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The Complete Guide to Starting and Growing a QuickBooks Consulting Business by Michelle L. Long, CPA, MBA This book will help you start earning money in your OWN business with the wealth of information it provides. It includes steps to start your own business (and estimated start up costs); how to define your services and set billing rates (includes average billing rates); how to improve your knowledge and experience; obtain new clients and effective marketing ideas; details about websites, client engagements, market opportunities, growing the business, and MUCH more.
The book includes results of a national survey of QuickBooks ProAdvisors about their annual income, use of engagement letters, over 300 comments and advice on things they wish they had known sooner or done differently, their KEYS to SUCCESS and more!
Bookkeepers, accountants, tax preparers, and consultants will all find beneficial information in the book. With your own business, you can decide what hours you want to work, services to provide, and work from home if you choose! This book will help you SUCCEED! • Thinking about starting your own consulting business?
• Need ideas to help grow your business?
• Not sure how to get clients or what rates to charge?
• Want advice from other top consultants?
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If so, then this book will save you time, money, and frustration and will help you build a successful QuickBooks consulting business. Topics include:
• The market for and role of a QuickBooks consultant and income potential
• Details about how to start your own business and the steps to take
• Proven marketing ideas and techniques to get clients
• Tips on setting billing rates and results from Intuit’s Annual Accounting Rate Survey
• Advice from and profiles of top QuickBooks ProAdvisors
• Results from a national survey of QuickBooks ProAdvisors including: Annual income from QuickBooks consulting Actual use of engagement letters Marketing methods utilized and effectiveness Over 300 comments, advice, and things they wish they had known sooner or done differently
• Common mistakes consultants make so you can avoid them
• Many more details and resources to help you succeed Click here to see the table of contents, Click here to see the front matter (quotes, foreword, about the author, introduction, and more of the book. Click here to order now!!! | | Michelle L. Long, CPA, MBA M. Long Consulting, LLC Michelle L. Long, CPA, MBA is a member of the Certified Trainer Network for Intuit and taught on the 2008 Accountant Update Tour in October, 2007. She is an Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor, a Certified FastTrac Facilitator for the Kauffman Foundation, and owner of M. Long Consulting, LLC. She was named Financial Services Champion of the Year for 2007 by the U.S. Small Business Administration in recognition of her training and consulting work with Small Business Development Center clients. She has taught numerous QuickBooks seminars as well as college courses in Accounting Information Systems, Strategic Management, Entrepreneurial Marketing, and FastTrac Business Planning as an adjunct professor at University of Missouri Kansas City and Johnson County Community College. Prior to starting her own business, she worked for the public accounting firms of Price Waterhouse and Baird, Kurtz and Dobson as well as for Hallmark Cards, Inc. |
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