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Dear fellow business owner,

Have you been attempting to use QuickBooks® financial software to manage your business records, but been overwhelmed with how much there is to it?

Have you found yourself just trying to learn the program as you go along, and getting tangled up in the process?

QuickBooks® is THE most popular bookkeeping program for small businesses today, and for good reason. As they say in the advertising, QuickBooks® financial software is an extremely powerful, user-friendly program designed to help you run your business operations effectively and profitably, answer important questions about the financial health of your business, and give you the information you need to strategically get to the next level of success in the least amount of time.

But QuickBooks® Strength Is Also Its Weakness!

What makes it so powerful is often exactly what makes it so overwhelming. To reap the incredible benefits the program has to offer, there are many very specific functions that need to be done exactly right, some of which are unique to the QuickBooks® software itself. Even your accountant could struggle and do some of the functions wrong in this program and not realize it!

The truth is, most busy entrepreneurs simply are too involved with money-making tasks to stop and spend long hours, or even a day or two away from their business just to learn how to effectively use QuickBooks®. So they just end up  "winging it." But that can mean disaster and render your financial records useless!

I Don't Care Who You Are,
"Winging It" With QuickBooks® Is A BIG Mistake!

I've seen it happen too many times to business owners and their bookkeepers who think they can learn QuickBooks® by the seat of their pants. They try to save time and money by just "faking it" and hoping for the best. But in reality, they are putting a financial noose around the neck of their business.

Don't send your company to the gallows!

Take the case of one of my clients. After many month of making unintentional but serious mistakes while attempting to use QuickBooks® without first learning the fundamentals, she nearly crashed and burned her business in a big way, even though she was on the cutting edge in her industry. The problem?  She wasn't recording her sales correctly, and she didn't know how to track the payments she was making to her suppliers. She had no idea if she was even turning a profit since money was flying into and out of her business so fast, but her financial reports were in a shambles!

Eventually, she was in such a mess that she couldn't even file her tax returns or get the funding she so desperately needed to grow and keep up with her customers' demands. She was under a huge amount of pressure, constantly on the brink of disaster. She was handcuffed by her faulty financial records. Without accurate reports or tax returns, no one would even consider giving her the funding she needed to survive and stay ahead of her competition. Her business all but came to a screeching halt.

She was flying blind because she didn't see the value in investing her time to learn the fundamentals of how to use QuickBooks® the right way. She would have saved so much time and frustration. I'll tell you this. In the end, she spent much, MUCH more of her time and THOUSANDS of dollars because she needed my expertise after the fact to help her salvage her books when the damage was already done. Not smart. If she had simply learned the fundamentals right from the beginning, she could more than afford to hire several bookkeepers to take care of her administrative work for her by now. And she'd be in a powerful management position, instead of still picking up the pieces.

Don't Fly Blind, Fly Smart

Let's face it. Bookkeeping is one of those hate-to-do-it but absolutely necessary administrative tasks. By quickly mastering the fundamentals in QuickBooks® now, you can easily maintain your financial records until you can afford to hire someone else to do it. AND you will be in the perfect position to get and understand the strategic information about your business that you need, whenever you need it, with less effort for years to come. That kind of investment is just plain smart. It frees you to spend more time working on your business and not just in your business.

If You're Serious About Building A Highly Profitable Company,
Then You Need To Be Serious About Managing Your Finances

If you want to build more than just a job for yourself and truly prosper without working your brains out and being underpaid, then you need to put systems in place that will handle your financial functions as efficiently and consistently as possible. QuickBooks can be a powerful tool in not just keeping your books, but actually systematizing your whole business.

The sad truth is, over 80% of small businesses fail within the first five years, with a high proportion of those failing because of financial mismanagement. Don't be just another statistic!

Set yourself and your business up for success and join the top 20% of successful businesses by  registering now for the most important course you'll attend this year!

Introducing...

"QuickBooks Basics: Core Training"
A Six-Session Live Webinar Course

Now you can learn, step-by-step, the cut-to-the-chase fundamentals you need to know in QuickBooks® painlessly. You'll completely avoid the hair-pulling problems so many others commonly wrestle with on their own, which leave their financial records in a total shambles for months or even years. Finally find out what you need to know to keep accurate financials and manage your business to reach your goals faster than you ever dreamed possible...without frying your brain in the process.

Learn Easily While Maximizing Your Time And Effectiveness

Reality is, each of us can only absorb just so much new information in one sitting before we become overloaded and overwhelmed. Can you really retain everything you learn in 8-12 solid hours of intense training in some off-site hotel room away from your office? After you are mentally overloaded with information, can you really put it all to work effectively when you finally get back to your own computer? I think not.

So why do so many live trainings operate this way?

It's because it is convenient for the trainer to just teach the class all at once and get it over with. The attendees want access to a live instructor who can give them personalized attention and the guidance to "make them" learn the information quickly.

