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Sole Proprietorship Webinar

We had a great webinar today on Sole Proprietorship and QuickBooks

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Sole Proprietor and Accounting

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Small Biz News....

From the Wall Street Journal Blog on 4/14 --Knowing Where and What Your Customers Buy

In tough times, knowing where your customers shop and what they are buying can prove to be a boon to retailers’ strategies to keep their businesses afloat. Last month, Nielsen Inc. released its study, “U.S. Consumer Dynamics Across Channels and Categories,” and found the following resul

Grocery stores continue to capture the highest percentage of consumer dollars, with 33.1%, over other channels such as supercenters (16.2%), warehouse clubs (7.8%) and drug stores (3.8%).

Location matters. In Grand Rapi, Mich, groceries captured almost half of what consumers spent in that city, while grocery stores in New Orlean account for only 20%. Western state residents love warehouse club stores, with the greatest consumer spending inSan Francisc and Seattle. Nine of the top 10 markets for warehouse club store sales were in the West. And while drug stores capture on average 3.8% of consumer spending, in Cleveland, Ohiothe figure is only 9% and in Denver it’s less than 2%.

Lower-income households gravitate toward dollar stores, supercenters and drug stores, while high-income households most often spend their money at club stores. These high earners buy wine, diet aids and floral/gardening products the most.

Creating an Effective Profile

Today we have a guest blogger. Michelle Long provides us with insight on how to create an effective community profile. We appreciate all of the many ways she helps users here. This can serve you in the Intuit communities and other communities where you are a member.
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It is surprising how many people do not complete their profile for the Intuit Community Forums. The forums are a great resource for both users posting questions and contributors providing answers. Completing your profile can enhance the benefit you receive from the community forums. Let’s consider it for both the user and the contributor.

When someone reads a question posted by a user, it may be helpful if they could go to your profile to get some additional information and insight about your business. This can help them offer a better answer or suggestion for you. Also, users often request to be contacted, but fail to complete the contact information in their profile. (You should not include contact information in the post itself.)

For example, profile information you should complete includes:

• Line of business
• Description of your business
• Years in business
• Top selling product or service
• Website
• Best way to contact you
• Fun facts about yourself (optional)

In addition to the above information, if you are a contributor on the community forums and an accounting professional, then you should also complete information on your accounting practice, including:

• Professional designations
• Services provided
• Products supported Industries served

By contributing answers you are demonstrating your knowledge to others and often they may want to contact you for additional help or consulting. Contributing on the forums is a great way to enhance your reputation and get some new clients. You want to make it easy for people to find out more about your practice and to contact you. It is against the community rules to post links to your website in your posts, but you can post a link to your profile instead (which can include a link to your website). So invest a few minutes of your time, complete (or update) your profile and enhance the benefit you receive from the community forums!