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Forget everything you've ever known about accountants - BMN members are different! Too many accounting firms are seen as boring, aloof, stiff, humourless.. need we go on? We aim to change all that! The Business Mentors Network looks to link up Canadian Business owners who are tired of being treated like a number, and want to find an Accountant with drive, passion, creativity and dedication. Running an owner-managed or family business can be a lonely task... until you find a Business Mentor. That's what our member firms aim to be - a mentor that can help you build a better business. Showing you how well you did last year adds very little value - but our members will aim to show you how to do better next year! |
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Canadian Business Owners - Welcome to the BMN.
Are you looking for someone who you can turn to for great ideas, who has a real insight into what it's like to run a small-to-mid-sized business? Do you want someone who you can count on to be your 'business lifeline' and use them to 'bounce ideas off' and get a helpful, insightful, valuable response thereby adding genuine value to your business? Forget everything you've ever known about accountants - BMN members are different! Finally, someone is available who has incredible business experience, street-wise financial acumen, and a strong team of tax advisers, all working toigether to help YOU build YOUR business. Our members want you to be successful. We want to see you operate more efficient, more profitable businesses that are not so heavily reliant on your day to day involvement. We want to see you be able to take time off without the worry about what's going on back at the business while you're away. We want to show you, not what you did last year - who really cares about that? Instead, we want to show you just how good you could be next year, and beyond. Yes the compliance side of our job (annual financial statements and tax returns) does need to be done, it shouldn't be the focus of your relationship with your adviser. Our members undertake to:
If we're speaking of issues that you can relate to, then you need a Business Mentors Network Accountant, and we can point you to one, for free. After several years in the making, we're finally getting ready to launch a national network of independent member firms across Canada whose primary purpose is to build enjoyable relationships with entrepreneurs and add value to your businesses. As you might deduce from our website, it's something we're very excited about, and we hope that you will be too. Everything is finally falling into place for a spring, 2010 launch. If you've had enough of being treated like a number, not feeling thaqt you're an important client, or just receiving a mediocre service, then isn't it time for a change? Why wait any longer? Clikc here to find your nearest BMN member, and let's get started in helping you build a better business. |
Canadian Public Accounting Firms - Welcome To The BMN
What about the money? You'd like to make a little more, right? But you don't want to feel as if you're just increasing fees with no benefits being delivered to your clients? Well, we have some good news for you. It's called The Business Mentors Network, and it starts right here, right now. Do you have a passion for owner-managed business clients? Do you really want to help your clients be more successful? If you really want to grow by referrals from absolutely delighted clients, and tap in to an extensive national network, then the BMN is tailor-made just for you. Fighting back - David becomes Goliath! Don't live in fear of losing some of your bigger clients to the bigger firms. Become a bigger firm yourself - but keep your independence - by becoming a BMN member today! Canadian Public Accounting Firms - Welcome To The Wheel The 'Wheel' below, describes our outlook of a never-ending cycle of advisory services that your clients want from you. Join us today and let's get started in helping you - and your clients - build a better business.
The above diagram was developed by our co-founder, Steven Walker, CA, of BusinessWorks, Chartered Accountants, of Calgary, as a way of communicating his process with clients. Our members get access to his whole 'Profit Improvement Program' as a aprt of our standard membership package, together with a wide range of great tools, including a client service program, a library of training DVDs, and, of course, our annual conference, to name just a few of the benefits provided to help you build a better practice. ------------------------------------------------------------ Important Notice For Prospective Members - It is NOT our intention to compete with Ran-One, Principa or any other membership group. Joining one or all of the other available groups will provide you with a wealth of tools for growing your practice, and that's great. What we are offering is a purely Canadian network with a proven methodology, some great tools of our own, and, most importantly, guidance on how to use them to be successful. ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| The People Behind The Business Mentors Network... | |
| Steve McIntyre-Smith, Ph.D | Steven M. Walker, CA |
Finally, he became a partner in a 2-partner firm before moving over to consulting to the public accounting profession in the summer of 1992. Since then, he has built a reputation as a leading source of counsel, information and resources to the accounting profession, as Founder, President and CEO of MFA Group Inc, based in Oakville, near Toronto. He is the author of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants' Book, 'The Succession Planning Toolkit', a columnist for Canada's leading financial newspaper, 'The Bottom Line' and award-winning contributor to 'CA Magazine'. Steve is also the leader of several PD courses for many provincial Institutes of Chartered Accountants across Canada, and a popular speaker, writer and presenter. McIntyre-Smith believes that public accounting can be the sexiest career choice you could possibly make - if you do it right! Indeed, he has spent the majority of the last fifteen years or so helping public accounting firms do exactly that. After working with Steven Walker for many years, helping him to break away from the year-end compliance work, the two of them finally decided to offer other accounting firms across Canada the opportunity to work in a different way with their clients, and thus the Business Mentors Network was formed. Steve looks forward to helping new members get the most out of their investment in joining the BMN. |
 Steven
M. Walker, has been a Calgary Chartered Accountant for 20 years.
Early in his carrer, he realized that traditional accounting work
- preparing financial statements and tax returns - offered little
value to clients. After many meetings with clients who were waiting for their year end to see how much money they were making, or whether they were making any money at all, Steven knew there was a problem. Clients, he found, didn't really want an accountant. Sure, they had to deal with the year end stuff, but what they were really looking for in an accountant was a business advisor, someone who could tell them where their business was headed and what to do to improve. After many years of refining the process and the business management tools, Steven finally had the system he had always dreamed of - the Profit Improvement Program. With this program, his firm, BusinessWorks, becomes an integral part of its clients' management team. The program is specifically designed to offer business owners all the advantages of a complete management team without the costs involved. Most small and medium-size businesses aren't able to afford full-time staff to provide these functions and the Profit Improvement Program allows them to get the same level of advice at a fraction of the cost. Through the Business Mentors Network, members can now get access to this tested and proven methodology. Steven will be leading the coaching side of the business, working directly with member firms to help them get results frm the systems, tools and ideas supplied. |
Below:
Some clips from our range of training DVDs specifically for public
accounting firms - yours free when you join the BMN. |
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Above: How to use the media to boost your business. |
Above: Take your top clients and know they'll never leave you |
Below: Why good people leave public accounting
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Below: Fire Your Pain in The Ass Clients
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© 2009, Business Mentors Network |
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Steve
spent the first 12 years of his career in public accounting, first
as a staff member in a small firm, then with a national firm.