoft and resident Toronto design genius Jon Lax in an article about Rich Internet Applications (RIA). Above is a photo of the FB team doing a usability test with local designer and prospective customer Andrés Aquino of The Creation Process. In unrelated news, note the heavy sweaters in the [...]

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My name is Jeffrey Nichols, and I’m an independent SEO/SEM developer based in Atlanta, Georgia. FreshBooks is one of the most well programmed, nicest looking web-based applications I’ve ever used. I have a client that requires me to bill my hours with specific job codes for each project that I work on. I totally understand this because [...]

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I was recently introduced the writings of Dee Hock, founder and CEO of VISA. Here is what he has to say about relationship priorities for managers: I ask each person to describe the single most important responsibility of any manager. The incredibly diverse responses always have one thing in common. All are downward looking. Management inevitably [...]

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Ok hockey fans, the story around the Hockey Night in Canada theme song has been all over the headlines this past couple of days, and like me, most of you have been stunned, mad and/or confused over the whole thing. I was a bit upset to find out that CBC will no longer continue to use [...]

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With FreshBooks, you can accept credit cards online right on your invoices with our PayPal integration. Today brings great news for Canadian merchants, straight from the PayPal Blog: Canadian dollar transaction fees for receiving payments, for all merchant rate tiers, has [sic] been lowered from C$0.55 per transaction to C$0.30. We’ve also lowered our currency conversion rate for [...]

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Earlier this week, we gave you a teaser of our first trade show booth at the HOW Design Conference in Boston, the largest design conference in the world. And now we have a video, edited by our very own Aaron Adams. Since we' re trying to sell invoicing software that is actually fun to use, we [...]

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During our RV driving Roadburn adventures, we were able to meet all kinds of interesting people. Below is an interview with Leah Culver, lead developer of Pownce. Leah' s a developer turned entrepreneur, which adds to the value of the interview. She' s clearly a product first kind of person, and product is what matters [...]

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There is a great thread going in the forum about if, how and when does FreshBooks replace accounting software? , and vice versa. Tinugal asks: I own a small art gallery and thinking about becoming a customer. I was wondering if I could use Freshbooks for invoicing customers and tracking our business expenses and thereby [...]

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If you have spent anytime getting to know us here at FreshBooks you would know that we like to do things a little differently. Not different just to be different but different because different is interesting (I tried to add one more different but couldn' t make it fit oh I guess I just did). A great example of [...]

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Some of you may recall TQM (Total Quality Management) from 80' s auto industry management philosophy mania. While TQM was the management buzzword of its age, there was indeed something to it - it articulated an ideal for people within an organization to align themselves around. In this respect I have a similar acronym here at [...]

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I spent the day Wednesday doing telephone support and here is an email someone sent to support@fb after speaking with me: When the Founder answers the phone, that' s the kind of company I want to do business with. Just FYI Good to speak with you Mike! Thanks for your time. Thanks, Kevin Downey Daniel was good enough to shoot this ticket [...]

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Bar none, The Psychology of Entrepreneurial Misjudgment is one of the best reads I' ve had this year (it' s a blog post). If you don' t know Marc Andreessen of Ning and Netscape fame, his entrepreneurial insights are head and shoulders about just about anything you can find anywhere - check out his blog -. P.S. Marc where' s [...]

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I am young, I am inexperienced - at least when compared with senior management at established companies. What I have going for me is that I know that and I accept it. It' s great starting companies, but odds are you need help to do it successfully. On many occasions I have recommended advisors for [...]

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We' ve had a fantastic response to our OSX Dashboard Widget, and are working hard to improve the functionality and vitality of all the 3rd party add-ons that have been popping up. For those just joining the conversation, Widgets are like little mini-applications that run on your computer. The first widget-like things were probably the Desk [...]

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Just a quick announcement for anyone who may be trying to reach us in the office today: the office is closed for Victoria Day Monday, and we' ll be back at it Tuesday. If you are interested in the history surrounding this May holiday, Daniel wrote about it here.

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