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This Week's Top Headline News

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• Employers cut 92K jobs, including 1.4K in accounting
• Nonfarm payrolls contract in February, hit by healthcare strike; unemployment rate ticks up to 4.4%
• 7 Reasons Businesses Switch From QuickBooks to Sage Intacct - CBIZ
• Don't let small business clients keep kicking the payroll can down the road
• isolved Named 2026 Lighthouse Tech Award Finalist for Best Talent Intelligence Solution
• McKee fires Department of Administration director after another payroll system debacle
• Modulr and HiBob partner on payroll automation - The Paypers
• Paycom Releases Automated Career and Succession Planning Tool - Yahoo Finance
• RI state payroll fiasco exposed SSNs. Now, this official has been fired. - The Providence Journal
• Steak 'n Shake Drives Employee Loyalty with Bitcoin Compensation Program | Bitget News
• Yuma School HR Rep Admits $86K Payroll Scam - Hoodline 

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Are You Ready To Sell Your Payroll Service?

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Payroll Service Stocks

Vs. Vanguard's VOO ETF

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We've created a year-to-date ROI* chart for the payroll stocks below via YTDreturn.com. Any payroll stock that beats Vanguard's VOO ETF annual rate of return will be highlighted in red.

Vanguard's VOO Product Summary:

• Invests in stocks in the S&P 500 Index, representing 500 of the largest U.S. companies.

• The ETF's goal is to closely track the index’s return, which is considered a gauge of overall U.S. stock returns.

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Vanguard's VOO YTD

Return As Of March 12, 2026

-2.33%

4 Reasons Why Payroll Stocks Are Dropping

1. Slowing employment growth: Payroll processors earn more when their clients employ more workers. If hiring slows or layoffs rise, payroll volumes flatten. Some key metrics (like ADP’s “pays per control”) have already stalled year-over-year, which worries investors about future growth.
2. Pressure on revenue per client: Companies are reportedly choosing lower-tier service bundles and fewer add-ons, which can reduce average revenue per customer.
3. Valuation reset: Payroll companies historically trade at premium valuations because their revenue is recurring and sticky. As growth expectations cool, investors may be repricing the stocks downward.
4. Broader market weakness: Recent sell-offs happened during down days for the overall stock market, which dragged the sector lower as well. 

*All YTD returns are presented with the assumption of reinvestments of any dividends on ex-date.

Financial, Stock Price, And

Insider Buying/Selling News Articles

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ADP

• ADP's Earnings Beat and Revenue Surge Can't Stem Pre-Market Drop as Doubts Over AI ...
• Automatic Data Processing: A Deep Value Dividend King To Buy Now
• First Trust Advisors LP Buys 55,051 Shares of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. $ADP
• Is It Time To Revisit ADP (ADP) After A 24% One-Year Share Price Decline?
• Korea Investment CORP Sells 37,703 Shares of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. $ADP
• The 5 Safest Dividend Kings Have Raised Their Dividends for Over 50 Years

Asure

• 3 Reasons to Sell ASUR and 1 Stock to Buy Instead - Yahoo Finance
• Asure Software (NASDAQ:ASUR) Stock Price Crosses Above 200-Day Moving Average
• Asure Software Inc (ASUR) Stock Analysis: A 42% Upside Potential With Strong Buy Ratings
• Asure Software Q4: Goal Achieved After The Magical $757k Gain - Seeking Alpha

CBIZ

• CBIZ (NYSE:CBZ) Hits New 12-Month Low - What's Next? - MarketBeat
• Cbiz stock hits 52-week low at 26.88 USD - Investing.com
• Why CBIZ, Inc.'s (CBZ) Stock Is Down 6.13% | AAII

Insperity

• Insperity (NYSE:NSP) Reaches New 1-Year Low - Should You Sell? - MarketBeat
• Insperity (NYSE:NSP) Trading Down 6.7% - What's Next? - MarketBeat
• Insperity, Inc. (NYSE:NSP) Receives Average Recommendation of "Reduce" from Brokerages
• Insperity, Inc. Stock Plummets to New 52-Week Low of $19.60 - MarketsMojo
• Why Insperity, Inc.'s (NSP) Stock Is Up 5.28% | AAII

Intuit

• Intuit Stock Has Been Crushed This Year. How Much Further Could It Fall?
• Is Intuit Stock Rally Overextended Or Just Getting Started? - Forbes
• Wall Street experts anticipate that Intuit (INTU) could see a 33.67% increase - Bitget
• Jim Cramer on Intuit: "You Stick With That One, It's Going to Go Higher" - Finviz
• Intuit Inc Stock (INTU) Moved Down by 3.81% on Mar 10: Key Drivers Unveiled - TradingKey
• Intuit Inc Stock (INTU) Moved Down by 3.55% on Mar 11: Drivers Behind the Movement
• Intuit Inc. (INTU) Up 5.3% — Time to Put Skin in the Game? - Weiss Ratings
• Intuit Inc.'s Stock Price Soars to $466.79, Marking a Robust 6.05% Spike in Market ...
• Why Intuit (INTU) Is Up 17.6% After Strong Q2, Dividend Hike, and Anthropic AI Deal
• INTU Stock Rises 18.3% Post Q2 Earnings: Should You Buy or Sell? | Nasdaq