There's a better way! Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to spend just 1-1/2 to 2 hours at a time focusing on the most important information you need to learn painlessly and systematically over just a few weeks? What if you could then take what you're learning and apply it immediately as you go along to your own company records? Better yet, what if you could still get personalized, live attention from a QuickBooks expert? Wouldn't THAT be the most effective way to absorb and use QuickBooks. AND not put a huge demand on your schedule, away from your office and the critical money-making functions of your day?

That's exactly how the "QuickBooks Basics: Core Training" web-based live course works. You get maximum impact with minimum overload. And it's so time effective! You'll be using what you learn with the guidance of a live QuickBooks trainer, from the convenience of your own office! No major disruption to your busy schedule.

It is simply the easiest and most effective way to learn and implement QuickBooks in the least amount of time. Period.

The live webinar training sessions will be taking place every Tuesday and Thursday at 1:00 PM (Eastern/NY Time) from September 9-25, 2008. (But no worries if you can't make all the sessions live - I'll be recording every one of them so you can watch the replay at your convenience again and again!)

So if you are ready to learn what you need to know now to make your business great, mark your calendar starting September 9, 2008 and reserve your spot for this special QuickBooks training course like no other.

Here's just a small sampling of what we'll cover during this multi-session, LIVE web-based training course...

• Introducing the QuickBooks Program - Orientation, customized views and shortcuts that will save you time
   

• Bookkeeping Essentials - an overview of basic bookkeeping principles that will help you better understand how QuickBooks handles all the recordkeeping for you "behind the scenes" and prevent you from making costly mistakes along the way.
   

• Making The Sales - How to set up your clients and track projects, record sales, receive payments, make deposits and monitor what your clients owe you
   

• Maximizing Revenues - How to deal with credits and refunds, sending out account statements to your clients, assessing late fees and monitoring your sales reports
   

• Managing Expenses - How to set up your vendors, track project costs, track and manage your bills, printing and voiding checks, tracking loans, monitoring cash transactions, handling your business credit cards and how to use your Accounts Payable reports to maximize cash flow
    

• Essential Tasks - How to reconcile your financial accounts, finding and correcting errors, handling bounced checks, keeping your data safe, and how to give your information to your accountant
   

• Management By The Numbers -  How to use reports to analyze trends and maximize profits for the future, including the different types of reports, using graphs, customizing reports, processing reports in batches, exporting reports to Excel
   

• Customizing QuickBooks for Your Business - Adjusting preferences, working with Items, using custom fields, creating your own forms using templates
   

• And much more.

You'll Get ALL Your Questions Answered by A QuickBooks Expert

Every business is different and you will have questions about how to implement what you learn in your own business. That's the beauty of having a live instructor to answer your questions. But with this course, I will not only answer your questions during the live sessions, you can also submit questions before and after each session as you put into practice what you are learning.

I am passionate about your business success and I'm willing to do what it takes to get ALL your QuickBooks questions answered. Where else can you get that kind of support included for less than the price of a 1 1/2-day class?

All you need is a high-speed Internet connection and a phone to participate. But there are only a limited number of spaces available, so you must register NOW to lock-in your spot for this exciting high-tech format. You will get the special phone number, private access code, and webpage address needed to attend after you complete your registration.

Who Should Attend This Course?

This course is designed for entrepreneurs and their bookkeepers who need to gain confidence in mastering the essential daily tasks, reduce frustration and increase the accuracy of their financial records and decision making. If you want the confidence that comes with knowing your numbers are right and use that information to make strategic business decisions, then this course is the best investment you can make in your business this year!

However, this course will NOT teach you all the ins and outs of the highly technical or advanced features in QuickBooks®. You must learn to walk before you can run. We are starting from the beginning here and assuming that you want to first master the core fundamentals to build a solid base before you graduate to the technically advanced level.

So if you're new to QuickBooks® financial software, or have been using it for some time, but want to streamline your financial operations and take control of your bottom line, then you need to reserve your spot now for this special training course

Your Investment In This Ground-breaking Multi-Webinar Course
Is Easy On Your Cash Flow Too!

I want to set as many people up for success as possible this year. So even though I could easily charge $397 for this power-packed training course, like those pain-in-the-neck on-site trainings, I've decided to make it available at a drop-dead affordable rate so even start-up business owners won't hesitate to make this all-important investment in the success of their company. The tuition, for more than 1-1/2 days of training spread out over six
easy- to-absorb sessions is just $267.

Now you have no excuse for not taking care of your books and positioning your business for success in 2008, even if you're just starting out as a brand new entrepreneur! J

Register Now!

To your business success!

Gabrielle
Gabrielle Fontaine, PB
www.BookkeepingDirect.com

P.S.  You won't want to miss out on this webinar training course if you are switching your recordkeeping to QuickBooks this year. Even if you have a schedule conflict and can't make it to all the live sessions, I will be providing complete replays, along with all the class materials, so you can still "attend" this training course on your own schedule. But you must register to get in on it at this very special rate.  Register Now!