Archive for March, 2010

Receive money quick via Paypal

Time isn’t always on your side when you want it to. Your client needs you to send their order right away, but you need them to pay upfront. Since Canadian banking isn’t the most progressive in the world, it can be stressful to get that order out the door. There is a simple solution, called [...]

Gmail for your business

Email shouldn’t be a hassle. You want your email to look professional (including a “yourname@yourcompany.com”), you want to be able to read it where-ever you are and you want to manage email addresses for your company yourself and you want an organized inbox. Sounds demanding? Not a problem for Google Apps.

Backup! Get Dropbox.

Don’t you hate it when you save a file over the original file that you actually wanted to keep? Did you ever lose a files because of a crashed hard drive or virus? Did you ever wish you could access your files from another computer? I used to, but not anymore. I’m using Dropbox for [...]

Accounting made easy: FreeAgent

The one thing I don’t really like about my business is the finance. Sure, it’s fun to receive money and all, but unfortunately, that’s not all you have to do. Taxes, expenses, bank accounts, Paypal accounts, business credit cards… You have to keep track of them all. Good thing I have software that’s taking care [...]

Project: Businessfolder.ca

I’ve been working countless hours on a new project called Business Folder. To put it simply: it’s a business directory where you can add your own business. The thing that sets this directory aside from the rest, is the fact that we like to think forward. Social media is a big thing nowadays, and I [...]

Featured client: Cherlock & Safe

Yes, PoppenDesign creates websites, but I don’t want it to stop there. I envision a network of people that met through the services of PoppenDesign, so I decided to introduce our clients to other clients (and who-ever else that reads this of course). The first company I’d like to introduce is Cherlock & Safe in [...]