Harvest Chocolate

Harvest Chocolate, is a bean-to-bar chocolate company that handcrafts seasonal chocolate bars and Snacking Chocolate for everyday moments. We use simple, organic ingredients, source fresh cacao seasonally, using local fruits from the season to add unique flavors to our chocolate.  

We make chocolate that anyone could enjoy, regardless of allergies or dietary restrictions and support farmers locally and abroad by using only the season's best harvest—from cacao beans to local fruits.

Co-Founder and Head Dishwasher

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Community Manager

Knotch

Leading the social strategy as part of the growth team at Knotch, an early-growth customer journey intelligence software. Including strategic planning for the go-to-market, account-based marketing, paid media, email marketing, and sales development.

Growth Marketing - Social and Community

Verint

As a Customer Experience Manager with Verint, it is my responsibility to help our clients research, develop, and execute a customer experience program that will result in customer satisfaction and loyalty, insights that can be shared organization-wide, and omni channel experience strategy and measurement.

Verint as a whole has more than two decades of experience helping more than 10,000 organizations worldwide create lasting value. A global leader in customer engagement, Verint helps businesses evolve and modernize the entire customer engagement operation while protecting legacy investments.

We are built on five core values that shape the way we do business with our customers, partners, and each other: 

⇢ INTEGRITY to do what’s right
⇢ INNOVATION to create leading solutions for real-world challenges
⇢ TRANSPARENCY that fuels mutual trust and productive, collaborative working relationships
⇢ HUMILITY to view our successes as milestones in our journey and our mistakes as opportunities for improvement
⇢ PASSION for making our customers and partners successful.

Associate Account Executive

ForeSee

As a Business Development Representative, I developed and executed an account-based marketing strategy to increase sales efficiency and accelerate new business acquisition for an integrated CX intelligence platform, which helped companies prioritize CX decisions and profit from customer feedback.

⇢ Produced an accurate and high-quality sales pipeline by researching prospective customer accounts using insight tools, creating customized outreach strategies, prospecting calls through multiple channels, and conducting exploratory calls with inbound leads, leading to $3M in pipeline growth to-date.

⇢ Partnered with the marketing team to understand the campaigns and activities with the highest response rate for validation of marketing optimization efforts.

Business Development

First Federal Bank of the Midwest

Financial Sales Manager

As a Relationship Banker, I worked with individual and small business clients to complete an assessment of financial needs and consultatively sell a full range of products such as deposit accounts, loans, and credit cards to support the overall banking center sales objectives.

⇢ Secured at least $45k of new loans each month (vs. target of $25k/month), 10 customer referrals to partners (commercial loans, insurance, merchant services and wealth management), and cross-sold  50 new products per month to existing customers.

Relationship Banker

As an Account Representative, I served as a trusted advisor to small business and personal banking clients by understanding their needs and promoting the appropriate products and services. I also identified cross-selling opportunities, surpassing a personal sales goal of referring 20 new customers per month.

Account Representative

Self-Employed

As a restaurant operations consultant, I provided an operational evaluation of an emerging restaurant and streamlined the restaurant’s ordering process, reduced food cost by negotiating with suppliers, and worked with their team to create premier events to attract top-spending clients.

Freelance Restaurant Consultant

SCM Hospitality

As a Corporate Sous Chef, I provided culinary leadership, support and expertise at celebrity chef Scott Conant’s six restaurants and corporate partnerships across North America by creating dishes featured in publications under the SCM Hospitality brand. I also mentored staff at each of the restaurants on sales techniques, menu design, and marketing strategies.

Corporate Sous Chef

Torc

As a Sous Chef with Torc, I oversaw the kitchen staff while developing and maintaining relationships with vendors to acquire high-quality products. I also served as the opening management team and contributed to the restaurant’s first-year sales goal of $2MM through enforcing quality control measures, maintaining relationships with top-spending clients, and implementing daily menu changes.

Sous Chef

Quince Restaurant

As a Sous Chef with Quince Restaurant, I managed 20 kitchen staff employees in daily production, ordering, cost control and quality assurance at a 2 Michelin Star restaurant featuring California contemporary cuisine.

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Michael Eckstein, EA

Let's just skip the whole sales-y 'About Me' section BS (you know the one, where you're just trying to figure out what their headline means but it feels like you're reading a sales page 🤢) and get straight to the point, kk?

You're here reading this because you have 5 questions.

1. Who is Michael Eckstein?
2. Why do they call him LinkedIn's Cutest Accountant?
3. What does he do?
4. What's all that cost?
5. How can I contact him (eg, hiring him, collaborating, having him on my podcast, etc)?

