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Marketing: Successful Strategies for CPA Firms

Author/Moderator: Jennifer Lee Wilson and Tamera Loerzel
Publisher: AICPA
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More than ever, CPA firms in today's highly-competitive environment need to create and implement effective marketing strategies to survive and thrive.

This course provides a step-by-step method for achieving practice growth. With strong coverage of branding and lead generation, it stresses identifying and defining your firm’s competitive differentiators and measurable outcomes, and assigning responsibility for your overall marketing plan.

Objectives: 
  • Understand the importance of your overall firm strategy to your firm's brand identity and marketing strategy
  • Develop a cross-selling and client communication methodology to generate new service opportunities from your existing clients
  • Develop and implement proven lead generation and branding strategies that will generate new opportunities
  • Create a firm-wide marketing calendar to better manage and measure your marketing activities

The Manual's appendix includes tools and templates that you can customize for your firm. When you play the DVD on a computer, each tool and template can be separately viewed, saved and printed.

Prerequisite:  Leadership responsibility within a CPA firm.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1 - Your Firm's Marketing Strategy
    • Text
    • Review Questions
    • Answers to Review Questions
  • Chapter 2 - Marketing to Existing Clients
    • Text
    • Review Questions
    • Answers to Review Questions
  • Chapter 3 - Marketing: Lead Generation Activities
    • Text
    • Review Questions
    • Answers to Review Questions
  • Chapter 4 - Marketing: Branding Activities
    • Text
    • Review Questions
    • Answers to Review Questions
  • Chapter 5 - Putting It All Together
    • Text
    • Review Questions
    • Answers to Review Questions
  • APPENDIX
    • Resources Listing
    • TOOLS AND TEMPLATES
      • SWOT Analysis of Your Firm
      • Competitive Analysis
      • Values Exercise
      • Story Writing Guidelines
      • Marketing Check-Up
      • Cross-Selling Client Analysis Tool
      • Client Cross Services Survey
      • Client Meeting Guidelines
      • Pipeline Report
      • Marketing Campaign Objectives Worksheet
      • Seminar Checklist
      • Alliance Qualification Tool
      • Alliance Letter of Agreement
      • Networking Guidelines
      • Press Release Template
      • Press Release Guidelines
      • Marketing Calendar
      • Director of Marketing Position Description
      • Sales and Marketing Coordinator Position Description
      • Marketing Partner Position Description
      • Staff Lead Program
      • Staff Lead Program Form
    • SAMPLES
      • Guide to Samples
      • Marketing Plan
        • PrimePlus Services (AICPA)
      • Mission, Vision, and Values
      • CPA Firm SWOT Analysis
      • Competitive Differentiator
        • Should You Choose a Smaller Auditing Firm? (Malone & Bailey, PC)
      • Niche Marketing
        • Focusing on Family Offices (J.H. Cohn LLP)
      • Story and Elevator Pitch (with Biography)
        • Malone & Bailey, PC
      • Logo Usage Guidelines
        • Regulations for Reproduction (AICPA)
      • Paper Newsletter to Existing Clients
        • COHNNECTION Spring 2005 (J.H. Cohn LLP)
      • Electronic Newsletter to Existing Clients
        • Brott Mardis & Co. CPAs Newsletter
      • Paper Announcement to Existing Clients
        • Availing Our Clients of More Resources (Kruggel, Lawton & Company)
      • Direct Mail Pieces
        • Cautious Optimism (J.H. Cohn LLP)
        • Hospitality Bulletin Spring 2005 (J.H. Cohn LLP)
      • Seminar Invitation
        • Financial Statement Analysis for Attorneys (Brott Mardis & Co., CPAs)
        • How to Attract the Right Employees While Observing Legal Boundaries (J.H. Cohn LLP)
        • The Post Election and Year-End Tax Planning Seminar (Kruggel, Lawton & Company)
      • Firm Fact Sheet
        • Firm Profile (Kruggel, Lawton & Company, LLC)
      • Firm Partner Biography
        • Denise M. Griggs, CPA (Brott Mardis & Co.)
      • Press Release
        • Brott Mardis & Co. Moves Offices to New Downtown Akron Location
      • Marketing Calendar
  • GLOSSARY
  • INDEX
  • EXAMINATION

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The manual's appendix includes tools and templates that you can customize for your firm. When you play the DVD on a computer, each tool and template can be separately viewed, saved and printed.

The Author/Video Moderators are Jennifer Wilson (co-founder and owner) and Tamera Loerzel (senior consultant) of ConvergenceCoaching, LLC; presenters include Sally Glick, chief marketing officer of Sobel and Co., LLC, former Chief Marketing Officer of J.H. Cohn LLP and former president of the Association for Accounting Marketing (AAM); John Malone, CPA, J.D., co-founder of Malone & Bailey, PC; James C. Metzler, CPA, AICPA Vice President – Small CPA Firm Interests; and Tracy Crevar Warren, founder of The Crevar Group and former Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer of Dixon Hughes PLLC and former AAM president.

* The DVD disk contains the video presentation and a viewable copy of each text exhibit that can be viewed, saved and printed.

** The Additional Manual is for group study training only. Unlike other formats, it has no exam answer sheet and cannot be used to earn self-study credit.

NASBA Field of Study: Business Management and Organization
Level: Intermediate
Recommended CPE Credit: 12
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