John Coggin Says GoodAccountants.com Has Been A Game Changer For His Accounting Practice

Certified Public Accountant, John Coggin, has been a member of GoodAccountants.com, the nation’s largest accounting referral service, for approximately two and a half years since joining on May 12, 2009.  Coggin says although he has yet to land a thirty or forty thousand dollar client, he still maintains that GoodAccountants has been a game changer for his accounting practice.  Notwithstanding, Coggin has been the beneficiary of twenty-nine new small business clients that have been sent to him from GoodAccountants.com over a two and a half year period.  Clients that pay him anywhere from $750.00 to $8,000 annually.  To date, he has realized more than $50,000 in new client billings from his two and a half year affiliation with GoodAccountants.com.

Coggin says he doesn’t believe he would have realized the same amount of billings over the same period of time had he relied solely on traditional ways to grow his practice such as through word of mouth.  ”It’s difficult to depend on word of mouth to get referrals from existing clients,” says Coggin.

“I actually came in contact with GoodAccountants.com through a telephone call I placed to them after looking on the Internet to hire some people to help me with my firm,” says Coggin.  ”While I was looking online I saw one of their advertisements and simply decided to give them a call and I’ve been with them ever since,” he adds.

As more and more accountants are turning to marketing as a way to grow their client base instead of purchasing existing practices from other accountants, GoodAccountants.com has emerged as the leading accountants’ marketing service in the country.  ”Our growth is directly related to a realization by accountants that purchasing an existing practice can cost as much as three times the gross billing which can depreciate by more than fifty percent once the practice has changed hands,” says Johanna Laurent, President of GoodAccountants.com.  ”Why pay three times the value for something that will only decrease in value once you own it, it’s just not good business sense,” adds Laurent.

With investments of $25,000 or more, GoodAccountants.com guarantees accountants a three to one return or $75,000 in billing.  Comparing these kinds of return versus buying a practice it is no wonder that accountants like John Coggin are staying put once they join the ranks of GoodAccountants.com.

This article was written by Omar Reed, a freelance business writer and financial analyst

U.S. Marshals Seize GoodAccountants.com Opportunity

For the second time in four months, GA Insider has returned to the Bloomfield, Connecticut offices of Roger Bennett, a certified public accountant who has become a Designated Service Provider (DSP) with GoodAccountants.com, the nation’s largest accountancy referral service. Bennett, who was first contacted by Senior Business Consultant, Al Chisolm back on October 21, 2010 has booked $105,000 in recurring, annualized billings from clients referred to him over an eight month period by GoodAccountants.com.

One of the clients that Bennett has landed through GoodAcccountants.com is an $85,000 yearly billing with the United States Marshal’s Office in Washington, D.C. “I got a call from Washington, D.C. from someone from the U.S. Marshal’s office and he wanted to know if GoodAccountants.com could help find an accountant whom they could work with in managing several federally seized businesses,” says Al Chisolm. “After a battery of phone calls with various officials within the U.S. Marshal’s office they were convinced that we had some of the best accountants in the country in our nationwide network and asked us to arrange contact with several of our member firms which they could interview,” adds Chisolm. “I’m happy for Roger because he’s a great guy to work with and he completely understands the marketing process as well as how to close the business owners I’ve put him in front of,” explains Chisolm.

Now with a pending outsourced comptrollership engagement with billings of $45,000 from another company recently referred to him by GoodAccountants, Bennett is closing in on his first $150,000 in guaranteed billing from his DSP membership. “I’m starting to feel like a movie star instead of a boring, old accountant,” says Bennett referring to the notoriety he’s received from the coverage that is all over the Internet about the clients he’s landed from GoodAccountants.com. “The first two marketing programs I signed up for with GoodAccountants, they filled the bucket rather quickly so I decided to go for their $50,000 DSP program which guarantees $150,000 in billing,” says Bennett.

With a growing number of its members now upgrading to its Designated Service Provider marketing programs, GoodAccountants.com has set its sight toward tapping other governmental agencies that require the services of outsourced accounting professionals. “We are in talks with several agencies regarding the outsourcing of certain aspects of their accounting operations to accounting firms that are in our network,” says Johanna Laurent, President of GoodAccountants.com. “What many large and small companies are discovering is they can outsource their internal accounting to independent accounting firms that can do the work faster and less expensively than doing it themselves,” explains Laurent. “With the advent of cloud accounting and online bookkeeping, distance is no longer a factor for accountants who have embraced the internet,” adds Laurent.

For more information about Designated Service Provider memberships with GoodAccountants.com please contact Al Chisolm at 1 (800) 505-7861.

This article was written by Omar Reed, a freelance business writer and financial analyst

I Just Engaged My First Thirty-Thousand Dollar Client From GoodAccountants.com

“Spending $5,000 dollars for the opportunity to meet with a potential client is not as fool hearted as it might sound,” says Joseph Charneske, a partner in a full service accounting firm based in Bannockburn, Illinois.   When asked how his partners felt about such a proposition Charneske admits they were somewhat skeptical at first however after some reassuring from him were willing to move forward.

“I basically received a phone call about a $7 million dollar medical equipment and supply company that was looking for a new accounting firm to outsource all of their accounting work to,” says Charneske, a partner at Goldberg Mechales Charneske & Schiffman, Ltd.   “We’re accustomed to receiving client referrals from other clients of ours who are happy with our work and not from a marketing firm,” says Charneske. However his awareness of GoodAccountants.com which spans a period of more than 18 months combined with the appeal of the fast growing medical equipment company presented to him by Senior Consultant, Al Chisolm was far too compelling for Charneske not to follow his intuition to invest the $5,000 dollars required to become a member of GoodAccountants.com.   The decision to do so has paid off handsomely in the form of a six-hundred percent (600%) return on investment achieved in little more than sixty days.

“I now have a contractual $30,000 dollar yearly billing engagement with a great client referred to me by GoodAccountants.com and believe it or not I just sent them another $5,000 dollars today,” says Charneske.

When asked by GA Insider if his partners were now ready to upgrade to a larger marketing program Charneske replied they would have been pretty disappointed had we not landed the client.  Charneske himself maintains however he is very comfortable with GoodAccountants.com considering the extensive research he has done on the company and having witnessed how far GoodAccountants has come over the years.

The fact is Joseph Charneske is a Certified Public Accountant and with all things being equal he certainly does understand what a good return on investment should look like.   A six times return on one’s money is not exactly chop liver especially when stacked up against the single digit rates of return that are being offered today by most other investments. “This is a great way to build an accounting practice and I also get to write off the $5,000 dollar membership fee as a marketing expense,” adds Charneske.

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