🤓 𝙒𝙝𝙤 𝙞𝙨 𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙀𝙘𝙠𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙞𝙣?
I'm Michael Eckstein. I'm an accountant for marketing agencies and consultants that wanna run their agencies on more than just ✨vibes✨

I've been quoted by dozens of websites, guested on podcasts, was named on CPA Practice Advisor's '40 under 40' accountants list, was the Treasurer of a local nonprofit, blah blah blah, other very impressive brags, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, etc. You get it. 

😍 𝙇𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙄𝙣'𝙨 𝘾𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝘼𝙘𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙩?
When I started hanging out on LinkedIn, every accountant was 'The World's Most Interesting/Fun/Extroverted/Super Cool Accountant'. So, I jokingly called myself 'LinkedIn's Cutest Accountant' and it stuck.

💪 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙤?
🏛️ Tax Compliance 🏛️ - Taxes, accounting, and payroll to keep your business on the IRS's good side
•Business tax returns (incl S-corps & partnerships)
•Personal tax returns (incl sole prop/SMLLC)
•Tax planning
•Outsourced accounting
•Year-round tax support (aka, help with all those little tax questions)
•Quarterly estimate calcs and reminders

💸 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙨𝙩?
Tax Buddy: $2,000/yr+
incl, business return, personal return, and year-end tax review

Tax Essentials: $400/mo+
incl, Tax Buddy + quarterly estimates, year-round tax support, and summer meeting

Tax Hero: $950+
incl, Tax Essentials + monthly bookkeeping and tax-ready books

a la carte
•S-corp / P-ship: $2,000+
•Personal: $1,000+
•Consult: $350

📞 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙙𝙤 𝙄 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙝𝙞𝙢?
You can reach me by DMing me here on LinkedIn, emailing me at michael@restingbusinessface.com, or scheduling a call at restingbusinessface.com

PS, if I just sent you a connection request, I promise I won't pitch you 🤞

Owner/Enrolled Agent

A local accounting practice helping Long Islanders and local small businesses with their tax returns, accounting, and tax problems. 

Services:
• Personal/Individual Tax Preparation
• Business Tax Preparation
• Outsourced Accounting/Bookkeeping
• Tax Representation and IRS Problem Solving

Big wins:
• Saved a client $24,000 using a mortgage forgiveness exclusion loophole
• Reversed an IRS bank account levy (aka they drained his accounts) and got my client on a payment plan
• Saved a client $23,000 using a NYS income sourcing loophole

I have no interest in being a fractional CFO.

I know it's the new hotness and I should jump all over it but meh 🤷‍♂️

My fav clients are the consultants taking their first steps or smaller agencies ready for the next rung on the ladder. They're years out from needing a CFO.

They need:
🤓 An accountant that actually answers their emails
🤓 Help with quarterly estimates and tax planning
🤓 A legit conversation with someone who understands them and won't make them feel dumb

Dashboards and forecasts are hot. But, agencies need help with the first few steps too.


(Plus, I sorta like taxes + bookkeeping + answering Qs throughout the year. It's pretty mellow.)

#RestingBusinessFace - accounting for agencies

Worry less about the IRS | Artisanal, grass-fed tax & accounting for marketing consultancies 🧑‍🌾

Can we expense the new laptop you bought for your marketing consultancy? 

Long answer - technically it's a multi-year asset which should be depreciated but there's several ways to accelerate that depreciation with either section 179, bonus depreciation, or the de minimis election. 

Short answer - yea, dude, for sure

 #RestingBusinessFace - accounting for agencies

You don't have to build an agency. You don't have to scale.

You're allowed to stay a boutique shop or solo consultant. It's perfectly legal and you're not a lesser business owner for it.

 #RestingBusinessFace - accounting for agencies

It's a Saturday morning. Tax season officially starts in a few weeks. And, I'm essentially done taking new client meetings until May.

When could possibly be a better time to tinker with my website and update my services?

#RestingBusinessFace

Y'all are putting punctuation and emojis in your names to flag spam, when you could've just become an EA.

🤓 "We get leads for CPA firms." Delete.
🤓 "Do you want to sell your CPA firm?" Delete.
🤓 "Offshore hiring for CPA forms." Delete.

And, the exams are way less stressful too.

#RestingBusinessFace - accounting for agencies: returns filed, books kept, estimates paid, & questions answered

In case you're curious (and I was, bc there's something wrong with me), TurboTax brings in $4.9B and makes up 26% of Intuit's revenue. 

I don't have an opinion on that or a concise lil takeaway here (financial advice based on a screenshot of a 10-K would be literally insane), other than — $4.9B? Damn, that's a lot of revenue.

#RestingBusinessFace: taxes for marketers that're scared of them

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