GOODACCOUNTANTS.com

[John of PA]

Has anyone worked with GoodAccountants.com and what is your experience with them. What they do is refer clients to you for an up front one time fee of around 5,000 dollars. Businesses go to thier websight who are looking for an accountant, perhaps more local, or an accountant who can handle thier growth.

[JoshinNC]

I've been contacted multiple times

Spent over an hour on the phone with them one day. Didn't pull the trigger, although it did sound intriguing.

If it were $1000 I'd probably do it, but at $5k I would need some assurances of a minimum amount of new biz.

[Nashville]

Qualifications

There are such things as good and bad accountants just like there are good and bad clients.

I'll preface this by saying I'm not interested. But if I were, what makes me a "Good Accountant?"

The fact that I might have a long and productive track record of doing well at accounting and tax practice?
Or just simply that I've bought my way into being a reputable accountant because I've sent them $5000?

Sorry, "GoodAccountants.com". A good reputation must be earned and not bought.

[John of PA]

It's actually a dicodamy in that good accountants get referals and would not need to use GoodAccountants.com to get business. I too spent a long time on the phone with them. They were ready to set me up with an appointment tomarrow morning with a write up/tax client near me with 12,000 a year in billings if I signed up (paid them a 5000 fee. ) He said that I'm looking at 120,000 in billings over the next 10 years for just that one client. I said there is a risk that it will not be a 10 year client; he said "I'm sure you know how to do what it takes to keep a client, otherwise you would not have been in business all these years". I said, OK I will go along with looking at it over ten years, if you agree to accept your 5000 fee as 500 per year over 10 years, then I'll sign up. He said he cannot do that, I said then neither can I. One big red flag from the beginning is he left a message on my machine like he was a new client and did not give any hint that he was a sales person brokering clients. I sort of did not trust him from the very beginning. Have a good day all and beware of that call from GoodAccountants.com, make sure it works for you before you sign up for anything.

[Roberts]

I've yet to find a "referral" service that was anything close to their promises. My experience is from the investment side and the referrals were either fabricated, rehashed from 6 months ago or if they were viable they were liars on the forms.

[taxmandan]

And, websites for business are so yesterday! I'm trying to find mobile marketing to smart phones for local area marketing, that's where the under 50 age crowd is looking for businesses these days. But just like websites, mobile advertising still doesn't have a cost-effective productive method for getting the local population to pay attention and become paying clients. National companies can afford it, but not the little one-office local businesses, we're just not BIG enough for the marketing experts to care about.

[AZ-Tax]

Another way to FOOL the public

The fact that I might have a long and productive track record of doing well at accounting and tax practice?
Or just simply that I've bought my way into being a reputable accountant because I've sent them $5000?

Seems they are using the same playbook the BBB uses with their "Accredited Business" (AB) by just paying a min of $500 and get the A+ rating with an arms length of complaints and then promote the AB over non AB's A+ rated companies with NO complaints. Another way to FOOL the public.

[John of PA]

BOOKEEPERSHELP.com

FYI from another message board today, I am getting very positive feedback on a similar company called BOOKEEPERSHELP.com and thier annual fee is only around 300. Has anyone on this board had experience with them?

[AZ-Tax]

John, I cannot seem to locate this website

FYI from another message board today, I am getting very positive feedback on a similar company called BOOKEEPERSHELP.com and thier annual fee is only around 300. Has anyone on this board had experience with them?

I Googled it and I cannot seem to locate this website.

[Uncle Sam]

GoodAccountants.com

First of all - the site you're looking for is www.bookkeepinghelp.com and they are
an internet listing service.
I have been using it for years and am very pleased with it.
Cheryl or Jim would be glad to help you.
For a while - they were an advertising sponsor of the NAEA E@lert weekly newsletter.

[John of PA]

Yes that is the one, sorry, bookkeepinghelp.com