> Not surprisingly, given that they come from you, those topics are > well thought out.
Why, thank you, Ken. I have given this a lot of thought. During the nearly 3 years Michael Wohlrab was interning with me I had encouraged him to offer a simple seminar as a way of making some money. He will correct me if I am wrong (he learned well from me <g>), but I think he may have wondered if he was really as qualified as I thought he was to put on a basic seminar on computer utilization. That in conjunction with his age at the time (16 I think), he may have felt nobody would take him seriously. I felt that with the correct introduction (by me, of course), he would have easily won the crowd over with his Boy Genius appeal, heh-heh... In fact, I am so confident of his skills that I am going to see if he may have an interest as a guest speaker at one or more of the seminars, for a reasonable level of compensation of course. I have considered the additional business opportunities I could derive from putting on a series of seminars. Perhaps I will find some additional consulting or recurring license fee opportunities. But as much as I want to do this project I really do not want it to become a detraction from my core business and market. Thus the reason I have already lined up folks I know to be extremely competent, reliable and fair to take on any spill-over business that comes of the seminars. Every one of them have offered to pay me a finder's fee for new clients I bring to them - these are all really good folks I have really enjoyed doing business with over the years with our shared clients. This particular CPA firm has offices in several locations in the Rochester area, and a few out-of-state. The partners that called me in to discuss this opportunity feel the demand would be more than sufficient based on how often their office get calls asking for such technical advice, and they end up not being able to help with anything other than simple in-house QuickBooks and Quicken answers being offered (more of a liability issue, and the never-ending litany of subsequent requests for help outside their core business). So, they see this as a way to provide a service to their clients (and attract new prospects), in addition to taking the monkey off their back and putting it into an arena better prepared to handle it. That they called David Johnston and I (we have an LLC we formed recently together) out of all the other businesses they serve that specialize in high tech (we were their first call) was flattering. They advised it was primarily because we never asked them to try to cover up any illicit financial activity, and they like how we do business with our customers based on the stories we have shared over the past years. My paranoid side tells me it just may be because nobody else they know would be crazy enough to agree to do this <g>... heh-heh... Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kenneth Kixmoeller/fh > Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 9:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [NF] Amazing Gmail Feature that could make your life easier > > > > On Apr 19, 2008, at 8:35 AM, Gil Hale wrote: > > My CPA wants me to start to give a series of one-day seminars on > > computer > > utilization for small business owners (their clients). His firm > > wants to > > wait until May to get this rolling > > Gee, the CPA wants to wait until after tax time? <g> > > I forgot to mention the #1 reason I teach: it generates new business. > The lowest times in my business have coincided directly with my > inability to teach, whether due to my own circumstances or those of > the organization through which I teach. > > Not surprisingly, given that they come from you, those topics are > well thought out. The decision point for me would be whether the CPA > firm has enough clients (who, in turn, would turn to you as their new > "expert"), to justify the time to create and polish these presentations. > > Ken > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
