Dear Rabble Rouser

by admin on March 1, 2007

Mike McDerment CEO of Freshbooks cracks me up. First he sends me an email pointing to his Unaccounting post. I wasn’t that interested. The post is long on tantalising non-promises, short on detail. When Mike and I met last year, I mooted the company would be more attractive to SMB users when it offers an expenses module. At the time, Mike was tight lipped but nodded in enough places for me to get the non verbal cues. It’s coming – FB style.

Then I get an email from Freshbooks support (which is great cos I use Blinksale!) telling me the company has hooked up with (ie integrated) on demand project management tool Basecamp. That’s a great combination. I’ve used Basecamp and really like it. Which is saying a lot because I usually hate having to use project management software. Something about being an independent chappy methinks.

I suppose I should think about quitting Blinksale and move over to FB. Hey – Mike – got an import routine?

How does the blog post title fit in? It was the email header from Mike to me. I reckon he’s been taking LOTS of lessons about being a blog whore from Stowe Boyd. It’s working…

PS: MapleLeaf 2.0 has a comment from Mike which pretty much confirms there will be an expense module in the not too distant future.

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  • http://www.krupo.ca Krupo

    The name alone made me think 'Facebook"… although of course the site and product themselves have nothing to do with the former. Well, perhaps with the exception of the testimonials.

  • anon

    This un-accounting thing kills me. What kind of hip, cool web-2.0 wannabe uses a term like that?! Also, does freshbooks really think their app is a web 2.0 app? i mean, come on. It's look is stuck in 1998.

  • http://www.accmanpro.com Dennis Howlett

    Anon – forqward thinking joksters like Sig. It's called irony.

    Ummmm – have you checked what FB does? You're welcome do disagree but you've gotta do better than simply invoke 1989. You couldn't have done what FB does back then.

  • http://www.stoweboyd.com/message Stowe Boyd

    I stopped working with Michael in December 2006, so his marketing tactics have nothing to do with me, Dennis.

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