Sales and Marketing

Derrick Kinney is one of the most charming people on the face of the earth. He is also recognized as one of the nation’s leading authorities on helping small business owners, entrepreneurs, and the self-employed succeed with the affluent. Moreover, he is the author of the bestselling "Master the Media to Attract Your Ideal Clients."

Thomson Tax & Accounting has joined the Strategic Partners Program of Financial Executives International.

Television viewers may know of The Amazing Kreskin, an entertainer who performs breathtaking mental feats that he says utilizes abilities we all have.

Continuing with a push to help its own customers grow their business, Intuit Inc. will include a number of Google Inc. services aimed at boosting the online profile of small businesses in its QuickBooks 2007 product line.

The Platt Consulting Group, operated by principals Michael and Kelly Platt, founders of online news portal AccountingWeb, have acquired monthly newsletter Inside Public Accounting from Atlanta-based publisher Hudson Sawyer.Terms were not disclosed.

After spending most of 2006 talking to users and revamping its QuickBooks ProAdvisor Program, Intuit is looking to add another 15,000 accountants and small business consultants to the program over the course of the next year.