Wayne D's Blog

Freshbooks is a great solution for invoicing, If you need to invoice you should give Freshbooks a look. Freshbooks offers a 30 day money back guarantee, staged plans depending on the number of customers or a free account if your business is just starting out. Now onto the story.

I first met Rayanne from Freshbooks.com when I took a chance to Tweetup with Tara Hunt. As a result I ended up following Rayanne on Twitter which led to me reading a tweet from her about Freshbook's 5th birthday party in High Park. High Park is on the way from Interactive Sports offices in Vaughan to the Rogers Centre where the Argonauts and the Argonotes play so I have driven by it many times but never actually been to the park. The Freshbash afford me the excuse the visit High Park and take advantage of Freshbook's offer of some free food. The Argonotes connection becomes important because shortly ater I arrived I noticed Grace. At least I thought it was Grace, one of the flute player from the Argonotes, an enthusiastic football fan and as I am soon to discover a support rockstar at Freshbooks. She didn't appear to recognize me since I wasn't wearing a blue football jersey and carrying a saxophone. I think she was too shy to ask the old guy in the white shirt whether he hung out with a rag tag band like the Argonotes. I wasn't too shy and found that she was as surprised to see me as I was to see her.

What followed was a whirlwind of shaved ice, burgers,hot dogs, salads, a caricature artist, a monster 1.5 metre eggplant that was just there and a great cake, There were also bees hanging around everyone which necessitated shaking your pop can to make sure there wasn't a bee inside before drinking from it. There were tug of war, sack, three legged and wheelbarrow races and at the end of the night a gift bag with a snazzy Freshbooks T-shirt, a tube of Freshbubbles, a candy necklace, Popeye cand sticks and a Ring Pop that my youngest son wanted to appropriate when I brought it home.

Along the way i had to explain multiple times how I wasn't a Freshbooks customer but instead a hanger on who knew a couple of Freshbookers and had come to shmooze. The Freshbooks customers who were there were over the top in their enthusiastic support of Freshbooks and how it made invoicing simple and easy. Invoicing is a necessary evil for all businesses but when a business can use Freshbooks and take the time they would have spent on invoicing and either bill it or use it to grow their business it's not hard to understand why they love Freshbooks so much.

A few days later I wore my Freshbooks T-shirt into my local St. Loius Wings and Ribs, on the customers saw it and asked me whether I knew Mike McDerment, one of the Freshbook founders. I sheepishly admitted that though I had probably talked to him at the party I wasn't really sure. We chatted for a few minutes and he ended the conversation with a remark something like "They have created quite a unique culture there at Freshboks", I couldn't agree more, Freshbooks is smart, fun people with a great product.

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