Intuitive Accountant and Dydacomp recently partnered on a research study to learn more about the state of the ProAdvisor community and their clients. This week we are looking at what you told us the biggest challenges are for your business and what else you would like to see feature in Intuitive Accountant.
When we asked our audience what your biggest challenges were, we were not too surprised by the overall results, but still think it is worth sharing so that you know you are not alone in your challenges. Here's what you told us your biggest challenges are, in order of Biggest to Smallest:
- Marketing
- General Business Growth
- Adding New Clients
- Demonstrating Value For Services
- Hiring Good Employees
- Maintaining Office Systems
- Keeping Good Employees
- Accounts Receivables/Collections
- Business Finance
- Accounting/Bookkeeping
- Time Management (write in by several participants)
Does anyone else besides me find the last one a bit ironic? I guess it goes along with the old saying that a carpenters house is always in need of repair!
In addition to sharing your biggest challenges, you also shared what you'd like to see us write about more often. Here's what you told us, in order of Most to Least (wanted)
- Demonstrating Value For Services
- General Business Growth
- Adding New Clients
- Marketing
- Other Technical, Non-Intuit Related Editorial
- Business Finance
- Corporate/Business Tax
- HR Related
- Accounts Receivables/Collections
- What Others Are Doing
Now that we know this, we are striving to add more coverage of the above areas in order to help you deal with these challenges and to close the gap in what we currently publish and what you'd like to see.