Tips for Attracting High-end Clients
If your firm is still in its infant stages, how do you attract these big-time clients? Let’s use this article to flip things around a bit and look at accounting firms through the eyes of an A-lister on the prowl for an accountant and/or business advisor.
Are You Making These 7 Accounting Leadership Errors?
It’s absolutely true that missteps, mistakes, blunders, and outright errors can lead to wonderful insights. But there is no law that says that you have to be the one making these mistakes – you’re free to learn from the mistakes of others. We’ve worked with more than our fair share of firm owners, CEOs, and management execs and we’ve managed to compile a list of some of the more common errors we see all the time.
Tired of Painful HR Issues With In-House Staff? BOSS’ Online Bookkeeping Service Rids the Worry
A lot of companies have had enough with the whole recruitment process and are looking for ways to simplify or completely remove every stage involved with HR and its many ongoing requirements. BOSS is seeing a big move towards online bookkeeping services amongst every size of businesses. This week Seek announced they would be giving employers the opportunity to mask the names of candidates as they search through their site.
How to Create an Email Subject Line That People Will Want to Open
It was reported by the Radicati Group (a technology market research firm) that 1.9 billion non-spam emails are sent every single day and by 2019 the average business user will receive 96 emails per day! So fighting your way through a deluge of emails for a chance to be opened is becoming a tough business in itself.
Not Growing Fast Enough? You Might Need To Clarify Your Strategy
One of the mistakes we see new firm owners make time and again is that they see the start of their firm as an end. This is not true. Throwing open the proverbial doors of your firm is only one step in many in building a business that pays you your true value. For this to work, you’re going to need a concrete game-plan.
How to Get Staff to Embrace Outsourced Accounting
The accountancy profession is going through a massive change as technology and the move to outsource accounting is enabling firms to provide a better advisory service, control costs better and have a flexible core compliance workforce. The change is inevitable for all firms but managing the change well is of the upmost importance.
How to Properly Take Your Firm’s Temperature
It’s a fairly obvious thing to do – in order to figure out if your firm is blossoming or withering you set up a measuring stick and make a notch each financial quarter. What is perhaps not quite so obvious is what those notches should represent. An auto-shop can have the most efficient tools in the world, but the garage itself isn’t going to prosper if there aren’t happy clients wanting them to be used. So, in terms of your firm’s health, what should you be measuring instead?
Expertise is Marketing
You have great employees. You’re outsourcing. You’re a wizard at accounting itself. And none of it matters because you have no clients. That being said, what do you do if you’re a brand new start-up and you just straight up don’t have the money? It’s time to get the word out that you’re the expert accountant when it comes to something. Anything at all.
Should You Be Charging More?
There’s a common chain of events that plagues struggling accounting firms. To stay competitive there’s only one thing you can really do – lower your prices. And all the while you’re scrambling to grab up even more low-value clients which in itself costs more time, and of course it also means you’re continuously adding to your workload just to break even.
Is Your Quality of Service High Enough?
The problem is that many accountants don’t really feel like they’re in a service industry. Instead, their position is accounting is an essential business and, being essential, it will automatically have clients. This leads to grist-mill firms that revolve around compliance work.
5 Reasons to Use Remote Bookkeeping & Accounting Services
A good outsourcing provider will have all the remote bookkeeping work reviewed before it goes back to the client. This takes out the frustrations of having to oversee work that their remote employees are doing. If you’re looking for a service that ticks all the boxes in this article as well as offer you a lot more, have a look at our newest Freedom Service offer that removes all the worries for accounting firms saving you time, money and major headaches of employing in-house staff.
5 Tips to Look For In Your Remote Bookkeeping Provider
If you’ve made the decision to move forward with using an outsourcing provider as an addition to your in-house staff, (or for those that want to use an outsourcing provider for all their accounting/ bookkeeping needs (rather than hire any in-house at all), then as far as hiring a remote bookkeeper is concerned, there are some things you now need to consider to make sure your provider ticks all the boxes for your business needs.
7 Benefits of Workflow Management Systems
Don’t have your workflow procedures documented? Well you should. It’s something that can reap big rewards for your firm for the rest of its active life and takes very little effort to implement. We’ve talked a couple of times before about workflow systems. We keep adding to the subject because we really do think it’s that important for your firm’s growth.
Online Bookkeeping Vs Traditional Bookkeeping Services For Small Business: What are the costs?
The majority of business owners take care of their bookkeeping needs independently and require accuracy in order to keep up with the ever-growing economy. Small businesses have a few options for bookkeeping services to suit their particular needs. Rates will vary depending on your choices but it’s essential to understand the needs of your business to decide on which services work the best for you. Below are three types of available bookkeeping choices including
Are Your Remote Bookkeeping Costs Setting You Back Annually?
BOSS is one of the oldest remote bookkeeping companies in Australia today and can offer businesses a service where bookkeepers follow our client’s own procedures and have direct contact with bookkeepers via skype and email. All jobs can be performed on a fixed fee basis keeping monthly costs down for businesses where bookkeeping is concerned.
5 Tips for Building Your Dream Client List
A-list clients are the dream. However, it can be a bit of a trick to know for sure that you’re not signing on with D-listers in A-listers’ clothing. You might have to go through quite a bit of misery before you come to realise that a new client was not what you were hoping. That’s why we’d like to suggest that you integrate a system for partnering with new clients. Let’s take a look at some points you might consider going through when you’re checking out whether or not you want to work with a new client.
Bad Hires Are Your Mistake
By using a personality test alongside the usual resumes and interviews you’ll end up with a much clearer picture of how a potential hire will fit into your firm. Now you’ll know not only what you’re hiring (the skill-set and experience) but whom you’re hiring, allowing you to build a more versatile team.
Quick Tips to Help You Become a Better Leader
As you grow your firm’s team you’re going to discover that being an accounting wizard does not translate into being a top tier leader. The weaker your leadership skills, the more you’re going to have to make up for the lackluster performance turned in by your team. That defeats the whole purpose of bringing in new people in the first place. Happily, leadership qualities can be grown, just like your accounting skillset. Here are some leadership tips to keep in mind as you bring new people in under you.
Affordable Employee Perks for Small Firms
The ultimate point is that there’s no need to break the bank in order to offer cool perks. Like anything else in building a business, choosing the best perks is an experiment. Don’t be afraid to tweak and tinker your offered perks until you hit on a combination that has your employees praising your name on their Facebook account.
15 Quick Tweaks to Boost Your Leadership Skills
Poor leadership is a death by a thousand cuts. This week we’re going to jump right into a variety of actions you may or may not be taking that are diminishing your leadership role in your firm. That diminished role can be costing you productivity, time, and even employees who think their efforts might best be spent helping to build a competing firm.
