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The Ins and Outs of Value Pricing for Bookkeepers, Accountants, CPAs, Tax Pros and more

Join Michelle Long (Owner of Long for Success) and Ian Vacin (VP of Marketing & Product at Xero) for a 1 hour webinar on Value Pricing.

You’ll learn:

  • What is value pricing?
  • How to bundle your services
  • Tips on how to set price
  • How to take the first steps to increase your practice’s profitability.
  • Plus we’ll give a wealth of tips and tricks from folks we interviewed while creating the content (like Ron Baker, Jody Padar, Sandi Smith Levya and others). Read more

8 Simple Steps to Accelerate Your Accounting Practice, Free CPE, and Final Call for Accountant’s Accelerator 2013

If you:

  • Are actively growing your accounting practice, starting a practice, or repositioning your services
  • Struggle with time management and how to get everything done even though you’d like new clients
  • Want to develop your business management skills so you can move from being a technician to a business owner
  • Feel uncomfortable or lack confidence when it comes to marketing or selling

Then I’d like to invite you to a complimentary webinar on Tuesday, February 19, 2013 full of simple and low-cost tips, answers, and ideas to help you in these areas.

“8 Simple Steps to Accelerate Your Accounting Practice” Read more

CLEARIFY announces QQube Version 5 — Game Changer

QQube™ Version 5 has a new look and feel, making it easier to use, less overwhelming to the casual user, and provides game changing capabilities when combined with the latest versions of Microsoft Excel.  New users can now expect to get up and running in just a couple of steps, and existing users will find welcome changes to the interface, field names,  and Excel integration.

QQube 5

 

CLEARIFY® founder Chuck Vigeant, M.Ed. says “There is a saying in the development community called ‘eating your own dog food’.  This infers that the true test of a product is how often you use it in your own organization.  I can’t put the tool down because I have so much fun solving customer problems that our user base was only able to produce in earlier versions with several degrees of difficulty. “  He continues: “there is nothing more comforting than to hear a customer go ‘wow’ when we show them that they can get any information about a customer, item, job, or account – with just a click or two of the mouse.”

In addition to the usability improvements, QQube now includes analysis tools for Audit Trail and Sales Tax, Balance Sheet by Class; several additions to Inventory, Job Costing and WIP, based upon customer requests; and new contact fields and bin location information available in 2013.  This puts QQube in a class all by itself in terms of available data for QuickBooks users.

The Excel Add-In also has a few new tricks for Multi-Company users and Financial Statement generators.

Users who have tried QQube in the past but where a little overwhelmed, will find it much easier this time around.  Report writers will have unparalleled access to almost any piece of QuickBooks® data.  Existing users will be amazed at the changes that make their life easier.

QQube will be publicly available on February 5th,  and the first webinar on the new features will be held on Feburary 12th.  Register here for this free webinar: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/880941334

For specific details on the changes in QQube Version 5 please visit: http://community.clearify.com/articles/product/55/qqube-version-5-release-details

 

Are You Tired of the Same Old, Work-Your-Tail-Off Tax Season Routine?

The difference between accounting practice owners that make a meager living and those that are far more comfortable financially can often come down to just one or two skills that are easily learned.

Most accounting professionals build their technical skills – far more than they need to – but they ignore the more important set of practice management and development skills that will help them take their practices to the next level.  They keep reaching for technical credentials because that’s the more comfortable road.

But it’s also the less profitable road.  Read more

Survey of Accounting Professionals

I would appreciate your help with a survey of accounting professionals.  The survey will only take about 5 minutes to complete and you could win one of four $50 Amazon gift cards.  Key results will be shared in future blog posts.

Do it now so you don’t get busy and forget it.  Your input is appreciated!

Click here for the survey:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/cloudaccounting

I really appreciate your help — Thank You!

 

Focus on Referrals

It’s that time of year again – tax season. Only accounting professionals truly understand the grueling busy season, which usually means little time for sleep, meals, or family and friends. Many will have their nose to the grindstone with their sole focus on getting the work completed. Who has time for networking or marketing during busy season? If that is how you think, then you may be missing a great opportunity for referrals! Read more

Xero 101 – Intro to Xero, Demo and Q&A with Jamie Sutherland, Xero’s US President

Have you heard about Xero from clients or others?  Do you wonder what the buzz is all about?  Do you want to learn how Xero can help you transform and grow your accounting practice?  See how you can code a year’s worth of transactions in a few hours instead of days.  Please join me for an introduction to Xero and demonstration with Jamie Sutherland, US President of Operations. Read more