No, not that UPS (though the color brown does play heavily into this blog posting and our <3 for logistics, too, knows no bounds.) We’re also not talking about the folks in charge -- your boss hasn’t gone to lunch yet, so minimize that Facebook page again. We’re talking about when the electrical power goes out.

QuickBooks is pretty much the go-to small business accounting software for many people. Sure, there will be those who wail about its faults or limitations, and there are those who will rave about its functionality. The bottom line is, it’s a very successful piece of software. In fact, we use it here at Sounds Essential HQ.

Being in the marketing business, we like to keep things consistent with our branding – helps build recognition and awareness through all avenues. So if B follows A, your QuickBooks invoice template should reflect your branding with your logo and your brand standards font, at the very least. And this isn’t actually that hard. We did it and we were happy with it, until…

Outlook.Com Now Supports the IMAP Email Protocol

On Thursday, September 12, 2013, Microsoft announced that Outlook.com now supports the IMAP email protocol, finally opening up their service to mail clients that had previously been unsupported. What does this all mean? Well, we've taken a moment to check it out and detail the pros and cons of the email hosting platform.

How To Fix Logon Issues After Outlook.Com Migrates To Office 365 Backend

Back in May of this year, Microsoft announced that it was beginning a transition of its Outlook.com email product to an Office 365 back end infrastructure. This has been ongoing and we recently encountered an issue where the credentials for a custom domain email account were being rejected, despite being correct. Here's how we fixed it.