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Enhancing your accountancy firm’s online reputation
Managing and responding to your firm’s reviews should be a significant part of your digital strategy for your accountancy firm’s online reputation.
Do accountants need to incorporate “Ltd.” in their logo?
Do you need to incorporate “Ltd.” in their logo? In short, the answer is no. A logo is an essential part of an accounting firm’s brand. Because logos are so central to your and your practice’s identity, and carry so much weight, it can be tempting to cram too many elements into that small space. The fact is, you don’t need to incorporate ‘Ltd.’ in your logo and probably shouldn’t even if you want to.
Why your accountancy practice’s website deserves proper copywriting
There’s writing and then there’s copywriting. If you want your accountancy firm’s website to generate leads and promote your brand, you need professional copywriting. Copywriting is the technical term for crafting text for marketing purposes. It’s most often used to...
What accountants can learn from the 100 most valuable brands on earth
More often than not, at the start of a project, we’ll ask a new client which brands and websites they admire or aspire to. The most common answer? Apple. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Apple recently topped the Interbrand rankings for the 100 most valuable brands in the...
Search marketing for accountants: the benefits of optimised content
Most practices are unclear about how our search marketing for accountants service determines the success, or failure, of a blog. We gauge 'success' in this context by the number of readers, and how many of those convert into leads. Most writers can choose a topical...
Staff picks – the top 100 brands, Google Bert, secondhand culture
We’re always firing links at each other round the office in a vaguely competitive way – who can be the first to spot a new trend in web design or copywriting? Who’s found the most inspiring rebrand or eye-opening opinion piece from the world of marketing? That kind of...
Budget 2019 update
PracticeWeb's Budget report is an important product – it’s one of the few times in the year when everyone’s attention is focused on tax and fiscal policy and a great opportunity for practices to connect with their clients. In a year of extreme political turmoil,...
What do accountancy and marketing have in common? Jargon.
The problem with jargon is that even people who say they hate it don’t always know they’re using it. Because we work in digital marketing, and spend all day every day thinking and talking about it, it doesn’t occur to us that we’re using specialist terminology. Of...
Content for accountants must have a purpose
“This isn’t about content for content’s sake – every item of content you spend time, effort or money on developing needs to serve a purpose and, ideally, multiple purposes.” Recently, I ran a content strategy workshop for a firm of accountants specialising in a...
SEO: understanding local citations
If you know a little about SEO already, it’s likely you’ve heard of local search. It’s the term for the results displayed when someone enters a query into a search engine with what’s known as local intent – something like ‘accountants near me’, or ‘accountants in...
The Class of 2019: new stars in the world of accountancy
Yesterday, I spent time with AccountingWEB’s Class of 2019 – a group of accountants whose firms launched in the past year. I was there not only to offer PracticeWeb’s expertise on digital marketing for accountants as part of a panel discussion, but also to listen. The...
Why it pays to be a professional
PracticeWeb recently asked 100 SME owners: ‘What do SMEs want from accountants?’. The survey found that by far the most important quality, selected by 52% of respondents, was professionalism. Download the full research report. Honesty, reliability, respectability and...
Updated edition for 2022 and beyond
Everything you need to know to get the right website to help your accountancy firm meet its business and marketing goals, achieve maximum return on investment, and stand out in the accountancy marketplace.
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