December 2009 - Posts
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Seasons Greetings, Joyeux Noël!, Boas Festas!, Buone Feste, Ii holide ezimnandi, Sarbatori Fericite!, Frohe Weinachten!, Feliz Navidad, Mele Kalikimaka, Wesołych Świąt, Boldog Ünnepeket
On behalf of the Method Team, I’d like to wish everyone a happy holiday season! May your holidays be filled with love, joy and laughter as you celebrate the season with your loved ones.
Thank you for your support and commitment to Method in 2009 and we look forward to bringing you fantastic new updates, support tools and as always, excellent customer service in 2010.
If you plan on reaching The Method Team during the holidays, please take note of our holiday hours:
Thursday, December 24th (Chistmas Eve): 9am – 4pm EST
Friday, December 25th (Christmas Day): CLOSED
Thursday, December 31st (New Years Eve): 9am – 4pm EST
Friday, January 1st (New Years Day): CLOSED
Aside from the above, it’s business as usual!
Have a safe and joyous holiday season, and I’ll be in touch in the New Year!
Danny Do Couto
Method Integration
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On December, 23rd @ 1:00pm EST, Valbon Shabani will continue with the next instalment on objects in Method. This level 2 webinar will cover additional objects with a focus on the calendar object, date picker and time picker objects.
Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/845975707
Title: Community Webinar 20: Introduction to Method Objects - Level 2
Date: Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Time: 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM EST
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.
System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista
Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer
Cheers,
Danny Do Couto
Method Integration
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On Wednesday, December 16 @ 1:00pm EST, Ryan will look into some advance actions such as Loops through tables and grids, also looking at the Email and Start Conditional Statement actions.
Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/716454403
Title: Community Webinar 19: Advanced Actions: Looping and Conditional Statements
Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Time: 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM EST
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.
System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista
Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer
Cheers,
Danny Do Couto
Method Integration
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In 5 months, we’ll be headed to Atlanta, GA as Gold Sponsors for the Scaling New Heights 2010 Conference. If you didn’t attend last year’s conference, you definitely want to get involved this year. Why? For starters, this conference is packed with intermediate and advanced training on QuickBooks products for consultants and accounting professionals. Better yet, new for 2010, Joe will officially be launching the Level 1 Certification training and has added a Method Training and Certification track. Excited now? I thought so.
I attended this conference last year and was very impressed, especially with it being Joe’s first swing at the conference. The new venue looks fabulous and is an excellent opportunity for Method Solution Providers to prepare for their Level 1 Certification.
For those consultants who are new to Method and wonder what added value it can bring to a QuickBooks user, check out this webinar Joe did a few weeks ago. It’s meant to be a teaser of what’s to come while at the conference.
Click here to view Joe Woodard's "Can you really do that in QuickBooks - Part 2"
For more information on the conference, you can click here. Or, if you’re ready to sign up and head to Atlanta in May, click here to register. If this is how you first heard about the conference, please be sure to let Joe know on your registration form under “How Did You Hear About Us?”
See you all there in t-minus 165 days. 
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 In June we announced the beginning of the Method Solution Providers Pilot Program at the Scaling New Heights Conference in Atlanta. The pilot program allows members from groups such as Scaling New Heights, The Sleeter Group, QuickBooks ProAdvisors, Intuit Solution Providers and Microsoft Certified Professionals to get involved with Method as a Consultant or Account Manager without being certified. Method Solution Providers are provided with Method accounts to use in their own business and are also granted access to exclusive webinars, conducted by yours truly. Since June, the Method Solution Providers Pilot Program team has grown very quickly. In fact, within one month of returning from The Sleeter Group Conference, our team of Consultants and Account Managers has grown by over 30%. Impressive? I’d say so. 
Joe Woodard and I first connected over LinkedIn back in February of this year. Since then, Joe has been actively using Method in his own practice and providing it as a solution to many of his clients. Method has become a vital part of his consulting business. Joe has not only invested time in learning Method customization, but he has also developed Pendulum – an online timesheet application that integrates with QuickBooks.
