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how to become a social business

it’s not a side venture. get ready to transform your firm to the core.

by jody padar

now it’s time to understand the social media business approach, how twitter, facebook and linkedin can help your business.

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first of all, stop calling it social media! using “social” to generate new customers is a new way of doing business in today’s digital world. most firm owners don’t understand that when you combine social media with cloud, the effects become multiplied. we’re talking internet 3.0. are you ready to get there?
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make the cloud work for you

10 steps (and you don’t have to take them all at once).

by jody padar

once you decide on what cloud software you want to use, here are the ten steps you need to make the transition:

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step 1: adopt for your own practice. choose an online software you’d like to try and input your financials. it’s the easiest move to make, and you’ll learn a lot during the process. you’re the most intimate with your own financials, so start there.

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6 ways the cloud helps cpa firms

bonus: 7 specific tools.

by jody padar

we’ve said the backups and the intangibles outweigh the little annoyances. but what specifically will you gain from moving to the cloud?

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1. it will help you go paperless. the cloud has helped me rethink my entire document management system and my firm is now 100 percent paperless. the problem with document management systems today is that they’re very static for working in a fluid environment. i have yet to find a technology that addresses this issue to my liking.
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the cloud is your starting point

your customers’ expectations have changed, so you might as well embrace them.

by jody padar

let me clear this up now: the cloud is not an actual cloud.

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it’s your software in a computer room, miles away from your physical location. i’ve been to the cloud and it’s a funny and interesting place to visit.

it’s just a warehouse; they take your driver’s license, they scan you in, inspect your eyeballs and make sure that you’re not some bad person. there’s a large area full of servers and wires and it’s unbelievably hot. but what was especially endearing about my experience was that my cloud provider, byron patrick from simplified innovations, couldn’t contain his excitement about taking me. he was like a kid in a candy shop. it must be a techie thing.
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5 ways to capitalize on trends

the market is moving. can you keep up?

by jody padar

a cch white paper, “charting a course for the future: a report on firm preparedness,” defines some of the trends that will have the most significant impact on accounting firms and their customers over the next five years.

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the study also notes how well-prepared accountants are to take advantage of these trends. by putting the “very prepared” firm under the magnifying glass, the report examines what makes firm owners confident about the future.
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you’re already a consultant

chances are you offer clients more than you realize.

by jody padar

to me, the most trusted business advisor is the small business advisor. that’s what my customers see. my firm serves small businesses from the ground up to $10 million. yes, we look at their numbers, but, practically speaking, one gains a lot when you’re in their financial underwear drawer.

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most of our conversations are around their questions. it’s a natural extension of the work we already do – financials, taxes, payroll, cash flow and forecasting.
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why transparency matters in the ‘new firm’

it’s time to move from number cruncher to advisor. here are 4 questions to ask.

by jody padar
the radical cpa

aside from creating a new way to do compensation and work, the “new firm” model brings upon a whole new level of transparency for both the customers you work with and your employees…

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…in at least four ways:

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embrace disruption

4 questions you’ll have to face.

by jody padar

with revolutionary change, comes disruption. you knew that, right? the three laws of disruption say that:

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disruption comes to us all. so, if you’re reading this, you’re going to be disrupted. congratulations, that’s a good thing!
disruption comes because of changes in the product-market fit.
there are only three methods to change the product-market fit.

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new thinking brings new results

being radical is all about your customer.

by jody padar
the radical cpa

once you begin brainstorming about overhauling your internal processes, you need to think about it from as many different viewpoints as possible, with an emphasis on design thinking. the easiest way to define design thinking is to look at it from your customer’s perspective instead of yours.

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it’s not all about you. i know, i know. but hear me out. it’s hard to look at your firm from a customer’s perspective. that’s why we gravitate to a firm-centric point of view. this point of view asks questions like:
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10 questions to prepare for radical change

be the change you want to see.

by jody padar
the radical cpa

“say it with me now: i am a change agent.”

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before you consider adopting the cloud or any of the “new firm” mindset, you have to ask yourself if you are willing to be the change.
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want change? lead it

bonus checklist: 5 questions you need to ask.

by jody padar
the radical cpa

“say it with me now: i am a change agent.”

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before you consider adopting the cloud or any of the “new firm” mindset, you have to ask yourself if you are willing to be the change.
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who’s your competition? everyone

time to get on the radical bus.

by jody padar
the radical cpa

i’ve been in the cloud for nine years so it’s old news to me.

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the biggest thing to do is to look around and look at the competition. you can probably leave your firm and start your own firm with less than $400 a month in software and with no or very limited overhead. isn’t that terrifying for you old-timers!
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how the ‘new firm’ was born

where the roots of ‘radical’ cpas originated.

by jody padar
the radical cpa

i started to use this newfangled payroll software that worked through the internet.

back then they didn’t call it the cloud. it was just payroll software that used an internet browser. it solved my business problems of preparing paychecks, paying taxes and filing tax returns for my customers. the technology was paycycle, a cloud-based payroll software.

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jody padar, cpa, mst, "the radical cpa®," is one of the profession’s foremost visionaries and a best-selling author for 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间.

her latest book, radical pricing, is available here

padar is the author of:

the radical cpa

and

from success to significance: the radical cpa guide

vice president of strategy at botkeeper, an upstart automated bookkeeping solution purpose-built for accounting firms.

she was also ceo and principal of the new vision cpa group, a public accounting firm based in the chicago area.

and as an author, lecturer, coach, consultant, and mentor, she advocates for progress and innovation in the profession, heralding a new way of thinking about the practice of accountancy and giving it a new purpose.

having successfully transformed her own firm into a technologically advanced, paperless work environment, she is now dedicated to educating her fellow colleagues on how to make the same transition.

she is a regular contributor to a number of industry publications, including 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间, where she offers practical tips and advice on running a next-generation firm.

padar has been named by accounting today as “the top 100 most influential to the profession” for the last four years and manages her firm and discover new “best practices.”

padar is married, has two teenage children, and swims competitively. padar earned her bba from saint mary’s college and mst from northern illinois university. padar is also an adjunct professor at oakton community college and a contributing member of the intuit trainer writer network.

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