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start marketing now for next season

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no, it’s not too early to begin planning.

by ed mendlowitz
tax season opportunity guide

marketing takes many forms. further, many accountants are not trained in marketing. i also know that while most cpas want more business, they are too busy with what they have to be actively seeking new business. additionally, marketing can be external, internal or retentive.

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external is where new clients are solicited. that takes effort, ingenuity, time and maybe even some money.
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nine keys to success and growth

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put them to work for you.

by ed mendlowitz
tax season opportunity guide

what is needed for growth and success?

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all these elements are essential:
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3 questions for determining your value

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handshakehow necessary are you under covid?

by ed mendlowitz
tax season opportunity guide

know your value to your clients. better, understand your business and what you really do and what you add to the client’s life.

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i had a group of gastroenterologists as clients who were going to get into a business of inserting a gastric bubble into people’s stomachs. there were a number of issues to this.
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ask this before clients do

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stack of cards labeled with question marksplus some suggested answers.

by ed mendlowitz
tax season opportunity guide

here are two questions to ask yourself:

  1. why should clients use you?
  1. why should staff want to work for you?

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you should be clear on the responses to the above two questions. if you can’t clearly articulate the reasons clients should use you and why staff would want to work for you, then why should they?
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why ‘tick and tie’ needs to die

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businessman shaking hands with grim reapera rundown of seven types of tax return reviews.

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by ed mendlowitz
how to review tax returns: the field-tested update

there are numerous ways to review tax returns. most reviewers have their own techniques, and some alter these based on

  • the type of or size of the return, or
  • who the preparer is or
  • who the partner in charge of that client is.

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there is nothing wrong with this as long as the reviewer is experienced and really knows their stuff.
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5 steps for tax season success

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man talking to woman with checklistapply consistency to service, processes and standards.

by ed mendlowitz
tax season opportunity guide

one way to guarantee extra work is to have everything always done differently each time it is done.

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not establishing uniform procedures is bad business and unnecessarily consumes part of your life. consistency in performance reduces work and review time and creates a greater reliance on the staff people.
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busy season 2016: why some have it worse

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picture1the factors that undermine an otherwise better busy season.

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according to the final results of the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 2016 busy season survey, this has been a relatively good year…better than last year, anyway. a good 60 percent of respondents said 2016 was much better or somewhat better than 2015.

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which, admittedly, isn’t saying much. last year was a bad year, a perfect storm of problems. it left 19 percent grousing about a “somewhat worse” busy season, another 3 percent saying it was “much worse.”

could 2016 really be worse than 2015, especially given that it was so much better for so many tax preparers? yep.

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