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As I write here from Birmingham Tax Accountant Headquarters, it's the day before tax day (which is Tuesday the 15th), and we are pushing hard during this final stretch! Procrastinators are streaming through our Birmingham office doors (after all, we welcome them...

Yes, this is the last full week of tax season for Birmingham - area (and national) "passthrough" small businesses and individuals (the deadline is Tuesday the 15th, and you knew that, right?) -- so why am I taking this time to write about your marketing and business...

If it wasn't for the existence of all of those peppy inspirational news aggregation sites, all of the negative stuff in the media (especially, nationally -- but even right here in the Birmingham area) would be pretty overwhelming. But there is a reason why that's the...

In my role as a Birmingham tax accountant who works with small business owners, I don't often have to engage in high stakes negotiation. At most, I'm negotiating between spouses on how to title and designate their assets in a tax plan. Though I have become pretty...

Running my Birmingham tax and accounting firm, I've had plenty of people pitch me ideas or services -- some successfully ... others not so much. And this week, I've got a few things that I was wanting to put in front of some people, so I was reviewing my own "idea...

This is a little change-up this week from my normal accounting, business, and marketing fare for my Birmingham tax accounting business clients and friends -- and I should also add that it is not necessarily prompted by any particular client conversations recently....

I have hopes that this post (or the sentiments therein, at least) would go viral. After all, isn't that the currency these days? Virality? Before I get there though, Birmingham business owners (hopefully) aren't using software to prepare their taxes! Of all of the...

Even as one of the best tax accountants in Birmingham (and one of the humblest), I sometimes I get stuck. (Though now, in the middle of the intensity of our biggest tax season yet, it's not quite the problem!) I'm a creature of habit, and I find myself repeating...

Over the years of preparing taxes for Birmingham businesses and doing their accounting, I've become more and more convinced that almost everything about business leadership comes down to salesmanship. I might never "sell" a thing -- and certainly, as a Birmingham-area...

Well, our Birmingham tax accountant offices have officially started jumping. (Not literally of course.) But the IRS started accepting electronically-filed returns last Friday (January 31), and we have already been working long hours to thoughtfully and thoroughly...