Business Strategy for CPA's

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Today I speak with Alan Weiss, owner of Summit Consulting and author of more than 60 business books, including Value-Based Fees, Million Dollar Consulting, Fearless leadership, and more.    What we cover: Value-pricing requires a wholesale shift in...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Today I speak with Rob Foncannon, owner of Foncannon Tax & Financial Services about how Profit First has impacted his business and his clients’ businesses.    Rob talks about  What Profit First is and what it’s not How it helps business owners...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Today I speak with Blake Oliver, co-host of the Cloud Accounting Podcast and Marketing Director at Jirav.    What we cover: Where is accounting technology going? And what are the implications that you think accountants and CPAs are not seeing? How...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 CPAs and accountants worked crazy hours in 2020. The start of 2021 may be no different.  Many CPAs, out of concern for their clients, logged extra hours for those clients, to understand PPP, EIDL, and other loan programs to help keep their clients’...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Today I share with you a way of looking at 2021 on your clients’ behalf.  While exactly predicting the future is difficult, the year can be broken down into 3 main phases: hunkered-down, re-opening, and post-Covid. We are likely to be hunkered down...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Create a different 2021. It was a hard year.  I suspect you don't want 2021 to be a recreation of 2020.  But it's easy to get sucked under, and run on autopilot.  It's easy to let your business run you, and dictate your day-to-day.  It's ok (sort o...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 My guest today is Erica Goode.  Erica is a freelance finance professional, working with a small handful of clients, focusing on financial forecasts while staying out of tax as much as possible.  Many CPAs choose hourly billing when they don’t know...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 If you have ever had to fire a client, you know how hard it can be. In the end, you know it will be better for you both (or at least, for you), but when it comes time to have the conversation or hit the Send button,  it’s easy to talk yourself out...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Trap money is money that looks like good money, but in reality, it’s a trap.  Trap Money is important to be able to recognize because it’s one of the factors keeping CPAs under the glass income ceiling and working long hours.  If you can learn to r...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 My guest today is Minnie Lau. Minnie provides tech professionals working in late-stage start-up companies that are about to IPO, guidance on stock option vesting and selling strategies.  These tech professionals who work at top levels inside start-...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Today I'm going to dig into what deliverables are and what they sound like in the CPA world, so that you can get better at recognizing them and understand why it's such a problem to sell deliverables. We'll talk about what outcomes you might consid...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 We're back today with Jonathan Stark. In case you missed it we did a recording with Jonathan a couple of weeks ago. It’s episode 106 - Better Pricing Strategies for Accountants. There was so much more to talk about that I invited him to come back o...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Today we’re talking about the copy on your website. Because you might be either alienating prospects who visit your website, or not attracting them to begin with. And because of that, you could be missing out on really good revenue.   What am I tal...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Are you stuck thinking about Advisory Services in the commonly accepted tiers of transactional, controller, vCFO? These 3 tiers are great way to begin to think about Advisory Services for CPAs. But why these 3, and only these 3?  Here are some othe...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Guidance and wisdom in the accounting industry tend to be provided by accountants and CPAs. There's a notable absence of expertise and wisdom from thought leaders outside the accounting industry. In order for any profession to advance, it needs to...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Have you ever heard of a tool called the wheel of life? It's a really simple but powerful tool to help you take stock of the most important areas of your life and visualize which ones are going best and which areas you want to devote more of your a...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 My guest today is Jonathan Stark. Jonathan is a former software developer who is on a mission to rid the world of hourly billing. He is the author of Hourly Billing Is Nuts, the host of TWO podcasts: Ditching Hourly and The Business of Authority, a...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 I am here to offer you mathematical proof that different is more profitable.  The best possible strategy to becoming more profitable without having to work so hard includes specializing.  A few weeks back, a well-known software developer turned con...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Today I want to talk to you today about how to price a bicycle. Now you might be wondering, what has this got to do with being a CPA? What does the price of a bike have to do with payroll, cashflow, or tax strategy?  I'll tell you what the connecti...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Today’s guest is Emily Sandberg. Emily provides cashflow and forecasting services to online coaches and course creators.  While many accountants focus primarily on making sense of the past, Emily works with her clients to know the future of money i...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Today we're talking about your business. Is it a lot of work? Do you spend it too many hours or more hours than you want in front of a screen toiling away?  At the end of a long work week, do you ever wonder if there was an easier way? Many CPAs wo...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Today I want to talk with you about why checking in a few times a year on your best clients’ results and how you as a CPA contributed to their success can help you feel more confident in your pricing. When CPAs take the time to stop and observe, wh...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 It’s just too easy to assume that your clients want only what they come to you for, and then, simply, serve them up the usual menu of accounting and tax.  The problem is that your best clients likely want so much more than accounting and tax. Chanc...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Anjali Jariwala, CPA and CFP®, is the founder of FIT Advisors — a financial planning firm serving physicians and business owners virtually across the US. She utilizes her expertise in tax and finance to empower her clients to discover and reach the...

Announcing the *NEW* Client Success Stories podcast :  https://business-strategy-for-cpas-success-stories.transistor.fm/ 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Today we're talking about how creating your own signature framework can be a gamechanger in your accounting practice. A framework is your process or methodology, your approach of how you work with your clients. It's the process you walk your client...