Business Operations
Lessons from a Million Dollar Racehorse!
If you own your own business today a lot of people depend on you. Your family, your team members, your clients, your vendors, etc. You must view yourself as the million-dollar racehorse. Think about it, if you owned a racehorse that every time he ran, he’d win a million-dollar purse, wouldn’t you…
How to Successfully Negotiate with the IRS
If you want to be successful in the tax resolution business, you need to be a successful negotiator. I personally represented 2,000 individuals and small businesses spanning a 16-year period and I was a vigorous advocate for my clients. What skills does a successful negotiator need? This is common…
Ten Magic Words
When I started in the tax resolution business and had my initial consultations with clients, I’d have meaningful conversations but no signed engagement letter and no deposit check. I soon realized I was leaving something very important out of my conversations during my “close”. I learned there are…
How to Respond to “You’re Just Too Expensive”
When it comes to closing the sale, you’ll encounter many types of objections. One of the most common is “You’re too expensive”. This is a completely different objection than, “I don’t have the money.” When a prospect raises the “you are too expensive objection’, they don't want to be taken…
When Should You Hire Your Next Employee
Let’s face it, every business owner struggles with staffing issues. The most common struggle is where to find that right person for the job. You’d be surprised to know the answer to this question. Surprisingly, the best time to hire somebody is when you can least afford it, because if you're a…
Charging for Additional Services for Tax Resolution
Hey, it’s Michael Rozbruch here, founder of Roz Strategies, and what do you do after you’ve been retained and you discover there’s additional work to be performed that you never included in your engagement letter? We call this additional services or an additional service request. You’re going to…
How To Turn Your Website Into A Client Generating Machine By Adding This ONE Thing
Your website is your digital salesperson. If you use it properly, it can help you generate many clients. Most folks are missing one key element on their website that is keeping them from getting clients to contact and retain them. We’ve invited, expert marketer and educator, Dave Dee to speak at…
How to DOUBLE referrals in 12 months or less
Referrals are one of the least expensive forms of marketing. The clients you get from referrals are already pre-qualified, pre-sold and much less resistant to fees. That’s why we’ve invited Shaun Buck to come teach how to DOUBLE your referrals in 12 months or less at The 4th Annual Tax Resolution…
Biggest Business Challenge
Do you know what the biggest business challenge is? The biggest business challenge today is overwhelm. And you know what happens when there's too much overwhelm? You start making bad decisions. And you know what happens when you start making bad decisions? It affects your confidence. One of the…
Who's Running Your Practice?
When you started your practice, you had a dream of what it was going to be… ...to make money, be looked up to in the community by your friends, your colleagues, your associates, your clients. You wanted to make an impact and difference in people's lives. You might find that you are now stuck in the…
A Moral Obligation
Why Are Artists and Tax Pros Afraid to Sell Themselves? Earlier this fall, Roslyn and I attended a smooth jazz concert with a few of our friends. Roslyn is a big jazz fan, and I’m starting to get there, too. The show we caught, Dave Koz & Friends’ Summer Horns Tour, was part of an outdoor…
Why We Don’t Make Promises We Can’t Keep
No matter how much you prepare, you can never control the outcome of something. This isn’t to suggest you can’t aim for a certain outcome. We should always do the legwork, putting in the time to prep and research as much as possible. But while you should commit time to preparing, you can’t become…
Destroy Client Objections Over Prices and Fees
How to Destroy Client Objections Over Prices and Fees — I Don’t Like to ‘Handle’ Objections; I Like to Obliterate Them! It’s important to understand that people can always afford you; it’s just a matter of priorities. Sometimes our prospects don’t comprehend the seriousness of their problems with…
IRS Marketing
How do you take something that the IRS has said and turn that into a marketing opportunity? Well, last week Nina Olson, who's the National Taxpayer Advocate at IRS, came out and stated that the real audit rate in the United States is 6.2%, not 7/10 of 1%. Just to put that in perspective, 7/10 of 1%…
$10,000 Investment
What would you do if I gave you $10,000 today to invest in your business, and you couldn't pay yourself a bonus of $10,000? Now the vast majority of you would answer marketing and education. So if someone gave me $10,000 today this is what I would spend it on in terms of marketing. The first thing…