I know it's tax season so I'll keep this short.  Not so long ago I quit my accounting job to start my own firm.  You know, live the dream, be my own boss, make a small fortune and so on.

Unfortunately I quickly woke up from the dream and figured out I did not know how to find clients.  I was nearly broke & days away from packing it in and starting to look for a less than fulfilling public accounting job (again).

At this point most CPAs would have whipped out their checkbook for the newest How To Find Clients seminar, course or book.  I did the OPPOSITE.  I started BUYING other practices around me rather than only trying to grow it organically, one new client at a time.

Don't get me wrong.  I also advertised, tried the rainmaking bit, networked and added clients the old fashioned way, one at a time.  However over time I found that organic growth takes lots of time and energy (and money). 

So being impatient and frugal plus not wanting to work 50-60 hours a week for the rest of my career,  I started tracking BOTH approaches to find out what's the QUICKEST and most COST EFFECTIVE way to find profitable clients and grow a practice?  

And I found the answer...

ACQUIRING Other Accounting Practices Is Nearly Equal

To Organically Adding Clients One-at-a-Time!

(but only if you know exactly what you're doing...)

Let's face it.  Being a rainmaker is hard work.  I was raised in the country.  Was a wrestler in high school.  I'm a good talker for a country kid but adding clients one-at-a-time can be just as hard as farm work or wrestling.

Luckily I learned by using the inside secrets of efficiently acquiring other practices, BUYING practices lets you BYPASS all the rainmaking, advertising, managing and detail work you'd normally go through for YEARS to find high quality clients!

And that's what I did by buying 10 other practices and building a $6 million dollar (highly profitable) firm! 

But let me warn you, blindly BUYING practices is a high risk transaction unless you know how to avoid the pitfalls and mistakes most accountants make when they buy another (or their first) practice.

That is why I've put together this Free Report on the biggest 5 Pitfalls of Acquiring An Accounting or CPA Practice that you can download, again at no cost.  Just click on this link and follow the instructions.

Look, there's nothing wrong with building your practice the old fashioned way, one new client at a time, week after week, month after month, year after year.  It's just that if you don't want to wait that long and work that hard, there's an EASIER WAY to do it & I'm happy to explain HOW in my Free Report.  Take 1 minute and download it to judge for yourself!

Regards, Troy C. Patton, CPA/ABV

BONUS:  When you download my Free 5 Pitfalls Report, I'll automatically send you an invitation to my next free tele-seminar on How to Grow Your Practice.  Acquiring other practices was only HALF the secret to building my $6,000,000 firm.  On my next free tele-seminar (which are recorded so you can download them later) I'm covering HOW I generated TWICE the PROFIT out of my accounting clients as the regular accountant does.

PS. In case you're wondering, I am NOT a broker, not affiliated with any brokers, etc.  But accountants & CPAs seek me out and I coach them on the ins and outs of buying other practices, analyzing a practice to see if it's a good, okay or bad deal, how to negotiate terms, finding the right practice(s) to buy, when to walk away and how to avoid all the pitfalls (including the 5 in my report) so a year after your purchase, you & your clients are still happy you made the deal with the original seller.