Training Announcement – Billing with BillQuick

Here’s are three things we all know to be true:

• Sending the right bills at the right time for the right amounts is essential for a strong cash flow.
• The invoice format must effectively communicate what is owed
• An invoice projects your firm’s professionalism and high value to the client.

In the 2-hour training webinar on Thursday, March 19, 2009, at 9 a.m. Pacific Time , a BillQuick Certified Trainer covers key BillQuick elements as well as the flow of information into invoices. You will learn everything from generating a billing record through billing decisions. You will learn how to create invoices for a variety of billing situations — hourly, fixed fee, recurring, percent complete, phased billing, joint invoices, etc. Your BillQuick Certified Trainer steps you through batch billing, on-screen billing and off-line billing, as well as how to create manual invoices.

To gain the most out of BillQuick, shorten your billing cycle, and improve your productivity, sign up for Billing with BillQuick.

To do our part, we reduced the price for the March 19th training more than 55% off the list price ($350). You pay only $145 per person. This training earns you 3 CPE credits.

Computing the Ideal Bill Rate

Many firm owners and managers do not take into account all the key elements that make up an ideal bill rate for an employee. As their advisor, you want to impress them with the depth of value you bring to the table . . . and that you are practical in your approach.

This short video identifies the key elements, including overhead multiplier and utilization rate, and show you how to compute the ideal rate using information that’s readily at hand. It is practical, proven way to compute the ideal bill rate without getting so deep into concepts and details that your clients’ eyes gloss over.

After watching the video, proactively talk to your clients. Help them not only survive the current economic times, but thrive now and more so when the business cycle turns up again. Of course, fine tune the approach to their needs.

Click here to watch the video.

Stay or Go – The Dilemma of Change

Change is the toughest thing we humans do. Poor testing, poor support and sunsetting software like Deltek Advantage, Sema4, FMS/Wind2 and others )in the Architect/Engineering space, for instance) are all coming at a tough time. Sometimes your clients have the problem of their current software just not being right for them now.

Your clients can’t wait. They need to invest now, making wise decisions to optimize productivity to survive the down cycle and to be ready to capture opportunities when the cycle turns up again.

Isn’t it time you help them find an alternative that delivers what they want and need and doesn’t suck them dry? Isn’t it time for a stable solution from a company that appreciates them?

Bottom Line: Thousands of professional services firms face the dilemma of change. In these tough economic times the risks and costs looming down on them are not insignificant. Are you going to wait for them to act or are you an advisor who advises.

Learn more about this by reading Should I Stay or Should I Go? in the January 2009 issue of the BillQuick eLetter.

BillQuick Certified Advisor Training Update

BillQuick Certified Advisor training is underway. Glitches slowed full release of all five modules and held up processing at the exam web site.

All these glitches have been corrected.

However, because of these issues BQE is doing an extra quality-checks of training materials and the supporting technology.

The final certification training modules will be released as soon as they are tested.