What do you mean about tech forward? I don't mind paying but reading about MMM's experience and how he found such a helpful CPA makes me look on in envy
Hope I can find someone similar. Could thousand bucks excellent value great long term thinking about how to structure and grow.
Tech forward in two ways:
First, since you have a blog, I'm assuming your income is related to that. In which case, you want someone who understands your business. Many "old school" CPAs have trouble when a company doesn't have a traditional business setup (i.e. office, retail store, etc).
Second, if you're like me, you don't want to waste time sitting in someone's office to discuss your finances, and you don't want to have to deal with physical papers all the time. Modern CPAs are paperless, and utilize software to integrate tax and bookkeeping work (and payroll, and 401k, and expense tracking - almost everything can be integrated). They are also setup for virtual meetings and document transmittal. I have clients for whom I did not print out a single piece of paper this year.
This also opens up your search to non-local accountants. Don't take this as advertising, but I have clients in Michigan, Texas, Florida, etc.