Unifying Your Brand Identity: Understanding the Importance of a Brand Standards Kit Sometimes marketing terminology can be confusing, right? We get it. It can sometimes be confusing for us too. One of the questions we often get is, “what is a brand standards kit and why do we need [...]
Struggling with Recruiting? Here’s How Marketing Can Help You’ve heard the angst among colleagues, and you might be experiencing it yourself: staff recruitment and retention is a bigger challenge right now than it’s been for a long time. The last survey from National Management of an Accounting Practice (MAP) [...]
Toxic Client Relationships: How and When to Disengage By Kristy Gusick This is a condensed version of an article that originally appeared in a past issue of the Minnesota Society of CPA’s Footnote Magazine. To request a copy of the full article, please contact Kristy Gusick at kristy@alignmarketinggroup.com. Not [...]
Sometimes bringing in new business can be frustrating and even a bit overwhelming at times. The best way to consistently generate new business is by laying out a strategic, integrated approach to your marketing efforts. Here are some ideas to help ignite your business development efforts. 1. Thank Your [...]
You know better than to jump into a relationship with an out-sourced vendor without doing all research. As a discerning professional, you qualify everyone—from clients to referral sources to support staff—to make sure they are the right match for you and your practice. The same goes for hiring a [...]
One of the most common questions we get when we are talking with financial advisory firms and accounting firms is “what should we be spending on marketing?” Because people seem to always be looking for direction on how to structure their marketing budget, we wanted to share some of the [...]
I need to be blunt here. What you think makes you unique and different is most likely not why your clients really choose to partner with you. Often when we’re working with clients, we ask them what makes them different from their competitors and they say things like “We really [...]
You are full of fascinating information that your current and prospective clients are interested in. What is the easiest way to share your knowledge? You could definitely write the content yourself, but many busy professionals have found that it’s easier to work with a ghostwriter. First, let’s review some reasons [...]
Over the years as we’ve worked with many different financial advisory firms and accounting firms, we have found there is often confusion around the various roles that sales and marketing play in the growth of a practice. Understanding the differences is essential to your firm’s growth – so we want [...]
Many financial advisory firms and accounting firms ask us if they really need to use Search Engine Optimization (SEO) on their website. We always answer this question with an enthusiastic yes. What may differ between firms is the amount of SEO they require, and the only way to determine this [...]
