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Making Your To-Do List Lucrative

Most professionals find to-do lists helpful.  They enable you to remember important tasks, prioritize your time and ensure productivity.  Could they also increase revenue?

In a recent Entrepreneur.com article, Victor Cheng suggests “How Your To-Do List Can Boost Your Bottom Line.”  While taking an innovative approach to ordering tasks, Cheng helps business owners focus their efforts in order to 1. make more money while 2. working less.  He suggests the following approach:

1. Monetize your to-do list.  One you’ve completed your list, determine the monetary value of each item, writing dollar amounts next to each task.  Cheng offers this example: “…if the task is to prepare a proposal to land a $150,000 contract, write ‘Finish Proposal ($150,000).’  If the task is to return a phone call from your number-one customer, who generates $1 million in annual sales, write: ‘Return Mary’s phone call ($1 million).’”

2. Sort in descending order.  List the items from those tasks earning the most to those earning the least.

3. Draw a line through the middle.  You can now divide your list to determine the most pressing tasks.

4. Spend four days a week on the top 50%.  It only makes sense that you focus the majority of your time on those tasks that will earn your business the most money.

5. Spend one day a week on the bottom 50%.  Even those tasks in the bottom 50% deserve your attention, just not as much as the top 50%.  

6. Reevaluate the bottom 50% weekly.  If you can continually procrastinate tasks with no significant consequences, chances are those tasks may be obsolete.  That’s why it’s important to revisit that bottom half of your to-do list to see which items could be permanently removed.

As Cheng explains, “You want to dedicate the majority of your time and energy at work to your most important, highest impact activities.  When you follow these steps repeatedly for a long enough period of time, your sales and income will increase substantially.”  Only then may you be able to grow your business to include employees who could work on the bottom 50%.  Not to mention, you may finally secure a more flexible work schedule for yourself.

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Resource

Cheng, Victor. “How Your To-Do List Can Boost Your Bottom Line.”  23 April 2013  Entrepreneur.com

Celebrate the End of Tax Season!

Relax, Reenergize and Recuperate

Tax season is finally over and with it many of the demands on your time and energy.  After the hectic three-month stretch of being over-scheduled and over-worked, it’s time you gave your mind and body the break they need.

Unfortunately too many small business owners feel that running at break-neck speeds is the only way to get ahead, and while that may be true for awhile, neglecting your own needs will soon catch up with you and take a toll on your professional and personal lives.

That’s why we suggest taking this opportunity to decompress and energize.  We believe you’ll find it will make you a better business owner in the end. Here are 5 tips on rejuvenating yourself and your business.

1. Take a vacation. The most obvious thing you can do to relax is take a vacation.  Whether you leave now or in three months, often the planning of your getaway will make a difference in your overall temperament.  And you don’t have to spend a lot of money to enjoy yourself.  Consider what would best help you relax and then make your plans; a three-day weekend spent camping can be just the thing you need to return to work with a new and improved state of mind.

2. Attend a professional conference. We should note that you don’t have to choose between tips one and two.  It would be great if you could take a vacation and attend a professional conference because both serve different, yet important, purposes.  When you attend a professional conference you may be able to relax and unwind while learning new things that will enhance your business.  Remember, your expenses are tax deductible and should be considered a personal investment that will make you a better financial professional.

3. Exercise. We’re guessing that the busier tax season became, the more you neglected your personal needs, like exercise.  The great thing about exercising is it can help you relax and relieve stress.  If you’ve gotten out of the habit, or were never in the habit begin with, now is the time to schedule in regular exercise in order to get your blood flowing, your muscles flexing, and the endorphins releasing.

4. Reconnect with friends and family. Tax season can feel like a state of hibernation during which you lose touch with loved ones.  Now is a good time to reconnect.  This can be accomplished in the simplest of ways: via email, on the phone, or over lunch.  If you’re craving more interaction, consider entertaining a large group of people at a barbeque or dinner party.  Just ensure that reconnecting doesn’t cause more stress in the process.

5. Meditate. Regular meditation can help you decompress daily.  As you take the time to regroup and relax, you’ll find you’re more peaceful and productive.   If your schedule is tight, work in 10 to 15 minutes a day.  Scheduling a regular time for meditation and reflection in your daily planner will pay large dividends in the long run.

You deserve a pat on the back for all that hard work you did throughout tax season.  But more than a pat on the back, you’re in need of some serious relaxation.  Only when you first take care of yourself can you be the best business owner you can be.  Go ahead—Relax!

