Every week it seems I come across a new website full of information for the Small Business owner and Entrepreneur. Websites that you could lose yourself in for hours reading and learning about different topics such as: bookkeeping, small business taxes, marketing, and social networking. Since I’m sure that I’m not the only small business [...]

Are you one of those business owners guilty of shoving all your receipts into a drawer to deal with later?
Why not shove them all into an envelope on a weekly or monthly basis and send them to Gem’s Virtual Office instead!
I’ll use QuickBooks software to post and record your income and expenses for the month. [...]

A Recent Intuit study shows that the number one thing that keeps small business owners up at night is paying their bills. See the entire story here.
Knowing that, why not let a Virtual Bookkeeper like Gem’s Virtual Office handle it instead. Wouldn’t it be nice to end the day knowing that your bookkeeping and bills [...]

Are you following along with the Sticky Business Contest over at Men with Pens? As mentioned in a previous post the contest is well underway and you can no longer enter, but you can follow along and complete the thought provoking tasks for yourself just as I’m doing.
Task #1 was to write a brief overview [...]

10 tasks Gem’s can complete for you in an hour:
1. Balance your checking account
2. Enter your vendor invoices
3. Call clients in regards to past due accounts
4. Post your cash receipts and make a deposit
5. Pay your bills
6. Invoice your customers
7. Generate P/L reports
8. Manage your e-mail and contacts
9. Send out your flyers/brochures
10. Research/make your travel arrangements
*Each [...]