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Tax Strategist/VCFO sharing knowledge, tips, and aha moments with fellow boss ladies as we lead our wealth and navigate our financial journey!!
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Business Strategy for CPAs: work less and make more. You know how to be an accountant – it’s running your business you need help with. With guests interviews and solo episodes, you will get business strategy every week to help you simplify your practice, get out of the compliance trap, get your time back, and command higher fees. Stop missing out on life: start working less while adding the next six figures of income. Business Strategy for CPA's is the show for you!
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302 Permission to Travel Your Own Path with Shana Cooper, CPA
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For the listener who feels the tension between the path he’s on and the one he really wants to be on, I talk with Masterminder Shana Cooper, CPA about giving yourself permission to travel your own path. … Hey CPA firm owner, glad you found the podcast. If you feel like you’ve become trapped by your own accounting firm, you’re fed up PiTB clients wh…
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301 The Four Factors that Drive CPA Firm Multiples with Todd Steinberg
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Are you considering selling in a few years and wondering where to focus? My guest, Todd Steinberg, President of Thrive Financial Group, discusses how client mix, profitability, location, and transition assistance impact sales multiples. … Hey CPA firm owner, glad you found the podcast. If you feel like you’ve become trapped by your own accounting f…
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300 Making Your Dream of Working Fewer Hours Attainable
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What to think about (and what not to think!) to bring your hours down off the shelf of “wouldn’t that be dreamy” and make what you want a reality. … Hey CPA firm owner, glad you found the podcast. If you feel like you’ve become trapped by your own accounting firm, you’re fed up PiTB clients who get you their stuff late, don’t appreciate the value y…
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Sarah Thomas - Getting matched with Edumatch
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299 [Hire Well] Leveraging Near-Shore Talent in Guadalajara with Kristen Keats, CPA
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As part of the [Hire Well] series, I talk with Kristen Keats, founder of founder of Breakaway Bookkeeping & Advising, owner of Sherwood Tax & Accounting, founder and client of Cadencia, about how to use near-shore talent in Guadalajara, Mexico, to build a team that works smoothly together. … Hey CPA firm owner, glad you found the podcast. If you fe…
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298 3 Key Factors Driving Sales Multiples with Brannon Poe, CPA
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I get an update from Brannon Poe, CPA, on the marketplace, what’s driving multiples, and how P/E is impacting the space. We also discuss strategies and considerations for selling to an internal staff member. … Hey CPA firm owner, glad you found the podcast. If you feel like you’ve become trapped by your own accounting firm, you’re fed up PiTB clien…
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What’s most important to focus on – and where do you not need to focus – in order to make the most progress toward your goals in your accounting practice? I see nine common characteristics among the accountants who’ve made the most progress. Know what they are so you can use your time wisely and not get pulled away by tempting, shiny objects. … Hey…
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Wondering if Down to 40 Hours CPA Mastermind is right for you? It might be, if you're a single-owner or partner CPA who wants to work fewer hours without losing revenue. In this short episode, I answer: ✋ Who is it for? (Is it for me?) ✋ How does it work? ✋ What's the time commitment? ✋ What if I'm going on vacation? ✋ Is there a payment plan? ✋ Wh…
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295 Niche Journey and 5x Higher Prices than 24mo Ago with Sheila Hansen, CPA
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Many CPAs see the value in niching but find it difficult to get started. Sheila Hansen, CPA went from having a wide variety of clients to having a clear, narrow niche with clients whose challenges are consistent. Doing so has helped her standardize and systematize, save time, and increase prices by a factor of five. … Connect with Sheila: Website: …
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I used to think I needed more time. If I just had more time, I could solve so many more problems. But thinking that way never solved enough problems to give me more time. Instead, I maintained a status quo of “never having enough time.” You might want more time. More free time. For your health. For your family. To travel. You might think you need m…
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293 What it Takes to Work 15 Hours per Week with Erica Goode, CPA
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If you think working only 15 hours per week, taking home almost $200K in Total Owner Benefit, and living stress-free while enjoying your business seems: Insane Impossible The Promised Land Check out Erica Goode, CPA’s playbook for getting it done. … Hey CPA firm owner, glad you found the podcast. If you feel like you’ve become trapped by your own a…
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292 [Hire Well] Offshore as a Strategy, Not a Tactic with Nick Sinclair of TOA Global
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Accountants run into many hiring and staffing-related challenges. You want to know: Which role to fill next Where to find talent If it’s time to go offshore How to hire well the first time. Because there are so many questions related to hiring and staffing, I am doing a series of podcast episodes to get insight into the problems and solutions relat…
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291 [Hire Well] Down to One Hour with Scott Scarano, EA
