by Sandi Leyva | Dec 31, 2012 | Ultimate Accounting vCon
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact Sandi Smith Leyva 408-550-4325 or support@sandismith.com Conference in the Cloud Teaches Accountants How to Profit from the Cloud Don asks a question about how to handle a high-maintenance client, and Jackie and Scott chime in with their...
by Sandi Leyva | Dec 18, 2012 | Grow Your Accounting Practice
The end-of-year holidays make a wonderful time to gain the genius of hindsight before we enter 2013. To create your very own business year-in-review, ask yourself these five questions and prepare your answers thoughtfully. What were your major accomplishments...
by Sandi Leyva | Dec 13, 2012 | Grow Your Accounting Practice
No matter how small or large your practice is or how experienced you are, you’re probably going to meet some prospect or clients this busy season who are price-sensitive. Many of you tell me you try to run from them as far away as possible, and others of you...
by Sandi Leyva | Dec 11, 2012 | Accountant’s Accelerator
Were you on the webinar today? I hope you enjoyed 15 Super-Easy Ways to Accelerate Your Practice and got some good ideas you can implement right away. If you’d like to learn more, I invite you to check out the Accountant’s Accelerator program to see if it’s right for...
by Sandi Leyva | Dec 4, 2012 | Accounting Marketing
For those of you who have current clients in your accounting practice, this is a great spreadsheet exercise you can do to identify what I call “low-hanging fruit,” which means added revenue that will not take too much time or money to go after. Open Excel or your...
by Sandi Leyva | Nov 28, 2012 | Grow Your Accounting Practice
We’ve worked super-hard on gaining our accounting, tax, and auditing skills. Those skills alone will keep us working as employees for someone else, but what if we want to go out on our own or grow our business beyond what we have now? Here are five...
by Sandi Leyva | Nov 20, 2012 | Grow Your Accounting Practice
A long time ago, a participant in one of my live CPE classes passed a note to me that said, “The only people who like change are babies.” I believe everyone will agree that change is not easy until you develop a skill to embrace it. Here are five...
by Sandi Leyva | Nov 13, 2012 | Grow Your Accounting Practice
How does your current business look compared to the one you dreamed about before you started your entrepreneurial journey? Do you now have clients you love, a dream team, the financial rewards you are comfortable with, and plenty of free time? If not, don’t give...
by Sandi Leyva | Nov 7, 2012 | Grow Your Accounting Practice
As compliance services become more commoditized and automated, accountants are faced with how this affects their practice and their bottom line. They can: Serve a higher level client that requires greater complexity, making themselves fairly immune to these...
by Sandi Leyva | Oct 31, 2012 | Grow Your Accounting Practice
Many of my readers are QuickBooks ProAdvisors who offer QuickBooks consulting to their clients; you may be one of them. Here are the opportunities I see to expand your client services in the area of QuickBooks consulting, or for that matter, any accounting...
