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13 reasons to master consumption marketing

seven ways it’s great for your practice.

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

when i first heard the term “consumption marketing” i quickly fell in love with the concept.

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consumption marketing is continuing to market to clients even after they’ve signed to do business with you. it’s helping them to more fully “consume” your product or service.
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maybe price isn’t the problem

what else do potential clients know about you?

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

i hear more accountants grumbling daily about how price-sensitive their prospects and clients have become. and they are right, to a degree. the economy has caused even the rich to count their pennies, and the percentage of people who look at a price tag before they buy has increased over the last five years.

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yet studies show that roughly 54% of buyers are not price-sensitive, and i would be willing to bet even more are selectively price-impervious depending on what they buy: women’s shoes, men’s cars, personal services, jewelry, vacations, cosmetics and hair, to name a few exceptions.

so why are so many accounting clients and prospects price-sensitive?
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when to talk about fees

focus on value first.

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

how do you talk to a prospect or client about your fee?

some of the answers i have heard are:

“it depends.”
tell them and get off the phone as fast as possible.
“i don’t know.”
“what is your budget?”

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most accountants spill the beans about their rates way too early in a conversation with a future client. so when should you talk rates?
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five tips for virtual team member happiness

find ways to challenge them.

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

it’s not uncommon for even the smallest of businesses to have employees and contractors all over the world. at one point i had an employee in ukraine, two employees in san jose, a virtual admin in orange county, a warehouse team in indiana, a transcriptionist in las vegas, partners in new york, chicago, missouri and atlanta, and a coach in sydney, australia.

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i moved from san jose, calif., to plano, texas, while my team stayed put. and it didn’t hurt my business one tiny bit. here are five tips to help your virtual team play at their best.
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three thoughts for a quiet morning

take the time while you have it.

by sandi leyva
the accountant’s accelerator

with busy season over, it’s a good time to take stock of where we stand for the year, plus regroup as needed before the next one is upon us. with so many changes in software, politics, tax laws and global standards, it’s pretty easy to feel a little disorganized.

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here are three steps to help us take stock of our foundational business goals, re-evaluate our big picture and get us centered as we enter the next quarter.
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take a moment for appreciation

work on building your resilience.

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

most of the time, being an accounting entrepreneur is a delight, an honor and a great way of life.

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every once in a while, there can be those days when you need a little moral support for one reason or another. read more →

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five skills that spell success

and none are tax or accounting.

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

we’ve worked hard on gaining our accounting tax and auditing skills. those skills alone will keep us working as employees for someone else, but what if we want to go out on our own or grow our business beyond what we have now?

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here are five skills to consider adding to your toolbox to get ahead faster.

how do you rate in each of these areas?

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the seven-step plan for marketing by spreadsheet

using excel spreadsheets, with a bunch of numbers, adding in some deadlines, and creating a very organized process, is just how we accountants like things.

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

it’s quite common for accounting firms – even the regionals – to have no marketing plan in place.

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the marketing plan might very well be, “get as many referrals as we can.”

or it might be a number for each partner – which is not a marketing plan.

or it might be, “if it’s not busy season, i’ll go to my networking group.”

none of these are plans. they are individual marketing tasks and components.

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five things clients have taught me

they’ll tell you what they want if you just listen.

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

i feel extremely fortunate to have such a wonderful set of clients that i have learned much from the last few years.

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here is a list of lessons learned that i hope will inspire you to work with your clients in new ways.

lesson 1: help clients with what they dislike

although not all clients dislike writing, i’ve found that the majority of professionals in financial fields appreciate getting help with their writing. what took me a while to learn was the degree to which many wanted help, and what worked the best is to provide sample letters, emails, and marketing materials that was as close to their situation and as complete as possible.

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beyond compliance: what more you can provide

beat the billable hour … and let your clients know all your offerings.

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

as compliance services become more commoditized and automated, accountants face the impacts on their practice and bottom line. they can:

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serve a higher level client that requires greater complexity, making themselves fairly immune to these changes
serve a larger number of clients to offset a drop in revenue per client averages
add new services to their practice to boost revenue per client

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four ways to reboot for the new realities

when things aren’t turning out the way you dreamed, it’s time to think about an overhaul. here’s how to start

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

how does your current business look compared to the one you dreamed about before you started your entrepreneurial journey?

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do you now have clients you love, a dream team, the financial rewards you are comfortable with, and plenty of free time?

if not, don’t give up. you can still get there, and a little business clarity may help you get there even faster.

here are four steps:

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cross-selling by spreadsheet

start with two easy steps.

by sandi smith

here’s a great spreadsheet exercise you can do to identify what i call “low-hanging fruit,” which means added revenue that will not take too much time or money to go after.

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open excel, and start a worksheet from the sales numbers in your accounting system.
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should you try influencer marketing?

hint: it can solve more than your marketing needs.

by sandi leyva and jason holmes

influencer marketing has been around forever in retail marketing, but does it have a place in the accounting and tax profession? absolutely! here’s what most firms are missing out on when it comes to leveraging this profitable channel.

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first, let’s get everyone on the same page and define influencer marketing. it’s simply getting help from someone with a large following – an influencer – to market your offerings in exchange for value or a fee. in a way, it’s like an endorsement or sponsorship. but unlike a sponsorship, which is somewhat passive, an influencer is more actively participating in the promotion of your items. you might think of influencers as paid referrals on steroids.
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