News and Notes
September 2011 Newsletter

It's September and the Accounting C4 Event in Boston is just around the corner! You can still register to take advantage of the CPE credits, one-on-one networking with peers, Keynote speakers (including financial columnist/humorist Ben Stein) and vendor presentations. Not to mention the multiple Cloud Innovation Sessions running concurrently throughout the afternoons. These CPE credit-worthy sessions provide attendees with an opportunity to learn about the technologies and business strategies driving the future of the accounting industry. See you September 18th-20th at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel!

By the time you read this, we will have deployed Peachtree 2012 across our hosted network. For a sampling of the features of this new application, please scroll down to the Support Updates section below.

Becky Livingston, Social Manager Senior Manager at CPA2Biz.com will participate in Monday's panel discussion, sharing tips and techniques on how you can implement a social media strategy within your marketing mix. Her portion of the panel discussion demonstrates how you can:

• Develop a lead generation strategy utilizing social media
• Retain clients through social media efforts
• Increase ROI through social media marketing
• Implement a social media strategy with a limited budget and effort
• Measure the strategy for effectiveness
• Prepare for brand monitoring and response when potential crisis may occur

In this workshop-like session, Becky will share a white paper outlining a high-level plan you can take back to your firm and begin implementing within 30 days.

In this issue we feature an article by Bonnie J Nagayama, CPA at McWilliams and Associates and consultant through 4luvofbiz.com/. Bonnie's article discusses moving from an historical to more forward-looking perspective through QuickBooks data analysis, & how the process can improve your business... (Read the entire article.)

This issue also features an article by Chris Farrell at SpringAhead, who shares an interesting perspective on what happens when the moving company doesn't deliver the file cabinets from the old office to the new one... (Read the entire article.)

As always, feedback is encouraged and we would love to hear from you. We are constantly trying to improve our services and want to be certain we are meeting your needs. We keep you in mind as we continue to improve Right Networks and want to give you the opportunity to make your voice heard. If you have questions or any other concerns about Right Networks or our offerings, please contact us.

Did you know...

Right Networks has deployed several secure, self-help services, streamlining and simplifying common technical support inquiries. These features are available here www.rightnetworks.com/pwd.

Account Unlock - Utilizing our Password Reset technology, users can validate their identity, and promptly unlock their account. *Accounts become locked due to 3 invalid login attempts.

Username Reminder - This secure utility will ask for your valid email address, populate a list of associated usernames, and provide them to you via email.

Password Reset - This secure utility will ask for your valid email address, and associated username. You will then receive an auto-generated confirmation email containing a unique link to input your new complex password and complete the reset.

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These items provide information on known support issues, upgrades, updates, or other general information that should be of interest to our users.

The addition of Peachtree 2012 to the Right Networks hosted networks provides users of Peachtree 2011 with a number of new features and benefits, including:

• Sage Advisor - takes the pain out of learning new features by personalizing messages and video instruction based on how you use the software to help you get up to speed quickly on the new features you use most.
• Copy Transactions - Allows you to copy and modify recurring transactions to eliminate doing repetitive billing tasks from scratch.
• Sage Peachtree System Check - Proactive healthcare for your system, this feature provides status checks on potential software and hardware problems that could impact your business.
• Vendor Management Center - Consolidates multiple screens to a single view of each vendor with custom views of vendor history.
• Sage Peachtree Business Intelligence - Customizes reporting to help gain business insights from existing system data.

For additional information, please visit the Sage Peachtree 2012 website.