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Guest post by Philip Webb, Investors In Community. Political leaders are currently pushing the message of “Levelling Up”, our economy. For too long, they say, the divide between the South of England, and the rest of the UK has deteriorated and widened. Quite right too, that the distribution of infrastructure and government spending needs to…

By Susan Clegg, AVN Team A compelling USP (Unique Selling Proposition) helps to position your accountancy practice in the right way within your target market. By focusing on the areas you want to focus on, your USPs help to attract the kind of clients you want to work with and develop a strong brand identity…

By Kerry Riley, AVN Practice Growth Expert Anger, sadness, physically tense, overeating and drinking, snappy, sharp, don’t think before I speak… These are the words I used when I answered this survey question – ‘Think about a time when you have felt stressed – what effect did the stress have on your emotions, behaviour, and…

By Emma Slack, AVN Practice Growth Expert Do you remember Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs? As the cost of living soars and global events make the future very uncertain, many people are right back at the bottom of the pyramid. They’re worrying about paying the bills and being able to feed their family. It’s easy to…

By Shane Lukas, speaker, coach and MD of AVN Inspiring Accountants. If your improvements aren’t improving things, you could be in the loser trap Have you started a journey of change in your business but you feel like you’re not seeing progress? Or even that things are actually getting worse? It’s demotivating, isn’t it? And…

By Einav Avni, Confidence and Empowerment Coach Many people say their most pressing challenge is their lack of confidence, but how do you become more confident? And how do you then measure it? For a long time, there was nothing I wanted more than to find a way to tell my husband I no longer wanted…

Running a business is hard and lonely. Even with multiple people involved it can be difficult to vent frustrations or know what your next move should be. We all have a different definition of success, but there’s one thing I know for sure. Everyone who has achieved their success has done so with the help…

By Jenny Lukas, AVN Practice Growth Expert As a business owner it can be incredibly overwhelming just to keep everything running from day-to-day. And after all the stresses we’ve had from Covid and lockdown, we now have another level of uncertainty with war in Ukraine, interest rates and energy prices rising and all other costs…

These time-travelling accountants serve clients in multiple dimensions. When the first thing a visitor to an accountant’s office sees is a whopping great TARDIS, a very different conversation happens. And that’s a good thing! A conversation that’s more about business growth than purely accounts work. Accountants that are different attract. And they get talked about.…