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Audio cassette learning systems that turn drive time into skill-building.

  • Earn what you are worth!
  • Boom your practice!
  • Bring in more new business!
  • Make clients happier!
  • Turn your practice into the money-machine it should be!

CASSETTES AVAILABLE:

Four Dimensional Client Service (1997)

Double Your Income: How Winning CPAs Make $200,000 per Year (1990)

Discover the Fortune Lying Hidden in Your Practice! (1991) (contents partially duplicate Double your income!)

How to Turn Your Clients Into Cheerleaders (1991)

Client-Centered Service: How to Keep Them Coming Back for More (1991)

Getting New Clients: The Key to a Growing Firm (1991)

 

 

 

Four Dimensional Client Service

Recorded live at the 25th National Management of an Accounting Practice Conference, Missouri Society of CPAs Educational Foundation

Highlights:

  • How to use value-added services to increase off-season work
  • How to avoid fee competition
  • How to turn satisfied clients into delighted advocates for your firm
  • How to increase profitability of serving existing clients

How you will benefit:

  • Increase the amount of your services you can bill for value instead of hours
  • Increase your summer and fall work
  • Turn unprofitable clients into moneymakers
  • Increase client demand for profitable consulting and planning services

Your “Four Dimensional Client Service” learning system includes:

  • One sixty-minute audio cassette tape
  • Reproduction of presentation outline and overheads

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Double Your Income: How Winning CPAs Make $200,000 per Year

The income you enjoy today and the lifestyle you have when you retire depend on how well you manage your firm. Lots of CPAs — some with firms as small as six people — make $200,000 per year, $300,000, and more. This program shows how they do it. And without working any harder than the average CPA! I will share with you the most successful practice management techniques used by the "overachievers" among the hundreds of CPA firms with whom I have worked.

Here’s what CPAs say about Double Your Income

  • “Best seminar in 10 years that I have attended.”
  • “I’ve heard over a hundred practice management presentations and this is the first one in a long, long time that I’ve actually gotten some usable nuggets of information from.”
  • “More practical ideas than other “consultant” seminars I have attended. Practical versus “Ivory tower” is always a winner.”
  • “This was FAR AND AWAY the best practice management seminar I’ve ever attended, both for practical suggestions and motivation for change.”
  • “Best seminar I have ever attended.”
  • “I came to this conference because my profitability was dropping. Now I know why.”

Highlights:

  • How a Rocky Mountain firm increased realization from 87% to 95% in one year
  • What to say when prospects ask, “How much do you charge?”
  • How a small-town firm increased profits $200,000 overnight
  • How a farm-belt firm raised partner rates 32% and staff rates 21% in three months without losing a single client
  • How a Canadian accountant raised tax return fees 30% without a single client comment
  • 11 ways to get more chargeable hours without more overtime
  • 16 ways to bill more for the same work
  • The four ways to increase fees. . . and make clients love you for it
  • Why and how to increase your minimum tax return fee to $300
  • Why you should fire some clients
  • How to increase profitability of serving existing clients
  • Six steps to turn complaints into increased client loyalty

How you will benefit:

  • Get standard billing rates of four times salary, partner rates of $150 to $200, and bill and collect at least 95 percent of standard rates.
  • Get 1800 chargeable hours per staff, 1200 per partner, and 600 to 800 per support person. without increasing overtime.
  • Turn unprofitable clients into moneymakers
  • Learn nine ways to increase billing rates without losing clients.
  • Reduce unplanned writedowns by playing the offense, not the defense.
  • Increase client demand for profitable consulting and planning services.

Your “Double Your Income” learning system includes:

  • Twelve audio cassette tapes
  • Tape binder
  • Seminar outline, overheads, and summary of key points

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Discover the Fortune Lying Hidden in Your Practice

An in-depth program that shows you the proven strategy steps to turn your practice into a money machine!

Here’s what CPAs say about Dave Cottle’s Discover the fortune program:

  • “Best part of the conference, very useful information.”
  • “Excellent. Very well prepared.”
  • “This was the best session of the four-day conference.”
  • “Excellent. Got some worthwhile ideas.”
  • “Five out of five.”

Highlights:

  • How much money are you really making? (includes three worksheets to evaluate your firm’s profitability)
  • How to analyze your firm like a business (includes six worksheets to analyze the “numbers behind the numbers”)
  • How not to make more money
  • The five keys to profitability (including worksheets to calculate how well you are doing)
  • Top-line management: How to make the “multiplier effect” boom your income (includes a “change analysis” worksheet to help you set goals)
  • How to reduce the cost of non-chargeable time (includes worksheet)
  • How to use the bill to sell the service
  • Two simple (but not easy) ways to increase chargeable hours without overtime
  • The only four ways to increase billing rates... and make clients love you for it
  • How to calculate your firm’s efficiency (includes worksheet)
  • Why the “2% rule” is dead
  • How to handle more staff with fewer partners
  • Why cost-cutting can be dangerous

How you will benefit . . .

