Had Hafed remained at home and in his own garden instead of trekking across strange lands only to endure hunger, pain and suffering he would have found his “acres of diamonds” which had been right under his feet all the time.

Most of us at one time or another have become Ali Hafed and have looked everywhere for success instead of looking for it right underneath our feet.   Today for many accountants across the country like Russell Nay, a sole practitioner based in North Las Vegas, Nevada, the Internet has become a personal ‘acres of diamonds’.   Nay says he has found success so close to home that he rarely ever has to leave the house except to meet new clients that are delivered directly to him by GoodAccountants.com through his laptop computer.   “I became a member of GoodAccountants.com on February 17th of this year and here it is March 20th and I’ve already received about $10,000 in potential billing and it has more than doubled the amount I paid in and things have been going very well,” says Nay

For accountants operating accounting practices that have fallen on hard times as a result of the current economic recession which has robbed them of as much as 30% to 40% of their client base the Internet may be the answer they’re looking for.   Increasingly plagued by slow payment from cash strapped clients along with the stress of long grueling hours that must be endured each tax season many accountants are looking for alternative ways to sustain their income year round.   Accountants who wish to attract new clients can do so by tapping into the ground swell of tens of thousands of key word searches that are conducted each month by business owners who search for local accountants throughout the year using the Internet.

GoodAccountants.com offers a cost-effective, high-tech solution for accountants who wish to expand, maintain or rebuild their client base and generate income year round through its new GA Access portal;  a new platform designed for accountants that delivers website users to them minutes after they request a referral from GoodAccountants.com.

To obtain more information on how your accounting practice can take advantage of this new technology to increase your billings call 1 (800) 505-7861.

To watch the full reality television episode you must become a free subscriber to GA Access.

Accountants can respond to a particular business owner’s request for assistance within minutes of the request being made at GoodAccountants.com’s website. After logging into the GoodAccountants.com Admin Panel to review a referral sent to their mobile device or computer the accountant then directly contacts the business owner or individual by phone, sets up an appointment and subsequently meets and greets the client, but only after making the decision to do so. Participating accountants are notified by telephone, email or text message each time a new referral is downloaded to their computer or mobile device from GoodAccountants.com’s website. The new system will also allow accountants to decline a meeting with a prospective client in those cases where a particular company’s profile may not be suitable for the accountant.

The cost of the program is a semi-annual fee of $5,000 for unlimited access (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) to prospective clients who use search engines to find their accountant. As the nation’s leading accountancy referral service 3 out of 4 internet queries for an accountant that are generated by search engines such as Google or Yahoo are resulting with GoodAccountants.com which subsequently needs to push the referral “out the door” as quickly as possible to a local accountant or accounting firm that can deliver the services.

“This new program allows us to get referrals out the door within minutes of a business owner logging onto our website and requesting a referral to an accountant,” says Johanna Laurent, GoodAccountants.com’s Chief Executive Officer. “The integrity of our screening process will not be compromised by this new system because the accountant can decline a referral for any reason or request a phone call from a live business consultant to obtain more information before making a final decision about a particular lead,” Laurent adds. We love it because we can now make referrals in ‘real time’ before the lead gets cold,” says Laurent.

The GA Access login panel is constantly accessible to accountants directly from the GoodAccountants.com Home Page through a link entitled “Accountants Click Here” which has also become a portal for viewing the company’s newly launched ‘reality television show’ which features stories about both the accountants and business owners who come together at GoodAccountants.com. The first episode which began airing on September 17th highlights Ray Nowicki a Certified Public Accountant based in Buffalo, New York whose first referral from GoodAccountants.com resulted in a $26,000 monthly client along with second referral to a company whose annualized billings exceeded $100,000. To watch this episode now click here.

This article was written by David Samuels a freelance business columnist and financial planner