Our Websites are Designed with Your Accounting Firm in Mind.
Many features come standard for every BYF website. But for something even more custom tailored to fit your firm, we offer plenty of additional add-on features that you can select from.
Website Design
First impressions are important. Your accounting website should have an attractive design that is pleasing to the visitor's eye and helps you stand out from your competition.
Localization
We encourage you to use local photography to tell your story and localize your firm. Photography, especially local photos, can paint a picture and draw in the prospects.
Logos
Choose from our list of free logo options in the logo library. Or, if you want a more custom look, work with our talented, hands-on designers to create a truly unique and custom logo to brand your accounting firm.
Professional Designs
All of our designs are professional and customized to your specific accounting services and geography. Our websites are designed to differentiate you from your local competition allowing YOU to stand out from the crowd.
Responsive Designs
A responsive website experience is more important for accounting firms as smartphone and tablet browsing is on the rise. We'll help you deliver information about your firm fast and in a user-friendly, simple-to-navigate way.
Slider Animation
Make your website stand out with custom sliding images on your website.
Website Content
The content on your website is crucial. Not only does it ensure you show up in search engines, but it helps prospective clients get to know your firm.
Professional Content
The content on Build Your Firm sites is written and revised in-house allowing us to keep your content up to date with current tax regulations. This content will position you as an expert, encouraging prospective clients to call your firm.
SEO
Your website design has little practical value if potential clients cannot find your website amid the sea of online competitors. That's why your website must be properly optimized with appropriate meta tags, keywords and hyperlinks.
Tax Center
Our website service provides a Tax Center on your website with features like track your refund, tax organizer, tax tip articles and more. By providing small business owners these valuable tax tools on your website, you increase the chances of educating them about the depth and breadth of your services.
Call to Action
When it comes to website conversion rate optimization, having a compelling website call to action is imperative for getting a prospect to take action and take the next step to contact you so you can close the business.
Tax and Accounting Articles
Your website comes with a content library built-in. This library houses hundreds of tax and accounting articles on business best practices, insurance, tax issues, investments, real estate, QuickBooks, and more
Client Center Integration
We can seamlessly integrate 3rd party client centers platforms, such as Thomson Reuters, onto your website. Integrate your client center, payroll logins, and more.
Marketing Tools
Build Your Firm’s clients get access to our client dashboard. A marketing suite of tools and content to make marketing yourself online simple.
Newsletter
Regular communication with your clients and prospects will help you add value to your relationship and stay top-of-mind. We provide an email newsletter and eight (8) articles per month with all of our websites.
Reputation Management
Our communication system also includes a tool that makes it easy for you to ask your clients to post a review on Google, Yelp, YP.com or any review website you want. Managing your reputation online is critical to managing your brand and generating new business.
Pay Per Click
For accountants who want to acquire more clients from the internet, Build Your Firm provides Pay Per Click (PPC) campaign management. PPC advertising is designed to drive extra traffic to your website and generate new leads.
Retargeting
To move prospects closer to a purchase decision and elevate your firm name in their consideration set, we have added Retargeting Advertising (aka - remarketing) to raise the awareness of your accounting firm and pull qualified prospects back to your website.
Productivity Tools
We want to help accountants work smarter, not harder. Our productivity tools will save you and your firm time so you can focus on what really matters, growing your business.
File Share
Our Secure File Sharing tool, Protected Xchange, comes with every website. This tool allows you to share sensitive documents efficiently and securely.
BizPayO™
We offer BizPayO™, a payment processing portal which helps accountants get paid faster and lowers receivables.
Newsletter
We believe regular communication with your clients and prospects will help you add value to your relationship and stay top of mind.
Blog
The major search engines are giving really high priority to websites that regularly offer a steady stream of fresh, relevant content produced by a blog.
Contact Forms
We provide forms in all our website designs to make it easy for you to offer a free consultation or a request for a proposal from your firm.
3rd Party Integration
We can easily integrate your website with the 3rd party SaaS applications you use in your practice which can be used for online payroll, accounting software, bill payments, and cloud computing software programs.
Social media is an important part of your marketing strategy. It also helps you stay in touch with current clients. We have tools and features to make managing your social profiles a snap.
