{"id":2370,"date":"2016-07-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taxprocenter.proconnect.intuit.com\/?p=2370"},"modified":"2021-05-18T11:51:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T16:51:19","slug":"making-more-money-doesnt-have-to-cost-more-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accountants.intuit.com\/taxprocenter\/practice-management\/making-more-money-doesnt-have-to-cost-more-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Making More Money Doesn\u2019t Have to Cost More Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

The old adage says, \u201cIt takes money to make money.\u201d Well, we disagree. We\u2019ve compiled a list of tips to help you increase your income at\u00a0zero cost to you<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

When it comes to adding income to your bottom line, you have three main routes to consider: add more clients, add new service offerings or charge more for your current services. The last option won\u2019t be popular with your clients, so we\u2019ve focused our tips on the first two categories.<\/p>\n

Crank up the referral machine<\/strong><\/p>\n

The best way to get new clients without spending money on marketing is through referrals from your existing clients. Happy clients can be your best marketing tools. The following tips are excellent ways to boost your client satisfaction stats and transform their loyalty into referrals.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Generate confidence in your work.<\/strong>\u00a0A large reason taxpayers use a professional to process their return is so they can feel confident their return was done correctly. To help ensure that trust,\u00a0Intuit\u00ae<\/sup> ProConnect\u2122 ProSeries<\/a>\u00ae<\/sup> contains thousands of error-checking diagnostics and automated calculations to help ensure you file the return right the first time, no matter how complex the return.<\/p>\n

You can also boost client comfort levels with our\u00a0Audit Assistance & ID Theft Restoration<\/a>\u00a0program, providing personalized assistance for clients in case they face an IRS audit or ID theft occurrence. This valuable service can save you and your clients time and stress.<\/p>\n

Offer proactive advice.\u00a0<\/strong>Make notes when you process a client return, and offer suggestions for possible areas they could improve their return next year. For additional support, check out ProConnect\u00a0ProSeries Plus<\/a>, three client-focused tools, including Client Advisor, specifically designed to help you make recommendations to help clients lower their taxes. Using ProSeries Plus engages you as a partner in your clients\u2019 financial well-being and helps you become an advisory resource to rely on<\/p>\n

Make it easy to work with you.<\/strong>\u00a0Clients can get stressed about gathering the information you need. Help make it easy by using free Intuit tools, such as our digital online tax organizer portal\u00a0Link<\/a>, which provides a list of needed documents and a secure document upload resource so that clients can send you documents from their phone or computer without having to come to your office or mail you documents.<\/p>\n

You can also provide easy payment options to clients, such as Pay-by-Refund<\/a>, which requires no out-of-pocket expense for a client to pay for your services.<\/p>\n

These loyalty-boosting tools are available through our\u00a0ProConnect Client Benefit Suite<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0ProConnect Client Connection Suite<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Offer More Value Through Add-on Services<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a tax professional, your menu of services might include tax return processing, monthly bookkeeping services and additional tax-related filing services. These are all excellent ways to add income to your business, but they each require additional service time from you. Several of the services listed above as ways to help you increase your customer loyalty and referrals can also add income to your bottom line without adding hours to your day or expense to your budget.<\/p>\n

Each of the services in our\u00a0Client Benefit Suite:<\/p>\n