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The 2020 Group are the UK's largest voluntary membership organisation for accountants with over 1,200 member firms. These firms are the cutting edge practices that are committed to growth and are looking for additional revenue streams while still offering traditional services. Our member firms represent more than 20,000 practising accountants and tax professionals.

2020 Membership Group provides member firms with all the marketing, strategy and consulting tools they need to provide value-added services - now recognised as the profitable way forward.

2020 Seminars offers a range of more than 200 technical CPD, marketing, practice management and added value seminars and conferences each year all specifically designed for accountants, tax practitioners and consultants.

2020 Products offers the accountancy profession a wide range of tools and products to assist with growth and profitability.

2020 Consulting offers consulting assistance to firms of all sizes including most of the top firms in the UK. Consulting assistance is tailored to the needs of individual firms. These are some of the areas where we are often asked to help:

Developing Marketing Plans
Facilitating Partner and Management Retreats
Helping firms develop comprehensive partnership agreements
Counselling firms on management initiatives to significantly raise profitability
Assisting firms in dealing with structural change issues of succession planning, retirement, partner withdrawal and new partner admissions
Assisting in negotiating Mergers and Acquisitions
Systemisation of professional practices
Wealth Management – systemisation, best practice ideas in terms of structuring your financial services entity, selecting the best service provider, lead generation and successful marketing techniques
Strategic Planning and Profit Improvement

2020 Innovation Group Limited, 6110 Knights Court, Solihull Parkway, Birmingham Business Park, Birmingham, West Midlands, B37 7WY

Tel: +44 (0) 121 314 2020 Fax: +44 (0) 121 314 4718 info@the2020group.com

Ian Lockwood Digital Consultancy

Ian is an independent consultant specialising in online marketing. His expertise comes from over a decade in the Internet industry, with eightyears spent as deputy managing director of a web design and development company, during which he helped hundreds of businesses and organisations improve their online marketing activity.

Ian has been involved in delivering and developing training courses in web development and online marketing for many years, both as in-house workshops for clients and for organisations like Business Link and East Midlands Chambers of Commerce. As a result, he has trained almost 1000 businesses in everything from best practice web design to advanced search engine optimisation.

His knowledge covers:

* Search engine optimisation

* Pay per click advertising

* Conversion optimisation

* Web design and development

* E-commerce

Ian's own company, Ian Lockwood Digital Consultancy, specialises in helping companies to maximise their return on investment from online marketing, forming long-term relationships to get the best understanding of their sector and improve their website traffic and conversion rates.

Tel: +44 (0) 845 224 8154 ian@ianlockwood.net

KashFlow Software Ltd

KashFlow is a web-based accounting application designed for small business owners that have no accounting training. The company and the product have won numerous awards including beating Sage and Quickbooks at the Software Satisfaction Awards, as voted on by actual users.

The KashFlow Partner Programme gives accountants unprecedented levels of control and insight into their clients bookkeeping. For more information about the various other benefits available to accountants, including re-branded software and discounted pricing, click here.

Kashflow Software Ltd, Edmund House, 27 St.James's Road, Dudley, DY1 3JD
Tel: +44 (0) 800 848 8301 support@kashflow.com