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Dan Englander

Dan Englander was a reporter and editor of Duke University's award-winning daily newspaper, The Chronicle, for three years. He wrote about and edited local and state news before editing the opinion section of the newspaper during the height of the Duke Lacrosse rape scandal. Since that time, Dan helped found Shoeboxed.com, a company that scans paper receipts and business cards and provides online organizational software for them. He has extensive experience in small business operations, sales, finances, and public relations. Follow Dan on Twitter!

Shoeboxed and Nexonia Partner for Dead Simple Expense Reporting

Shoeboxed and Nexonia Partner for Dead Simple Expense Reporting

Nexonia and Shoeboxed, two leading companies in online expense management, today announced a partnership to scan paper receipts and transform them into digital expense reports. Starting today, users that use Shoeboxed’s online receipt management service can integrate the receipt information to Nexonia’s Web-based service, where they can manage and analyze expenses and create professional expense [...]

Want to Recycle Receipts and Business Cards?

Want to Recycle Receipts and Business Cards?

To reduce paper clutter and unnecessary postage costs, Shoeboxed is now allowing our customers to opt out of getting their receipts and business cards mailed back to them. By default, we return receipts and business cards for our Mail-In Classic and Business members. Since we provide scanned copies of the receipts and  business cards, many [...]

Kentucky Grilled Chicken FAIL

Kentucky Grilled Chicken FAIL

If you haven’t heard about Kentucky Fried Chicken’s new grilled chicken or its recent promotion (backed by Oprah) where you can get a free grilled chicken meal, well, you’ve been hiding in a cave. They’re running tons of TV ads and the Internet is abuzz with the promotion as well.
So when you saturate American media [...]

Recession Special: Everything at Walmart

Recession Special: Everything at Walmart

Apparently, the recession hurts less at Walmart. A recent survey of American consumers had some interesting results: people are a lot less interested in shopping than they have been in decades and are turning to discount retailers like Walmart to ease their financial pain.
“This is the first time in 30 years of consumer surveys that [...]

Shoeboxed Teams Up With Jigsaw To Help You Expand Your Personal Network

Shoeboxed Teams Up With Jigsaw To Help You Expand Your Personal Network

Shoeboxed recently announced a partnership with Jigsaw to help business professionals expand their network of business contacts by scanning and sharing business cards online. Shoeboxed gives people an easy way to get hard copy business cards scanned and uploaded to the web. Jigsaw then aggregates them, letting people trade what they have for fresh contacts [...]

Shoeboxed is a SaaS Superstar!

At Shoeboxed, we offer a scanning service for receipts and business cards and online software to organize the information that we digitize. Though the scanning portion of what we do is clearly a service, it’s important to remember that the software is itself a service as well. We don’t give you the software and set [...]

Help Design Shoeboxed’s New Envelopes

It’s about time for Shoeboxed to buy another large batch of envelopes for our receipt and business card Mail-In program. We have had lots of people over the last couple of years give us feedback about our envelopes, and we wanted to take this opportunity to solicit your thoughts about our envelope design. That’s why [...]

Top Ten Facts about Amended Returns

Taxpayers who need to make a change or adjustment on a return they already filed can do so by filing an amended return. Here are the top 10 things every taxpayer should know about amending your federal tax return.

What Happens After I File?

Most taxpayers have already filed their federal tax returns but may still have questions. Here’s what you need to know about refund status, recordkeeping, mistakes and what to do if you move.
Refund Information
You can go online to check the status of your 2008 refund 72 hours after IRS acknowledges receipt of your e-filed return, or [...]

Tax Day!

If you are just learning that today is Tax Day, you may be in a bit of trouble. For everyone trying to get them finished today, good luck! And to everyone already done, congrats!
If you think you’ll need more time, make sure to check out FileLater, an easy way to get a tax extension in [...]

Announcing Shoeboxed Mobile!

Announcing Shoeboxed Mobile!

On the go? Now you can take Shoeboxed with you!

We’re excited to announce the launch of Shoeboxed Mobile (Beta), which will allow you to keep track of your receipts and business cards as you get them. With Shoeboxed Mobile, you can send in photos of your receipts and business cards to a special email address, [...]

Tax Extensions: Do They Increase Your Chances of Being Audited?

Tax Extensions: Do They Increase Your Chances of Being Audited?

This is a guest post from our friends at FileLater, which offers and easy way to get a tax extension. They explore the question of whether or not filing for a tax extension increases your chances of being audited later. The answer may surprise you!

Get a Tax Extension with FileLater

Get a Tax Extension with FileLater

This is a guest post from our friends at FileLater, which offers and easy way to get a tax extension. Since they’re the tax extension experts, they put together a list of 5 reasons why you may want to get an extension on your taxes this year.

Round 2 Begins!

Round 2 Begins!

We had an incredibly exciting first round, with several upsets and amazing comebacks. There were lots of examples of competitors using various social media tools to drive large amounts of votes, and in many cases that made the difference.
Some match-ups show the entire number of votes logged for a particular contest, but we are only [...]

Internet March Mayhem e-Tournament: First Round Begins!

Internet March Mayhem e-Tournament: First Round Begins!

Every March, college basketball has one of the most exciting tournaments in all of sports. For years, the non-athletes and geeks among us have yearned to experience the drama, the excitement and the posturing that is the college basketball tournament – but alas, we don’t know anything about basketball. Enter the Shoeboxed Internet March Mayhem [...]