The Seven-Step Plan for Marketing by Spreadsheet

Using Excel spreadsheets, with a bunch of numbers, adding in some deadlines, and creating a very organized process, is just how we accountants like things.

By Sandi Leyva
The Complete Guide to Marketing for Tax & Accounting Firms

It’s quite common for accounting firms – even the regionals – to have no marketing plan in place.

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The marketing plan might very well be, “get as many referrals as we can.”

Or it might be a number for each partner – which is not a marketing plan.

Or it might be, “if it’s not busy season, I’ll go to my networking group.”

None of these are plans. They are individual marketing tasks and components.

Posted on March 10, 2022

Sandi Smith Leyva

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Sandi Smith Leyva, CPA.CITP, helps small business owners get more clients, boost their revenues, and achieve their dreams using painless, low-cost marketing strategies.

She's the author of
The Complete Guide to Marketing for Tax & Accounting Firms,
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Her business experience includes management time at two Fortune 500 companies as well as making payroll every Friday as a small business owner. A seasoned speaker, she has presented her business programs to thousands of conference attendees. Sandi has earned an MBA as well as a master's in neuroscience.

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In 1995, Sandi became the sixth American female and the 15th or so female to co-pilot a single-engine airplane worldwide. In 2009, Sandi co-founded the American Happiness Association, a 501(c)3 nonprofit charitable organization that helps people learn the tools they need to be happy on a long-term basis.

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