  • Increase chargeable hours by 6% to 19% without increasing overtime
  • Overcome three causes of unplanned writedowns.
  • Increase fees by 10% to 32% without losing clients
  • Upgrade the profitability of marginal clients.
  • Learn more than 16 ways to bill more for the same work
  • Learn how to set the right billing rates (includes five worksheets to help you make the best decision for your firm)
  • Learn why you should fire some clients and how to do it with no hard feelings

Your “Discover the Fortune Lying Hidden in Your Practice” learning system includes:

  • Eight exciting sessions on eight audio cassettes
  • A separate, comprehensive 36-six page work-study guide with 17 worksheets you can use to spot exactly where to make your firm more profitable.
  • Binder for cassettes and manual

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How to Turn Your Clients Into Cheerleaders

Recorded live at the AICPA Small Firms Conference

An overview of how to increase client loyalty, gain more referrals, and expand your practice.

Highlights:

  • Your “invisible report card” from clients.
  • The missing side of quality
  • The foolproof system of quality control in client relations.
  • The real purpose of “standard” billing rates

How you will benefit . . .

  • Learn how clients think.
  • Retain clients better and increase their satisfaction with your firm
  • Improving your ability to render services that clients perceive as high quality.
  • Recognize value billing opportunities

Your “How to Turn Your Clients Into Cheerleaders” learning system includes:

  • Dave’s live presentation, plus responses to questions from participants on two audio cassettes
  • A 12-page study guide with program outline, illustrations, and summary of key points
  • Binder for cassettes and manual

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Client-Centered Service: How to Keep Them Coming Back for More

An in-depth program that tells you precisely how to manage client relationships to increase client loyalty, reduce your exposure to price competition, gain more referrals, and increase profitability.

Here’s what CPAs say about Client-centered service:

  • “Best MAP seminar I have attended in 32 years in practice.”
  • “I wish I had brought my whole staff.”
  • “Very good — one of most useful seminars I have gone to.”
  • “Thank you — I think I learned something — and I have attended several sales and service seminars and purchased several cassette programs from other consultants.”
  • “He said a few things I did not want to hear but needed to hear.”
  • “I can use this to increase my overall effective billing rate.”
  • “I plan to have retreat of firm next weekend to further explore and take action in these areas.”

Highlights:

  • How clients decide if you are technically competent
  • The two types of marketing needed to keep clients happy
  • Why “marketing schizophrenia” increases writedowns
  • Why clients do not buy accounting services and what they really buy
  • What clients mean by “quality service”
  • How to project a quality image and stand above the crowd
  • The “Robin Hood system” of billing
  • How to overcome the six causes of service problems
  • Seven ways to shape clients’ expectations and set yourself up for a client-service “win”
  • An inexpensive — but foolproof — quality control system for client relations
  • The missing side of quality

The results? You can manage the client relationship to

  • become virtually irreplaceable to clients
  • establish a reputation with clients and referral sources for high quality
  • build client loyalty and new business referrals
  • increase profits by rendering services which clients are willing to pay more for

How you will benefit . . .

  • Charge higher fees (typically between 6% and 32% higher than average)
  • Take advantage of value-billing opportunities
  • Get more and better word-of-mouth advertising
  • Get more referrals from both clients and others
  • Clients will stay with you longer
  • Take smaller writedowns

Your “Client-Centered Service” learning system includes:

  • Nine exciting sessions on six audio cassettes
  • A separate, comprehensive 36-six page work-study guide with program outline, illustrations, and summary of key points
  • Binder for cassettes and manual

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Getting New Clients: The Key to a Growing Firm

An in-depth program that tells you step by step how to identify, meet, and bring in new clients.

Highlights:

  • Why people do not buy accounting services... and what they really do buy
  • Where marketing power really lies
  • The three reasons you cannot “sell” based on technical expertise
  • The six steps in making a sale
  • How to tell who the good prospects are
  • How to work a meeting
  • The three main barriers to meeting people and how to cure them
  • How to build lasting relationships
  • How to get appointments with prospective clients
  • How to present your capabilities in ways clients can understand

How you will benefit . . .

  • Project a professional image that draws people to you
  • Learn to meet people comfortably and easily anytime, anywhere
  • Learn low-risk selling skills
  • Get more referrals from existing clients.

Your “Getting New Clients” learning system includes:

  • Five inspiring sessions on four audio cassettes
  • A 16-six page work-study guide with program outline, illustrations, and summary of key points
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David Cottle Consulting

David Cottle Consulting
36813 Alaqua Court

Eustis, FL 32736

 

Tel: (352) 301-4725
Fax: (772) 673-0293