Invest in Yourself and Your Business

Now that tax season is over, consider ways to build your business in your down time.  The Universal Practice Builder Program (UPB) will help you market your practice effectively, increasing your clientele and your bottom line! Also called Marketing on Steroids, this course was designed by our own growth specialists who know not only how to market your specialized financial services, but how to market them effectively to qualified, prospective clients.

The UPB program provides the following:

  • Flexibility You complete the course on your own time and pace.
  • Complete education.  This comprehensive training program will give you everything you need to build a thriving practice.
  • A qualified professional to answer questions.  For six months you will have access to our professional coaches for personal, professional guidance via phone or email.

The Universal Practice Builder Program will equip you with all the tools you need to grow your business.  If you find yourself lacking the intuitive salesperson personality, call Universal at 1-877-833-7909 to register for this phenomenal program now!!

Guest Blogging

Increasing Traffic to Your Website

A blog can be an effective marketing tool, especially when used in conjunction with your business website.  However, once you’ve established your blog it can be difficult to increase traffic.  Here we suggest 3 tips to build your brand and your readership by guest blogging:

1. Build relationships with fellow bloggers and post to one another’s blogs.  The world of blogging can become a powerful network.  Building relationships with fellow bloggers will give you access to a whole new audience that’s unfamiliar with your services and expertise.  Do a local search to determine who’s blogging, then consider whether or not your skillset would prove beneficial to their readership, and visa versa. 

2. Ask members of your strategic partnership to guest post.  Also called “natural business relationships,” strategic partners are professionals with complementary skillsets that can share referrals, information, and advice regarding critical business issues.  Whether your strategic partnership includes lawyers, financial planners, insurance reps, or loan officers, they become potential guests to your blog, and you to theirs.  Again, information from a leading expert in another field can prove valuable to your readers.  And being given the opportunity to guest post on their blogs will expose you to more potential readers in need of your specific skills. 

3. Submit posts to industry websites.  The internet can enable you to secure clients outside your current location.  When you post informative article to websites offering financial information to prospective clients, you not only build your professional reputation, you widen the boundaries of individuals you can serve.  Look for websites prospective clients would frequent and see what they require from guest bloggers/writers.

Small-business blogging is a popular method of marketing.  For little money, you can have your own blog up and running in no time.  Most blogging publishing sites require no software installation, and maintaining a blog requires no help from tech support—creating a blog and adding posts is just about as easy as sending email.  That’s why there are literarily countless blogs out in cyberspace.  But the point is not just to get a blog out there; the point is to have it rise to the top of competing blogs.  By following some of these suggestions, you might do just that.

UAC Can Help You Create a Custom Website for Your Practice that Includes a Blog!

If well developed, a business website can act as an inexpensive marketing tool and a good point of contact.  If you don’t yet have a business website or a blog, Let Universal Accounting Center (UAC) help you build a strong web presence without expending much time, energy or money.

UAC offers AccountWeb, a website development tool, exclusively for financial professionals.  Within a week you can create a personalized website for your practice, enabling potential clients to access your business even after your office closes.  And if you become an Advanced User, your package will include a blog.  To see a sample of a website developed from the Universal Accountweb platform, go to http://universalaccountingsites.com/.

Whether you run a full-time practice or perform financial services on the side, you need a website that tells potential clients about your business even when you are unable to.  If you haven’t yet developed a website for your business, today is the day! Order your subscription now, and your website will be up and running by the following business week.  And if you are a Universal Accounting student you will receive a free six-month trial!

Resource

Demers, Jayson.  “Increasing Website Traffic: 6 Steps to Guest Blogging.”  3 April 2013 Entrepreneur.com

Ensuring Consistency and Efficiency

Using a Checklist to Standardize Your Processes

Most tax professionals are looking for ways to streamline their services in order to guarantee greater accuracy and efficiency throughout tax season.  And nothing will thwart your attempts to save time and energy more than by performing routine tasks differently each time they’re done.

Whether you’re working alone, with partners, or employees, standardizing your processes is not only a great time-management tool, but it also promotes greater efficiency and consistency in your work.  A checklist is a great way to ensure that your practice is using standardized processes to complete tax returns and perform other routine functions.

