Practice Development Is No Longer Optional

“You can’t not try.”

by Marc Rosenberg, CPA
Author of What Really Makes CPA Firms Profitable?

Certainly, one of the most obvious ways to increase revenues is by bringing in more business. Firms usually find that most or all of this additional business falls directly to the bottom line. So why don’t so many firms at least try to do it?

Marc Rosenberg
Marc Rosenberg

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Marketing is certainly one of the biggest, if not the biggest, ways the CPA industry has changed over the past 30 years. Many years ago, a client of mine told me that all that is needed to be successful is to hang out your shingle and have good technical skills and reasonably good interpersonal skills. Sooner or later, clients would come.