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What are your plans for our website on Budget day?
Website Clients On the day of the Budget or fiscal statement, we’ll add several news stories to your website covering expectations, headline announcements and industry reactions. We’ll also send a branded email newsletter to your registered users linking to the news...
Do accountants need to incorporate “Ltd.” in their logo?
Do you need to incorporate “Ltd.” in their logo? In short, the answer is no. A logo is an essential part of an accounting firm’s brand. Because logos are so central to your and your practice’s identity, and carry so much weight, it can be tempting to cram too many elements into that small space. The fact is, you don’t need to incorporate ‘Ltd.’ in your logo and probably shouldn’t even if you want to.
Staff picks: evaluating campaign success, the experience economy, pinball patterns
At PracticeWeb, we like to stay on top of trends and best practice in marketing and share what we've learned with the accountancy firms we work with. Here’s what’s grabbed our attention and got us talking in the past month, from a reminder on the importance of...
Why your accountancy practice’s website deserves proper copywriting
There’s writing and then there’s copywriting. If you want your accountancy firm’s website to generate leads and promote your brand, you need professional copywriting. Copywriting is the technical term for crafting text for marketing purposes. It’s most often used to...
What accountants can learn from the 100 most valuable brands on earth
More often than not, at the start of a project, we’ll ask a new client which brands and websites they admire or aspire to. The most common answer? Apple. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Apple recently topped the Interbrand rankings for the 100 most valuable brands in the...
Search marketing for accountants: the benefits of optimised content
Most practices are unclear about how our search marketing for accountants service determines the success, or failure, of a blog. We gauge 'success' in this context by the number of readers, and how many of those convert into leads. Most writers can choose a topical...
Staff picks – the top 100 brands, Google Bert, secondhand culture
We’re always firing links at each other round the office in a vaguely competitive way – who can be the first to spot a new trend in web design or copywriting? Who’s found the most inspiring rebrand or eye-opening opinion piece from the world of marketing? That kind of...
Budget 2019 update
PracticeWeb's Budget report is an important product – it’s one of the few times in the year when everyone’s attention is focused on tax and fiscal policy and a great opportunity for practices to connect with their clients. In a year of extreme political turmoil,...
What do accountancy and marketing have in common? Jargon.
The problem with jargon is that even people who say they hate it don’t always know they’re using it. Because we work in digital marketing, and spend all day every day thinking and talking about it, it doesn’t occur to us that we’re using specialist terminology. Of...
Obsessing over Budget 2019
Will there be a Budget this year? When will it be? What will be in it? We wish we knew. At the time of writing (11:45am on Wednesday 23 October 2019) a Budget is scheduled for 6 November 2019 and the PracticeWeb editorial team is planning on that basis. Having spent...
Content for accountants must have a purpose
“This isn’t about content for content’s sake – every item of content you spend time, effort or money on developing needs to serve a purpose and, ideally, multiple purposes.” Recently, I ran a content strategy workshop for a firm of accountants specialising in a...
Budget 2019: What can you expect?
The kids are back at school and the leaves are beginning to fall which means, all things being equal, that Budget 2019 is around the corner. We have a new prime minister in Boris Johnson, who in building his new cabinet made Sajid Javid the new Chancellor of the...
The complete guide to websites for accountants
Updated edition for 2022 and beyond
Everything you need to know to get the right website to help your accountancy firm meet its business and marketing goals, achieve maximum return on investment, and stand out in the accountancy marketplace.