If you want to use checklists to help improve your practice, consider the following three tips:

  1. Create checklists for routine functions.  In a recent CPATrendlines article, author and accountant Ed Mendlowitz explains, “Establish checklists whenever repetitive procedures are to be performed…  They are not to be filled out after the work is completed as punishment.”  Checklists should guide professionals as they complete projects—they ensure that key steps are not skipped or forgotten.  Mendlowitz goes on to explain that the importance of checklists needs to be established and maintained by partners, managers and reviewers as well.
  2. Use checklists as a training tool.  Checklists are a great way to help new employees or partners become familiar with your practices’ processes and procedures.  They will enable staff to have an abbreviated tutorial that will walk them through the work.
  3. Update and revise checklists.  Checklists provide a great opportunity to monitor and assess your practice’s processes and procedures.  You can do this by routinely evaluating your checklists, and then, after discussion and debate, eliminating unnecessary steps and, perhaps, adding new ones.  While this may seem a tedious task, it is the one way to ensure that your practice is even more efficient next tax season.

Also called “working smart,” efficient work strategies can makes any tax practice more profitable as owners determine how to get more done in less time.  Using checklists to ensure consistency and standardization of your processes is just one way to improve your services and your reputation as a tax preparer.

Universal Accounting Center’s Solution to Higher Efficiency

The wise financial professional looks for ways to add complementary services to their menu in order to get those higher-yielding clients to do even more business with them.  In doing so, you increase your earning-potential and your appeal to prospective and current clients.

By adding small-business accounting services to your menu, you are able to increase your billable hours, which in turn, increases your bottom line.  UAC’s Professional Bookkeeper Program will teach you everything you need to know to manage a small business’s books, including how to market those services to prospective clients.

To learn more, order our video Introduction to the Professional Bookkeeper Program.  This video will introduce you to the four module included in this course, demonstrating just how valuable it can be to you and your business.  Survive the recession by adding accounting services to your offerings.  What do you have to lose? Call Universal at 1-877-833-7909 for more information now!

 

Resource

Mendlowitz, Ed.  “Five New Tax Season Tips to Provide Consistency in Service, Processes, and Standards.”  10 March 2013  CPATrendlines.com

Increase Meeting Efficiency

The truth is, you can’t afford frequent meetings with clients—especially during tax season.  You can resolve most client issues over the phone or via email, and should when possible, but every now and then you need to meet face-to-face in order to talk about key issues and ensure that both you and your client are on the same page.  And when you do meet, you want to make the most of your time with a client.  Here are six tips on planning effective meetings. 

1. Don’t schedule meetings unless they’re absolutely necessary. Remember that your client hired you so they don’t have to worry about tax issues.  If you over-schedule meetings with a client, they will quickly tire of you and wonder why they don’t manage their taxes themselves.  If there are problems or issues that can’t be resolved through other means, you schedule a meeting in order to generate a two-way conversation.  

2. Live by this meeting equation.  In a recent Inc.com article entitled “6 Things You Need to Know About Leading a Meeting,” author Steve Tobak explains, “No leader + no documentation + no follow up = waste of time.”  If any of these elements is missing, the meeting will be perceived as ineffective and probably seen by your clients as a waste of their valuable time. 

3. Write up your agenda and sent it to attendees before the meeting. Let your client know the issues you plan to cover before you meet, even if it’s in a brief email. 

4. Hold them in the afternoon.  For whatever reason, individuals seem more relaxed after lunch.  Also, Tobak once read in a Scott Adams Dilbert book (really!) that people work best in the mornings, so meetings should be held in the afternoons.  He asked his staff what they thought, and they agreed; it’s worked great for his business. 

5. Make it brief. Turning a one-hour meeting into a two-hour meeting, even if you feel it necessary, is literally risky business. Remember that your client’s time is valuable.  Don’t let your meeting run long, and don’t become long-winded.  

6. End with an action plan. Remember what we said earlier about following up? You should summarize what you’ve covered in the meeting and end with a plan of action.  Tell your client what you intend to do with the information gleaned from this meeting and when the client can expect to see the results. 

When scheduling meetings with clients remember that everything you do, including the manner in which you run meetings, generates client loyalty and trust.  Treat their time with utmost respect and ensure that all your communications demonstrate a desire to make their lives more profitable.

Universal Accounting Helps Tax Preparers Succeed

At Universal, we believe it’s important to prepare for the future, and we’re interested in seeing your future success as a tax preparer. Our online tax training, the Professional Tax Preparer Program, is designed to help professionals like you enhance tax preparation skills by becoming efficient in the completion of individual and business returns while establishing a thriving home-based tax businesses.  To learn more, or enroll now, call Universal at 1-877-833-7909 today!

