Category: Get More Tax Clients

Yes, you ARE a salesperson. Embrace it.

If you’re a tax, accounting, or legal professional in private practice, you no longer have the luxury of relying on an employer to bring in business that pays your salary. When you’re the business owner, YOU have to generate leads, nurture those leads, book appointments, and close sales.

If you can’t close sales, you’re going to starve, pure and simple.

This reality is a very difficult one for many CPAs, attorneys, and EAs to swallow. They don’t want to be “salesy”. They don’t like to sell. They want nothing to do with traditional sales training and sales methodologies.

Fortunately, there is a type of sales process that is a natural fit for our profession, our personalities, and the nature of our work. It goes by numerous names, including “needs analysis selling” and “consultative selling”.  In today’s online training session, we’ll cover the most important concepts you need to understand in order to utilize this type of sales closing strategy to convert more of your prospects into paying clients via a simple, organized approach that is natural for you, helpful for the client (even if they don’t hire you), and in no way weird, gross, yucky, or slimy.

Most importantly, we’ll discuss pre-set, organized processes for moving a process along the path from prospect to paying client. When you create a conversion system for closing sales, most of the stress and anxiety of the selling process can be dissipated. Plus, when you have an organized system for this, it becomes repeatable, efficient, and tweakable to improve results. In other words, process = profits.

If you don’t already have it, and you’re interested in tax resolution, you should register just to receive the complimentary bonus gift: All registrants will receive a complimentary copy of my Tax Resolution Case Review Worksheet. This is the exact same that myself and many coaching clients continue to use to help them in the sales closing process. On the webinar, we will discuss two different variations on how to use a form such as this one to make your sales process more efficient — and it’s a strategy you can apply to every service you offer, not just tax tax resolution.

Every tax pro needs sales training — even if you don’t want to admit that fact to yourself. Today’s class is a mere $20, and you’ll walk away with practical, actionable advice that you can … Continue reading

Live Tax Resolution Training Schedule for the week of April 20-24, 2020

We have a jam-packed week for you, including a PPP update covering forgiveness criteria, del ret cases, sales training for tax pros, and our first ever webinar on the topic of IRS Examination.

Lettuce begin…

Tax Resolution Office HoursApril 20, 10am PDT (1pm EDT). For Tax Resolution Academy® members only. Bring your case work, marketing, and practice management questions for in-depth dissection. Members, click here to register.

Intro to Audits: A Sweeping Overview of IRS Examination RepresentationApril 21, 10am PDT / 1pm EDT. Dan Henn, CPA kicks off our brand new IRS Examination curriculum with this broad overview of the field examination process. 1 CE/CPE hour for both EAs and CPAs. Click here to register.

Basic Sales Training For Tax & Accounting ProfessionalsApril 22, 11am PDT / 2pm EDT. Sorry to break it to ya’, but if you’re in business for yourself and you can’t close sales, then you’re not going to be in business very long. “Traditional” sales training is abhorrent to most accountants, so you need to learn a sales process that is a more natural fit for our profession. On this webinar, you’ll learn that process. No CPE, but your bank account will thank you. Register hither.

Inside the IRM™: Delinquent Return Investigations – Enforcement DeterminationApril 23, 11am PDT / 2pm EDT. What steps does the IRS take when they are unable to secure an original return from a taxpayer. What enforcement mechanisms are available to them? How can you, as the taxpayer representative, get closure on del ret investigations? All shall be revealed next Thursday. 1 CE/CPE hour for CPAs and EAs alike. Achieve awesomeness here.

And last but not least, we arrive at Friday…

SBA Paycheck Protection Program (PPP Loans)April 24, 11am PDT / 2pm EDT. The SBA released another interim final rule on April 15, four days after our last PPP CPE presentation, and 1 day before funding was exhausted. So, we’ve got that to talk about. Lots of stuff about forgiveness. Dan is working up a handy, dandy cheat sheet for you, too, which you’ll receive as a special bonus when you register. Plus, who knows what Congress might do in the next few days, we may have even more new stuff to talk about! 🤪 1 CPE hour for CPAs. Get the goodness.

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Webinar Schedule for week of April 13-17, 2020

The past three weeks feels like a blur, it just vaporized. Do you feel the same way?

After the flurry of legislation, procedures, memos, bulletins, and more, this coming week should be a little quieter on the regulatory front. But we all still have a lot of work to do in order to ensure our clients are obtaining the loan funds, stimulus checks, and protection from future IRS enforcement that they need. In that vein, we have a series of support webinars for you this week to help your clients.

PPP & EIDL FAQs. April 13, 10am PDT (1pm EDT). Last week, we presented three webinars on the PPP program, and the week prior three on the EIDL program. This week, Dan and I delve into the most Frequently Asked Questions about these programs. Join us for this 2-hour CPE webinar on Monday. 50% of your registration fee will be donated to the Central Brevard Sharing Center, the food bank near Dan’s office. Click here to register.

Pre-Resolution Case Action You Should Take During IRS Collection Suspension Period. April 14, 10am PDT (1pm EDT). Long name, amazingly awesome CPE! Seriously, this is going to be the most amazing CPE class of the year. We’re going to discuss the current suspension of IRS Collection activity, what that means for your existing clients, and how to take advantage of this gift of time. Time to get your client “fixed”. Time to get them current and compliant. Time to do all the things necessary to get them on the path for success. What are those things? Register here to find out. 1 CE/CPE hour for both EAs and CPAs.

The Top 3 Tax Resolution Marketing StrategiesApril 15, 10am PDT / 1pm EDT. Another magical benefit of the Collection suspension period…another gift from the government due to the extension of filing season…one positive aspect of being forced to work from the seclusion of your basement at 2am… The opportunity to finally focus in on your lead generation marketing. Revised and updated with important details for marketing in the current economic crisis, this complimentary webinar (no CPE) will show you how to utilize the “time bonus” you’ve been given to most effectively generate new tax resolution clients. This class, much like a good cheese and wine combination, pairs well with the the Tuesday pre-resolution actions class. Click here to get yo’ marketing Continue reading