Ten Ways to Make Your Business Irresistible

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Draw new clients in like a magnet.

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

If you’re an expert at something, don’t be the best-kept secret on your block. Get the word out about what you can offer others, and one way to do that easily, especially if you’re an accountant, is to build your reputation.

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Here are 10 quick tips to boost yours.

1. Get credentialed, certified or educated. A good credential – and the CPA is pretty much the gold standard – will get you instant credibility with your prospects and clients. You are simply treated better and respected more when you’ve earned a credential that others recognize.
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Eleven Ways to Serve Clients Even Better

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Improve your relationships and your revenue.

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

As you build your relationships with your clients, it’s always a good thing to see how you can serve them even better.

Here are 11 ways you can add value to your existing services that will enable you to stand out from the competition, serve the client better and put more green in your bank account.

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As you go through the list, check them off to see which ones you are doing, and which ones sound good to add to your business.
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Give to Receive, and Eight More Ways to Boost Sales

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These tips work for referrals, too.

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

Networking is an essential part of building your business.

Whether you network locally, nationally or internationally, there are some tips that are common to all businesses:

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1. Be crystal clear about what you do and how people can use you. Also know exactly who your ideal client is in case you’re asked. If you don’t do this, you’ll leave people scratching their heads about you and they won’t know how to connect with you even if they want to.
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Five Ways to Target the Low-Hanging Fruit

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Easy tips you can implement right now.

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

If business has slowed for you, it’s not just you. With people finishing their holiday preparations, getting ready for school vacations and trying to keep from falling to the latest batch of colds making the rounds, it’s all most of us can do to stay on our routines.

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As entrepreneurs, we still need to make payroll, meet our budget goals and get enough cash in to keep our doors open. So how can we cash in on the low-hanging fruit?
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Eight Ways to Build Busy-Season Stamina

Attitude is key, but can only do so much.

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

Busy season is just around the corner. Can you feel the excitement? Or the dread?

Here are eight ways to boost your stamina and minimize burnout for those of you who are working long hours in the weeks ahead.

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1. Understand the physical limitations of “willpower.”

According to scientists, our willpower is replenished every morning after a good night’s sleep. It’s strongest in the morning (even if you’re an evening person like me), and it wanes throughout the day. The more stress you’re under, the faster it depletes during the day, and sometimes your willpower runs out before the day does.
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Five Things That Clients Don’t Know about Accountants

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We have to remember to offer this information.

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

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.

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1. Clients do not know how to evaluate our technical skills.

If you need to hire an accountant, chances are you don’t know a lot about accounting. It just follows that you’re not going to be perfect at hiring an accountant. As accountants, we need to remember that it’s not our technical prowess that gets us the job because the client has no way of evaluating that piece.
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Are Your Revenue Projections Realistic?

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Three ways to evaluate your new client funnel.

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

You may have heard about the marketing funnel before. There are lots of variations, and I want to cover it in a way that helps us examine our mix of products, services and prices.

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The funnel can be pictured like a big “V.”  At the top, wide-open part, there are a lot of prospects interested in your services and products. At the bottom, narrow part, there are a few select customers who buy the most from you.
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Make Your Prospect Kit Stand Out

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Eight must-haves and 10 ways to go beyond the expected.

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

If you’ve spent any time at all in business talking with prospects on the phone or in person, then you probably have a list of benefits or advantages that you like to mention about your company to every prospect. You may have a very structured way of going about this, and you may not.

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In any case, building a prospect kit will help you become even more consistent in the presentation of your company’s strong points to prospects. And, it’s absolutely essential as you move into larger and larger business deals.

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