Site Marketing: How well does the site reflect the firm? There are still a couple of site building tools that put their brand logo on the websites, but for the most part this has faded away. Also, what tools for mass distribution of newsletters are available, and does the system provide statistics on website visitors?
Support: If trouble arises, how easy is it to find the solution, whether through an online support center, a Help utility or through live technical support?
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- AccountantsWorld — Accountant’s Office Online
- The Accountant’s Office Online suite from
AccountantsWorld is the central component of the vendor’s collection
of online services, combining a website building tool for professional
firms, as well as a portal for firm staff to access online accounting
programs. It also offers secure access for clients to access records that
the firm has made available to them.
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- Build Your Firm — Website Development & Internet Marketing
- Build Your Firm offers a full-service website development
package, which includes newsletters, in-depth financial articles, financial
calculators, secure online file transfer, and several other tools, including
search engine optimization of websites. The company is a marketing firm
that is specifically geared toward assisting accounting practices and
was co-founded by a CPA and an MBA.
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- CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business — ProSystem fx Site Builder
- ProSystem fx Site Builder provides professional
accounting firms with a template-based website and maintenance system
that includes a variety of add-on content options geared toward financial
services. The system also provides newsletters, tax alerts, secure client
portals for exchanging financial documents, and financial calculators
and toolkits for financial planning and small business management.
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- CPASites.com — CPASites.com
- CPASites.com provides full web development, maintenance
and hosting services for professional accounting firms, with specialized
content, financial calculators, tax estimators, and tools geared toward
individual and business accounting clients. Unlike most of the website
building tools contained in this review section, this vendor’s web
services are intended to be a “hands-off” solution, with all
website design and content edits performed by CPASites.com.
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- CPASiteSolutions — CompleteWebSuite
- The CompleteWebSuite package from CPASiteSolutions lives up to its name, providing a full, highly professional website tailored to the needs of public accounting practices. It offers hundreds of pages of automated content, newsletters, financial calculators, secure client portals, staff portals and other valuable tools.
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- Tenenz — Accounting & Financial Site Builder (AFSB)
- The Accounting & Financial Site Builder (AFSB) system from Tenenz (formerly Tax-Aid), offers a quick and easy-to-use website creation tool that offers moderate customization capabilities along with financial tools and calculators, a newsletter, and articles on tax and financial topics for businesses and individuals.
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- Thomson Creative Solutions — Web Builder CS
- Web Builder CS from Thomson Creative Solutions provides a template-based site creation tool for accounting firms that offers a variety of content, financial calculators, calendars and other tools from notable financial sources, including PPC newsletters and alerts, and Forefield KnowledgeTrust. The system can support any number of pages and also provides the user firm with personalized e-mail addresses.
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- Thomson GearUp — Accountant-City/TaxBeacon
- The Accountant-City and TaxBeacon web building systems are identical, providing a website creation tool for accountants and tax professionals with the ability to add hundreds of pages of automated content on topics ranging from business financial information to estates, retirement planning and education, as well as a variety of financial calculators, a newsletter and various other tools.
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- Related Article: Book Offers Website Advice to CPAs
- Everyone knows that a website is necessary for a modern professional services firm and that a website can provide much more than just a static phone-book style information page. But if you are in the majority of professional accountants, then, unfortunately, you probably don’t know much about how websites actually work for a firm, much less how to fully optimize the effectiveness of your own firm’s website.
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- Related Article: Drake Offers Tax Software Users Free Websites
- Drake Software, maker of one of the most popular professional tax preparation systems, offers all of its users free websites through the company’s www.1040.com portal, which offers general tax information for public visitors. Websites created by tax and accounting professionals are hosted for free as subdomains of the website.
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- 2006 Review of Website Building Tools for Accountants — Executive Summary
- This review conclusively confirms the fact that Fixed Asset software has entered a new age — a new age where software vendors, reacting to the needs of the marketplace, have redesigned and enhanced their fixed asset software offerings to meet the growing needs of users, and to better take advantage of technological advances in hardware.
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