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Home-Based Business Strategies

Home-Based Business Strategies

While running a business from home can be inexpensive and convenient, it can get tricky as you try to balance work and home life, sometimes all from the same room.  In order to ensure that your professional and personal lives don’t collide in the process, you should have a strategy or at least some techniques […]

September 4, 2018
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Our Free Newsletters

Serving You with Our Free Newsletters We enjoy sending you information that we hope improves your work as a tax preparer. Our three newsletters, AB Tips, Tax Tips, and Career Tips, are intended to help professionals like you advance in whatever their current position in the financial field. The AB Tips Newsletter is designed to […]

September 4, 2018
On The Outside Looking In

On The Outside Looking In

Are You Where You Want to Be? Another tax season has come and again you are not where you want to be. For awhile you’ve been thinking you could really “clean up” if you just had the right training and marketing know-how to get your tax preparation business off the ground. You know you have […]

September 4, 2018
Sharpening the Saw

Sharpening the Saw

In Stephen Covey’s well-known and oft-quoted book, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, the last and final habit is known as “sharpening the saw.”  Covey explains that this habit “means having a balanced program for self-renewal in the four areas of your life: physical, social/emotional, mental, and spiritual.”  If you’re like many professionals, the idea […]

September 4, 2018
Marketing on a Shoestring

Marketing on a Shoestring

Three BIG and Inexpensive Marketing Tools Steuart Henderson Britt, noted author in the psychology of marketing, once said, “Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark.  You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.” Marketing is an important business function.  Without it, you can’t build a clientele; you’re […]

September 4, 2018
Key Social Media Rules

Key Social Media Rules

The proliferation of social networking sites has left many professionals wondering how to best manage profiles in order to generate interest in their businesses.  In a recent Entrepreneur.com article, author Brian Patrick Eha describes “5 Social Media Rules Every Entrepreneur Should Know.”   Here we share three of his tips: 1. Produce quality content.  In order […]

September 4, 2018
Recommended Summer Reading List

Recommended Summer Reading List

Summer is a great time to slow down and reflex on one’s business and career. And reading good how-to books can provide you with great ideas on improving key business functions.  Current publications can help you understand and apply solid business principles to both your personal and professional life.  For this summer’s recommendations, we share […]

September 4, 2018
Tax Season Opens

Tax Season Opens

Due to the renewal of “extender” provisions to the tax law that expired in 2013, the IRS announced that tax season will open as scheduled, and they will begin accepting the electronic submission of returns on January 20th. The legislation extended tax breaks for individuals and businesses as well as a savings program for the […]

September 4, 2018
7 Tips for Running an Effective Home-Based Business

7 Tips for Running an Effective Home-Based Business

While running a home-base business can be inexpensive and convenient, it can get tricky as you try to balance work and family life, sometimes from the same room.  In order to ensure that your professional and personal lives don’t collide in the process, you should have a strategy or at least some techniques that help […]

September 4, 2018
6 Days of Business

6 Days of Business

What You Should Focus on in December December often comes before we realize it,and when caught unaware we can miss key opportunities to acquire new clients, secure more business, and create more loyalty with employees.  This season, take command of the holidays and make key preparations that will enable you to take advantage of this […]

September 4, 2018
Avoiding Sales Mistakes

Avoiding Sales Mistakes

In our exuberance to sell services, sometimes we make some unwitting mistakes.   In a recent Inc.com article, Geoffrey James lists “10 Dumb Sales Tactics to Avoid.”  Are you guilty of implementing some?  We share four common sales mistakes here: Answering objections the customer hasn’t surfaced.  Why prepare prospective clients for concerns they may never have?  […]

September 4, 2018
Make a Difference and Apply for the ETAAC

Make a Difference and Apply for the ETAAC

On April 6th the IRS announced that it is accepting nominations for the Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee (ETAAC). The deadline for submitting applications is May 24. The ETAAC was established as part of the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 and serves as a public forum used to discuss issues and […]

September 4, 2018

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