{"id":77449,"date":"2020-07-21t00:20:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-21t04:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/48e130086c.nxcli.net\/?p=77449"},"modified":"2023-08-28t02:09:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28t06:09:57","slug":"5-things-your-firm-should-do-differently-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2020\/07\/21\/5-things-your-firm-should-do-differently-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"post-covid: not your usual summer to-do list"},"content":{"rendered":"
how will you spend your \u201cvacation\u201d time?<\/strong> in normal times, summer was the respite between tax and audit busy seasons, a pause in marketing activities, the time to take it easy and to catch up on cpe, and to conduct personnel reviews and other administrative duties delayed from the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n more: <\/b>do you have the guts to beat the covid crisis?<\/a> | how to inoculate your firm against covid competition<\/a> | \u2018found money\u2019 delights clients<\/a> | don\u2019t buy a rolodex, buy a process<\/a> | the three r\u2019s for beating the corona crisis<\/a> | 6 reasons why your marketing sucks<\/a> this summer is different, on so many levels.\u00a0the sunlight filters through your bedroom window a bit earlier, and these days, if you\u2019re even driving to the office, the roads are strangely less crowded.\u00a0 the general mood is more tenuous, as we all speculate about the new normal.<\/p>\n most cpa firms will continue the same pattern of waiting until september to ramp up their go-to-market efforts. but two or three out of 10 firms will use this summer to get a head start to make up for lost opportunities, and revenue, caused by the covid crisis.<\/p>\n i have always been struck by the general attitude among cpa firms that summer is an \u201coff\u201d season, and firms generally avoid events, focused market pushes, and other activities that can convert targets into prospects into clients.<\/p>\n a few years ago, my firm offered to host a summer thought leadership series for one of the organizations of which we were members, as the group previously took a summer programming and meeting break. this seemingly counterprogramming generated great success \u2013 scores of prospects attended the four summer events hosted in our offices, with topics that admittedly promoted our services, likely because every other firm and organization had taken the summer off and there was little competition for prospects\u2019 headspace. we found new clients that we would not have sourced had it not been for that summer series.<\/p>\n in the words of sun tzu in the art of war, \u201cin the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n summer is the ideal time to promote your firm.<\/p>\n it\u2019s likely that 80-90 percent of your new business comes about when another service provider somehow dropped the ball (staff turnover, surprise bills, missed deadlines, missed tax deductions, audit restatements); these months are vulnerability point, as the pain of the last tax return or audit is still fresh on the minds of prospective clients. waiting until september allows the wounds to heal and potential clients to kick the can of changing firms down the road.<\/p>\n
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