Sponsored by PCPS and the Association for Accounting Marketing Whether your firm is getting back into the full swing of marketing and you are looking for some new ideas to jumpstart your sales efforts, or you are getting serious about business development for the first time, this book is designed for you. Its purpose is to inspire, teach, and provide you with practical insight to help build results-oriented marketing and sales programs in your organization. Bull’s-Eye is a collaboration of 37 of the industry’s most successful marketing and sales minds. Collectively these gifted professionals have served as pioneering practitioners inside the profession, and as outside advisors and thought leaders for hundreds, even thousands of CPAs and their firms. They give you an insider’s view of what it takes to build marketing initiatives that produce results. Through the principles, best practices and case studies shared in the book, you can see success doesn’t happen by chance, but through careful planning, development, and implementation of well-designed processes, systems, and tools. This compendium of marketing know-how shows you how to build your marketing team, implement marketing techniques that get you noticed, connect the dots between marketing and sales, measure results, and much, much more.

Going solo doesn’t have to be a game of trial and error. Careful planning can make it one of the most rewarding decisions of your accounting career. Now in its second edition and revised by author Brannon Poe, this book leads new solo practitioners through each stage of creating your own firm, bringing your vision to reality, and nurturing your practice to make that reality a success. Follow each of the book’s five parts as it takes you chronologically from start to success. Each chapter is rich with strategies as well as stimulating follow-up questions that will help you define your goals and plans, drawing you to careful consideration of important factors such as: Creating concise mission and vision statements Establishing goals, standards, attitude, and skills that reflect a successful practitioner Anticipating financial needs Defining family involvement Shifting from employee to owner Understanding potential stumbling blocks Advancing your practice with a specialty Deciding whether to buy a practice Choosing a form of organization for your practice Building client relationships Keeping a focus on the future And much more!

Expert advice on growing your professional service firm or individual practice through social media Showing professionals and their marketers how to accomplish familiar marketing tactics in newer, ways, Social Media for Professionals and Their Firms takes you step by step in putting social media to work for your professional practice. Whether you want to build your own on-line reputation, or are ready to explore new media for corporate marketing and communications, this book is the definitive guide for your strategic approach. Explores why the fastest and most leveragable way to expand relationships today is through the Internet Provides step-by-step approaches to successful professional blogging Discusses high-level strategies for effectively using Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and bookmarking sites Includes pitfalls and success stories featuring notable social media trailblazers Timely and practical, this book shows you why new media is rapidly becoming the core way for professionals to reach their audiences. Whether your firm provides legal, accounting, financial planning, architecture, consultancy, or other services, Social Media Strategies for Professionals and Their Firms will show you ways to better reach and communicate with your customers.

Expert advice on growing your professional service firm or individual practice through social media Showing professionals and their marketers how to accomplish familiar marketing tactics in newer, ways, Social Media for Professionals and Their Firms takes you step by step in putting social media to work for your professional practice. Whether you want to build your own on-line reputation, or are ready to explore new media for corporate marketing and communications, this book is the definitive guide for your strategic approach. Explores why the fastest and most leveragable way to expand relationships today is through the Internet Provides step-by-step approaches to successful professional blogging Discusses high-level strategies for effectively using Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and bookmarking sites Includes pitfalls and success stories featuring notable social media trailblazers Timely and practical, this book shows you why new media is rapidly becoming the core way for professionals to reach their audiences. Whether your firm provides legal, accounting, financial planning, architecture, consultancy, or other services, Social Media Strategies for Professionals and Their Firms will show you ways to better reach and communicate with your customers.

Unveiling eight indispensable competencies for the new Network-Oriented Workforce, Strategic Connections provides practical advice anyone can use for building better, more productive business relationships. Smartphones, social media, and the Internet can only get a professional so far. At some point, the success of an organization will depend on face-to-face relationships, which means the isolated employees trying to do everything virtually will at some point have to fall back on the tried-and-true, essential skill of relationship building if they are going to survive in today’s increasingly collaborative workforce. You will discover how to: Commit to a positive, proactive networking mindset Earn trust Boost their social acumen and increase their likeability Master conversational skills and deepen interactions Employ storytelling to make communications memorable Businesses don’t have to look very far to find employees with a strong presence in the different social networks. If you want to stand out and make yourself invaluable to your organization, focus on making your presence known in the company’s physical networks.

Facebook's EMEA Client Council is made up of leaders from some of the most influential brands and agencies across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The goal of the council has been to create a forum where the best minds in business can come together to share ideas and develop best practices. Build Brilliant Brands is the first attempt to capture their ideas, insights and opinions. It features 22 essays — 18 penned by council members, four by guest contributors — split across three distinct chapters: what hasn't changed in marketing, what's changing, and what needs to change. And though the essays cover a wide range of topics, each is designed to inspire and inform those who are in the business of building brilliant brands.