Your
most important role, whether as an accountant or as a bookkeeper is not just to
crunch numbers, but to guide your client through critical financial decisions
and build trust with them. The best way to sharpen your skills as an accountant
is to read more often.
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Customer
service is critical to accounting firms and small businesses. It can make
all the difference between getting more business from clients, or losing
business. Accounting is after all about one-to-one interaction between clients
and an accounting professional.
Here
are 3 great books you should read that can help you improve your customer
service.
Delivering
Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
(2010)
Tony
Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos, is famous for creating great customer experiences.
This led to the massive success of Zappos, which grew from $1.6 million to $1
billion during the time he was there. Hsieh had an unrelenting focus on
creating a customer service based organization that delivered first rate services.
Hsieh
did not make Zappos into a great company by being just like anyone else. He
wanted to create a business that prioritized customer service over anything
else. He wanted his staff to care deeply about customers and built a
customer-centric culture, the likes of which was never seen before.
He
knew that great customer service begins with happy employees and created a
healthy experience for all employees at the firm. He made his employee’s
happiness his top priority. Read this book to find out how he did it.
How
to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (1936)
Dale
Carnegie is one of the greatest non-fiction writers of the 20th century and his
book How to Win Friends and Influence People, which was published in 1936 as a
self-help book, is still a bestseller even today.
Some
of the greatest men and women of our times such as Lee Iacocca, Warren Buffett
and Mary Kay Ash have been influenced by this book. Carnegie talks about
building an excellent foundation with clients based on relationships.
Carnegie’s
philosophies on improving relationships are just as relevant today as they were
in the past. It shows you how to make prospects and clients eager to
do business with you and is simply must read for all accountants.
The
Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk (2011)
Gary
Vaynerchuk is the leading social media marketer and new age entrepreneur in the
world and his book focuses on how to make customer interactions happen, as well
as on how businesses operate.
He
shows how businesses or service providers such as CPA firms can adapt to the
changing needs of the marketplace. Gary’s biggest point is that business today
is as much about the interaction between the company and the client or
customer, as it is about the product or service. We completely agree
with that.
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