Jan 31st Is The Deadline To Have W-2s & 1099s To Recipients

The team at Inspherio would like to remind you of the upcoming Jan 31st Deadline to have W-2s & 1099s to recipients. Our sister product, ExpressTaxFilings.com can help you quickly and easily generate and file W-2s & 1099s with the IRS.

How do you know if you should file a W-2 or 1099?
The simple answer is if you have employees and have withheld taxes, you would issue a W-2. For independent contractors who were paid $600 or more and no taxes withheld for the 2013 tax year, you would issue a Form 1099.

Want to know more about ExpressTaxFilings.com?
ExpressTaxFilings.com is the premier online filing program for 1099s and W-2s. We are IRS authorized, and our experienced unmatched U.S based support team is here to ensure you to have a stress-free filing experience.

With prices starting at just $2.99, ExpressTaxFilings offers the best e-filing solution and you can easily file for multiple recipients using our innovative bulk upload option - an easy to use feature where you can quickly upload both payer & recipient information from an Excel. doc

The benefits of using ExpressTaxFilings to file your W-2 & 1099 are:

• No expensive software to download or buy
• No paper forms to purchase
• No monthly fees
• No setup fees
• No complicated tax jargon

Questions?
Great! Their US-based support team located in Rock Hill, South Carolina is always available to help you with any problems you might have. You can reach them by phone at 803.514.5155 or by email at support@ExpressTaxFilings.com.

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Happy St. Patrick's Day from SpanPlan

The Inspherio Team would like to wish you a

Happy St. Patrick's Day! 

We hope that your business continues to prosper & that you may find your own Pot of Gold during this upcoming Event Season!

If you have any questions about how you can improve your business with Inspherio, you can contact our dedicated Customer Support Team at 704.234.6000 or send us an email at support@Inspherio.com 

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A Christmas Donation

This year, instead of a Secret Santa program or exchanging gifts, the Inspherio Team decided to take up donations for a local charity.  This made much more sense than giving each other things we don't really need, and it gave us an opportunity to reach out to our local charities. 






The local organization we decided to work with this Christmas was the Dorothy Day Soup Kitchen.  This Soup Kitchen has been faithfully serving their community for 24 years, providing daily hot meals for anyone in need.  During Thanksgiving & Christmas, their volunteers provide a large banquet and also deliver to the sick & shut-ins of the community. 

It was truly a blessing to see such goodwill in action.  After seeing this work being done here in our city, we have been inspired to do more with the Dorothy Day Soup Kitchen in the future.  Especially since these organizations need help and assistance not only at Christmas, but throughout the year as well.   



Agie & Amanda meeting with Beverly Carroll of the Soup Kitchen

If you have been working with a local charity this year, send us a picture & we will share the story!

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All About Inspherio

It’s time to get your Event Business organized with Inspherio - the most advanced business management program for Event Industry Professionals.  Inspherio provides solutions for businesses of any size, no matter if you are a one person operation or a full crew with many employees.  No other tool allows you to manage your entire business from one place - even employees and payroll!  

The exclusive Enterprise Version of Inspherio is leaps and bounds beyond any other program on the market today!

No other program offers a Truly All-In-One Solution, allowing you to:

• Schedule Your Employees & Assign Them to Events
• No more wasting time on an antiquated scheduling process
• Give Your Employees Account Access with Individual Login Information
• All your company information in one central place
• Automate Your Payroll Process & Track Expenses Intuitively 
• Eliminate that shoe box full of receipts & tax info
• Gather All Event Info From your Clients Automatically Add it to Contracts in Real Time
• Inspherio eliminates redundancies wherever possible
• Create Contracts in the Cloud & E-Sign Them From Anywhere
• Always Be Closing, no matter where in the world you are
• Generate Comprehensive Reports at Tax Time & Throughout the Year
• “Planning Your Success” is our motto, but can also Measure Your Success

With Inspherio, you are not alone.  Our customer support team is always available to offer heroic help whenever you need it through phone, email, & chat support.  Just give us a call at 704.234.6000 or email us at support@Inspherio.com with any questions you may have.

These are just a few examples of what Inspherio can do for your business. Join Inspherio Now to checkout the above features and more!!! Get started for Free!  NO Credit Card required to check it out!

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UnitHub Has Launched

The Inspherio Team is very excited to officially introduce UnitHub - Launching Today, Sept 18th.

This New product from SPAN Enterprises, our parent company, has been in development throughout the year, and is now ready to be used worldwide. UnitHub serves as an international website, marketing, and contact management tool for anyone in a direct selling business, anywhere in the world.

