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Why your accountancy firm needs to focus on its marketing funnel
To generate leads for your accountancy practice, you need to get plenty of prospects into your marketing funnel. That bit of jargon is part of every salesperson’s vocabulary but might sound a bit alien if that’s not your territory. This week our commerical manager,...
Why your accountancy firm needs to focus on its marketing funnel
To generate leads for your accountancy practice, you need to get plenty of prospects into your marketing funnel. That bit of jargon is part of every salesperson’s vocabulary but might sound a bit alien if that’s not your territory. This week our commerical manager,...
What are your clients really worried about? – A first glance at our new SME report
You know your clients based on the conversations you’ve had with them and the work you’ve done for them over the years. You’re familiar with their business goals, and maybe their lifestyle goals, too. But what you don’t know is what’s on their mind the rest of the...
Will this year be an eventful one for you?
Adding value through events It‘s felt like a long January – and I'm sure that’s especially true for many accountants who have been buried in tax returns at their practices. But we’re on the home stretch now, one step nearer to spring, and to when the accountancy...
What does your font say about your accountancy firm’s proposition and personality?
Even if only on a subconscious level, clients and prospects will read meaning into the fonts your accounting firm uses in its website design and publication layouts. There’s a famous pop experiment that proves this point. The American documentary maker Errol Morris...
Four critical metrics to track marketing performance in 2020
Analytics is about measuring what’s most critical to your accounting firm so you can track performance and gauge return on marketing investment. But knowing what to measure, and how to do it, can be daunting.
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...
Obsessing over Budget 2019
Will there be a Budget this year? When will it be? What will be in it? We wish we knew. At the time of writing (11:45am on Wednesday 23 October 2019) a Budget is scheduled for 6 November 2019 and the PracticeWeb editorial team is planning on that basis. Having spent...
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...
Budget 2019: What can you expect?
The kids are back at school and the leaves are beginning to fall which means, all things being equal, that Budget 2019 is around the corner. We have a new prime minister in Boris Johnson, who in building his new cabinet made Sajid Javid the new Chancellor of the...
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...
Choosing, editing and optimising images for accountancy websites
Imagery is a key part of any successful web design but sourcing graphics, illustrations or photography can be tricky if you're not a designer, marketer or editor. Don't worry – it's not necessarily as complicated as it might seem. This is a practical guide to finding,...
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...
Short names are big news
Google My Business is the function that powers those handy boxes that pop up after you search for products or services in your local area. They're a powerful tool for accountants to connect with potential customers, as long as you take the time to get your listing...
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...
The complete guide to websites for accountants
Everything you need to know to get the right website to help your accountancy firm meets its business and marketing goals, achieve maximum return on investment, and stand out in the accountancy marketplace.
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