Social Media Integration
Half of all online conversations take place on social networks and customers say social media sites influence their decision to purchase a company's products or services.
Social Media Posting Wizard
Simply and effortlessly share one of the articles inside the content library out to your social media accounts. Links to the articles will direct readers back to your website.
Leave a Review
Add a “leave us a review” page to encourage clients to leave reviews on Yelp, Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.
Security and Hosting
Your dedicated website consultant will help you through every step of the development process. Your website is hosted on a secure server with 24-hour surveillance and daily back-ups.
Hosting
Our monthly fee includes secure, reliable hosting for your website and email. No matter what your domain situation is, we can help. We work with clients with new and existing domains, as well as multiple domains.
Secure Data Center
Our Data Center is fully managed 24 hours per day. Access is strictly limited to technical staff. Electronic securtity cameras are inside and out. External walls are concrete poured to a height of twenty feet.
New Domains
We can help you select a domain name then purchase and manage the domain for you. Or, you can set up an account with a provider like GoDaddy or Network Solutions and manage your domain name with them.
Website Stats
It's easy to get information about how many people are visiting your website through your website's control panel, cPanel. There are several built-in statistic reports that update regularly.
Daily Backup
To help protect against data loss, we do automatic daily backups of your website. Data backups are done every night onto a separate hard drive, holding 6 revisions of data. Off-site backup is also done on a weekly basis.
SSL Certificate
Want the most secure domain possible? Our team will install an SSL certificate on your domain. This high level protocol lets viewers know your site is secure, protects your information, and helps boost your SEO.
Google Analytics
Installation of Google Analytics so you can track traffic, better understand your clients, and gain powerful insights.
Email Setup
The content on your website is crucial. Not only does it ensure you show up in search engines, but it helps prospective clients get to know your firm.
Email Setup
We can set up email accounts at your domain name that you can access in your office using Outlook or remotely using our webmail interface.
Email Forwarding
If you want to have your email setup elsewhere, our support team can assist you with email forwarding.
Email Newsletter
Our email newsletter tool makes staying in touch with your clients and prospective clients easier. Setup newsletters to go out automatically, or send them one at a time.
Expert Support
We pride ourselves on our top notch customer service. Learn why our clients can’t stop talking about the great service they get from the Build Your Firm team!
Client Dashboard
Access to the client dashboard comes with all websites. This comprehensive resource area gives you access to help documents and videos, your email newsletter, secure file sharing, content library, the ticketing system so you can open trouble tickets and more.
Video Tutorials
Our video tutorials can help you learn how to get started using our most popular productivity tools like the newsletter, email and file sharing. Our goal is to get you the support you need as soon as possible.
Client Webinars
Our free webinars, exclusively for website clients, are meant to help you fully optimize your BYF website utilizing the tools and features provided, highlight how to optimize your visibility on the internet and update you on new BYF services.
Support Phone and Email
We aim to provide the very best customer support in the industry. When you have a question or need changes made to your live website, we invite you to contact any member of the Website Development Team.
Dedicated Website Consultant
When you sign up for a website with Build Your Firm, we assign you a personal Website Consultant who will walk you through every step of the development process.
Knowledge Base
The Client Resources Area is your one stop to learn about all the features of your website. It includes help instructions and video support, the newsletter and reputation management system and a ticketing system in case of a problem.
Ticketing System
If you have a problem related to your website, email account, or file sharing tool, our ticketing system provides a way for you to get help when you need it.
Trials and Guarantees
Free Trial
Our websites all come standard with a 60-day free trial. Try our websites today at no risk to you.
ROI Guarantee
For our platinum level clients, Build Your Firm stands behind its word with a money back guarantee for your first year with us. Simply said, we guarantee that you will acquire more new business than your website investment over one year. If not, we will refund your investment with BYF.
No Commitment
Cancel at anytime! When you sign up to get a website with us, we don’t lock you into annual contracts.
Custom Features
Looking for something extra? Build Your Firm can help you customize your site to your vision.
Custom Logo
Our in-house designers can work with you to develop a custom logo that reflects your vision for your accounting practice.
Custom Websites
If you’re looking for a more custom website, we can help. Work one-on-one with a dedicated website consultant to discuss your services and brand identity. We’ll create a custom, unique accounting website.
