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ten keys to marketing success

target, pie chart, arrowwho is your ideal customer? how will you track your interactions?

by august j. aquila

if you recently passed the cpa exam, bar or other professional designation, congratulations. you put a lot of work and time into learning about the technical aspect of your profession.

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unfortunately, what they didn’t teach you is how to build a professional practice, gain clients and understand client needs. these talents are just as important as being a good auditor, tax consultant or management consultant.
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the risk in not understanding risk

five steps for better protection.

by bruce marcus
professional services marketing 3.0

editor’s note: 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 was privileged to have a long relationship with bruce w. marcus, who was ahead of his time in his thinking and practice in marketing for accounting. we are publishing some of the late expert’s evergreen work, which retains wisdom for the present.

risk. it’s amazing that so simple a four-letter word can be so complicated. there are risks with dire consequences and risks with negligible consequences. there is risk in every human enterprise; in every trade or endeavor.

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we take risks, in varying degrees (and sometimes unwittingly) every day of our lives. there is even risk inherent in getting out of bed in the morning. but what – on any level – does risk really mean? can risk be tamed?
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ira rosenbloom: with m&a, nobody wants a fixer-upper

buyers want sellers who invest in the long game.

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ira rosenbloom has been working in the m&a space for accounting firms for over a decade and says it’s a complicated and exciting time in the m&a space today. “we’re seeing a lot of things that make sense, and a lot of things that are frustrating because they make sense, and a lot of things that make no sense,” he said.

staffing problems on both sides are forcing buyers to be far more selective about the firms they consider buying.

see also: the seller’s guide to getting the best price for your firm

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today’s buyers are different in many ways than the sellers. first, rosenbloom explained, baby boomer sellers tend to like to talk to people, while the younger generations looking to buy firms are “more selective in their communication.” younger buyers tend to be more entrepreneurial, and “the more that the seller comes across as an entrepreneur, the more interested the buyer is going to be in what’s going on,” he added. buyers are also interested in firms making a break with old methodologies and sellers who “want to invest in the long game,” rosenbloom said.
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ai systems just for accounting in development

artist concept of an ai-based neuronwhat will bloomberg’s gpt ai built for finance mean for accountants?

by hitendra patil
rise of the aiccountants

bloomberg released a research paper detailing the development of bloomberggpt, a new large-scale generative artificial intelligence (ai) specifically trained on a wide range of financial data to support diverse natural language processing (nlp) tasks within the financial industry.

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according to bloomberg, “the team pulled from this extensive archive of financial data to create a comprehensive 363 billion token dataset consisting of english financial documents. this data was augmented with a 345 billion token public dataset to create a large training corpus with over 700 billion tokens. using a portion of this training corpus, the team trained a 50-billion parameter decoder-only causal language model.”
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five ways to acquire more clients

laughing businesswoman talking on the phone in office in front of four monitorsbut don’t bother with #5 if you don’t do #1, #2, #3 and #4 first.

by sandi leyva
the complete guide to marketing for tax & accounting firms

if getting new clients is a bit of a struggle for your business and you’re not reaching the revenue levels you desire because of too few clients, then the first step is to find out where the process is breaking down.

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there are five main places:

1. client retention

are you keeping the clients you acquire, or are you experiencing too much churn in your client base? you can measure your retention rate year after year by computing the percent of total annual revenues that is due to repeat clients. if it’s less than 80 percent, then you are either in your first year of business or you have a problem.
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