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News

03 September 2010
ICB Practices one step closer to new business

 

 

After several month's development time, the long-awaited ICB Practice Directory is now available.  The Practice Directory is an online resource for clients and small businesses who are in need of a good bookkeeper, and will allow them to do a postcode search for their nearest ICB Practice within a matter of seconds.  The Practice Directory will be hosted directly on the ICB site and all Practice Licence holders are urged to take advantage of this fantastic free service

Practice Licence holders wanting to promote their business in the Practice Directory must activate their free listing or the practice will not appear in a search for bookkeepers in their area.

The opportunity to use the directory is only available to the Practice Licence holders.  Self employed members of the Institute are required to hold the Practice Licence.  If you are not a Practice Licence holder, or are a member of IAgSA regulated by the ICB for MLR only, your details cannot appear in the Practice Directory.

Companies wishing to employ a bookkeeper will continue to be put in touch with qualified members via the Post a Vacancy section of the website.

 


 More information about the Practice Directory


If you are a Practice Licence holder, you can activate your free listing right away by logging in to www.bookkeepers.org.uk/MyICB/MyPractice Once inside the MyPractice section you can check that all of your details will appear correctly and choose which parts of your contact details you wish to include in the listing.  Perhaps, if you work from home, you may prefer to be contacted by email only. 

Show potential new clients what you can do

Because the Practice Directory is integrated with the ICB database, your listing will be populated automatically with details of the services that you have gained an ICB qualification in.  Potential new clients will be absolutely sure of how useful you can be to them.

Screenshots above taken from ICB Practice Directory test version.  Maps ©2010 Google - Map data ©2010 Europe Technologies, Geocentre Consulting, INEGI

 

Upgrade your listing


Practices may choose to upgrade from the standard free listing to a Premium Listing

In addition to the standard listing features, Premium Listings display:

  • Company logo 
  • Website address
  • 300 characters of additional text 

Make your company stand out with a Premium Listing and give clients a little extra information about the services you offer.  If you or someone else in your practice is a Chartered Accountant, the 300 characters of customizable text offer you the opportunity to tell potential clients.

Premium Listings are available for the equivalent of just £8.00 per month.  

You can upgrade your listing when you log in to www.bookkeepers.org.uk/MyICB/MyPractice

 

Screenshots above taken from ICB Practice Directory test version.  Maps ©
2010 Google - Map data ©
 2010 Europe Technologies, Geocentre Consulting, INEGI 
 

The ICB website is already one of the busiest bookkeeping websites in the world and fees from Premium Listings will be used to optimize the new directory and to sponsor links.  

Please note that Terms and Conditions apply for Practice Licence holders and for the external users alike.  Measures are in place to protect your information and the IP address of each external user will be logged when they use the search.  Copying of the ICB Directory in its entirety for marketing purposes is illegal and made very difficult to achieve.

Please be aware that, although the facility for adding a listing is live on the ICB website, the search facility itself is not yet live.  Due to Data Protection restrictions all practices must opt in to use the facility, and until such time there are no practices listed in the Practice Directory.  The Practice Directory search facility itself will be available in October.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to get in touch on 0845 060 2345

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