When we tested it on people, they giggled with excitement. Jack David from Enterprise Ontario heard about my software, among others who have seen it work, and just loved it. And I spoke at the Entrepreneurial show Sept. 26th 2005 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.  I gave out some shareware copies and people love it.

Any small business person knows all too well the drudgery involved in daily business. We need to, among other things:

Advertise our business  or service and record the calls somehow when potential customer call us.  Most small businesses have an answering machine  but  it only starts there.

 We have to return those calls and endure the telephone tag game, sometimes over weeks because people are so busy. We have to accumulate information on those customers, create invoices; pay g.s.t.; write cheques; do deposit slips; write letters; refer business to our colleagues; track customers; enter bills; keep track of who we called and when we called them; assure our customers that we will be on time to do their work; get the work done; buy supplies; file paperwork; try not to forget our personal appointments … and for those who are attached, take their other half out and have a personal life. And let’s not forget getting our taxes ready for the year-end. And then we have to squeeze a social life in their somewhere.

My program does all of these things for you. Except take your spouse out for dinner.

How do we deal with such a huge list of responsibilities? We buy a computer and take it home, thinking it will save our lives. We set it up (another type of stress because it almost certainly does not want to cooperate) and then turn it on, only to find that it does nothing at all. Why not? We have to buy software for it first. Another type of stress! We need something like a database, but we don’t really know what a database is. What is out there? What do we buy? Many of us don’t know what we need. And so it starts.

ie - means for example we can call relate to this

  ie. word

ie. excell

ie.  act

ie. winfax

ie. dialing

ie. quicken

Now 1 does not talk to 2 but sort of does to 3  but 3 does not talk to 1 or 2.  Does this sound familiar?  Nothing talks to 5 but you can type it all over again in 6.  What where they thinking when they came up with this system?

This is mine below

Next: We have to upgrade our computer because we finally found a better program, but it doesn’t run on our current computer. So we bite the bullet and get a new one. But we can’t find the disk for the old one. The Stress-O-Meter is climbing! We find something else to replace the first one but it does not “talk” to the information that’s already there. So we have to print it all out and hire someone to enter it because we certainly don’t have the time to do it. Not to mention the fact that we end up with a massive program that do 5000 things we will never use but does 5 we do….. so we buy it, learn most of it, use 3% of it then search for something else which will help us more. What were we thinking?? No wonder people are going crazy. No wonder heart disease is on the rise.

The computer industry promised us a paperless society but instead has produced 10 times more paper, which we now have to organize. How many times have you found yourself saying, “I’ll do it next week”?

Then we looped into Micro you-know-who. We started buying those programs that don’t work with anything else. Then Corel buys Symantec, or the other way around. This isn’t supported by that, but is sort of supported by that and … now where are we??? I don’t know about you, but I’ve lost track.

The fact is that most of us are slaves to our computers, which don’t even do what we want them to. Palm Pilots were supposed to save us time and in some cases they do, but they don’t really communicate with any other software. So we end up importing this into that, cutting, pasting, exporting . And guess what? Our printer ran out of ink! Turns out it’s cheaper to buy a new printer then it is to buy a new cartridge! The driver doesn’t work so we have to hire a techie to install it. The Stress-O-Meter is smoking. No to mention all the lost time.

My software is very simple. It took almost 15 years to design and build as I was working full time as Les the Handyman. All the money I made went into developing my software. I talked to accountants and the government about taxes and other financial matters until I created the most amazing software on the face of the planet. Why is it so amazing? Because it works, it is easy and it can be modified by our programmers to do more specific tasks and we can keep track of it all!!! Try asking Micro-you-know-who to add a button for you or remove some things you don’t need.

My software has made my business affairs so much easier. My Les the Handyman customers think I have 20 trucks on the road. I just have one, but they get that impression because I am so well-organized. I can still talk to my customers, run my office and make money all at the same time, mostly by myself.

During the development of my software, I was stressed out more than usual, because I had to design a system 50 times better than my own and explain it to a programmer who thinks everybody on the planet is a computer whiz. Most computer companies think so too. I used to have the words Keep It Simple, Stupid (K.I.S.S.) printed above every programmer’s computer. I set up another system beside mine (yes, I had to buy another computer OH, THE HORROR!) so that I could compare and calculate the amounts of time I was wasting on

A) a totally manual system and

B) a partially automated system like the rest of us are on.

My software operates on one simple premise. A few basic things are required to do almost all business in the world:

1. You have to sell a product or service to make money

2. Then you have to pay your bills; and

3. Do all the paperwork associated with it

4. so that you can make more money

Many of us don’t bother with the paperwork unless the government forces us to do it. But eventually we have to deal with it one way or the other.

I redesigned the whole method of accounting because we, as small business people, don’t want to do it. I’ve never met one business person who loves his or her accounting software. Do you love yours???  Accountants like it, but we hate it, which got me thinking: Why can’t we have something on the front end that we like and something on the back end the accountants like? I designed my software that way. It takes care of all  of the bookkeeping, but the program does not do the year-end accounting, which can be complex. My software is more of a bookkeeping program that also does G.S.T. calculations and contact management too. Because it is not 6 different software packages and done even do 10 %of what you want - it is one that does 90%.

