Advisor Alliance
Intuitive Accountant strives to provide you, our QuickBooks Specialist, Accountant and Business Consultant readers with information about opportunities to serve your clients, build your practice, and bolster your compensation through this series we call ‘Advisor Alliance’. The focus of this series will always be product developers and vendors who offer some form of alliance, partnership, or referral program that might be of interest to you and your practice.
Thousands of businesses already use Avalara to automate their compliance in transactional tax. But as a QuickBooks ProAdvisor, Bookkeeper, Accountant or Business Consultant you may have clients who could use Avalara’s help. Avalara has started a new type of advisor alliance, based upon ‘Rewards’, which can not only help you meet your client’s transactional tax requirements, but also bolster yourself in the process.
The Avalara Rewards program gives you the opportunity to earn a $100 reward for each new Avalara customer who signs-up based upon your referral. A new customer is defined as an initial purchase of an Avalara service valued for at least $3000 in booking value.
Your first step in this Reward program is to sign-up with Avalara Rewards at: http://rewards.avalara.com. There is no cost to participate in the Avalara Reward Program, and there is no minimum number of referrals required in order to remain registered.
Once you’ve registered, you can either directly refer a lead or share and promote Avalara through email, social media and your website.
It’s easy to enjoy Avalara Rewards. Here is how to participate in four simple steps.
1. Refer leads
2. Attract referral leads by promoting Avalara
– On social media
– Via email
– On your own website or blog using Avalara content and banner ads
3. Monitor lead status
4. Redeem rewards.
Your earned awards will be allocated within 30 days of when Avalara receives payment from the new customer you referred.
In addition to the regular $100 rewards per referral, O you receive the following one-time bonus:
- $500 - 5 new customers referred in a calendar year
- $1000 - 10 new customer referred in a calendar year
- $5,000 - 20 new customer referred in a calendar year
(Note: The new customers referred count resets every calendar year.)
Your earned awards will be allocated within 30 days of when Avalara receives payment from the new customer you referred.
Avalara makes it easy to promote their offerings and create leads using banner ads and content from their Share and Promote pages.
You can redeem your earned rewards at any time. There are a variety of rewards and more being added, you might choose the $100 Southwest Airlines Gift Card, or a Samsung Television for $525 in rewards. There are $50 Amazon Gift Cards and even Ray-Ban Sunglasses for $105.00. An Apple iPad mini for $308 and also Beats Studio Headphones for the same reward value. As you can see there is some really 'neat stuff' in this rewards program, it isn't simply 'chewing gum and candy bars', or ugly neckties and tube socks. This is stuff you might actually go out and spend hard earned money to get....now with Avalara you can get it for just a few client referrals.
So if you have lots of clients who find themselves in sales tax issues, or who are likely to get into sales tax trouble, why not refer them to Avalara and earn yourself some swag in the process.