January 2012 Newsletter

This is a story of how I made $250k with our TempWorks iPad app and how we are constantly evolving this aspect of our product suite which we believe may soon spell the difference between success and failure for staffing sales professionals. I was down in a southern state visiting some friends and calling on a few clients when it happened that I had two spare hours to kill between a …

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One great way to see what is happening at the bleeding edge of recruitment technology is to attend the Executive Forum, especially the TechDay where TempWorks software professionals will be on-hand giving demonstrations of our latest HTML5, iPad, TimeClock and smart phone innovations.  The full conference runs from March 13 to March 15 at the luxurious Red Rock Las Vegas. We also welcome our clients to meet up with us …

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If you are in the day labor business and you are still using paper to track everything, you already know that’s not a long term solution. Every morning probably looks like Wall Street without the suits. With people furiously waving paper slips and yelling at the top of their lungs, you’d probably rather not think about it. You just lost a customer because you sent a banned ex-employee after they …

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A database is only as good as the data you put into it… This is very true for TempWorks, especially in regards to Assignments and how they relate to Paychecks and Invoices. All Paychecks and Invoices are created based on the fact that you have an open Assignment. When your Payroll/Billing department receives a timecard, that time is entered into a “Transaction” which is there because there is an Assignment …

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Free Tempworks Enterprise Training: Friday, February 3! Space is limited.  Register now: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/119271305 I’ve been on the road visiting clients and one thing they’re telling me over and over again is how important training is for their staff development.  They’re also telling me our free online training fits in perfectly with the intensely busy and multitasking work day of their staffing professionals. Multitasking can mean disaster, and it can mean unparalleled …

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Payroll processing is a crowded industry with a lot of sophisticated and competitive players.  Breaking into that industry is no easy task and standing out like Tempworks does in Google rankings of payroll processors is an almost impossible task. How’d we do it?   Did we hire an army of Google search consultants?  Bribe someone in Mountain View?   Write all kinds of devilishly clever payroll content?  Come up with a magic feature, a …

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Kyle Biesterveld joined our support team in 2011 and quickly gained respect from clients and coworkers for his ability to quickly solve technical issues with great customer service. Unlike help desk type positions in many industries, working in customer service at Tempworks involves a constantly changing landscape of technologies and client issues. Imagine what’s happened in the short time since Kyle joined us in 2011.  HTML5 gained foothold as a dominant …

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