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At Connect4 Consulting, we use a variety of tools to support our own business as well as the business of our clients.

Are you sick of Quickbooks? Freshbooks Is Easy To Use Cloud Accounting Software Built For Owners

For years we used Quickbooks to manage accounting and invoicing. Every few years we had to upgrade and there were many features that we weren’t using that made the overall experience clunky and more complicated than it needed to be.

Freshbooks immediately showcased its strengths. Invoicing is easy and looks professional. What took 10 minutes or more in Quickbooks takes 2 minutes in Freshbooks.

That alone should be enough to make you reconsider your invoicing software.

Invoicing Software That Save You Time

Freshbooks makes small business invoicing and billing so simple, you’ll be amazed at the time you have to focus on doing what you love and how much faster you get paid.

Accept Credit Cards and ACH and Get Paid Faster

Let your clients pay you their preferred way online and get paid faster.

Track Your Expenses Without Lifting a Finger

Connect your bank account or credit card to FreshBooks and say goodbye to manual entry.

Easily Create Proposals To Win New Projects

Without leaving FreshBooks, you can create a project proposal. Prospective clients can sign the proposal and you can automatically and easily convert the proposal to an invoice.

Have you supercharged your website with online forms?

Gravity Forms

The most powerful WordPress plugin solution for building custom forms and flows to connect with users and expand reach. As far as WordPress plugins go, there is no comparison. Gravity Forms has every feature you can think of:

Visual Form Editor
Online Payment Collection
Workflow Automation
Conditional Logic
Secure Data Collection
File Uploads

Gravity Forms has several different tiers of licenses that provide a variety of add-ons and additional types of integration, including the ability to export form entries to Google Drive, Dropbox, or a Google Sheet.

Do you need next level forms? Do you have HIPAA requirements? Do you need PDFs to be created from multiple online forms?

Try Formstack Platform - Free for 14 Days

Formstack is a workplace productivity platform built to transform the way people collect information and put it to work. Its flexible, secure data collection and process automation products empower users from all industries to reduce data chaos and solve important business problems. Combining collaborative work products like electronic forms, documents, signatures, and data sync, Formstack allows businesses to improve efficiency and do more with the information they collect. Additionally, Formstack’s advanced security features ensure organizations can accelerate their operations without sacrificing security and compliance.

Formstack Documents

Formstack Documents is a seamless document generator that puts an end to manual data entry by allowing users to automatically populate documents with data from their central business systems, like CRMs and form builders. With Formstack Documents, organizations can automatically generate and share professional proposals, contracts, applications, registration forms, receipts, event tickets, and more with the information they collect. Additionally, the documents can be connected to hundreds of cloud apps to streamline data collection, eSignatures, advanced data routing, and document storage.

Formstack Sign

Formstack Sign is a simple, drag-and-drop eSignature solution that empowers businesses to collect secure digital signatures for their documents and forms from any device. With Formstack Sign, organizations can capture legally-binding eSignatures via computers, tablets, smartphones, and even text messages. Designed to move business transactions forward, Formstack Sign can convert any file type into a document that can be eSigned, or it can be paired with a document generation solution like Formstack Documents.

Formstack Sync

Formstack Sync is bi-directional data sync software that connects data from enterprise applications via pre-built connectors, standardized object mappings, and an easy-to-use web interface. With Formstack Sync, organizations can empower those closest to the data to seamlessly connect critical business systems without relying on the IT department or knowing a single line of code. The expert-level data syncing solutions help eliminate manual data entry, unite disparate systems, and ensure consistent data across departments.

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Do you manage a non-profit organization? If so, you’ll want to check out Little Green Light – one of the best donor management platforms.

Donor Management Software

Little Green Light is an all-in-one donor management solution. It’s a complete customer relationship management solution.

Relationship Management

Constituent Profiles
Membership Management
Organize and Collaborate
Alumni Management
Contact Management
Volunteer Management

Productivity Tools

Personalized Emails
Customizable Forms
Integrated Mail Merge
Acknowledgements
Built-in Integrations – email marketing, accounting, prospect research, etc.
Online Donations

Reports and Analytics

Gift Tracking
Custom Reports
Goal Tracking
Powerful Search
Pledge Tracking

Security and Backups

Permissions
Automated Backups
Secure Storage

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Are you backing up your website? How do you know you are safe from hackers? Do you have a disaster recovery plan?

Website Hosting, Backup, and Security

We have access to world-class, highly secure data centers and all of our web sites – including this one – are hosted by us.

