When somebody decides in late November that this is the last year they do their own return, is there a page that shows your credentials, the kind of client you take, and whether you are even open for new work?
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Where does a new client find you in the eleven weeks that actually matter? Almost nobody goes looking for a tax preparer in June. They look the week the first W-2 lands, or the night they open last year's return and realize they filed something wrong. A practice with no real site in November is not in that search, and February is too late to fix it.
Ask ten people the difference between a CPA, an enrolled agent, and a seasonal preparer with a PTIN and a storefront, and you will get ten shrugs. They do know they want somebody who can represent them if a notice shows up. If your license, your state, your EA enrollment and your status as an IRS authorized e-file provider are not written somewhere readable, you are being compared on price against a card table in a tax mill.
The second peak is smaller and quieter, and it is full of people who got an extension in April and did nothing with it. Plenty of them are unhappy with whoever filed it. They start searching again in late September for someone who can take a partnership return or a late S-corp filing on short notice, and those searches go to the firms that said they had capacity.
If you have built a practice around contractors, restaurants or trucking, a phone number with nothing behind it brings you the whole alphabet: crypto traders, multi-state nexus messes, a landlord with nine Schedule Es, and the April 10 shoebox. You spend the season on calls you turn down. A website that states the niche and the minimum does the screening before the phone rings.
Most people hire an accountant once and then stay for a decade, so the choice gets more scrutiny than the fee would suggest. It usually starts with a name from a friend, a landlord or a business banker. Then they look you up. They are checking that the practice is real, that the person named is the person they would work with, and that the credential matches what the referral claimed. A listing with hours and a phone number does not settle any of that.
Searches in this field are specific, and they tell you exactly what the person is worried about. Somebody types a question about whether they should elect S-corp status and what reasonable compensation means. A seller on three marketplaces wants to know where they have sales tax nexus after Wayfair. A general contractor wants to know whether the guy on his crew belongs on a 1099 or a W-2. A firm with a page that answers the actual question gets the call, and gets it from somebody who already trusts the answer.
Then there is the calendar. Interest climbs through January, peaks in the first half of April, and falls off a cliff. A smaller wave arrives in late September for the October extension deadline, and quarterly estimate dates bring a trickle. The firms that smooth this out sell monthly bookkeeping and client accounting services — recurring work that bills in July the same as in March — and that offer has to be visible all year, not buried under tax prep. Nobody shops for a bookkeeper in the same mood they shop for a return.
CPA license and the state that issued it, EA enrollment, your PTIN, and that you are an IRS authorized e-file provider — written so someone who does not know the difference can still see you are licensed.
Restaurants, subcontractors, owner-operator truckers, rental owners, crypto reporting. One page per niche, in that industry's own vocabulary, so the clients you want recognize themselves.
Recurring work needs its own page, not a line item under tax prep. Cleanup, monthly close, reconciliations, statements and the advisory work on top, framed as the ongoing relationship it is.
If you moved off hourly to fixed fees or tiered packages, say so, with a starting point for a simple return, a business return and a monthly engagement. It ends the dread that the bill will be a surprise.
Your site introduces the practice and sends people to the portal you already use for documents and signatures. The portal does the sensitive part; the website never collects returns or statements.
Entity type, states involved, software in use, whether last year's books are a mess, and what they need. You read five answers and know whether it is a fit before you spend a call finding out.
QuickBooks ProAdvisor status and Xero certification are credentials clients search by name, especially bookkeeping clients who refuse to change software.
What the front page says in December is not what it should say in late September. Send a note and the deadline message and new-client notice get changed for you.
Your return prepared and e-filed by a licensed professional, including the Schedule C, rental or investment pages most software hurries you through.
Partnership, S-corp and corporate filings, with the owner returns that depend on them handled in the same conversation. Basis, distributions and K-1s come out matching instead of contradicting each other.
Your transactions categorized, accounts reconciled and statements closed every month, so you know where the business stands in February instead of finding out next spring.
Bookkeeping plus the part owners really want: monthly statements explained, cash flow watched, and a plan for estimated payments before the bill lands.
A straight answer on whether the election makes sense for your numbers, what salary is defensible, and what the paperwork and payroll requirements look like afterward. Not a shortcut you read about online.
If you sell into other states or through marketplaces, we work out where you have crossed a threshold and set up the filings. The rules changed after Wayfair and most sellers never caught up.
Contractor forms prepared and filed, and an honest look at whether the people on your crew are properly classified. Getting this wrong for two years is a much bigger problem than getting it right now.
Bring us the letter. We read what it actually says, figure out what triggered it, and respond on your behalf as your authorized representative instead of leaving you to call the hold line yourself.
Chart of accounts built correctly, bank feeds connected, last year's miscategorized mess straightened out. You keep the software you know.
Behind a year or three, or sitting on an extension that expires in October? We file what is missing in the right order and tell you where you stand first.
| BuilderNow | DIY website builders | |
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| Who builds it | We do. Send your credentials, your niches, your fee structure and your portal link, and the site comes back built. | You do, in an editor, which in practice means a weekend in December that you do not have. |
| What the price covers | $25/month or $250/year, including the domain name, hosting and support. | The editor subscription, with the domain, business email and add-ons usually billed on top. |
| Client document exchange | Not part of the standard site. We link out to the secure portal you already use for returns and signatures. | Usually a file upload that is easy to switch on and never meant for tax documents. |
| Seasonal changes | Send a note in December and again in September and the site gets updated for you. | You log back in and edit it yourself, in the weeks you have the least time. |
| Required wording and disclosures | You give us the license display and disclosure text your state board requires and we place it on every page. | Your responsibility to write, place and keep current across every page you built. |
| Seeing it before you pay | 30 days free on a yoursite.buildernow.net address, with the custom domain on the paid plan. | A trial of the editor. You still build the site yourself to find out what you would have had. |
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The timing is the whole argument here. Somebody is going to search for a firm like yours the first week of January, and whatever is online then is what they will find. Start the trial now, decide at the end of it, and keep the address for $25 a month with the domain, hosting and support included.
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