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Stephen Venuti’s 4 Tips to Really HEAR Your Upset Clients
Fortunately, it's a rare event for us around ye olde tax shoppe that we have to deal with a client who is going ballistic. But because we are a people business, we're certainly not immune! So we've had to learn about how to best handle matters when a client is...
Venuti Weighs In On Whether To Lower Your Prices
We've been sitting down with some of our business owner clients for end-of-quarter planning and evaluation (as well as to get everything in before 9/15). Always enlightening for us here. And what some of them are telling me is that they have been feeling a rising...
Venuti On 7 Ways To Increase Existing Customer Sales
Many Newtown Square, PA area small business owners believe that the easiest customer to "sell" to is a referral customer, but in point of fact, the best kind of customer to sell to is ... one you already have. So, that being the case, it sure does make sense to make...
Venuti’s 4 Tips For Sending Better Marketing Messages
First, I did want to make sure you knew about the looming deadlines: 1) Estimated taxes for the third quarter are due on Tuesday, September 15th. If this applies to you, you know who you are. We'd love to help you, though, if you need a quick word of advice. Shoot me...
Venuti On Real World College Expenses
There was some eye-opening news recently about student debt. From the WSJ article: http://on.wsj.com/1fEi4eG ... ... As of July, 6.9 million Americans with student loans hadn't sent a payment to the government in at least 360 days, quarterly data from the Education...
8 Tips for Small Business Growth for Newtown Square, PA Business Owners
It's easy to make excuses when you run a business... "The economy stinks." (And yes, the Chinese markets have dived 9 percent, and the dollar is taking a tumble too. It does affect you ... but wait for what I have to say.) "Funding dried up." "The big chains are...
7 Common “Offer in Compromise” Mistakes
Stephen Venuti Answers an Important Tax Resolution Question A fellow CPA called me yesterday to refer one of his tax clients. His client owed the IRS some money for prior year returns that were prepared by the IRS. His question was simple. His client wanted to settle...
Venuti’s 5 SMART Rules to Setting Business Goals
When I get together with my business owner clients, we try to look at EVERY aspect of their business (not just their books) ... but also what's *behind* the books (marketing, sales, management, etc.). The good news for my business owner clients is that when we put in...
Stephen Venuti’s 5 Fresh Small Business Strategies For You
Don't you just love Congressional tricks? One of my personal "favorites" is when they cram a bunch of unrelated business into their bills. Which is what just recently happened, and it could affect you... H.R. 3236, popularly known as "The Surface Transportation and...
