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If you think social media is just for teenagers, think again. More than half of those logging on to social media sites are in their mid-thirties or older.
Traditional media outlets such as newspapers, radio and television, have long served the purpose of delivering one-way messages, like your firm’s advertising. Social media, by contrast, uses web-based platforms to not only deliver your message, but to allow the recipient to participate.

There’s a simple tax truth that direct sellers need to know.

You depend on your agents, or distributors, for growth. But your agents can give you the obligation to collect sales tax in multiple states, without even realizing they’re doing it.
Watch the video below to learn how this works and how best to handle it.

Do you ever get an uneasy feeling that your purchasing system is out of whack? Are you concerned that expenditures are being made on your company’s behalf that would never meet with your approval?
Finding an agreeable balance within a purchasing system can be a hard-won victory. Some companies react by over-controlling expenditures without regard for how much money is lost when an executive invests an hour reviewing purchases of $100 supplies that are fairly routine.

Success in a manufacturing/distribution business starts with your order entry system. It’s an expensive proposition to say there’s no time to do things right the first time but always time to redo mistakes over and over again.
If you don’t get it right the first time, your costs add up and your bottom line erodes. You can spend hours, or even days, fixing errors and squandering resources. The costs go beyond measurable forms, such as customer complaints, lost orders, wasted inventory and excessive overtime. Your staff may become frustrated and apathetic.

Sage ERP MAS 90 Has A New Name And An Upcoming Release Filled With Enhancements
The Sage 100 ERP 2013 release (also known as Version 5.0) is scheduled for release in the fall. Many of the new capabilities planned for this release are customer-requested enhancements. Sage also continues to expand the connected web services available for customers, and to provide more flexible deployment and pricing options. Here we cover just some of the new capabilities that will be found in the upcoming release.

Assigning items to packages:

Expand Sales Order and Shipping. Double-click Shipping Data Entry.
Enter the Shipper ID and select an order number. Note: In the lower left-hand corner, the Current Package field is set to 0001.
Highlight a line item. All quantities shipped will be placed in package 1.
To ship items in another package, click the # button to obtain the next package number. Note that the current package is 0002. All items shipped will be in package 0002.