Tag: cpa

5 Keys to QuickBooks Success

How to make sure your QuickBooks setup, security, site, supervision, and scale are all up to par for your business.

Four Secrets to Successful CPA Email Marketing

I interviewed Allison Semancik, a marketing consultant in Miami, and asked her questions about marketing principles for CPAs and other professionals. This entry is the last in the series.
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Me: Email seems pretty low-tech these days, but studies indicate it still dominates business-to-business communications. Any ideas about how accountants and other professionals can do more [...]

Setting Social Media Goals for Professionals

I interviewed Allison Semancik, a marketing consultant in Miami, and asked her questions about marketing principles for CPAs and other professionals. This entry is the 3rd in the series.
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Me: What do you think some reasonable goals would be for accounting or other professionals who have a presence in social media? How would you recognize [...]

Marketing Your Services: 4 Paths to Success

I interviewed Allison Semancik, a marketing consultant in Miami, and asked her questions about marketing principles for CPAs and other professionals. This entry is the 2nd in the series.
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Me: Allison, your Twitter profile lists inbound marketing, pay-per-click, social media, and email marketing as areas you deal in. Are any of those more critical for [...]

Overcoming Marketing Challenges for Service Professionals

I interviewed Allison Semancik, a marketing consultant in Miami, and asked her questions about marketing for service professionals. Her answers are worth a few blog entries. Here’s the first in the series.
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Me: Allison, first of all, how did you get involved in marketing consulting? What about it appeals to you?
Allison: I have been [...]

Three QuickBooks failures, and how to avoid them

QuickBooks disasters come in at least three flavors.
Scenario #1: System failure: A QuickBooks user has some kind of system catastrophe. A fire, a computer theft, a flood, a server hard drive crash and trash. The computer goes down and takes QuickBooks with it.
That is the time when current, reliable backups are more than handy — [...]