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Six Concrete Ways to Help Business Clients Reach their Full Potential

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Female hand with pen pointing at documentHow financial literacy makes clients better, and makes better clients.

By Sandi Leyva and Michelle Long
The Ultimate Accounting Virtual Conference

We really need to be compassionate with our clients. If they don’t see our value, we just have to realize they’re afraid of all this.

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I think we need to be gentle as we communicate our value and help them with their fear. If they stay afraid of it, they will stay close-minded and that will keep their business from reaching the potential it could.

We can make such a difference in our clients, especially these micro businesses we work with. These are people who are struggling to put food on the table in some cases and we can really turn their lives around and make a difference.

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Surviving Busy Season: 10 Tips for More Energy

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Businessman listening to music in officeFeel free to keep them going year round, of course.

By Sandi Leyva
The Accountant’s Accelerator

Is keeping a high energy level a challenge for you?

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Here are a few tips to revitalize your personal energy. Some of these are very simple, so simple you may think they won’t do anything for you.
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How to Teach Financial Literacy

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Woman watching what man is doing on laptop in officeHelp your clients and maybe learn about your business as well.

By Sandi Leyva and Michelle Long

Here is how to make more from working less: offering financial literacy and financial services to your clients. They need this so much.

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We’re going to talk about two ways to avoid so we don’t turn off our clients about this. It’s easy to turn off our clients and easy for our clients to get blocked. So we’re going to talk about turning off some blocks.
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Why Next-Gen Firms Embrace Subscription Billing Plans

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Sabhlok

Zoho president explains the “freemium upsell.”

Pricing Strategies that Work
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By Sandi Leyva and Michelle Long

Let’s take a look at some pricing strategies for the subscription economy.

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There are a number of things that businesses can do related to subscription models, in particular around their pricing strategies. We have the freemium and upsell model, multiple additions, pay as you go, tiered or volume-based pricing and bundling. I’ve got some examples of each one of these. I’d be fairly surprised if we haven’t run across these already as consumers.

Our guest for this discussion about subscription-based models is Raj Sabhlok, president of Zoho Corp., in his own words…

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Welcome to the Subscription Economy

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Laptop with "SIGN UP" on screenWhat it is and why it’s popular.

By Sandi Leyva and Michelle Long
AcceleratorLibrary.com

We’re going to be speaking about subscription economy, which is new to a lot of us.

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Our guest for this discussion about subscription-based models is Raj Sabhlok, president of Zoho Corp.
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Ed Kless on Factors Affecting Price Sensitivity

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Kless

Parsing substitute, expenditure, fairness and other effects.

By Sandi Leyva and Michelle Long
with Ed Kless, senior director of partner development and strategy at the Sage Group
AcceleratorLibrary.com

Many of you offer a fixed price on many occasions, which is fantastic.

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What you’re doing now is maybe just fixed pricing and not value pricing, and the key here is we’re going to make this jump now. Now that you made the leap to fixed price it is a very easy jump to value pricing. I’ll quickly describe the difference for those of you who might not have fully fleshed this out in your mind.
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10 Quick and Easy Tips for a Better Busy Season

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Man working on a carYou may want to keep some of these going year round.
Another busy season is upon us. Are you feeling excited, anxious or dread?

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It’s probably a mix, but hopefully there’s more excitement than any other emotion since you will be helping so many more people during busy season than any other time of the year. Here are 10 easy-to-implement ideas to help your busy time go smoother than ever.

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Your Time Has No Inherent Value

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Kless

… but here’s what does.

By Ed Kless, as told to Sandi Leyva and Michelle Long

Do you believe your time has inherent value to your clients?

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Sorry, but no. Your time has no inherent value; it certainly doesn’t have any value to anyone but you.
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