Helping your accountant do your bookkeeping is just one great bonus of my system. But I didn’t stop there. Small business owners use invoices too. So I included an invoicing system. But that’s still not all, because in the service industry, we need to know where we’re going, what day and what we will be doing, what the customer’s name and address is, and how to get there. So I included a customer data base too that communicates directly with the invoicing system , which communicates directly with the invoicing system and a scheduling program too. But we also have to call that customer, so I included a calling program too. Here’s how it works:

The customer, Joe Smith, calls you and leaves a message. You enter it in. The computer automatically puts in the date and time of the call for you. You don’t know any more information, so you press another button and it’s ready for the next person who calls. Same deal: Name, telephone number, address and what they need – You put it in fast. And if you are like most of us, you use 3 finders to type. Then you need to do the next step: Call them back.

My system has an extremely simple contact manager built in. It has a number of options which allows you to select if the customer was away, left a message on a machine or whatever. Nothing really to type. Most of it is point and click. (I was approached by Apple many years ago because they liked the fact that it was very much mouse driven which all of their software is, but am only one guy with two programmers. Now if I could afford 200 programmers, Bill would have a major competitor) I tried to make an appointment with him to pitch my software but he would not see me. I was told he “only deals with fortune 500 companies. “ I say…look out Bill, here I come!

It uses the internal modem of your computer to dial the number. (If you don’t have one, we will come anywhere in Toronto to install one for you. We sell them on our website and can ship them out the next day.) As it is dialing, you pick up the handset of the phone. The computer automatically disconnects the modem, closes the dialing screen and opens the contact management screen. When you are done with your call, it closes the contact management screen and automatically opens the dialing screen with the next number ready to dial. The Stress-O-Meter is way down now! But it gets better.

It sits on a very interesting platform called common sense! I mean, we all do these repetitive steps every day manually. I say WHY?

Let’s say you call one of the people on the list and they actually answer. You press a button that says “GOT CUSTOMER” and the system closes the contact management form. It then opens the customer record form in edit mode. In the process, it already transferred the information from the contact management software to the customer record. Now your computer is waiting for you to enter more information. You have the customer on the phone now. You can ask them for their cell number, where they want the work done, etc.

Suppose it turns out that they saw a chair on your web site and want you to deliver one. Now you have to create an invoice. You press the add invoice button and it creates an invoice for that customer with all their information in it (no need to type it all in again). Now you need to know when the customer wants it delivered. Automatically a schedule opens, ready to book a day and time. You select a time, then click ok. The system closes the schedule and re-opens the invoice. You type in the type of chair (or the window they want installed, or the file cabinet they want moved, etc.). It’s always a good idea to confirm the details with your customers, because they can change their minds. It’s also a good time to tell them about your two-for-one special. You can print the invoice, but we advise you not to print anything until the day of the job. Many things can still change. You will save lots of paper, ink cartridges and more.

As you accumulate information, that information stays with the file forever. When you are done and there is nothing more you can do for your customer, you say goodbye, hang up the phone, then press exit on the invoice. The day and time of the invoice is automatically marked on the calendar. Then the system takes you back to the next person to call.

Another feature of my software that I am especially proud of is the auto deposit slip. There is nothing like it anywhere. Balancing my books used to take me hours. Now it takes me seconds. After I electronically balance, I can create a G.S.T. form in about 4 seconds with all the information already in it. All I have to do is cut the cheque and mail it.

As your business changes, we can adapt the software to it. No more buying useless additional programs that aren’t compatible with your system.

The Perfect Business System (in a box) is a completely self-sufficient software package. It is not compatible with any other program because it doesn’t have to be. It is completely compatible with every single feature within it, because it was designed by the same person.

You know that old song: “The ankle bone’s connected to the leg bone, the leg bone’s connected to the knee bone, the knee bone’s connected to the hip bone …” My software is like that. Everything is interconnected. The phone dialer talks to the customer record, the customer record talks to the invoicing system, the invoicing system talks to the scheduler, the scheduler talks to the paid invoices … which talks to the deposit slips, which talk to the General Ledger, which talks to the deposit slip generating system, which talks to the G.S.T. and statement-checking part of the Perfect Business System (in a box).

NO MORE CUTTING AND PASTING. EVERY COMPONENT LETS THE INFORMATION FLOW THROUGH IT.

The program comes complete with sorting baskets for $599.99 or 100.00/month interest-free for six months. Canadian funds and the software is guaranteed to put a smile on your face with the joy it will be to use, along with some of the other entertaining features we did not mention. like the Virtual PSYCHIATRIST, and the Virtual Aerobics instructor or the Auto Break program.

Software is not soft. It should be called stressware. I am the biggest DOLT in the world when it comes to computers. I decided to call my site “doltware” because when it comes to computers I am the biggest DOLT of all. I used to hate them because they did not do much for me. But with my software, I can actually say - I  love my computer.

Please visit my website to find out all the things my software can do. They are simply too numerous to mention here. The address is www.DOLTware.com Click on “Easy Software”. (I am frantically trying to finish that site too so don't laugh too hard when you get there. Don't forget. I am one guy!

Because it is not 6 different software packages and dosn't even do 10 %of what you want -

It is one that does 90% or more.