What Works to Help Accountants Turn Conversations into Business
Episode 54. In today's practical episode, "What Works to Help Accountants Turn Conversations into Business."
Key takeaways from this episode include:
✓ how everyday conversations and scenarios can be turned into new business opportunities for accountants
✓ the need for scripts, actual words to say and pre-planned questions to help CPAs and accountants make things happen
✓ how some accounting professionals still need the basics of good eye contact, firm handshake etc spelled out for them
✓ the question most commonly asked when one human meets another, and how to turn it into a business opening
✓ a reminder of the difference between open and closed questions, with no apologies for accountants for doing the basics
✓ the perfect reply to 'how is business?' that will open a door for accountants and CPAS, rather than close it
✓ the problem for accountants with telling people that you're busy, and what you should be adding onto that claim
✓ the power of social proof in generating new business opportunities that will make accounting clients say 'me too'
✓ what accountants should follow up with after asking a prospect or client how their business is going
✓ why accounting professionals don't need all of the answers, but the questions are more important
✓ turning your elevator pitch or the 'what do you do?' question into a new business conversation for CPAs and accountants
✓ a great, rejection-free question accountants can ask a prospect to create a new advisory conversation with clients and prospects
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