 I’m very happy to announce a new partnership between Method Integration and Joe Woodard, President of Creative Financial Software. Joe Woodard is now the only endorsed trainer and writer for the Method Solution Provider certification in the U.S. and the only recognized author of The Official Method Solution Providers Reference Guide. Starting in 2010, Joe will also be conducting a series of Method Certification Boot Camps, which will supply Consultants and Account Managers with the knowledge required to provide Method consulting services. Joe’s experience with Intuit products, strong consulting background and passion for learning Method, makes him an asset to the Method Solution Providers team and I couldn’t be more thrilled to have him on board. Electronic copies of The Official Method Solution Providers Reference Guide will be available, free of charge, to all members of the Method Solution Providers Pilot Program. The guide is meant to prepare Consultants and Account Managers for the certification exams.
The release of the guide and certification will help to launch the Method Solution Providers Program out of its pilot next year. During the remainder of the pilot, I plan on conducting new webinars and, of course, listening to your much needed feedback. For those of you who are not participating in the pilot program but would like to, please feel free to contact me directly at d.docouto@methodintegration.com or 1.888.925.6238 ext. 708.
Stay tuned for more information on the Method Solution Providers Pilot Program as it becomes available.
Cheers,
Danny Do Couto
Method Integration
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 Back in October ‘07, we were newbie’s to The Sleeter Group. Having only heard about the Awesome Add-On award at that year’s conference, we were determined to win it. Just a little over 2 years later, I was honored to accept this award on behalf of the Method Team in Orlando, FL.
The “Awesome Add-on for QuickBooks” award, presented by The Sleeter Group, recognizes a product that has superior integration with QuickBooks, overall design, outstanding features and conformance with appropriate accounting standards that make it an effective solution for many businesses. Method hit each of those requirements and was one of only nine selected as an Awesome Add-on for 2010. Needless to say, we were pretty proud when we heard about winning. So what sort of criteria is considered when choosing a winner?
- Shows superior design, implementation and features.
- Integrates with QuickBooks using best practices of the QuickBooks SDK programming guidelines.
- Uses appropriate transaction types and field population for recording data into QuickBooks so as to preserve and/or enhance the standard reporting features in QuickBooks.
- Conforms to good accounting principles and operating standards.
This awards ceremony took place during the second day of the conference, but on Monday and Tuesday, I got a chance to show Sleeter Members the latest and greatest in Method.  It felt awesome being able to see so many familiar faces in the audience. What made me even more pumped and excited was seeing the light bulb go off for the new faces in the crowd. It made that knot in my stomach, which I get each time I present, all worth it (you laugh, but its true!). My presentations tend to always be followed by questions starting with “Do you mean this...?” and “I can really do that...” and that’s when attendees start to get it and think of practical applications where Method can be used.
At our exhibitor booth, we were buzzing, talking to Sleeter members, new attendees, current Method users and current members of the Solution Providers team. I reflected where we were at our first year at Sleeter. Back then, when we were asked “What does your product do?” we would say “Anything you want it to do!”- Yikes! I cracked a joke about it during my presentation but it just goes to show how far we’ve come along.
So where are we going to be 2 years from now at Sleeter? You’ll have to wait and see, but I can say that our team is growing, or motivation is high and we are ready to bring Method to the next level. Watch out!  One last thing, don’t forget to sign up for our RSS Feed. It’s the best was to stay up to date with the latest and greatest in the world of Method. Just click the following link to subscribe.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/methodblog
Danny Do Couto, Katie Riley and Paul Jackson holding our 2010 Awesome Add-On Award
Doug Sleeter, Danny Do Couto and the other Awsome Add-On Award Winners
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On Wednesday, December 09th @ 1:00pm EST Amanda will explore some more advanced functions in the Method Report Designer. Page layout, fonts and sorting are some of the topics that will be covered.
Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/921133083
Title: Community Webinar 18: Introduction to Designing Reports: Level 2
Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Time: 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM EST
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.
System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista
Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer
Cheers,
Danny Do Couto
Method Integration
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