Green B2B invoicing and payments

Business invoicing has just gotten “greener,” resulting in more cash in a new, easy way to electronically send an invoice and receive payment, while conserving our natural resources. Beat the recession.

We just launched a new service called greinvoice, which allows businesses to send invoices to their clients by email, with a link on the email to open the invoice on the recipient’s screen, at which time they can pay the invoice by electronic check or credit card…no postage, paper, envelope or trash.

We brought together three best-in-class vendors in this unique service to handle invoicing and payments in a secure online environment. Additionally, we are pleased to be able to help the environment by reducing trash and simultaneously help our clients receive payment faster.

Perhaps we are ahead of the technology curve (as usual), but the simple economics of rising postage rates (announcement today of another one penny rate increase in May) and escalating paper costs and the looming recession make the focus on cash flow even more imperative. Our lower cost to use technology to deliver invoices and receive payment makes more sense now than ever.

We have shown companies, e-commerce sites and nonprofit organizations of all sizes, locally and nationwide, many other ways to improve their cash flow using new technologies and reduce the administrative effort and expense.

See the website, http://www.greinvoice.com/ and let us know how we can help you get more green (pun intended!)

Nice to hear-and a new product is coming!

Where did January go?

As we tiptoed through the on-again-off-again recession, amid the political primaries, the gut-wrenching rise and fall of the stock market, as a rogue trader in France lost over $7 billion and no one seemed to notice until it was too late, I lost track of the blog.

But I am back. One of my most interesting clients sent me an email earlier today (excerpt):

Oh by the way the shopping cart is working out great! We have this international competition going on and a lot of people from overseas are having trouble sending the entry fee which is $40 so I told them that if they have a credit card they can go to our website and do a onetime donation and to specify that it is for footprint entry fee.

Another happy camper, and using our technologies for a purpose they had not anticipated at first. Nice to hear this-that makes me happy.

AND...

Keep an eye on the blog for an announcement of a brand new product coming out soon, using internet technology to get your invoices paid fast and inexpensively!

It's New Year's Eve-such a nice sentiment is attached below

We have very good friends in Ohio who sent a New Year's e-card. The sentiment was so nice I had to repeat it for you:

The people you love
The places you're a part of
The memories you hold onto
And those unforgettable moments when you close your eyes and breathe in life with a smile
A new year is a reminder to celebrate all the things that are good in your world.

To all our readers: a happy, healthy, prosperous new year.

Back with more good news from a nonprofit

I have been remiss in posting to the blog for the past couple of weeks.

Too busy installing new services at new customers, a nice problem I guess.

Here's an email I received yesterday from one of those new clients, a nonprofit:

Marc, you exceeded my expectations. We are very happy so far…….Thank you for everything, and I’ll be sure to pass along your name…. All the very best for a happy holiday season, L

That makes me feel good.

You can feel that way too, just ask us!

Flattery will get you everywhere

Funny how things happen in pairs.


First, at the Thanksgiving table, several of us got into a discussion how bad customer service has become. We all agreed that our businesses would die if we gave the same lousy customer service to our clients that we receive as consumers.


Then, I received this accolade from Fred Klein, guru of Gotham City Networking, a nationwide social-business networking organization that he founded 10+ years ago and runs as a labor of love. His Thanksgiving posting on the Gotham blog was arranged as an acrostic, and I was mentioned in the "H" line (quoting Fred below):
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As I have said many times, we are a social-business networking group which is more akin to a tribe than anything else. It is fun for me and I hope it is the same for you. We pledge to keep innovating,invigorating, pushing the envelope, waving the wand and one last note--feel free to make a suggestion (and you will own it).

Happy Thanksgiving to all of the Tribe from A to Z:
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H-Marc Halpert for being our service obsessed credit card maven.


Thanks, Fred, for recognizing what we do differently than the rest, in front of over 500 other Gothamites, for the unique service quality we give to you as our client. AND thanks and for the opportunities Gotham has given me as a member of such a great organization.


Folks, just ask me about Gotham! Got an hour or so? As we say in Gotham, what goes around, comes around. Today, the thank-yous are flying.

We have been featured in FastCompany's blog today

We were very pleased to receive a phone call from Ruth Sherman, a nationally-known training coach for speakers, whose expertise is in personal and business communications.

She heard we mail hand-written Thanksgiving thank-you's to clients.

Here's what resulted. http://blog.fastcompany.com/experts/ on Nov 15th. Thanks, Ruth!

It's just another way we are different than the competition....

Have a great holiday. Thanks for reading this blog.

November cash flow kickoff to the end of the year

This is it-Thanskgiving is around the corner then Christmas and year end.

IF you have been procrastinating about making a change in operating procedures which would improve your cash flow, consider this a kick to get started now.

You want to improve your business or nonprofit and we have the techniques and tools to do so.

Ask us for help.