The days are long gone when the only way to build your business was by hiring full time employees. Now there are so many more choices. Many employees are interested in part-time work. Some prefer to work virtually, which frees a company up from being limited to
Read more →Summer can be slow for some accounting firms and especially some tax firms. But it doesn’t have to be if you know what to do. Here are five ideas you can use to boost not only your summer revenue, but your revenue all year long. 1. Go
Read more →I first heard the term “consumption marketing” from Bret Ridgeway of Speaker Fulfillment Services. He’s the guy who does my product warehousing; he helps me sends all of our clients the binders and CDs that they order. I don’t know if he coined the term, but I
Read more →I hear more accountants grumbling every day about how price-sensitive their prospects and clients have gotten. And they are right, to a degree. The economy has caused even the rich to count their pennies, and the percentage of people who look at a price tag before they
Read more →If you are stuck at the same income level from last year and the year before, and you’re working harder and longer hours than you ever have, then I’d like to help. I’ll never forget the years I drove around town from client to client, fixing QuickBooks
Read more →As a small business owner, you wear many hats. It’s hard to be an expert at all of the hats you have to wear, and that includes the hat that has to make good decisions about your website. In some cases, vendors don’t make this any easier,
Read more →Small business owners have limited budgets for marketing, so it’s essential that they spend the money, and especially their time, as wisely as possible. Too often, I see entrepreneurs costing themselves money and time when it comes to many of the marketing choices they make. Here are
Read more →I’m pretty sure that I am not the only accountant who has made the following mistakes with clients. Here are a couple of ideas to help us remember what we know that the client doesn’t and why it costs us when we forget. 1. Clients do not
Read more →Once you’ve gotten your web site in tip top shape, it’s time to let the world know about it. One way is to set up profiles on the web that drive traffic back to your site. Here are five places you can do just that: 1. Intuit’s QuickBooks
Read more →Many of you already know how easy and profitable it is to offer Intuit’s Assisted Payroll service to clients, especially if you are part of the ProAdvisor program or are an Intuit Solution Provider. Once you get a client set up on Assisted, there are even more
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