Custom Content
It’s important to us that your website reflects your services and your firm. If you need help with a custom page or service on your website, one of our team members can help.
Graphics and Icons
Our in-house graphic designers create unique and professional graphics and icons to use on your website to help you stand out.
Colors and Branding
Website are customized to the colors of your firm and brand.
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Free Trial & Payments
Our most popular is our 60 day free trial. The 60 day free trial requires that you pay by ACH. We also offer a 30 day free trial if you opt to pay by credit card.
This depends on which website and hosting option you choose.
• Our Professional Hosting Level is $83.33/mo.
• Our Platinum Hosting Level is $99.95/mo.
• Our Niche Websites has a set up fee ranging from $500 to $1,250 depending on the scope of the project. Then the monthly hosting fee chosen will apply.
• Our Custom Websites has a set up fee of $1,750. Then the monthly hosting fee chosen will apply.
• Our Premier (General) Accounting Website has no set up fee.
If you are happy with your website simply continue on a month to month basis.
No upfront fees - no set up fees - no design fees.
The exception are our Niche and Custom Website option which requires a one time set up fee.
No hidden fees. BYF offers the most comprehensive website packages with the most features. All of our websites offer domains, email accounts, website hosting, customized accounting pages, statistics, etc.
Yes, we offer a 60-day free trial if you use ACH to process your website payments. We offer a 30-day free trial if you wish to process your website payments via credit card. BYF allows 30 days to develop the new website before we begin the free trial period.
No, and you can cancel at anytime.
Yes, but by paying by credit card your free trial will be 30 days. If you pay by ACH you will get a 60 day free trial period.
Features & Designs
Our newsletter system is fast, easy to use and doesn't require any additional software.
• You log into our system, select a few articles you want to send that month.
• You can even create a personalized welcome message to send to your clients and prospects. Then with a few clicks your newsletter is ready to send.
• Most of our clients tell us it takes less than 15 minutes to get their newsletter out each month.
• We send you 4 new articles twice a month.
Yes at no extra cost. You choose from website designs we offer that can accommodate a logo and we will work with you on color matching.
Our 256 bit, SSL encrypted, file sharing tool is easy and fast to use.
Your clients will either respond to a request for a file that you send them or go to your website and click to send you files. There is no registration required and no passwords to assign. It is very easy for you and your clients to begin using the file sharing tool.
The system takes care of notifying each of you via email when a file is ready to download. File transfer allows you and your clients to transfer large files back and forth safely and securely such as QuickBooks files.
The file sharing tool provides 4GB of storage for the Platinum level hosting website clients and 1GB of storage to the Professional level hosting website clients.
Yes, we can add a QuickBooks Affiliate Page to your website. We also offer other features for your website like payments via PayPal, online accounting, online payroll, etc. All at no extra fee.
Yes. We offer search engine optimization on all of websites - with no extra fee. Whether you choose a Essential, Niche or Custom website the search engine optimization (SEO) that Build Your Firm provides makes it easy for small business owners to find you during their internet search, gradually over time.
Yes, all of our website options come with email accounts.
Yes, all of our websites offer a File Sharing Tool so you can securely transfer large files with your clients.
Yes, you can see samples of some of our completed accounting firm websites, our niche focused websites, and our custom websites in our sample site gallery...Website Gallery Overview
Development Process
The content and images on your website are property of Build Your Firm. We craft optimized content and the content provided on your site is copyrighted to Build Your Firm. If you terminate your site with us you may not take the content with you. Unless provided by you, the images on your site are also only licensed for use on your website and may not be taken when you go, or used other places.
We do 95% of the work! Your need for involvement is mostly limited to completing our initial website wizard and reviewing your website before going live. Actual involvement time varies based on customization (logos, biographies, special requests, etc.).
Your site will be live in about 30 days.
- We build each site individually
- No site is the same
Yes, BYF can host your current domain name and we will help you with the entire process; contacting your existing domain registrar.
Don't have a domain? No problem. BYF will help you secure a customized domain name. We will work with you giving you suggestions to choose the right one.
We will assign you a website consultant who will work with you to understand your practice and develop a website that reflects your practice. Your consultant will walk you through the entire process, write 95% of the copy for you and be available to answer all your questions. Your website will be live in about 30 days.
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