Free Financial Tool: a look into your business finances

In a world of 6 billion people and counting, it’s small businesses—each employing just a handful of people—that provide the primary engine for economic growth and prosperity around the globe. MyBizHomepage is dedicated to supporting the millions of individual entrepreneurs who work so hard to make their organizations a success.

MyBizHomepage knows the challenges small business owners face every day, so they’ve created an integrated series of online business tools designed to overcome the obstacles that can impede your progress. They’ve made these tools available to everyone on MyBizHomepage.com. And because they want to provide entrepreneurs with every incentive to use them, they’ve done it for free.

One of the principle issues for entrepreneurs and small businesses is gaining a firm understanding of their financial condition. The MyBizDashboard™ included in the website automatically extracts the latest information from their QuickBooks software, computes standard financial metrics, and displays it on MyBizHomepage.com as an easy-to-understand, “financial dashboard” graphic. Entrepreneurs and small businesses can also take advantage of social networking tools—online forums and profiles—built into the site and can customize it with RSS feeds so that all the information they need to make better decisions and operate more efficiently are in one place.

Those who have seen MyBizHomepage.com have immediately appreciated its value. Forbes, Wall Street Journal, and PC Magazine are just three of the publications who have praised our efforts to provide small businesses with a suite of high-quality business tools that are just not available anywhere else.

MyBizHomepage is now used by thousands of entrepreneurs and small businesses in 43 countries.

Entrepreneur.com says:

When you think about it, driving a car is pretty complicated. It requires coordinating several extremities while keeping your eyes on the road and the dashboard gauges. Steering a business takes just as much dexterity, which is why a dashboard view of your company’s operational metrics could really come in handy.

SaaS leaders like NetSuite and Salesforce.com pioneered this kind of front end for business processes. And for a decade, I’ve been telling any QuickBooks manager who would feign interest that the small-business market leader also needs a dashboard as part of its flowchart interface. Finally, someone has done it for them.

MyBizHomepage, a Middleburg, Virginia-based startup, automatically uploads your QuickBooks data (2007 and 2008 versions only) to your own customizable web page, where you can keep an eye on your enterprise’s critical operational factors in real time. Many are standard-but-important business measures—the state of payables, receivables, cash flow and inventory. But coming soon, says founder and CEO Peter Justen, are customizable gauges that your particular business might need more than others.

MyBizHomepage is a lot cheaper than NetSuite or Salesforce.com—as in, it’s free. In fact, if you’re not using a recent version of QuickBooks, you can download a free copy of Intuit’s $99 Simple Start 2008 during MyBizHomepage setup, which will make your data available to the dashboard. MyBizHomepage lets you choose how often you want your data display refreshed, including as often as your numbers change. It uses QuickBooks’ Web Connector to analyze your QuickBooks data, and three car dashboard designs—a Ferrari, Mini Cooper or ‘69 Chevelle—will soon be available for MyBizHomepage gauges. Your page is filled out by various RSS feeds of your choice, not unlike a Google or Yahoo homepage.

Another tool to help make running your small business a little easier.

Torie
Driving my biz