Communications
While generally positive for businesses owners, mergers and acquisitions often result in mixed emotions among the firm’s employees and clients. Here are recommendations for how to retain employees and clients during a transition. Employees may question their job security and feel uneasy knowing their benefits may change. Similarly, clients may…
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Roundtables date back as early as 1155 when legendary King Arthur hosted many prominent warriors and distinguished men, who later became the Knights of the Roundtable, tasked with caring for the disenfranchised. Whether King Arthur existed or not is debatable, but the idea of a roundtable has been passed down…
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People do business with those they like, know, and trust. CPA firm partners are no different. You can be following the yellow brick road to a marketing project success at your firm – with everything going right – only for a partner to poke their head out at the Emerald…
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Accountants and the breadth of accounting services that firms provide are critically vital to your clients. Many of you are an integral part of your client’s businesses, especially in today’s environment where nearly everyone is struggling due to coronavirus. It’s why you are probably referred to as a trusted advisor.…
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Lisa Tierney, an executive life coach to the accounting profession and President of TIERNEY Coaching & Consulting, Inc. shares her insights into how to ask “power questions” and make “power statements” that shift the focus from the problem toward a solution, resolve conflict in the process and engage everyone in…
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We have all been in crisis mode over the last few weeks. Dealing with working remotely, having kids underfoot, going crazy with the COVID announcements, tax extension announcements, relief-package-this, and CARES-Act-that. We’ve been cranking out communications both internally and externally as fast as our faded manicured fingers can type. The…
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In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, news is changing faster than we can move from one set of “work at home” pajamas to the next. As marketers, many of us are tasked with coming up with a strategy to keep our clients informed, and positioning our firms as resources…
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For many marketers, we are not only tasked with communicating to our clients and our community, but we are also leading the charge in keeping our employees informed and engaged during this time of working remotely. From virtual happy hours to fun videos, here is what some of our fellow…
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As I write this from my own quarantine, I can confidently say we are in uncharted waters. In a profession that is pretty predictable, suddenly we are all trying to figure out how to work remotely, what it means to be flexible and just what communication needs to be provided…
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Mergers and acquisitions are an imperative part of most firm’s growth strategies. In fact, when attendees on our recent AAM High! Webinar were asked if M&A is part of their firm’s growth strategy, all but two respondents said yes. What is the accounting marketer’s role in M&A? Here are five…
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Compensation Changes in Accounting Firms – Intersection of HR & Marketing with Andrea Sardon, PBMares
with Andrea Sardone from PBMares
Join host Mike Jones with Andrea Sardone from PBMares as they discuss the changes in compensation within the intersection of marketing and accounting in accounting firms.