rlz.io,<\/a> designed as a social media app for accountants.<\/p>\nmore take-aways:<\/strong><\/p>\n\naccounting hasn\u2019t always been a super sexy thing to do. how do we make it attractive to people my age (33) and younger?<\/li>\n an interesting trend is productized firms: tech platforms like bench, pilot, and quickbooks live that are positioned as accounting firms. when they have job postings, they get more applicants than do the traditional firms because they are building something that people want to be a part of and are more appealing to younger people whose lives are fully online.<\/li>\n would you send your own kids through the experience you\u2019re having? does it offer a good work-life balance?<\/li>\n professional services have traditionally been bespoke, delivered one-to-one. leverage the internet to offer one-to-many advisory services by developing communities of people within a niche, where participants can learn from each other in addition to learning from the cpa firm members.<\/li>\n growth for growth\u2019s sake is easy now because there\u2019s a hunger for what you do. but the downside of growth is burnout when you let suboptimal work in. be more selective, or price aggressively. optimize for the bottom line to build a sustainable firm. make existing engagements more profitable, drop the ones that aren\u2019t as profitable. leave capacity for deeper work which is usually more profitable.<\/li>\n the task of the firm owner is to curate the client list for the best projects and the clients we most enjoy working with. give your best to a small group of clients who value your work and are willing to pay for it.<\/li>\n it\u2019s not just young people who are good with tech, there are many accountants who are late in their careers who are becoming experts.<\/li>\n keep natural curiosity alive, be willing to ask dumb questions, keep learning. you will never arrive.<\/li>\n accountants need space to be able change. for those who came of age in firms that prized realization and optimizing every minute of the day, it can be hard to shake that model, even after we go out on our own. until you recover from that model, you can\u2019t make the space to think and develop to become the person who can run a firm that you really want to run.<\/li>\n working 70 hours in a week does not mean you\u2019re doing your best.<\/li>\n the no-code movement offers accountants a fantastic opportunity to build bespoke software for their clients and for themselves. accountants are positioned to become the ultimate operators who can connect all the pieces of a business and automate everything. in the future, if you need software to fix a problem, you\u2019ll build it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"the future is social<\/b> \n <\/a> \nthe disruptors<\/b> \nwith liz farr<\/em> \nfor 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4386,"featured_media":101621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1362,5,2734,3120,3002,2306,3869,2764],"tags":[3267],"class_list":["post-98353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-video","category-outlook","category-podcast","category-pro-member-exclusive","category-special","category-tech-and-fintech","category-the-disruptors","category-video","tag-the-disruptors"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\ndisruptor: jason staats shakes up the status quo - 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n