on the frontlines:<\/strong> mchale, haas, barber<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nfrank colletti, sole practitioner, east meadow, n.y.: \u201cbe flexible.\u201d<\/p>\n
michael sides, sides & ferkovich corp., gold river, calif.: \u201cbe innovative and evolve.\u201d<\/p>\n
ray cauthen jr., sole practitioner, gainesville, fla.: \u201cget known by your community.\u201d<\/p>\n
james haas, electronic income tax center, tyler, tex.: \u201cstay positive.\u201d<\/p>\n
jerry mchale, mchale p.a., fort myers, fla.: \u201ccash is king. brace for a downturn.\u201d<\/p>\n
and judy vera, engage advisors, kansas city, kan.: \u201chang in there, hope is on the horizon.\u201d<\/p>\n
or, as brian e. barber, a cumberland, r.i., cpa, said, \u201cbe flexible and look for the opportunity, not the problems, with change, because change is here to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n
indeed it is. \u201cnormal\u201d is history, and it isn\u2019t coming back.<\/p>\n
which may be good.\u00a0think about it. normal had its drawbacks. maybe the change will be for the better.<\/p>\n
but that doesn\u2019t mean it will be easy.<\/p>\n
sensing a change in the weather, the survey askes about eight specific changes that are likely to have long-term and impactful changes for post-pandemic businesses.<\/p>\n
1. online tech<\/strong><\/p>\nthe most important and extensive change foreseen: keeping up with changes in online technology, noted by 52 percent of 515 respondents. and another 35 percent say online tech will be moderately important. only 12 percent say it will be of little or no impact.<\/p>\n
2. super-scrappiness<\/strong><\/p>\nalmost as many \u2013 85 percent in all \u2013 say \u201clearning to be flexible, innovative and super-scrappy\u201d will be moderately or highly important.<\/p>\n
3. pivoting to online<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cpivoting from brick-and-mortar to doing business online and virtual\u201d is seen as highly important by 39 percent, but an additional 45 percent acknowledge the shift will be moderately important. only 15 percent think it won\u2019t be a biggie.<\/p>\n
4. greater expectations<\/strong><\/p>\nthirty-seven percent say \u201cmanaging new customer expectations\u201d will be highly important, and 44 percent agree that the change will be moderately important. just 5 percent don\u2019t expect any important changes there.<\/p>\n
5. more expectations<\/strong><\/p>\ncustomers aren\u2019t the only ones with new expectations. employees, too, want a piece of the new world. just over 70 percent of respondents say it will be moderately or highly important to manage new employee expectations.<\/p>\n
6. interstate sales tax<\/strong><\/p>\nthe new \u201cwayfair\u201d rule on interstate sales tax is a headache that a quarter of respondents foresee as highly impactful, and 38 percent on top of that say the change will be at least moderately important. but 39 percent are less concerned.<\/p>\n
7. e-commerce<\/strong><\/p>\nleveraging e-commerce platforms, such as shopify, big commerce, and woo commerce, are seen as less important to small biz, but still, 22 percent say it will be highly important, and 44 percent say moderately important. eleven percent, however, say it won\u2019t be important at all.<\/p>\n
8. online marketplaces<\/strong><\/p>\neven the least important change, joining online marketplaces such as amazon and etsy, is on the radar of savvy accountants. only 24 percent think it will be a highly important change, but 38 percent grant that it could be moderately important.<\/p>\n
new approaches and attitudes<\/strong><\/p>\nwhen the barometer asked why respondents feel that way, the answers lean less toward specific business models and more toward attitudes toward business \u2013 general approaches to technology, cash flow, and quick thinking to deal with quick changes in the market and tax structure.<\/p>\n
be scrappy, not crappy<\/strong><\/p>\nsolo practitioner china a. sauger offered advice that applies regardless of pandemics: \u201cprovide quality service\/products. whatever you do, if you provide excellent service\/products, customers will keep coming back. there are enough crappy service providers out there. don’t be one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n
enrolled agent dionne cheshier, founder, and ceo of cheshier tax resolution, is having a year somewhat better than last year, but she warned, \u201cthe proposed tax laws are going to absolutely kill the clients and take their money.\u201d however, she tells those clients, \u201chold on, the storm won’t last forever. with a storm, there is always a calm afterward.\u201d<\/p>\n
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