http://www.fiscaltraining.com/SensibleSolutions Fiscal Training Sensible Solutions Blog Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:58:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Weather Disaster Recovery http://www.fiscaltraining.com/SensibleSolutions/2011/11/04/weather-disaster-recovery/ http://www.fiscaltraining.com/SensibleSolutions/2011/11/04/weather-disaster-recovery/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:58:19 +0000 amyg http://www.fiscaltraining.com/SensibleSolutions/?p=83

The surreal October 2011 Nor'Easter.

This week has been interesting – a Nor’easter in October!  After 6 days people are still without power.  I was lucky, the office was up and running without internet the day after the storm and we had internet the next day.  But it made me think: was my business ready for a disaster?  What if I was still without power?  How would the work get done?  Every company should have a Disaster Recovery Plan.  I’m going to start working on mine.  Here’s a place to start working on yours http://www.servpro.com/ready .  Hope you’re all safe and warm, and that life is slowly returning to normal.

]]> http://www.fiscaltraining.com/SensibleSolutions/2011/11/04/weather-disaster-recovery/feed/ 0 How I got my start http://www.fiscaltraining.com/SensibleSolutions/2011/11/04/how-i-got-my-start/ http://www.fiscaltraining.com/SensibleSolutions/2011/11/04/how-i-got-my-start/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:50:42 +0000 amyg http://www.fiscaltraining.com/SensibleSolutions/?p=81 Did you know that I come from a small business background?  While I was growing up my Dad bought a grocery store/butcher shop that his great-grandfather had started.  By the time I was twelve I was the cashier.  Of course I had to stand on a box to reach the cash register but I did it.  Dad was actually the first merchant in town to take credit cards. Howver, even before there were credit cards Dad had manual credit accounts for our regular customers.  Every day after school my brother, sister and I went to the store to work.  Customers would call in their order.  We’d do the shopping, ring it out and deliver it to their door.  Hmmm, doesn’t Stop & Shop do that now under the Pea Pod name?  Any way, my point is that early on I learned about the joys and sacrifices of being a business owner.  Although I went to college to become a teacher (a story for another day) I always wanted to work for the Small business Administration.  And, lo and behold, helping the small business owners is exactly what I’m doing now.  This blog will cover bookkeeping and QuickBooks info as well as topics timely for the small business owner.  So stay tuned.

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