The Accountant

Marketer

Explore and enjoy marketing in a structured way. Learn how to bring only the best clients to your accounting firm.

“I am an accountant, not a marketer,” you say.

What if… you’re not only a marketer, but actually quite a good one? One who needs a little direction and training, but who has all the skills within yourself to be good at marketing?

The Accountant

Marketer

the book for accountants who know they’re much more than:

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Following rules
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Putting numbers in columns
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Ticking boxes
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Telling people what they can’t do, what’s not allowed

You’re proud of the business you’re leading. You’re curious about how you can help your clients better and share the culture you’re building. What you need are the marketing skills to help you communicate your true value. So you can appeal to ONLY the clients you absolutely want, and show future employees your firm is the place they want to work.

Learn the 12 steps OF

content marketing for accountants

Discover what marketing to do and in what order so you use your time and money in the best way:

audience

issues

cornerstone

brand

design

website

email

follow-up

blogging

video

social

campaigns

Read The Accountant Marketer to:

  • Understand what content marketing is and how it contributes to your business and personal goals
  • Learn the 12 steps of content marketing that works for accountants
  • Refocus your time, energy and money on ONLY the clients you really want to work with
  • Feel confident you can do marketing in a structured and enjoyable way and give your team direction too
  • Become more excited, motivated and willing to try new things in your business and life as a whole
  • Explore your own creativity, even if you feel like you aren’t a creative person

Kind words about
THE ACCOUNTANT MARKETER

Your writing is ace

“Your writing is ace. I think it’s really good and will be one of the top 5 books that ambitious practice owners must read.”

I absolutely loved it

“Thanks for asking me to read a chapter! I absolutely loved it. The chapter on brand really resonated: it pointed out my old website had no thought or nod towards my brand, and it didn’t tell my story. The website and the real Kennedy Accountancy were two completely different things. It was a really helpful reminder to revisit these, and the logo section was spot on!”

Really engaging to read

“I found it really engaging to read, and lots of it resonated with me as well. In reading the chapter on websites, I found myself saying ‘ooh I’ll need to change this and that on our website’. It’s encouraged me to write more on my book as well!”

It’s something accountants will love

“I think it’s fantastic. The topic generally of the book is right up the street where your strengths are, and it’s something accountants will love. Issues in particular is an area i feel very passionate about as the owner of an accounting firm, and i like the fact it’s early in the book. I really like the use of stories – you talk about meeting the guy in the bar and the VAT issue, and it gets to the heart of a non sexy specific issue. People can find it quite stressful to find their purpose and mission statements and can try to be really lofty, and here there’s an element about getting back to the specifics – and what might be seen as boring – things your clients need help with.”

THE ACCOUNTANT MARKETER IS ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN

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ON THE GRAM

This week I took a trip down to Manchester for some strategy and finance meets with my own accountants. 

I captured a lot of video footage, none of it including the hours of meets, deep discussions, laughter, curious considerations, suggestions, advice, and support I got from the good people at @wearemap_ . But when you’re in the depth of those deep convos you don’t really remember to whip out the time lapse video (and tbf it would simply show a lot of talking!). 

MAP have been my accountants for over seven years and I continue to be daily grateful for their experience - and the way they ask good questions and suggest ways to think about situations but always respect that the decision and business are mine. 

Now I’m on my way back to Edinburgh and then home! Happy weekend all 🙏🏻❤️✨

(Ps the goofy faces are me attempting to record my video of the day yesterday! Ha!)

Day 55/100 Video Challenge 

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Still plugging away, day after day on this 100 day video challenge . 

I’m waiting until I’ve completed it to start gathering all the learnings…but I can tell you now that doing something every day for 54 days so far is definitely beginning to give me glimmers of progress. 

I continue to be curious about how I’ll sum it up when I’m done, but I can already see the impact of doing something small, every day, showing up, and seeing what happens.

What would you love to get even marginally better at? 

(Ps first time I’ve been BLEEPED on insta captions! Haha! Enjoy!!)

Day 54/100 Video Challenge 

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Another view from inside the Johnnie Walker experience: this is where you will pause to think all things branding. Yours, your firm’s…and the difference between them. 

In this room are alllll the different kinds of “labels” of JW whisky…red label, blue label, black label…and one of the workers explained he had “proper” names for all the whiskies, like Special Old Highland Whisky and Extra Special Old Highland Whisky. But since no one could remember which was which, they just pointed and said “the one with the black label” or the red label or whatever colour.

There’s SO much to learn here - about the “Striding Man” which is recognised as one of the world’s first brand logos - about connecting your brand to what people want and understand - and most importantly, for those coming to this workshop, considering who you are. How all of this applies to who you are today and what decisions you’ll make about your own personal brand, and how that connects to your business brand (or where it doesn’t). 

And what your Next Big Thing is. 

If you haven’t booked your place on this workshop yet, DM me for all the details. I’d love to see you there if it’s a fit for you - or have a chat about whether it is right for you just now. 

Day 53/100 Video Challenge 

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If you stood on the rooftop, what would your view of your firm - and your role in it - look like? 

I’m running a personal brand workshop at the Johnnie walker experience  in Edinburgh in June, and this rooftop view is a good symbol for what you’ll get when you come. 

See the bigger picture: and your role in it (and above it). What’s your message, beyond that of your firm? Who are your people, beyond your firm’s audience? And what is your “personal brand”, beyond the brand for your business? 

We cover all this and more on 26 June! DM me for all the details and a free copy of the “personal v business brand” guide. 

Day 52/100 Video Challenge 

#100dayvideochallenge #100days #personalbranding #businessbranding #brand #creativeagency #accountants #marketing #businessworkshop #edinburgh #edinburghevents #johnniewalker #jwprincesstreet #brandworkshop