UnitHub includes the following features:
- A Fully Customizable Website
- SEO Tools
- Email Marketing
- Contact Management
- Facebook & Twitter Integration
- An Interactive Calendar
- Online Training Center
- Inventory & Accounting modules will be part of the second version.

With packages starting at just $14.95, and a free 30 day trial to check it out - There is no risk to try it out.

If you have any questions or would like to learn more, you can contact our heroic support team through online chat at www.UnitHub.com, give us a call at 704.234.6946 or send an email to heroes@UnitHub.com

UnitWise | UnitHub | Inspherio
The family of successful business management products from SPAN Enterprises

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Create Online Forms

Photo Credit:  Johan Larsson

One of the most versatile features of your Inspherio website is the ability to create online forms.  These Forms can be used to collect information from the people who visit your site.  This can be basic contact information, polls, vouchers, or anything else you can come up with.

You can even make certain fields mandatory!  

Text Guide:
-  First you will need to edit one of your website pages in Inspherio under Website >> Public Site Content

-  To begin creating a Form, click on the icon that looks like a dotted rectangle and says “Form.”  Then, you only need to enter the name of the Form and click OK

-  These Forms can consist of Open-Ended Questions, Multiple Choice Questions, lists, and more

-  Lets Start with creating a Text Field.  This is useful if you would like to collect info such as names, phone numbers, etc.

-  Start by entering what information you are collecting.  Such as a Name.  Then Click the Text Field icon.

-  Then enter the name of this text field, then enter character width of 20-30 this determines how long the box is.  Then Enter the Maximum Characters that someone can put into this field. Then click “OK”

-  If there are things you would like to change about this form, you can double-click the box and make some changes.

-  You can keep adding fields like this one, or you can do something a little different.

-  If you would like to give the User some options, add Radio Buttons by clicking the dot icon that says radio button

-  Name the button, then type in what it represents

-  You can also use checkboxes in this manner if you want the users to check all that apply

-  Now lets add a Drop Down Menu

-  Go to the Icon that says Selection Field

-  Give it a name and then select the number of lines.  You will likely want to limit it to one line.  Then select the same text for text and value and click add.  Click OK when you are satisfied with the drop down options

-  In the End, you will need to add a Submit Button so that this information will be sent to you

-  To do this, select the icon that is titled “Button”

-  Then type in Submit for Type and Value.  Be sure the Type is Button.  Then Click OK

-  If you would like to have this information sent to someone else, like say, your virtual assistant.  Then you can do that also.

-  To do this click in the area right before the Submit button

-  Then go to add a Hidden Field.  

-  For the name of this form type “form notify email” as one word.  formnotifyemail.  And for the value, type in the email address that the email notification should go to.  Then Click OK

-  If you would like to make certain fields mandatory, you can do that through the source code by clicking “Source”

-  To make a text box or a text area mandatory, first find the field in the html code

-  In the line of code for the text box, you will need to add class="required"  and title="This information is required"

-  This way, the user will not be allowed to submit the form until the required field is completed.  If the user clicks the submit button without entering any value in that particular field, the text we entered for the "title"  will show up in red.

-  When the Form is completed, it will then be sent to you in an email.  

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Go Paperless

Photo taken from Flickr
Originally by Munir Hamdan

In this day and age, it pays to go paperless.  You can get things done faster, it's easier to stay organized, and it's better for the environment.  Of course there are certain things that you may still need to print depending on your particular business needs.  However, if your business has not seriously reduced its use of paper over the last few years, you should seriously consider running your business with a more efficient program.  

With Inspherio, you can increase your efficiency and sustainability by organizing nearly all of your business information in one place.  You can keep all of your customer data online, create invoices and electronic contracts that can all be completed online.  In the past few years, nearly everything has moved to Cloud-Based services, and there is plenty of room for your business in the cloud as well.  With Inspherio, all your business information is kept on our secure servers and can be accessed from anywhere there is an internet connection.  This provides your business the ultimate solution for mobility.  There is nothing to download or update, just login from any computer, tablet, or mobile device.

With Inspherio, you can maximize the efficiency of your business so that you can spend as little time as possible on meticulous paperwork or general office duties.  Instead of focusing so much of your attention on running your business, Inspheriocan help free up your time, so that you can instead focus on growing your business.

