ACCION USA Features Help with a Smile Founder Michael Spadaro

ACCION USA, an organization that was instrumental in the early funding of Help with a Smile has featured President and Founder, Michael Spadaro, in a recent article.  The article focuses on Help with a Smile's recruitment process.

Help with a Smile recommends ACCION USA, a nonprofit organization that offers micro-loans to small businesses to help grow their business through investment in technology and other areas.  If you’re interested, please contact Erica Dorn at ACCION USA directly: (646) 833-4533 or edorn@accionusa.org.  You can also apply online directly at www.accionusa.org/apply.

Read the article featuring Help with a Smile on ACCION's website

Special Offer on BatchBook.com for Better Contact Management

Any small business looking for CRM should be looking HARD at web-based "aka cloud" solutions.  There is so much upside to having this information in the cloud- portability, integrations with other tools, frequent product updates, etc.

There are dozens of options, but one of our favorite is BatchBook.  BatchBook is comparitively inexpensive to some of its more enterprise-focused competitors (ahem..SalesForce) and usually require no (or very little) IT expertise to set up.  It's a great option for smaller companies or solopros who need to keep track of contacts, communications, and opportunities.  Unlike some of the other low-cost options for small businesses, it's very customizable through the use of custom fields (BatchBook calls them SuperTags).

Need another reason to try out BatchBook?  They've given us a promo code to share with you.  If you sign up for a BatchBook trial with the promo code HWAS you'll receive a 60-day trial rather than the standard 30-day trial. 

New e-waste partnership with The 4th Bin...plus- free stuff ;)

In honor of Earth Month, we're pleased to announce our formal e-waste recycling partnership with The 4th Bin.

One question I've been asked countless times by clients over the years is: "How do we responsibly dispose of our outdated and broken equipment?".  Unfortunately, the answers haven't come easy, and usually involved lugging your equipment to a collection site on the right day of the year.  Only the hard core greeniacs have put in the time and effort to take such measures.

I was thrilled to have recently discovered The 4th Bin (@The4thBin), an e-waste recycling company here in NYC that does local pickups for an insanely reasonable fee.  Read more about them at their website- you'll be impressed.

(In case you're wondering why you have to pay to have your equipment taken away... I can tell you from experience that it takes a lot of hard work to make used tech useful again, and most items that get discarded simply aren't useful at all anymore and need to be sent to a processing plant to be broken down into materials that can be recycled into new products.)

What does our new partnership with The 4th Bin mean for Help with a Smile and our clients?

1. Our clients will receive 10% off all e-waste recycling services- just use the promo code "HWAS" when you schedule your pickup.
2. We will be working with The 4th Bin to schedule regular pickups from our office and make sure that damaged equipment from our clients is properly recycled.

And now for the free stuff...

From now through the end of August, if you schedule a recycling pickup with The 4th Bin and use our discount code, we'll donate 3 months of our proactive business backup service to you, totally free!  Just think, you can get rid of that old jalopy and keep your data safe and protected on that shiny new computer.

Head to our e-waste promo page to get details and claim your 3 free months of service.

We're going green for Earth month!

It's a beautiful April day, and we've broken the 70 degree mark for the first time after a brutal winter.  What better time to start thinking about contributing to Earth month!  This year, among other initiatives, we're spending time to educate our clients on the virtues of e-waste recycling.

So don't send those old gadgets and gizmos to the landfill, stay tuned to our twitter feed for all the latest tips and tricks on how to green-ify your technology.

We've got a number of wonderful announcements to kick off the greenest season of all...

Earth Day NY Earth Fair

We're going to be exhibiting our greener side at Earth Day NY's Earth Fair, running April 22-23 outside of Grand Central Terminal.  Not only is Earth Day NY a client of ours, they're a fantastic bunch of people who really know how to put on a great event.  It's always a great time- so come on out and meet us face to face- we'd love to see you!

E-waste Partnership with The 4th Bin

We've got a big announcement coming regarding our brand new e-waste recycling partnership with The 4th Bin.  We want to do our part in helping our clients be as eco-friendly as possible.  Stay tuned for details...