Our recent insight report ‘Why SMEs won’t pay for business advice – and how to change their minds’ revealed that 63% of respondents said they regretted making a business decision without speaking to an accountant first.
As SMEs continue to face new and varying pressures in 2021, the services they need are inevitably also changing.
With the demand for technical advice being overtaken by the need for general business expertise, SMEs could start to overlook their accountants.
Read on to find out what our new research report has discovered.
I’m always excited at the end of the month because that’s because I get to delve into our clients’ marketing performance data to spot trends and report back. There’s always some spark of insight into what’s happening in the accounting sector and how SMEs are engaging with accountants’ marketing activity.
This month, I decided to take a look back at last year’s performance and see how behaviour has changed during the pandemic.
The following article has been put together based on the webinar discussion between myself [digital marketing manager and SEO specialist at PracticeWeb] and Mike Crook, PracticeWeb’s managing director, who hosted it. The event: ‘Get more leads through search engine optimisation’ took place on AccountingWEB Live:The Business of Marketing webinar in March 2021.
The aim of the webinar was to provide accountancy professionals with a crash course in commercial SEO, along with practical tips to take away to help them grow their organic traffic and get more leads via their firm’s website.
As you will know, IR35 is hardly new in our world of accounting. But it will take on a new significance in April this year. The fear you may be feeling is that it will have unfavourable consequences for you, too. Some say that with private sector contracting being driven back in-house, that accountancy practices could lose up to 20% of their client bases.