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After being stuck at a “$1.2M and working-all-hours” plateau for six years, it took Scott Scarano four years to get down to a one-hour work week. Find out what he needed to learn to get there. … Hey CPA firm owner, glad you found the podcast. If you feel like you’ve become trapped by your own accounting firm, you’re fed up PiTB clients who get you …
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290 [Hire Well] Onshore Hiring Done Well for Accountants
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Accountants run into many hiring and staffing-related challenges. You want to know: Which role to fill next Where to find talent If it’s time to go offshore How to hire well the first time. Because there are so many questions related to hiring and staffing, I am doing a series of podcast episodes to get insight into the problems and solutions relat…
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289 Fear of Niche Boredom with Jonathan Stark
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I talk with Jonathan Stark about the fear of niche boredom and the benefits of niching down in business. We explore the idea that niching down does not lead to boredom, but rather opens up new opportunities for variety and growth. By focusing on a specific target market or problem, businesses can automate repetitive tasks, systematize processes, an…
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288 [Hire Well] Five Offshoring Mistakes for CPAs to Avoid
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Accountants run into many hiring and staffing-related challenges. You want to know: Which role to fill next Where to find talent If it’s time to go offshore How to hire well the first time. Because there are so many questions related to hiring and staffing, I am doing a series of podcast episodes to get insight into the problems and solutions relat…
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Dawn Thomas shares with audience how her faith and passion for fitness led her from a position with a Bank to fitness business after attending just one pole class!!!
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287 How CPAs Can Decide Their Niche When They Can’t Decide
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If you’ve ever wanted to niche but thought, “I can’t decide,” this episode is for you. By the end of it, you will not only know you can decide but also be able to take your next niche step with confidence. … Hey CPA firm owner, glad you found the podcast. If you feel like you’ve become trapped by your own accounting firm, you’re fed up PiTB clients…
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Getting back to recording, so I wanted to test the phone app and tools for uploading future podcast episodes.
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286 What do I say on my website? #4: Fix / Packages
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We’re talking today about what to put in the fix section of your website. If you do this well, the flow of your website copy will make sense to your reader. If you don’t do this well, there’s a risk and opportunity cost of not attracting the clients you want to work with, doing the kind of work you enjoy at prices you enjoy. … Hey CPA firm owner, g…
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Niching feels scary. The journey includes uncertainty, doubt, and overwhelm. “We definitely should turn around.” It’s the Niche River of Fear. If you know it exists and what to be on the lookout for, you’ll make it across. In so doing, you’ll reap the benefits of having made the traverse: new skillsets, capabilities, and tool to last a lifetime in …
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A simple way to improve how you communicate the value you create. If you are not already great at communicating the value you create, you might default to selling accounting to your clients. Selling accounting is less valuable than what accounting does, so if you don’t know how to convert from what accounting IS to what accounting DOES, you might b…
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In increasing order of value, clients buy one of five things: Commodities Deliverables Services Experiences Transformations The kinds of transformations you can create are typically related to four things: Money Time Feelings Clarity The more you understand about what your clients feel before they work with you and once they’re working with you, th…
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282 What do I say on my website? #3: Headline and Subtitle
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Have you ever gotten stuck, wondering what to say on your website? Having the words that grab the kinds of clients you want to work with (and repel the ones you don’t) can make a big difference. Because you only have a moment to capture the attention of those who land on your website, you want to nail your headline and subtitle. Here are the three …
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281 4 Pricing Problems Solved with Kathy Hayden, EA
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THIS WEEK’S EPISODE Pricing is rarely just one problem. Often there are many challenges embedded in the problem. It might sound like this: “I know I need to raise my prices but it hurts my brain to think about how to navigate the complexity, the details, and the relationships.” In today’s episode, I talk with CPA Masterminder Kathy Hayden, EA. With…
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280 Mastering Leverage to Create Value in Less Time
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Hey CPA firm owner, glad you found the podcast. In this episode, I discuss the concept of leverage and how to use it to optimize your accounting practice. We dive into the importance of recognizing and utilizing various forms of leverage, from people and systems to time and technology. Drawing parallels with physical leverage, I invite you to consi…
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279 The Real Reason You Started Your Accounting Practice
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THIS WEEK’S EPISODE On the real reasons you started your accounting practice: time, freedom, flexibility, control, autonomy. And how working more, adding more clients, more staff, and more hours is not the path to getting you there. It’s not. the. path. I’ll walk you through why inverting your thinking is required: how the key to working less is no…
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