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iCash and money lending, add the transactions properly and keep control over it!

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So you have lent an amount of money to a friend and you are interested in reflecting the exact transactions in iCash . It is easy but it requires several steps you need to understand well. You have to create your lending account first, as a portfolio account as it is an investment. Once done you have to create a starting transaction from your checking account to that lending account. That transaction represents the money transfer between you and the borrower: For this example let say the borrower will give you the money back in 12 months with an annual interest of 5%. First payment will be enterred that way: where 'Interests' is an account of type 'Incomes' you have to create as well so you can gather the interests. Why 2 transactions? Simple, just to keep track of incomes. You could simply create a single transaction from the borrower to your Bank account but if you do that you will end with a negative Borrower account and no trace of incomes. Note that you...

Avoiding having your legitimate e-mails being flagged as SPAM

If your messages look like regular private e-mails and you use tags to make them different and customized with recipient data, you will get much better results. You can also use 'Bonded Sender' https://www.bondedsender.com or 'Habeas' http://www.habeas.com so your messages will be recognized as legitimate. Furthermore you can run your email through some of the spam filters available online, or install some end-user antispam applications on your own computer, and send an email to yourself before attempting to email end users. There are some services you can use to test the spam quotient of your e-zines and e-mail offers before sending them out. - SiteSell SpamCheck Report tests your message at no charge using SpamAssassin and sends you a report. Send your test e-mails to mailto:sales-spamcheck@sitesell.net Be careful, however, that you put the word TEST as the first word in the subject -- and make sure it is capitalized. Otherwise, the system will delete the mail...

Subscription and unsubscription handling thru regular e-mails

It is very simple to handle subscriptions and unsubscriptions thru e-mails adding a simple mailto line to your message footer. You just need to gather all those subscribe and unsubscribe messages to a couple of folders applying some rules and using the scripts we wrote for adding or deleting addresses from a Mac OS X Mail (or Entourage folder). They are called 'Adding recipients from Mac OS X Mail' and 'Deleting recipients from Mac OS X Mail' (we also include Entourage and Powermail scripts). Those scripts come with MaxBulk distribution, inside the example/AppleScript/Mac OS X Mail import folder and are also accessible from both the import menu and import button. They are very easy to modify if you need to and automatically process a given Mail folder and take the From and Reply-To headers using their contents to add/remove the addresses from the currently selected MaxBulk list. Also note that users may have several addresses and sometimes forwards so the e-mail used ...

How would you know what to do if you don't know where you are?

Selling products online gives you a chance at thousands of new customers but it is no simple task, and the past few years have seen many people trying their hand at it. Many of them walk away disappointed a few months or years later, but some manage to significantly subsidize their income. The reality is that having the perfect product to sell just isn't enough, there are a lot of new challenges that come with selling over the Internet so it's important to keep track of your sales and know detail-fully how your business is doing, how each product is performing over time and where your marketing dollars should be spent. After years selling online we have created the ultimate tool for handling your online sales and take decisions. Transaction is an easy-to-use, full featured and multi-purpose interactive data analysis and reporting tool intended to help you control your online sales. Transaction can serve several small to medium management needs for either private users, software...