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ready to retire? selling your practice is no strategy

older businessman sitting at desk smiling as wall clock indicates 5 minutes to retirement

what are the guarantees?

by ed mendlowitz
202 questions and answers: managing an accounting practice

question: i’ve heard you say that you shouldn’t count on anything from your practice when you decide to retire. are you serious?

response: i probably said that, but it was in the context of planning for guaranteed cash flow in retirement. a practice’s value is never guaranteed until the checks clear.

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i did say that it is important to create an asset base for retirement and that these can come from a number of sources – and we each need to assign an importance to each source and a probability of their providing a comfortable retirement.
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how to outline your client’s big picture

three worksheets to guide you.

by anthony glomski

i realize that not all of your clients are entrepreneurs. but, consider this: 90 percent of all the wealth in the u.s. is owned by business owners and 10 percent is inherited. nearly every cpa i know works with business owners and their families. with all the changes impacting the cpa profession today, it’s imperative that you get comfortable changing lanes and adopt a more consultative role with your clients.

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if you’re a cpa and you’re not actively overseeing all the people helping your clients with their financial lives, then you’re missing a big opportunity with your practice. you’re overlooking the opportunity to make a massive impact on the lives of your best clients, their families and the causes they care about.
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karen reyburn: fix your marketing and fix your business

not more clients, better clients.

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the disruptors
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karen reyburn wants accountants to stop thinking “about marketing as this one-off thing where you tick little boxes,” but instead about the ways you can use your marketing to connect to the human experience. her company, the profitable firm, or pf for short, has been helping accountants with their marketing since 2012.

more podcasts and videos: giles pearson: fix the staffing crisis by swapping experience for education | jina etienne: practice fearless inclusionbill penczak: stop forcing smart people to do stupid worksandra wiley: staffing problem? check your culture | scott scarano: first, grow people. then firm growth can follow | jody padar: build a practice that works for you, not vice-versa | ira rosenbloom: with m&a, nobody wants a fixer-upper | peter margaritis: the power skills every accountant needs | joe montgomery: find the sweet spot of the right clients, right services and right pricesmarie green: your bad apples are ruining youmegan genest tarnow: hire for curiosity rather than complianceclayton oates: one way to keep clients for life |

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her new book, the accountant marketer: the structured approach any accountant can follow to attract clients they love, provides a step-by-step process for understanding the unique characteristics of their firm and how to connect that uniqueness with their best clients.

in reyburn’s view, marketing is closely connected to the business. “if you have a marketing problem, you have a business problem. if you have a business problem, there’s often a marketing solution that can help with it.”

this book springs out of a pf coaching group called the accelerator, where participants were guided through a process of creating a structured approach to content marketing that made their marketing better. reyburn and pf take a collaborative approach to marketing. “we don’t do marketing for people,” she explained. “we do marketing with them.”

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cpa biz is booming, but for how long?

man's hand drawing upward arrow labeled "profit"

five reasons that growth in profit is outpacing growth in revenue.

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

the rosenberg 2023 practice management survey exults in the growth and profitability of cpa firms last year, but warning bells are flashing. how long can this keep up?

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the good news: firms with revenue greater than $2 million saw 2022 average income per partner soar 11.8 percent over the previous year, and revenue shot up 11.4 percent. this was the second year that profits grew faster than revenue.

yay, right?
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attract clients through facebook groups

plus six more marketing avenues you might not have thought of.

by hitendra patil
client accounting services: the definitive success guide

we asked about sales and marketing methods as part of the accounting profession’s largest cas survey. among firms offering client accounting services, the chief means for gaining new cas business is “proactively seeking referrals” and the firm’s “website,” each at 48 percent. networking at local/regional/national events follows at 35 percent.

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the other marketing methods deployed by cas firms are:

  • networking at local / regional / national events: 35%
  • search engine optimization: 14%
  • influencer or social media marketing: 11%

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