You’ve already built a solid business that you have great pride in. Yet, if you’re like most entrepreneurs, you’re on a constant search for how to make your business better. One way to focus your search is to look for the weakest link in your business. From a return-on-investment standpoint, working on and fixing your weakest link is the highest payback thing you can do. It lifts your entire company up and makes it stronger. The key is to look as objectively as possible at what might be holding your business back from being even greater than it already is. Here are four major areas where you can look for your weakest link: 1. Client-facing interactions A great area to start looking is where you have interactions with clients. These include things like phone greetings, email, websites, your storefront, your presence at networking meetings, client service interactions, your proposals, invoices, and thank you notes. What jumps out at you as the weakest link when you look through the above list? Perhaps it’s as simple as recording a more friendly voice mail greeting or as complex as getting your website redone. Don’t get overwhelmed if a lot of these items need [...]
Musings of a CPA: What Do Your Business Clients Want?
Here is an interesting article on what business clients tend to want in their CPAs. It lists the most popular reasons businesses leave their old CPAs for new ones. The posting is in AccountingWeb by Doug Sleeter: http://www.accountingweb.com/article/what-do-your-business-clients-want/223265 So you can use this article as a to do list to work on things to keep your clients happy so they don’t go somewhere else. It is harder to get a new client than to keep the ones you have. For financial, accounting and tax musings, You can count on us to count for you! Email: bstonercpa@sbcglobal.net Phone: 818-317-6035 Website: www.briantstonercpa.com Android and the IPhone: Has been Featured On https://twitter.com/bstonercpa
Musings of a Burbank CPA: 10 Questions to Ask When Working With an Accountant
Here is a list of things to discuss with a prospective new accountant (or even your old one!) More details in this article in Entrepeneur by Kim Lachance Shandrow: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/232841# Not taking advantage of a paid professional is just as bad as not having a paid professional – in both cases something is lacking in the relationship! It is a resource that used correctly can add to your business bottom line, whether it is business planning, tax planning or even a general question – answer discussion. For financial, accounting and tax musings, You can count on us to count for you! Email: bstonercpa@sbcglobal.net Phone: 818-317-6035 Website: www.briantstonercpa.com Android and the IPhone: Has been Featured On https://twitter.com/bstonercpa