Resource

Tobak, Steve.  “6 Things You Need to Know About Leading a Meeting.” 21 February 2013  Inc.com

Fine-tune Your Filing in 2013

Often the biggest things holding us back have nothing to do with our products or services.  If you find yourself drowning in paperwork and a filing system that means nothing to you, it’s time to organize the chaos by creating a method that works.  And there’s no better time than the beginning of a new year and before the onslaught of tax season!

In a recent Entrepreneur.com article, author Stephanie Vozza details “How to Solve Your Biggest Organizing Dilemma” with advice from several professional organizers.   She quotes Sande Nelson, a New York organizer who specializes in small business, as saying, “A good filing system is a valuable tool to help you get things done and grow your business.”

Of the four tips Vozza suggests in creating a filing system that works, we share three here: 

  1. Set it up yourself. Angela Wallace, president of the National Association of Professional Organizers, says, “The biggest problem I see is letting employees design your system.  They will create what works for them, not what works for the business.”  There are different filing systems and you should pick the one that will work best for you: alphabetical, numerical, or subject-oriented.  If you’re natural tendency is to file information by client, this might indicate a tendency to access information alphabetically.  However, others still may choose to file numerically by assigning reference numbers to each client.  
  2. Use easy-to-remember names for files.  Nelson says, “One bad habit entrepreneurs make is saying, ‘I can’t remember what I called that file so I’ll just make another with the name I think of now.’  That heralds the death of a filing system.”  As a tax preparer you must standardize your files and ensure that all the information on one topic is kept in the same place.  So it’s important to keep those file names simple to prevent you from forgetting them later.
  3. Maintain your system weekly.  This may sound obvious, but once you create your filing system you’ve got to use it, and ensure it’s regularly maintained.  Too often we let paperwork build up when putting it away as soon as we’ve stopped using it would save time and energy. 

The most important thing about your filing system is that it be catered to your needs.  If it’s dazzling and impressive but takes more time to navigate than necessary, then you haven’t created the filing system for you.  Take the time to do it right the first time, and you’ll have a system that eliminates chaos and makes room for order.  Phew.  Now you can get some work done!  

Universal’s Training Programs are All Online 

If you’re looking to launch or expand a business, we suggest you consider obtaining training designed to help you offer accounting, tax preparation and QuickBooks services.  And Universal’s online training make that more convenient than ever, enabling you to enroll today and begin changing your career tomorrow.  We offer 5 programs designed to make your business more profitable.  To sample our online courses for free, visit Universal today!

Resource

Vozza, Stephanie. “How to Solve Your Biggest Organizing Dilemma.”  23 January 2013  Entrepreneur.com

4 Small Business Do’s and Don’ts

It’s a New Year—time to revamp and look for ways to improve your business.  Here are four easy things you can do that will make a big difference:

1.   Charge what you’re worth. First you need to do your research to see what your competition charges.  And based on that knowledge, charge what your products and/or services are worth.  Sometimes small business owners feel a little self-conscious about their fees; never compromise your value in order to get business.

  • Do:  Communicate the value of your services.
  • Don’t:  Be apologetic and tentative when talking about fees.

 2.   Be visible. Often small business owners are not as good at PR as they are with their business specialty.  But that’s no reason to become a hermit.  As awkward as it may feel, you need to get out there and be both seen and heard.  Attend community functions, meet your costumers, and spend time socializing; the more you interact with others, the greater your networking opportunities.  Remember, everyone is a potential costumer.

  • Do: Make appearances and talk about what you do.
  • Don’t: Be pushy and overbearing.

3. Be Helpful. Small business owners can live or die on one account or customer.  By keeping the business “Golden Rule,” you will be able to capture the big sales with the little sales.  There’s just something about knowing you have had a positive effect on those you do business with every day.

  • Do:  Make each interaction with customers the best one they have had.
  • Don’t: Be arrogant and unresponsive.

4.    Have a marketing plan. Remember Field of Dreams?  If you build it, they will come.  When it comes to your business you have more in common with Costner’s character than you might think:  If you publicize, they will purchase.  You need to get the word out in order to get costumers through your front door, because without costumers, you won’t make any money.  Assign yourself a marketing budget and

  • Do: Research marketing methods that work for your particular business niche.
  • Don’t: Spend lots of money on an unproven marketing technique.

