Jenna Dee's Helpful Life Suggestions


Actual Real Life Advice

Call my mom.  Seriously.


Grocery Shopping and Eating

One of the biggest time consumers for daily living for us has been meal planning, shopping and cooking.  No one wants to do it!

Because we're big Dave Ramsey fans, we heard about e-mealz - one of his show sponsors.

I can't recommend it enough.  It has saved hours of deliberation and shaved major time off the weekly grocery store run (now reduced to one a week instead of several).  I think it's improving our marriage :)  And the menus are budget and picky eater conscious.  PERFECT for us.

SAVE TIME AND MONEY WITH E-MEALZ MEAL PLANS


Accounting

I'm not an accountant. I'm not a proficient book keeper, either. I'm also so poor a salesman, that I "discount" my services and products to the point of barely breaking even.

Odd that my client's don't appreciate any of those deficiencies!

With Freshbooks though, all those useful business practices can come together easily and quickly!  Freshbooks is the numbers person I never was.

  • I list my services, session prices, products and simply tally each job, no starting from scratch
  • I keep up with my sales taxes
  • I e-mail clients invoices by attaching a PDF to an e-mail or by sending it directly from Freshbooks
  • Clients can pay online
  • It is 1,000 times more user friendly than Quickbooks
  • All my invoices live in one place

 


Peace of Mind and Photo Sharing

If I was ruler of the world and there was one thing photographically I could "require" everyone do ... it would be to put all of their high resolution images in a safe place online in addition to all the fancy backup work they're doing offline.

Did you know that Facebook and Flickr type of services do not protect your image rights as the photographer?  Their terms of service allow the company to use the images without your permission.  Not cool.

Of course, I'm not in charge, but I do recommend Smugmug for the spot to upload, share, and retain photographic rights to your images.

Please visit Smugmug via this link or insert my referral code qiVmKlMk6BjOz when you check out and you'll save yourself $5 and send some monies my way as well.