Passive Online Ideas for Accountants

Hi Jeremy,

Thanks for the advice.
I actually work full time, so I don't actually have any private clients at the moment.
Was just looking to see if there was any semi-passive niches online that would work with my accounting background?

Best Regards,

Lance

This implies anyone selling is untrustworthy and is bad advice. There is nothing wrong with "out and out" selling, unless one conflates that with bad selling. If you have a good product your clients would be interested in, you come right and out say you are selling it because it is something you believe they would benefit from.

Say what? Are you going to interview Craiglist email scrapers and recommend those to your accounting clients for a 50% share? Of course not. There is no match between you, your clients, and the offer.

The only thing you have indicated you have expertise in is accounting. If you have a web designer who created a great website for you and you send a referral to your clients who need a website or website upgrade, that is one thing.

But it would be idiotic to interview web designers and send promotions to your clients for web design.

Here are some better ideas:

- You take your tax knowledge and create reports which can be sold and membership areas which can be subscribed to.

That's a no brainer. I've already done it for a number of tax issues. Your expertise flows naturally to the product and it is something your clients will be interested in. Mine have been very thankful.

All you have to do is take a difficult, vague, interesting, or popular tax issue you recently dealt with and researched, write it up and sell it. Literally, your clients are paying you to create products you can sell to others.

This matches your expertise with accounting clients.

- You review products already in use in your office, such as Lacerte versus other software, where you have affiliate links or just AdSense ads. These are $10,000 per year programs. Your market is other accountants or CPAs.

Again, your expertise matches the product.

This matches your expertise with accounting professionals.

- If your accounting practice is niche specific, such as most of your clients are in a certain industry, then you look at products in that industry.

You're the accountant for gym professionals and get clients in the gym. Let me tell you about AcmeP100X, it's great for _____. Even better is if the product could be a tax deduction.

Or, you're the accountant for newly divorced dads in the area facing tax issues they have never seen before. Your clients know your niche and would be receptive to a dating offer to help them out.

This matches your expertise with a niche intertwined with your expertise.


You can of course combine these and create new avenue streams. Handle a recent interesting tax issue for a gym professional? Suddenly you have a product to be niche marketed to other gym professionals.


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