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Building a Proactive Referral Strategy

Building a Proactive Referral Strategy

When it comes to growing your bookkeeping business, referrals can be a powerful source of new clients. However, relying solely on the hope that satisfied clients will spontaneously spread the word about your services can be a passive approach to business growth. Instead, you need to take control of your referral strategy and actively shape how referrals are requested and shared.

Start with Stellar Client Experiences:

The foundation of any successful referral strategy begins with providing exceptio…

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Set Sail Towards Growth With The Pirate Framework

Set Sail Towards Growth With The Pirate Framework

Recruiting new clients is an important path to growth for any bookkeeping practice, but there’s more to it than just signing up new clients. It’s important to monitor your progress right through your marketing and retention strategy.

So how can a pirate help with this?

The AARRR framework, sometimes called the pirate framework, is a way of walking through the five key areas that you need to monitor.

AARRR is a framework that stands for Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, and Revenue…

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4 Ways to Get New Clients Without Spending a Single Penny!

4 Ways to Get New Clients Without Spending a Single Penny

When you set up your bookkeeping practice, the chances are that you won't have a huge budget for marketing.  In your mind it's easy to think that this will put you at a massive disadvantage to those who have deeper pockets and can spend money on paid adverts or SEO experts but this isn't always the case.  When you don't have much of a budget you just need to work harder finding those opportunities to get your name out there.  They do exist, though, and I'm going to share with you 4 absolutely fr…

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Sell With a Story

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From a very young age, we’re introduced to storytelling.    We’re told stories by our parents, grandparents, teachers and other adults around us.

Stories are a great way to communicate ideas, to pass on history and traditions and even teach lessons.  Many of these stories have lessons contained in them. 

Whether it’s learning not to tell lies with Aesop’s Fable of ‘the boy who cried Wolf’, or learning about helping others with the bible story of 'the good Samaritan’.

These lessons could be ta…

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10 Email List Building Strategies

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Before I start sharing these fantastic ways to build your email list, I want to talk about why you should be building an email list.  If you've taken my Create Your Own Sales Funnel course, or Email Marketing course then you'll already know this, so please bear with me.

Why have an email list?

I'm not exaggerating when I say that your email list is one of your most valuable business assets.  I know that if I lost my whole business tomorrow, as long as I have my email list that I could start al…

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Dating v Marketing

Dating v Marketing

If you were to look for something that was most like marketing for your business it would be dating.  This may sound very strange, but the two are extremely similar. It’s also an experience most of us have had and can draw upon.

When you start dating, you probably already know the type of person you are looking for.  You possibly have some type of list of attributes you’d like a future partner to have, and those which would be a red line.  If you think about it, this is just like defining your …

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No Fizzy Drink?

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Last Thursday I went to a local takeaway for lunch.  While I was waiting I heard the most incredible conversation between a customer and a member of staff.  It went something like this.


Staff: No can of Coke today?

Customer: No.  I'm giving up on fizzy drinks.  I'm not even missing them.

Staff: When did you do that?

Customer: Monday.  If I don't notice a difference by Friday I'll start drinking them again.


I had to hide a small snigger.  Here we were on Thursday and he had kicked his ha…

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It's Circus Time

It's Circus Time!

It's circus time! They've come a long way since I was a wee boy.  They really are experts at keeping the audience amused and entertained.  Add in a few daredevil stunts and it'll make you gasp.

The other thing that the circus are experts in is pricing.  See how many of our usual pricing strategies you can see in my recent experience.

Initially they offer free tickets around the community they are visiting.  You can attend at absolutely no cost whatsoever. An amazing lead magnet, I'm sure you'l…

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What's the Election got to do with Bookkeeping?

It’s not often that we talk about politics at The Bookkeepers Alliance, but things are so interesting I just couldn’t avoid it any longer.

How are you feeling about the EU election?  Are you feeling really energised, or are you getting bored of the whole thing?

Regardless of what you think about him, Nigel Farage and The Brexit Party is the interesting one to watch for me.  I probably shouldn’t be very surprised when the polls show his party gaining ground quickly at the expense of Labour and …

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The Biggest Mistake in Advertising

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I've been looking around some bookkeeping and accountancy forums this morning.  I've got to say, I'm pretty amazed by something I've found.  

On almost every forum there are people asking a question about advertising that is going to kill them before they even get started.  They have a mindset that means they will be guaranteed to throw good money away on a fruitless task.

What is this question I hear you ask?  It's simply "Where is the best place to advertise?"  

That's right before they get…

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