Business Strategy for CPA's

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Subscription pricing is all the rage right now.  Most CPAs are stuck when it comes to pricing - some have moved to flat-rate or subscription pricing, but many - if not most - still bill by the hour. What they often struggle to understand is the ful...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 There’s an industry-wide gravitational force toward regular hour-long meetings.  Somewhere along the way it was decided that hourly meetings held weekly, monthly or quarterly are the way to deliver services. It may be true that regular meetings are...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Want to find out how to get CPE for this episode? Get on my Daily Email List for up-to-date information on all the courses I offer that qualify for CPE.  Subscribe at SheThinksBigCoaching.com   VALUE-PRICING Value pricing is best for discreet proje...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 These questions often comes up: “How to I raise my rates?” and “How much should I charge?” and “How do I price this service?” The answer appears to be quite simple: Apply logic. Logic says raise your rates. Therefore, raise your rates.  The problem...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Intangibles have value. And value is the precursor to price.  If you’re not great at measuring so called intangibles, you won’t appreciate their value, and if you don’t appreciate their value, you’ll underprice, and when you underprice, you’re goin...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Today I speak with Catherine Ozment, CPA, who I asked to return after last week’s episode.  Last week on the podcast I have Catherine Ozment, CPA. She and I have been working together for just shy of a year, and she’s making huge strides in pivotin...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Many of you know how difficult and time consuming it can be to run a tax factory: It’s all too easy to get buried under a mountain of tax, underprice services, and be in what feels like a near steady state of chaos.  The desire is often to work 25...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Today we’re playing BS CPA LINGO BINGO.    Lingo in the accounting space that makes some of us kind of crazy.  There are five terms that are especially problematic for CPAs and accountants that slow business growth.    In this First Edition of BS C...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Being a CPA is challenging, there’s no doubt. When I reflect on CPAs’ challenges, and try to simplify the situation as much as possible, I can distill a few key problems: being a generalist, billing instead of pricing, and focusing on the past inst...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Waiting until you’re cooked to decide it’s time to sell your practice is a guaranteed way to fetch a low price for what you’ve spent a lifetime building.  If you want to optimize the sale price of your business, it takes years of advance planning. ...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Should you use rolling forecasts for your clients? Do you hear all this talk of including forecasting for your client, but when it comes to implementing, you’re a bit deer in the headlights? Shifting into forecasting and scenario planning for your...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Would you just as soon rub your hand against the grain of a sheet of plywood than have a sales conversation?  Avoiding sales leads directly to avoiding revenue, and the cost to your firm in the way of business left ungenerated could be enormous.  ...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 There are loads of questions out there about Employee Retention Credit, and with all the guidance on top of PPP and all the rest, it can be hard to know everything and stay-up-to-date.  My guest today is Randy Crabtree, co-founder and owner of Tri-...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 ****** BEFORE we JUMP IN ****** Do you want the free PDF resource created for this episode, as well as alllll the other free resources I've created for past episodes?  Enter your best email address to download the PDF and sign up for my daily updat...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Do you ever wonder if your tech security is tight enough? Not sure if it’s your firewalls are like swiss cheese, or if you’re a sitting duck, just waiting for a stealthy hacker to pick off your IP address and exploit your data? Having holes in your...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Many CPAs avoid the topic of selling - they associate sales with the gross, pushy, slimy sales conversations they have had in the past, and believe that anything to do with sales is a necessary evil, best avoided at all costs.  They build their bus...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Today I speak with Jack Sweeney, host of the CFO Thought Leader Podcast where he has interviewed almost 700 CFOs about their roles.  Jack is also the winner of the 2018 Excellence in Financial Journalism Award by the NYSSCPAs. A career business jou...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Resilience for CPAs and Accountants How many days do you feel like you’re running ragged, and just getting to 9pm without a nuclear meltdown is a win? Once in a while, allowing your tank to run all the way down to the Empty line is ok. But do it to...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 GET YOUR TIME BACK BY BEING MORE EFFECTIVE WITH EMAIL Do you ever get sucked into your email Inbox, wander around in there for hours, only to resurface wondering where the time went and why you went in there in the first place? Having a disorderly...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Many accountants over-service and under charge their clients. This creates a lose-lose situation, where clients don't value what the accountant does, and the accountant doesn’t isn’t charging enough to be able to provide the level of service the cl...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Today I speak with Hannah Smolinksi, CEO of Clara CFO Group, on her meteoric YouTube rise.  Less than 1 year ago, Hannah had less than 100 subscribers on YouTube and a few dozen on her email list. Today, she has more than 16,000 YouTube subscribers...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Twyla Verhelst is the co-founder of Eighty Twenty, an Advisory Accounting Firm. We discuss her journey of implementing Advisory Services, long before it was known as Advisory Services. We discuss the difference between what the client needs, and wh...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Most CPAs struggle with pricing - some have moved to flat-rate or subscription pricing, and some still bill by the hour. What they often struggle to understand is the full depth of the value they offer to their clients, and because they don’t fully...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Erin Longmoon, Owner of Zephyr Recruiting shares the 4 most common hiring mistakes business owners make, and what to do instead. There is a reason that so many business owners have hiring PTSD and staff that are challenging: hiring correctly is not...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Today I speak with Author Barbara Huson (previously known as Barbara Stanny) Overcoming Under-earning and her new book, Rewire for Wealth. Barbara Huson is the leading authority on women, wealth and power. As a bestselling author, financial therapi...