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The One Piece of Advice You Need to Get the Price You Deserve

08/04/08 - by: Ron Baker

RainToday has published the report, The One Piece of Advice You Need to Get the Fees You Deserve.

You will have to provide your email address to download the free copy.

I was happy to contribute to this report, even though I wish they’d use the words:  price, not fees; professional knowledge firms, not professional service …

Maryland CPA Spotlight Podcast on Value Pricing

07/28/08 - by: Ron Baker

Bill Sheridan, E Communications Manager/Editor at the Maryland Association of CPAs, interviewed me briefly during the Maryland Business and Accounting Expo back in June for a podcast about Value Pricing.

The podcast is 5 minutes in length and you can listen here.

Also, if you’re interested in subscribing to the Maryland Association’s podcasts, you can do so by searching for “CPA Spotlight” in iTunes, or by using its …

Introducing Shelfari

07/22/08 - by: Ron Baker

Hat tip to Ed Kless for turning me on to Shelfari, a resource that allows readers to share, discuss, rate, tag, and organize books onto your own bookshelf.

It’s like standing in front of someone’s bookshelf in their office. If you are what you read, then your bookshelf can tell others a lot about you.

Since we are asked all the time what books we would recommend, Shelfari is a …

CPE Link Press Release

07/09/08 - by: Ron Baker

Our good friend Kurtis Docken, who used to work with the California CPA Education Foundation, recently joined a new company, CPE Link, a new provider of Web based education for CPAs.

I have known Kurtis since 1994, and he is one of the reasons I began teaching with the Foundation. He took a chance on a complete nobody back in 1995 by letting me teach my very first 8 …

The Complete Lawyer Publishing a 4-Part Series by Ron Baker

04/30/08 - by: Ron Baker

The Complete Lawyer provides “Tools and insights on professional development, quality of life, and career issues that impact every lawyer’s success and satisfaction.”

Beginning in March, they will be running a 4-part series of articles, the first one is an interview with me on The Firm of the Future.

The second article is now published here. The third article is now published …

Chief Learning Officer Magazine Intellectual Capital Article Cites Ron Baker

04/04/08 - by: Ron Baker

I was honored to speak with Mike Prokopeak, Editorial Director at MediaTec Publishing, Inc., publisher of Chief Learning Officer magazine.

His article in the March 2008 issue is “Leveraging Intellectual Capital for Organizational Gain,” a topic near and dear to my heart.

Mike asked me, in some advance questions, to tell him what two lessons he would take away from my book,

Paul O’Byrne Webinar

03/19/08 - by: Ron Baker

Senior Fellow Paul O’Byrne, of O’Byrne and Kennedy, has been conducting a series of Webinars for Principa on “Re-engineer for Value, Rid Yourself of Problem Clients and Super-Size Your Bottom Line.”

This was in response to his (and Paul Kennedy’s) presentation at the Principa conference in Las Vegas last year, which was a huge hit.

You can now listen to one …