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Archive of Selected Press Clippings

• Sandi was quoted in: Apps We Love – August 2021: New Technology by Gail Perry, CPA Practice Advisor, August 13, 2021
• Sandi was quoted in: Language That Makes Your LinkedIn Profile Pop by Teri Saylor, Journal of Accountancy, July 2021
• How Clients Get Under-Served and Accountants Get Underpaid by Sandi Leyva, CPA Trendlines, July 20, 2021
• Sandi was quoted in: Apps We Love – July 2021: Summer Readingby Gail Perry, CPA, CPA Practice Advisor, July 7, 2021
• Clubhouse: Hottest New Social Platform or Just More Noise? by Sandi Smith Leyva
• 4 Ways to Practice Entrepreneurial Perseverance by Sandi Smith Leyva, CPA Practice Advisor
• Getting New Clients: Exclusive Survey Results eBook Now Available CPA Practice Advisor
• Press Release – Getting New Clients: Exclusive Survey Results eBook Now Available by Sandi Smith Leyva (docx, pdf)
• Product news: Accelerator Websites for Accountants now offers websites in Spanish by Ranica Arrowsmith, Accounting Today
• Press Release – Accelerator Videos by Sandi Smith Leyva
• Accounting Thought Leaders Meet in Indianapolis by Isaac M. O’Bannon, CPA Practice Advisor
• Accelerator Websites for Accountants by William Murphy, Intuitive Accountant
• Author, World Traveler, Copilot, Neuroscientist, Marketing Strategist, & CPA – Sandi Smith Leyva! by Mark Goldman CPA, Where Accountants Go
• NAWBO-DFW Announces 2018-2019 Board of Directors
• Sandi Leyva was named to the #AccountingTop100 social leaderboard by Avalara and Rise
• Top 50 Women In Accounting 2017 Practice Ignition
• Important Traits Any Business Should Instill In A New Salesperson by Sandi Smith Leyva, Forbes
• 15 Ways Your Organization Can Create A Safe Space In A Divisive World by Sandi Smith Leyva, Forbes
• 15 Ways To Make Employees And Consumers Advocate For Your Brand by Sandi Smith Leyva, Forbes
• 14 Tips To Successfully Publish Thought Leadership Content On LinkedIn by Sandi Smith Leyva, Forbes
• Nine Approaches To Encourage Trust In Your Content by Sandi Smith Leyva, Forbes
• 13 Small But Powerful Ways To Become A Memorable Public Speaker by Sandi Smith Leyva, Forbes
• 15 Activities Or Hobbies You Can Do To Help Keep Yourself Centered by Sandi Smith Leyva, Forbes
• Take Off Your Mask And Become More Comfortable Being You by Sandi Smith Leyva, Forbes
• 13 Accountability Apps To Keep Your Goals From Slipping Through The Cracks by Sandi Smith Leyva, Forbes
• Nine Ways C-Players Are Affecting Your Team And How To Handle It by Sandi Smith Leyva, Forbes
• Bad Press Doesn’t Mean The End: What Your Company Can Do To Recover by Sandi Smith Leyva, Forbes
• Want To Master Your Networking Skills? Start By Researching And Listening by Sandi Smith Leyva, Forbes
• Being A Great Negotiator Starts With Becoming More Aware by Sandi Smith Leyva, Forbes
• 19 Tricks To Shift Your Mind Toward Optimism by Sandi Smith Leyva, Forbes
• When Establishing A Personal Brand, Start With Where You Are Right Now by Sandi Smith Leyva, Forbes
• Connection Rather Than Focus On The Sell by Sandi Smith Leyva, Forbes
• Live Chat Recap: How to Create Pricing Packages with Sandi Smith Leyva, OWN IT Network Hosted by Intuit QuickBooks.
