KellyWilliamsVA - WordPress & 1ShoppingCart Specialist

IRS Offers Small Business Tax Workshop on May 18

Kelly Williams — Wed, 11 May 2011 23:07:46 +0000

I have known for a while that the Internal Revenue Service is offering workshops for small business and I think these can be very useful. Today I was notified about an upcoming webinar (notice they are embracing new technology that we virtual assistants use regularly The free webinar is being held next Wednesday on May [...]

IRS Standard Mileage Rates for 2011

Kelly Williams — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 23:14:29 +0000

The IRS has published their new standard mileage rates for 2011. Thankfully, they have increased from last year, with the exception of the charitable mileage rate, which stayed the same. The IRS has combined the Medical and Relocation rate. Business Mileage Rate * – $0.51/mile Medical or Relocation Mileage Rate – $0.19/mile Charitable Mileage Rate [...]

What Exactly is an Offline Order in 1ShoppingCart?

Kelly Williams — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:29:43 +0000

1ShoppingCart has the ability to turn on the “process orders offline” feature in the order settings. I recommend turning this feature on and I’ll explain why. If there are any challenges with a customer’s order following entry of their checkout information, they will have the option to submit the order offline to send their order [...]

Google Groups Will No Longer Support Pages and Files Features

Kelly Williams — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:17:29 +0000

Google announced last month that they will be discontinuing the page and file features currently supported with their Google Groups functionality. Apparently, their goal is to improve customer experience by utilizing their other services for sharing and storing files, like Google Docs or Google Sites. Starting in January 2011, their groups won’t allow creating or [...]

IRS Standard Mileage Rates for 2010

Kelly Williams — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:53:08 +0000

The IRS has published their new standard mileage rates for 2010. They have dropped with the exception of the charitable mileage rate, which stayed the same. Business Mileage Rate * – $0.50/mile Relocation Mileage Rate – $0.165/mile Medical Mileage Rate – $0.165/mile Charitable Mileage Rate – $0.14/mile I was a bit disappointed to see the [...]

How to Underline Blank Spaces in a Microsoft Word Document

Kelly Williams — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:05:52 +0000

I finally found out how to underline blank spaces in Microsoft Word 2007. It’s been driving me nuts for months and the support site just wasn’t helpful. I did this all the time with my 2003 version. Last resort (which should have been my first stop) was to Google my question and quickly went right [...]

Update Your WordPress Blogsite Permalinks and You Will Be Found

Kelly Williams — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:00:50 +0000

Resending a 1ShoppingCart Email Broadcast to a Customer

Kelly Williams — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:00:34 +0000

There may be occasions where a few customers have missed a broadcast or autoresponder message with important sign up or purchase details. An easy way to resend the message to specific customers is by creating a new autoresponder group. In this way, you can broadcast only to those who missed the details. Start by creating [...]

Email Marketing Gets Better With 1ShoppingCart

Kelly Williams — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:14:13 +0000

If you haven’t heard, 1ShoppingCart launched it’s improved email marketing system recently. My fellow virtual assistants and I have been anxiously awaiting this update to check out the now-included newsletter templates for broadcasts or monthly ezines. There are several well-designed format choices available depending on the type of message to be sent out: Welcome – [...]

Yes, you can restore that deleted QuickBooks transaction!

Kelly Williams — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:30:38 +0000

Your buzzing along in QuickBooks with a nice rhythm going as you work through your data entries. But the phone rings and when you get back to business, you duplicate a transaction. No worries … just delete it. Oops! You’ve accidentally deleted the wrong entry — now what? Well, it’s time to discover a great [...]