{"id":108163,"date":"2023-02-03t11:59:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-03t16:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/?p=108163"},"modified":"2024-08-07t23:09:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08t03:09:49","slug":"center-your-firm-around-your-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2023\/02\/03\/center-your-firm-around-your-client\/","title":{"rendered":"center your firm around your client"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>there are three ways to change the product-market fit. only one works.<\/strong><\/p>\n by jody padar<\/i> it\u2019s hard to look at your firm from a customer\u2019s perspective. that\u2019s why we gravitate to a firmcentric point of view. this point of view asks questions like: what do we sell customers? how can we reach customers? what do we need to establish with our customers? and how can we make money from our customers?<\/p>\n more: <\/b>commit to change<\/a> | your client base is global<\/a> | ready for change, so now what?<\/a> we\u2019re thinking about ourselves internally. nobody wants to hang out with someone who only thinks of themselves, yet that is the way we run our firms.<\/p>\n instead, i\u2019m going to ask you to look at your business from your customer\u2019s point of view. design thinking asks the following:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n the more customercentric you make your business, the more you\u2019re going to deliver value and set yourself apart from other cpa firms. you\u2019ll also make more money.<\/p>\n from a customer\u2019s perspective what experience is going to delight them? you have a new generation of staff \u2013 how are you going to relate to them? you have your legacy customers and your more traditional employees \u2013 how are you going to make it work for all of them together? do you create two different processes, one for \u201cold school\u201d and \u201cnew school\u201d customers?<\/p>\n you can\u2019t possibly know exactly what your \u201cnew firm\u201d model is going to look like, but once you start moving, as you move, you\u2019ll figure out what that vision looks like and how it comes together. this is not an impossible feat! i will provide the framework and tools you\u2019ll need to make it happen.<\/p>\n get<\/strong> ready<\/strong> to<\/strong> be<\/strong> disrupted!<\/strong><\/p>\n with revolutionary change comes disruption. you knew that, right? the three laws of disruption say that:<\/p>\n drum roll, please (the three methods)<\/strong><\/p>\n the only answer for us accountants is \u2026 we have to change our product so that it fits with the new target market.<\/em><\/p>\n we don\u2019t have an opportunity to change the target market. we cannot make next-generation business owners move backward. it\u2019s already moving, so number two is not really an option for us. finally, we can\u2019t change people\u2019s preferences so that they like our product more. come on.<\/p>\n transitioning into a \u201cnew firm\u201d will kick up dust in your current processes and disruption will be in the air. how will your \u201cnew firm\u201d business model gain management support in an anytime-anywhere environment? what will it look like if some of your team is remote? how are you going to support your staff and your administration? or what if you decide to become a virtual office? there are a lot of people who run virtual firms, but even if you decide to run one you have to figure out what that specifically means for your team.<\/p>\n once you start value pricing, how will you compensate your employees? they pick up the notion of value very quickly. after you start selling on value, it is hard to pay on time-based work. this disrupts it all, right? how will your staff account for time if they\u2019re doing work at 9:30 p.m. and you can\u2019t see them? this is disruptive and that\u2019s why you have to rethink everything you have ever known to be true. this is the hard part. after all, it disrupts the 9 to 5 workday!<\/p>\n some questions you will now face:<\/strong><\/p>\n aside from creating a new way to do compensation and work, the \u201cnew firm\u201d model brings upon a whole new level of transparency for both the customers you work with and your employees. here are just some of the things that shift:<\/p>\n what are you selling now? (something different!)<\/strong><\/p>\n you have now moved beyond number cruncher to be an advisor. as a result, your questions have moved to a whole new level:<\/p>\n the biggest problem many firms face, and this happens in my own firm as well, is that a team member will say something to a customer, another team member who doesn\u2019t know what transpired talks to the same customer, and then you talk to the customer and you realize something happened. communication isn\u2019t just happening over email. communications are taking place on social media and the question now becomes how are staff members following that up and transferring it to email or a knowledge base to let someone else know about it?<\/p>\n again it\u2019s all about the real-time communication that\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n how are you capturing it? it\u2019s going to change the way you communicate. if twitter is most active after 9 p.m. and before 9 a.m. obviously that\u2019s not office hours. facebook is active after dinner. social media is up and running 24\/7. how are you going to work in this world? we are going to have to figure it out. it really makes you think about how you\u2019re going to have to shift your perspective and quantify your priorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" there are three ways to change the product-market fit. only one works.<\/strong>
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