Brian O'Connell, President

What’s your favorite cheesy sales line? Mine is, “What do I have to do to get you into a new car today?” You can just see right through it.

These days, you hear a bunch of phony lines from the online-money-making world. Questionable salesmen claim we can make money online automatically when we buy one simple product. These offers sound too good to be true.

And they usually are.

Without giving you a cheesy line, I will say that accounting websites with CPA Site Solutions make you money with minimal effort – in a few ways you might not expect.

Here are 5 e-commerce solutions that come free with your website. They repay your investment and earn you a profit.

Now stay with me here…

Your online bookstores sells popular business books.

1. Sell Books

Your website has an online bookstore through Amazon.com stocked with popular business books – like The E-Myth Revisited and Who Moved My Cheese?

You earn you a 5% commission on each book you sell.

If you sell 10 books a year at $15/book, you make $7.50. Not a lot – but keep reading…

2. Sell QuickBooks

The QuickBooks Store on your website offers your clients a savings of up to 20% off retail prices and free shipping on the latest version of QuickBooks.

You earn 5% every time your clients buy from your site. And if you’re a QuickBooks ProAdvisor, you earn 6%.

If you sell 5 QuickBooks packages per year at $300/package, that’s $75/year profit.

We’re getting there…

3. Offer Incorporating Services

Incorporating your clients is a lengthy and tedious process – if it’s done manually. But when it’s automated, it’s a lot easier.

Our Online Incorporation Solution automates the whole process of forming a corporation, ordering corporate supplies, and tracking the progress of your order.

And because this service is so affordable, you can easily charge an additional $300 per incorporation and still offer the service for much less than other accountants or lawyers.

If you incorporate just 2 clients next year, you earn an additional $600.

Now we’re talking!

Accept credit card payments online and capture lost revenue.

4. Accept Credit Cards Online

Our secure Online Payment System allows you to accept credit cards right away. It takes less than 15 minutes to get set up, and you pay no start-up or monthly fees.

And it gives you instant availability of funds – so you no longer have to wait for months to get paid.

This feature is more about capturing revenue that would otherwise be lost. For example, if just one of your clients pays upfront by credit card for her tax return instead of ignoring your invoice and never ponying up, you make $250.

We’re up to $932.50/year in profit from almost no effort. One more to go…

5. Offer Online Payroll Processing

CPA Site Solutions teamed up with Intuit Online Payroll for Accounting Professionals to provide a convenient “back office” payroll processing service for as low as $10.99 per month, per client.

Online payroll processing may sound intimidating, but it shouldn’t be. Here are some benefits of the solution we offer:

• Online hand-holding makes it easy – there’s nothing new to learn

• You control your clients’ data but have NO data entry to perform

• Free and fully integrated electronic payments and filings mean less work for you

Let’s say you pay $20/month for one client to have online payroll. You then charge that client $100/month, making an $80/month profit. If just 3 clients sign up for this service, you make $240/month or $2,880/year. And that’s a conservative estimate.

Add Up the Extra Revenue

$932.50 from the first 4 features + $2,880 for online payroll processing = $3,812.50/year. Of course, you do have to pay for the web suite. If you’re a Gold-level client, you pay $69.50/month, or $834/year.

$3812.50 – $834 = $2,978/year in profits from these 5 e-commerce solutions.

That’s almost $3,000/year you earn from your website with CPA Site Solutions – apart from any increased client work that comes from marketing your site.

All of these features are available with our accounting websites.

Questions?

If you have questions about these 5 e-commerce solutions, give us a call at 1-800-896-4500. You can also email us at support@cpasitesolutions.com. As always, our outstanding support staff is here to help.

Have you earned revenue from any of these features? How did they work for you? What are some other ways your website brings in more money for your firm? Share your thoughts below.

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