 Register for Universal’s FREE Start Today Seminar

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Take advantage of this FREE opportunity now!  Register today!

New Year’s Resolution: Refine Your Presentation Skills

One way to secure new clients is by offering free seminars on tax and accounting topics.  This will demonstrate your expertise while providing attendees with useful information.  And if they need to contact someone with specific financial questions, they are more likely to contact you!

But presenting to client or group of people is daunting to some and generally requires practice.  However, having basic presentation skills will enable you to better deliver your message, promote your business, and even enhance those daily interactions you have with clients.  Here are three things to consider as you hone your presentation skills:

1. Know your audience.  Your message should be catered to your audience and that can’t happen until you know who your audience is. In a recent Inc.com article, author Tom Searcy claims one of the biggest mistakes presenters make is in failing to tell the audience “What’s in this for me?”   He describes the prospect’s perspective: “If I’m your prospect, I don’t really care how you are going to execute, I care about why I should let you.”  Consider who you’ll be speaking to, including their wants, needs and most pressing concerns.  Only then can you say something they actually want to hear.

2. Explain what they need.  Most presenters waste far too much time telling attendees what they do.  It’s much more effective to explain what attendees need.  Searcy explains, “If I present about my company, I use the word “we” a lot.  We do this, we do that, we, we, we.  If I present about the clients and their issues, I use the word “you”; you need this, you could do with that, if you have this would that solve your problems?  It’s a habit, but changing this habit shifts the emphasis of the presentation from this is all about me to this is all about you.”

3. Know your material.  Whether it be accounting principles, QuickBooks tips or investment advice, it’s important that you know what you’re talking about.  Be sure that you’ve done the necessary research and anticipated all the possible questions your audience might raise.

You’ll find you become more at ease with presenting the more often you do it.  The experience will help you become more confident and comfortable promoting yourself and your business.  Not only that, but it will make you more at east when interacting with clients as well.

Learn Other Ways to Expand Your Practice!

If you’re looking for training to help you market your practice effectively, the Universal Practice Builder (UPB) Program is the course for you.  Also called Marketing on Steroids, this course was designed by our own growth specialists who know not only how to market your specialized financial services, but how to market them effectively to qualified, prospective clients.

The UPB program provides the following:

  • Flexibility You complete the course on your own time and pace.  And the engaging DVDs enable you to return to key concepts and instruction as necessary.
  • Complete education.  This comprehensive training program will give you everything you need to build a thriving practice.
  • A qualified professional to answer questions.  For six months you will have access to our professional coaches for personal, professional guidance via phone or email.

The Universal Practice Builder Program will equip you with all the tools you need to grow your business.  If you find yourself lacking the intuitive salesperson personality, call Universal at 1-877-833-7909 to register for this phenomenal program now!!

Resource

Searcy, Tom.  “How to Craft the Perfect Presentation.”  12 December 2012  Inc.com

New Year’s Resolutions

Five Tips for Giving Them “Sticking Power” This Year

I’ve made some; you’ve made some.   Chances are we’ve made several over the course of our lifetimes. What am I talking about?  New Year’s Resolutions.  In fact, if you’re like most people, you collected a few already for 2013.

Our ability to keep resolutions can change the course of our lives. Social scientists have been studying this for years, and many more want to know the trick for making the right resolutions and, more importantly, keeping them. Here are a few tips on making those resolutions stick this year:

1.   Write Them Down. Writing down your resolutions gives them a voice and helps you envision the actualization of those resolutions. When it comes to your profession, you must write down those professional benchmarks; it becomes the standard by which you can measure your progress and then celebrate your success.

2. Reverse Engineer It. Pretend that you have already achieved your resolution.  What does that feel like, sound like, look like?  When you visualize the achievement of your resolution, you can often see the steps necessary to get there.  As that image becomes ingrained in your mind, it feels more natural to follow the path necessary to achieve that resolution.

3. Search out Examples. This step requires you to find others who have achieved what you hope to accomplish yourself. Some call this “modeling.” Individuals in the business world find Lee Iacocca or Jack Welch to be good examples.  But it doesn’t have to be a larger-than-life character; it could be a former employer or a family friend that you admire.

4. Find a Mentor. When you have a mentor who has achieved what you hope to achieve, you have access to someone who can give you direction and help you avoid some of the mistakes they may have made.  They can also advice you on how to most effectively move forward and achieve the success of which you dream.

