How Certified Public Accountants Can Make Money with a Blog

When you first decided to earn your CPA license, did you consider how you can earn money with a blog? While you can definitely work as a CPA in person, youโ€™ll earn far more money when you simultaneously work online by starting a blog.

Your CPA certification is the key to profitable blogging

Whether you decide to specialize in tax preparation or help businesses reach their financial goals, you can provide CPA services online through a blog. However, your main focus should be using your blog to capture leads you can market to long-term.

Running a blog is a fantastic way to capture leads by offering irresistible content like tax tips and tricks, pre-programmed Excel spreadsheet downloads, and more.

Here are 3 reasons you should consider creating a CPA blog to sell your services and provide helpful information:

1. You can multiply your profits exponentially without extra effort

Once youโ€™re a Certified Public Accountant, you can make money through your blog without directly working with clients. For example, you can launch a finance blog to share tips with other CPAs or accountants and monetize your content through sponsorships.

By collecting leads through your blog posts, youโ€™ll start developing an email marketing list. Then you can market your services and pre-packaged products to your email list.

You can also pre-record webinars and use them as lead magnets to market a higher-level training package for CPAs. Youโ€™ll need to become a popular CPA personality to achieve this, but itโ€™s not impossible.

The more popular you become, the more money youโ€™ll make

There are popular CPAs out there earning plenty of money online, like JJ the CPA, for example. He provides excellent free content for CPAs and people who need CPA services. In addition to making YouTube videos, he also has a blog, a podcast, and heโ€™s a published author.

The key to gaining popularity as a CPA blogger is having a good niche. Although JJ doesnโ€™t have a specific niche, he always looks sharp, which makes him stand out from the crowd.

2. Youโ€™ll develop an expert reputation.

When you start a blog using your CPA knowledge, experience, and expertise, youโ€™ll position yourself as an expert over time. If you can earn a great reputation online, that reputation will help you generate in-person clients, too. Youโ€™ll also be able to charge more for your services when you are a recognized expert.

Find a niche or an angle that sets you apart from other CPA bloggers and start producing outstanding content. Youโ€™ll need to market your blog, but thatโ€™s relatively easy to learn.

3. Thereโ€™s less pressure to be social

If talking to clients in person is overwhelming, youโ€™ll love working with clients through your blog. You probably canโ€™t avoid in-person clients completely, but when you work online, you can balance out your in-person meetings so you wonโ€™t feel overwhelmed.

3 Tips for running a profitable CPA blog

1. Hire a marketing agency to help you with content marketing

Youโ€™ll make more money from your blog when you outsource your content creation and content marketing. You only have 24 hours in the day and if you want to sleep, you canโ€™t stay up all night writing content 7 days a week.

Hire a marketing agency to write your blog articles and perform content marketing. Content marketing will help you get content published on third-party sites that feature a backlink to your website. The main benefit is that a marketing agency will have existing relationships with publishers.

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If youโ€™re worried that the writers you hire wonโ€™t know enough about your industry to write expert content, use their articles as a foundation and add your own expertise. If youโ€™re not good at writing, provide the writers detailed notes and a rough draft and ask them to turn your notes into relatable points.

2. Nurture your readers

When you produce high-quality content, youโ€™ll naturally develop a readership. The better your content, the more blog subscribers youโ€™ll generate. Use this to your advantage and start nurturing your readers from day one. No matter how many readers you have โ€“ one or one thousand โ€“ create a marketing plan to nurture those leads.

Think about what your goal is for each reader. Do you want them to sign up for your CPA services? Do you want them to buy a product? Define your goal first and then create a plan to nurture your readers in that direction.

3. Go for high-paying partnerships

To make money from a partnership, you donโ€™t want to waste your time with small potatoes. For example, if you find other businesses willing to pay $40/month for ad space on your site, you can only allot so much space for ads without making your site look spammy. Youโ€™ll be lucky to get away with three ads max.

Instead of playing small, find someone willing to pay more and negotiate a better exchange than just an ad on your site. For instance, find someone willing to pay you to promote their products or services to your list.

When you put in the effort, you can create a successful blog

Donโ€™t pass on the opportunity to make money blogging with your CPA certification. Just like any other online business, you can be successful.

Making money through a blog isnโ€™t a simple endeavor, but if you put in the effort, youโ€™ll have a good chance of achieving success.

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