This is something we feel really strongly about because when disaster strikes, we want to be able to help you as soon as possible. If you don’t host with us, you might not be backing up your site and it also might be exposed to hackers. When disaster strikes – and it does all too often – and you don’t have a recent backup, the site has to be completely redesigned. With our hosting, backup & security plan however, the chances of your site being hacked are very slim and even if your site is hacked, we will be able to restore it rapidly.

Our hosting, backup & security plans start at $50 per month.

Contact us today for more information.

Do you want to rank higher in search results for a particular keyword? You’ll need to focus on content, user experience, mobile experience, and page speed.

Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimization is about the overall user experience – think about your customers before you think about your search results rankings.

What worked three years ago, no longer works. That’s true of many industries, but particularly true about search engine optimization. More than anything else, Search Engine Optimization is about the overall experience for a searcher, and that experience starts the moment they enter a search query. Your website must look good, be easy to use, load quickly, and communicate effectively.

Connect4 Consulting can help you connect with your audience.

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All our happy customers

Gabe is a creative and tech savvy web designer. I hired him to build my website and help me craft a social media strategy. Gabe was able to quickly understand what my needs were and what I wanted (even though I might not have been able to clearly articulate it).

The end product was far more than I expected. He delivered a top notch website based on what we discussed.

Before I hired Gabe, I was unfocused and naive about how to use social media. Again, the end result was the creation of a coherent and practical strategy. I highly recommend Gabe for any work regarding building websites and creating social media strategies. He is easy to work with and most importantly, he listens.

Evan LeepsonAuthor of Critical Connections: The Step-by-Step Guide to Transform Your Business Through Referral Marketing

Gabriel Seiden was recommended to us to update the functionality, appearance, navigability and user-friendliness of our website as the primary portal to our full service Plastic Surgery Practice. You will see the details and ease of the website. This is due to his listening skills and wide understanding of the dynamic fixed and mobile services required in our fast paced world. Just a call and new changes are modified. Gabe has provided us detailed and excellent services and response to possibly the most important aspect of any business, your first impression.

Dr. Dean KaneMD Plastic Surgeon at Dr. Dean Kane Center for Cosmetic Surgery & Medi-Spa

Gabe created a website for a nonprofit on whose board I served. He took our varied and unformed concepts and turned them into a great product. I was impressed with his technological expertise, creative instincts and ability to work with a team of people with no tech capabilities. This is a rare set of dual skills! We felt as though we received terrific value.

Sandra TasselConservation Consultant, American Friends of Canadian Land Trusts

Gabriel has come through for us time and time again. He is highly intelligent and quickly analyzes problems then applies solutions that are often creative, unique and effective. He has a positive, “can-do” attitude and is truly a pleasure to work with. He always comes up with the tough questions and diligently pursues the answer until he comes up with something that makes sense.

Bill WheldenCEO of RX-IT Technology Services

I hired Gabe Seiden, as a professional digital marketing consultant to promote my new book (“The Last Great Senate”) because I lacked familiarity and comfort with social media generally. Gabe has deep and broad understanding of marketing through social media. He took charge of the mass mailings and outreach and enabled me to communicate with a broad audience about the book by disseminating my blogs, interviews, appearances, and other news through my website, and through Facebook, Linked In and Twitter. Gabe is creative, hard-working, imaginative, responsive and effective. He took the time to understand my book and what I wanted to communicate, and then suggested ways to do it more successfully. I benefited greatly from his work and I highly recommend him as a digital marketing consultant.

Ira ShapiroPresident, Ira Shapiro Global Strategies LLC

Gabe Seiden is an expert at web design, marketing communications, and IT project management. He has the rare ability to explain technology issues to non-techies like me, enabling us to work with him to devise effective solutions. I’ve recommended him to friends and colleagues, who’ve had similarly positive experiences. Highly recommended.

Fran RothsteinCEO, Rothstein Consulting

Gabriel is easy to work with and dependable. He focuses on my needs to reach my IT goals. He provides a creative methodology that I am able understand and he both suggests ideas and implements mine.

He does not speak “geek”, so I usually understand what I am doing and where I am trying to go. As a value oriented consumer of services, I am especially pleased with his not wasting my time or money. I highly recommend him.

Donald H. DeweyBroker of Record, McClain Dewey Real Estate

Gabe displays high energy, persistence and creativity when approaching any challenge. He is resourceful and shows good judgment in his decision-making. Gabe is a pleasure to work with and can be relied on to get the job done.

Vickie McCormickPresident, NPSFS

At Connect4 Consulting, we use a variety of tools to support our own business as well as the business of our clients.