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It's More Important to Be Kind than Clever

Photo taken from Flickr
Originally by JD Hancock

This Article was originally posted in the Harvard Business Review Blog Network by Bill Taylor

One of the more heart-warming stories to zoom around the Internet lately involves a young man, his dying grandmother, and a bowl of clam chowder from Panera Bread. It's a little story that offers big lessons about service, brands, and the human side of business — a story that underscores why efficiency should never come at the expense of humanity.

The story, as told in AdWeek, goes like this: Brandon Cook, from Wilton, New Hampshire, was visiting his grandmother in the hospital. Terribly ill with cancer, she complained to her grandson that she desperately wanted a bowl of soup, and that the hospital's soup was inedible (she used saltier language). If only she could get a bowl of her favorite clam chowder from Panera Bread! Trouble was, Panera only sells clam chowder on Friday. So Brandon called the nearby Panera and talked to store manager Suzanne Fortier. Not only did Sue make clam chowder specially for Brandon's grandmother, she included a box of cookies as a gift from the staff.

It was a small act of kindness that would not normally make headlines. Except that Brandon told the story on his Facebook page, and Brandon's mother, Gail Cook, retold the story on Panera's fan page. The rest, as they say, is social-media history. Gail's post generated 500,000 (and counting) "likes" and more than 22,000 comments on Panera's Facebook page. Panera, meanwhile, got something that no amount of traditional advertising can buy — a genuine sense of affiliation and appreciation from customers around the world.

Marketing types have latched on to this story as an example of the power of social media and "virtual word-of-mouth" to boost a company's reputation. But I see the reaction to Sue Fortier's gesture as an example of something else — the hunger among customers, employees, and all of us to engage with companies on more than just dollars-and-cents terms. In a world that is being reshaped by the relentless advance of technology, what stands out are acts of compassion and connection that remind us what it means to be human.

As I read the story of Brandon and his grandmother, I thought back to a lecture delivered two years ago by Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, to the graduating seniors of my alma mater, Princeton University. Bezos is nothing if not a master of technology — he has built his company, and his fortune, on the rise of the Internet and his own intellect. But he spoke that day not about computing power or brainpower, but about his grandmother — and what he learned when he made her cry.

Even as a 10-year-old boy, it turns out, Bezos had a steel-trap mind and a passion for crunching numbers. During a summer road trip with his grandparents, young Jeff got fed up with his grandmother's smoking in the car — and decided to do something about it. From the backseat, he calculated how many cigarettes per day his grandmother smoked, how many puffs she took per cigarette, the health risk of each puff, and announced to her with great fanfare, "You've taken nine years off your life!"

Bezos's calculations may have been accurate — but the reaction was not what he expected. His grandmother burst into tears. His grandfather pulled the car off to the side of the road and asked young Jeff to step out. And then his grandfather taught a lesson that this now-billionaire decided to share the with the Class of 2010: "My grandfather looked at me, and after a bit of silence, he gently and calmly said, 'Jeff, one day you'll understand that it's harder to be kind than clever.'"

That's a lesson I wish more businesspeople understood — a lesson that is reinforced by the reaction to this simple act of kindness at Panera Bread. Indeed, I experienced something similar not so long ago, and found it striking enough to devote an HBR blog post to the experience. In my post, I told the story of my father, his search for a new car, a health emergency that took place in the middle of that search — and a couple of extraordinary (and truly human) gestures by an auto dealer that put him at ease and won his loyalty.

"What is it about business that makes it so hard to be kind?" I asked at the time. "And what kind of businesspeople have we become when small acts of kindness feel so rare?"

That's what's really striking about the Panera Bread story — not that Suzanne Fortier went out of her way to do something nice for a sick grandmother, but that her simple gesture attracted such global attention and acclaim.

So by all means, encourage your people to embrace technology, get great at business analytics, and otherwise ramp up the efficiency of everything they do. But just make sure all their efficiency doesn't come at the expense of their humanity. Small gestures can send big signals about who we are, what we care about, and why people should want to affiliate with us. It's harder (and more important) to be kind than clever.
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Bill Taylor is co-founder of Fast Company magazine and author of Practically Radical: Not-So-Crazy Ways to Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself, published January 4, 2011.

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Happy Indian Independence Day

The Inspherio Team would like to wish a Happy Indian Independence Day to our Tech Team.  Many of our programmers and analysts for Inspherio are from India, and we would like to wish them a Happy Indian Independence Day as well as thank them for their hard work in creating such a great program. 


Did you Know?   Today marks the 65th year that the country of India has been a sovereign nation.  On August 15, 1947 India was able to achieve independence from British rule through peaceful nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience led by the Indian National Congress.

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