• New Book Collaboration with Accounting Industry Thought Leaders Now Published
• Accelerator Websites Launches New Line of Videos and First Website Packages with Video in the Accounting Industry
• Sage Thought Leader Podcast
• Accountants can help your business reach goals (and not go bankrupt) – interview with Ed Kless
• Accountant’s Accelerator® Starts Its Sixth Year
• JumpStart Course Teaches Accountants How to Market
• Accounting Thought Leaders Look at Issues Facing Professionals
• Intuit Launches Multi-City QuickBooks Tour
• Women CPAs Host Virtual Accounting Conference Focused on Technology and Practice Management
• com® HomePay and Accountant’s Accelerator® Team Up to Turn Nanny Tax Issues into Consulting Opportunities by Sandi Smith Leyva
• Accounting Leaders Gather in Tampa by Sandi Smith Leyva, CPA Practice Advisor
• How to say “no” to an accounting client this busy season by Sandi Smith Leyva, Sageworks Blog
• The Underpricing Conundrum By Alexandra DeFelice, Accounting Web, Nov 23, 2013
• Sandi Smith Leyva named finalist in 10th annual Stevie® Awards for
  Women in Business
• Sandi Smith Leyva Named A Community Choice Honoree
• Accountant’s Accelerator Starts Fourth Year
• Innovative Company Brings New Coaching Model to the Accounting Profession and Better Small Business Expertise to Thousands of Small Business Owners, The Mercury News Silicon Valley, March 19, 2012
• Innovative Company Brings New Coaching Model to the Accounting Profession and Better Small Business Expertise to Thousands of Small Business Owners, San Francisco Chronicle, March 19, 2012
• “Women in Consulting Names 2012 Board of Directors,” Marketwire, February 28, 2012
• Guest on Radio Free QuickBooks, February 2, 2011
• Sandi’s nonprofit organization, the American Happiness Association (AHA) is featured on the Fran Descher Tawk Show, December, 2010
• AHA is featured on PBS’s Healing Quest TV show, November 29, 2010
• AHA is mentioned on CBS News shortly after Global Happiness Day, October 10, 2010
• “A Pre-Program Questionnaire Makeover,” by Jolene Jang, Speaker, January/February 2007
• Podcast, Webmasters and Business Processes, Small Business Technology Newsletter by James Gaskin, Network World, October, 2006
• Ideas in Motion – Sandi Smith, CPA – Educator, Designer, Aviator, by Scott Cytron, The Insider, Accounting Software411.com, August 2006
• “Make your firm’s website work for your firm,” CPA Computer Report, June 2006
• “On Site and on Target,” by Susan Baker, Professional Speaker, June 2006, page 31
• The Ron Muhammed Show, WLTH Radio, Gary Indiana, May 31, 2006
• The Dan Valenti Show, WBRK Radio, Pittsfield, MA, March 9, 2006
• “reads to kick off your year,” travelgirl, January/February 2006
• KAAA Radio, Bullhead City, Arizona, January 4, 2006
• Rick Crandall’s Breakfast Club, KEZW Studio
  1430 Radio, Denver, Colorado, January 3, 2006
• “Winter Reading Recommendations,” Books by Tom Elliott, Mensa Bulletin, December 2005
• Around the World Radio show, syndicated, Santa Barbara, CA, December 15, 2005
• Backstage Live with Joe Scheibinger, News-Talk 1450 KFIZ
  Radio, Fond du Lac, WI, December 15, 2005
• WRJM Radio Talk Show, Ozark, Alabama, December 13, 2005
• WIMA Radio Show, Lima, Ohio, December 2, 2005
• Inside Track Club, Jane Atkinson, October 2005
• Good News!, Lorri Allen, October 2005
• “Technology and the 21st Century CPA,” AICPA Journal of Accountancy,
  March, 2005.
• “Web Site Workover,” by James Gaskin, Network World, January 17, 2005
• “Hi-Tech Tops Must-Have Wish Lists,” AICPA CPA Insider, December 6, 2004.
• “Professionally
  Speaking,” The Meeting Professional, June 2004, page 8.
• “Chapter News,” The Meeting Professional, May 2004, page
• “Web Design Entrepreneur Has a Varied Background,” by Patricia Rivera,
  Dallas Morning News, July 6, 2003.
• “Measuring the Effectiveness of a Web Site,” by Scott H. Cytron, ABC,
  CPA Software News, August 2001, page 57.
• “Top Ten Technologies Provide a Wake-Up Call for the Profession,”
  by Scott H. Cytron, ABC, CPA Software News, April/May 2001,
  page 70.
• “Technology 2001: A Cyberspace Odyssey,” by Scott H. Cytron, ABC,
  AICPA InfoTech Update, January/February 2001.
• AICPA Annual List of Top Technologies, AccountingWeb, September 2000.
• “Innovative Approaches to Continuing Professional Education,” Pro2Net’s
  HotTalk, December, 1999.
• “The Virtual Office: Virtually Everywhere,” by Antoinette Alexander,
  Accounting Technology, August 1999, page 50.
• “AICPA Top 10 list for 1999 focuses on technology issues,”by Chaim
  Yudkowsky, Cyber Sense column, Business Sense, Louisville,
  Kentucky, March 8, 1999.
• “How Secure Is your Computer System?” by Michael G. Stevens, The
  Practical Accountant, January 1998.
• “The Remote Balance,” by Jim DiSimone, Today’s CPA, April
• “The pros and cons of value-added resellers,” by John Covaleski, 
  Accounting Today,July 7-27, 1997.
• “1996 AWSCPA Achievement Awards,” AWSCPA National News, American
  Woman’s Society of CPAs, August, 1996.
• “How to squeeze more out of your department’s computer systems,” CFO
  & Controller Alert, May 14, 1996.
• “CPAs who consult on Technology to CPAs,” CPA Computer Report,
  July 1996.
• “AOPA Members in the News,” AOPA Pilot, December 1995.
• “Mission Possible,” by Colleen Stead, The Irving News, Irving, Texas, October 8, 1995.
• “Volunteer Eye Surgeon in Nepal,” The Kathmandu Post, August 25, 1995.
• “Baird Community Spirit Award,” Dallas Business Journal,
  March 1995.