"Make Your Accountants Media Stars: A Primer On Securing Speaking and Writing Opportunities" presented at the Association for Accounting Marketing in Chicago by Tom Ciesielka of TC Public Relations.
5. Expert among peers and alliances? Showcase expertise to clients and prospects? Expectations for ROIT (Return on Invested Time)? Options
6. By 2013, public relations spending will be up to 8 billion dollars, which is a 55% increase from 2008, according to the annual Communications Industry Forecast by private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS). The $8 billion figure – cited in an Economist article on the vitality of the industry – contains $3 billion that will be spent on word-of-mouth marketing, which includes social media outreach. Does it matter?
9. Trends in the accounting industry Earned Media: Scheduling Your Concert Tour
10. A 2008 study of news stories in U.K. newspapers found that more than half contained mostly PR material. A study in the Columbia Journalism Review found that more than half the stories in an edition of The Wall Street Journal“were based solely on press releases.” USA Today
13. “As trade media continues its precipitous decline and the importance of domain experts grows, marketers are increasingly courting these influencers.” Social Marketing to the Business Customer Build a Blog
14. And it’s not just those Fortune 500 companies getting into social media, either.
17. Top Tier Marketing Tactics for Professional Services1 Developing more business from current/past clients Small-scale seminars (interactive webinars) Speeches at client industry meetings Articles in client-oriented trade press 1Adapted from Managing the Professional Services Firm by David Maister
Ask Audience about expectations for the presentation. Ask who work s at firm that has experience with media relations/
QUIZ AND CANDY PRIZE (MILLION $ BAR): Who can tell me what “Hollywood Accounting” Means? Transition to three step process: Why? WHAT ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES? AND SHOWTIME .
What are some seasonal evergreen issues in the accounting industry? External auditingInternal auditing, Chief Financial Officer and accounting officer topics, Comptroller/Controller, Invoice and sales order processing, Financial reporting, Tax compliance, Risk management, Auditing , Budgeting,
SECOND QUIZ FOR MILLION $ BAR: In 1494, Father Luca Pacioli, a Franciscan monk and world-class mathematician, wrote a book titled Summa Mathematical. In an appendix to the book is the first recorded description of double-entry bookkeeping as we think of it today. A close friend of Father Luca Pacioli illustrated the book,. Can you name the famous artist who did the illustrations? Leonardo DaVinci.