Barbara's Biztalk posts

How do you meet your health care needs?

Hi Biznikers,

I'm just finishing off a book on how self-employed professionals can get their health care needs met. It's got some tips on different insurance plans, discount groups, and lots of ways to cobble together a plan to meet health care. But I'd like to know what you are all doing to meet your health care needs. Want to share?

Would you mind if I use your responses (no names, of course)?

Thanks, Barbara of Self-Employed Creative Profesionals

Quicken vs QuickBooks and the Mac?

Hi Biznikers,

I'm in a quandary. I'm sure like many of you, I use QuickBooks for my business accounting. But as a designer, I am not hard wired like an accountant and find QuickBooks a major pain in the butt compared to Quicken. What are the rest of you using? I love Quicken which is easy to use and I can get any type of information I need from it without problem. The added frustration is that they don't talk to each other so I paid far more taxes this year because my personal expenses were not counted (in spite of my CPA's best efforts). Intuit DOES have a Quicken Home Business product but only for Windows. I've paid my account for her time to teach me QB, but I don't speak accountant and I'm just not wired that way. There are so many designers out there; all on Macs. There's got to be a better way. Any ideas? What are the rest of you doing?

Hello Biznik Portland!

I'm Barbara of Newsletter Associates and of Self-Employed Creative Professionals (SECP). We're all about creating a community for independent creative people so welcome to Portland and I'm excited to join in the adventure.