5. Positive Reinforcement. When you reach a milestone you have set, reward yourself.  The reward should be something special, something you don’t experience everyday; it should be a true acknowledgement that you have achieved something significant and deserve to celebrate it.

The best resolutions are those with built-in rewards.  When you enroll in Universal Accounting Center’s programs, you increase your earning potential, impress current and potential clients, or, if interested, can earn extra money on the side – all on your own time and from the comfort of your own home. Here’s one resolution you should consider:

Master Proven Marketing Techniques

Universal Accounting Center is in the business of helping build stronger, more profitable practices, and we can help you better market your services and secure new clients.  Our Universal Practice Builder (UPB) program will enable you attract and retain more clients so that you can build a more lucrative practice.  Here’s just a sampling of what you will gain from enrolling in this phenomenal program:

  • A guarantee of $30,000 in new annualized billings in only 12 months
  • The skills to become a Profit Expert for each of your clients
  • 12 marketing strategies that you can implement immediately
  • A process which can produce 15 to 25 qualified leads per month
  • 3 months of coaching via telephone and Internet
  • Training to use QuickBooks to attract more clients
  • Access to a plan proven to help retain clients
  • 5 business assessments
  • A customized business website
  • An iron-clad guarantee

Master proven marketing techniques is the best resolution for your business!  Allow us to show you how.  Call 1-877-833-7909 today to enroll in the Universal Practice Builder Program.

Managing Holiday Stress

8 Tips in Making the Holidays Truly Worth Celebrating

As much as some may look forward to the holiday season, November through December can be more stressful than all the other months combined.   Not only must you set aside time for all the celebrations and preparations, but you must earn the money that will pay for it all.  So how do you manage all that stress without the holidays consuming your peace of mind?  Here are 8 tips that should help:

1. Sort out the ‘have-to’s’ from the ‘want-to’s.’  A lot of the stress we experience during the holidays is self-induced.  Sometimes personal expectations cause us to become overwhelmed.  We feel obligated to write and distribute that Christmas newsletter, deliver home-baked goods to all our family and friends, organize that school party for our kids, and play Santa at the church Christmas festival.  Take a step back and determine what’s truly important to you, then make the necessary adjustments to your schedule.

2. Plan your day. Sometimes we let ourselves get caught up in the chaos of the day without really planning for it.  Take some time before you start working to order your priorities and make lists of what needs to be done.

3. Get enough sleep.  Often we become so overwhelmed with stress that we neglect our health, and sickness only causes more stress in the end.  One way to prevent illness is by getting enough sleep.  This also enables you to be mentally prepared for all the work that awaits you in the morning; lack of sleep only makes you less efficient.

4. Practice relaxation techniques. Practice deep breathing, meditation, listening to soothing music, or using imaging techniques to visualize a more relaxed response to stressful situations.

5. Avoid over-scheduling. Professionals have the tendencies to over-schedule.  This can be especially stress-inducing during the holidays.  Be realistic about your schedule and only plan for those things you have designated as priorities.

6. Establish a budget. Much of the holiday stress can come from the price-tag that’s often attached to the festivities.  In order to alleviate some of that burden, establish a budget that determines how much money will get spent on certain things.

7. Don’t sweat the small stuff. Once you’ve prioritized your activities, you can determine what you can and should let go.  When dealing with stress overload, you need to be able to focus on what matters and put the rest on hold, especially during the holidays.

8. Schedule down-time. This is, after all, a time to enjoy your family and friends. While it may not seem like you have any time to spare, it can be extremely rejuvenating to take an hour or two and do something relaxing with your family.  It also can give you the perspective necessary to balance your personal and professional lives over the holidays.

QuickBooks Made Profitable

Knowing how to make the most of your accounting software could save you hours of working on the computer.  Consider purchasing Universal Accounting Center’s QuickBooks Made Profitable (QBMP).  For next to nothing you can use your QuickBooks expertise to attract more clients and increase your bottom line!

80% of small businesses use Intuit’s QuickBooks software.  Once you complete QuickBooks Made Profitable, you will be able to use our proven system to attract more clients with your QuickBooks expertise.  Not only that, but when you add QuickBooks setup, help and consultation services to your menu, you enhance your financial service offerings and widen your customer appeal.

Take advantage of this marvelous opportunity to eliminate some stress and increase your bottom line.  Call Universal at 1-877-833-7909 to order now!

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