Workplace Pensions reform has led to dramatic changes for accountants, bookkeepers and payroll bureaus across the UK.  Auto Enrolment means that all employers across the UK must enrol eligible jobholders into a workplace pension scheme and make employer contributions to that scheme. With many medium and small employers reaching their… read more →

Finding the UK’s Most Inspiring Accountant  By Patrick McLoughlin There’s a great line in Paul Dunn and Ron Baker’s ground breaking book, The Firm of the Future: ‘We want an accountant who can help us create beans rather than simply count them.  Can you do that?’ The answer to this question… read more →

Video Marketing for Accountants It’s a pleasure to introduce you to our guest blog writer and old friend Freddie Rostand. Freddie and I worked together over 20 years ago at the publishing group EMAP.  After losing touch and moving to the south coast we met up again.  Well I could… read more →

Accountancy Marketing: Improving Profits with Auto Enrolment By Karen Bennett In 2012, the UK law on workplace pensions changed forever. By law, employers must now enrol their employees in a pension scheme and contribute towards that scheme. Every employer with at least one staff member now has new duties. These… read more →

Accountancy Marketing: Auto Enrolment Opportunities By Karen Bennett Every employer in the UK will have to enrol their employees into a pension scheme and they must contribute towards that pension.  This process is called auto enrolment.  Employers will need to prepare for their new auto enrolment duties and responsibilities or… read more →

Accountancy Marketing: Formula for Client Winning Testimonials By Patrick McLoughlin What’s the single most productive source of new clients for your accountancy practice?  If you are like the majority of firms it’s not the latest development in accountancy marketing: social media, apps or your website but good old fashioned referrals.… read more →

Accountancy Marketing: Client Winning Seminars By Shaz Nawaz When I first started running seminars and workshops, I thought about the numerous ones I’d attended and tried to work out what it was that made any of them stand out. You’ve got to spend either time or money – often both –… read more →

Accountants Marketing: 10 Best Books to Grow Your Practice – Part One By Patrick McLoughlin The biggest factor distinguishing fast growth firms from the rest is their ability to successfully win new business. And not any old new business, but the clients that gain the maximum benefit from the relationship:… read more →

Accountancy Marketing: Examples in Differentiation By Craig Baldwin Many of Patrick’s previous posts revolve around the idea of taking marketing, sales, and growth seriously in the professional service world. As someone who’s been the marketing director at a top US Xero partner firm in the States, I’m here to tell… read more →

Accountancy Marketing: Defeating Fee Pressure By Patrick McLoughlin High growth accountancy practices tend to have a number of traits in common. Most focus their attention on attracting a certain kind of client: the organisations they offer greatest value to.   If they can deliver something of value to their clients,… read more →