marketing & sales

networking for fun and profit

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young man riding hour hand of clockhow to make business development fun, and not a dreaded, anxiety-provoking activity.

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by marc rosenberg
the rosenberg practice management library

networking is creating a group of acquaintances and professionals and keeping it active through regular communication for mutual benefit.

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truthfully, all professional service providers want to be held in high esteem by their clients and professional colleagues. practicing true professionalism means becoming more than just a vendor who takes and fills orders from a client. it means transitioning into a trusted advisor whose expertise transcends your individual practice. trusted advisors know the right questions to ask and where to find the right answers.
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how to attract clients like a magnet

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by demonstrating your specialized expertise, you become their first choice.

by jody grunden
building the virtual cfo firm in the cloud

thought leadership is where you are really going to reap success. you want to be that person who everybody will come to.

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i just got off a call with a prospective client who had never met me or even seen me speak, but discovered us through a web search and saw that we are thought leaders in the industry. that discovery brought her directly to us, and it was important to her that the cfo she hires fully understands her industry.
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how we sell audits online

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make it easy for prospects to reach you.

by jody grunden
building the virtual cfo firm in the cloud

with our 401(k) audit service, the bulk of our clients find us online and come to us through our website. we also get referrals from investment advisors and third-party administrators.

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no matter how a prospect finds us, there are three ways that they typically reach out to us:
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6 steps for sales and conversion

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here’s what works for us.

by jody grunden

an important part of the overall process within the company is sales and conversion. for our virtual cfo service, there’s a six-step lead conversion process from when the prospect discovers our website to when the engagement begins.

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the sales and conversion process

our sales and conversion process includes six steps.

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make your newsletter go zoom

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how covid is creating a new channel to reach out and serve clients and prospects.

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newsletters aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. sure, they’re a nice way to touch base with clients, but what do they really accomplish?

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maybe it’s time to rethink the newsletter. the covid-19 crisis may be catalyzing a new way to

  • show clients you care
  • establish your expertise
  • give clients individualized information they really want
  • create the gestalt of a networked client community with your cpa firm at the center

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marketing is about thought leadership

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“you have to be able to acquire and retain, and you have to have both happening at the same time.”

by jody grunden

i bet you can imagine that marketing a virtual accounting firm is different than it is for traditional brick-and-mortar accounting firms. when you’re only serving your local area, you need to focus on things like signage, local advertising, the yellow pages, your website, google my business, yelp, chamber of commerce and word-of-mouth referrals. those are all great ways to get noticed by people in your area who would benefit from the services you offer.

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when your customer base isn’t confined to a specific location, however, it changes the game a bit. you still want word-of-mouth referrals and you still need a website, but it becomes even more important to focus on search engine optimization (seo) and thought leadership – developing your online platform, publishing articles with industry publications, speaking, etc. – to help people discover your services.
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why consultative selling works

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two women in office shake handsplus: how to get past your aversion to sales.

by marc rosenberg
the rosenberg practice management library

as with just about anything, people can be taught business development skills if they study hard, apply themselves and, most of all, have a healthy, positive attitude toward bringing in business.

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“can people be taught practice development skills?” in 20 years of consulting to cpa firms, we have been asked this question hundreds of times. the answer, most certainly, is “yes.” note, the question is not “can people be taught to be rainmakers?” the answer to that question is mostly “no.” there is a big difference between being a rainmaker and learning business development skills.
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how marketing systems produce business growth

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financial graph on blackboardsystems enable your plan to reach its potential.

by marc rosenberg
the rosenberg practice management library

 we’ve explored key components of the overall framework for cpa firm practice development.

  • we launched the process by examining the overarching decisions that need to be made before work is begun to execute the four disciplines.
  • we drilled down on each of the four disciplines.

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now it’s time to address the final piece of the overall framework: the enabling systems that will optimize a cpa firm’s success in achieving its growth objectives.
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‘found money’ delights clients

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businessman ogling money over another's shoulderhow to operationalize new services that find or save clients’ money.

by bill penczak

even during normal times, “found money” solutions are great door openers for new clients and a great value-add for your current clients.

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these solutions are different from traditional audit and tax work in that they are opportunities for companies to retrieve monies they’ve paid in the past, or are ways for companies to lower the cost of a function, process, or service for which they are already paying.

such solutions include:

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14 marketing activities needed now more than ever

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by marc rosenberg
the rosenberg practice management library

here are 14 common marketing activities.

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we’ll list them here and then drill down on each:

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