Paychex

• A Look At Paychex (PAYX) Valuation After Mixed Quarter And Peer Lag In Earnings
• Capital International Investors Sells 3,492,299 Shares of Paychex, Inc. $PAYX - MarketBeat
• Dynamic Technology Lab Private Ltd Buys $1.57 Million Stake in Paychex - National Today
• First Trust Advisors LP Sells 46,347 Shares of Paychex, Inc. $PAYX - MarketBeat
• Is It Time To Reconsider Paychex (PAYX) After Its Recent Share Price Slide
• Jim Cramer on Paychex: “A Good Company, and It Shouldn't Be This Low” - Insider Monkey
• Motley Fool Mid-Cap Growth ETF Sells 24461 Shares of Paychex Inc (PAYX) - GuruFocus
• Paychex a Top Socially Responsible Dividend Stock With 4.4% Yield (PAYX) - Nasdaq
• Paychex Schedules Third Quarter Fiscal 2026 Earnings Conference Call on March 25, 2026
• Paychex Shares Plummets 3.23% as Mixed Earnings and Talent Woes See Stock Rank ...
• Paychex: If Shares Keep Falling, An Upgrade Could Be In Store (NASDAQ:PAYX)
• Swiss National Bank Sells 46,800 Shares of Paychex, Inc. $PAYX - MarketBeat

Paycom

• Cantor Fitzgerald lowers Paycom stock price target on balance sheet concerns
• Paycom board authorizes repurchase of up to an additional $200M of shares - TipRanks
• Paycom Software (PAYC) Price Target Lowered to $135 at Cantor Fitzgerald - StreetInsider
• Why Paycom (PAYC) Is Up 9.7% After Boosting Buybacks and Issuing Cautious 2025 Outlook

Paylocity

• Citigroup Inc. Has $3.35 Million Stock Holdings in Paylocity Holding Corporation $PCTY

Workday

• Workday (WDAY) Is Up 12.9% After Strong Q4, HRScale Launch And Major Buybacks 

Struggling To Generate Payroll Sales Leads?

Then Try These 2 Winning Tips!

(Share With Your Owner, Sales Leader, And Sales Team)

By Glenn Fallavollita, President of SellMorePayroll.com

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For owners and sales leaders of a payroll service bureau, one of the most important strategic questions in 2026 is this: Where should you invest your marketing dollars AND sales training efforts that will generate the most NEW PAYROLL CLIENTS (and of the highest quality).

It's All About Your Proposal Closing Ratios.

Payroll salespeople typically experience dramatically different closing ratios depending on the lead source:

• CPA Referrals = ~75% close rate.
• Client Referrals = ~50% close rate.
• Cold Prospects = ~5% close rate.

As you can see, the closing ratios above should show you where to spend your marketing dollars and sales training efforts.

Sales Leader Tip #1: Spend Your Marketing Dollars On Campaigns That Drive In New Leads/Referrals.

If your goal is to generate more new payroll clients, my recommendation is to do two things

• Recommendation: Develop a drip marketing system that nurtures your database of clients, CPAs, and business prospects. Newsletters are nice to send; however, the real sales leads and referrals come from other 'e-mail marketing campaigns.'

Sales Leader Tip #2: Focus On Your Salespeople.

The most successful payroll service bureaus focus less on finding strangers and more on leveraging trusted relationships. By setting expectations for attending phone blitz sessions, sales follow-up training, developing CPA alliances, and asking clients for a referral, sales leaders can help their salespeople dramatically increase their closing ratios while reducing the cost of acquiring new payroll clients.

• Recommendation: Create a series of time-spaced sales training classes that train your salespeople on how to educate CPAs and other referral partners on the benefits of recommending your payroll service to a business client.

• Recommendation: Require your entire sales team to attend 3X per week, 90-minute phone blitz sessions (this is where the sales magic happens).

• Recommendation: Require all salespeople to complete a weekly proposal tracking report. This 'show me the money report' is the #1 thing a sales leader needs to have their sales team complete.

P.S. Cold outreach efforts still have a place; however, they should not consume your marketing budget or sales training efforts.

In 2002, long before “drip marketing” became a buzzword in the world of lead nurturing, Glenn Fallavollita, President of Drip Marketing, Inc. and SellMorePayroll.com, created a drip marketing system for his clients. A few short years later, he wrote the first book ever dedicated to the subject: "Drip Marketing: A Powerful New Marketing Strategy That Gets Prospects To Buy From You." In addition, Glenn's other books are Supercharge Your Payroll Sales NOW! and Stop Whining And Start Selling.

Today, Glenn is recognized as the pioneer of drip marketing, with nearly two decades of experience helping business owners implement high-ROI campaigns that work on autopilot. His approach is practical, scalable, and tailored to the unique challenges of small business growth.

If you're looking for the person who wrote the book on drip marketing—literally—you have found him.

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McKee fires Department of Administration
director after another payroll system debacle

By:Alexander Castro-March 6, 2026

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Rhode Island Department of Administration (DOA) Director Jonathan Womer will be stepping down from his post effective immediately, Gov. Dan McKee announced Friday afternoon.

McKee’s office released a statement that Womer tendered his resignation at the governor’s request. Womer’s exit after three years leading the department follows ongoing issues with the much-maligned rollout of the state’s new payroll system, including possible exposure of state employees’ Social Security numbers via tax forms sent by mail.

• “Our employees trust the Department of Administration to handle their pay and personal information with the highest level of care,” McKee said in a statement. “This transition is about making sure state government is operating the way our employees and taxpayers expect and deserve.”

• McKee’s announcement came Friday at 3:12 p.m., just 13 minutes after a separate news release from the Department of Administration declared the agency would be offering free credit monitoring to current and former state employees who received corrected W-2C forms after having received erroneous versions of the tax documents earlier this year. 

The corrected forms were emailed on Feb. 25, but some may have had state employees’ Social Security numbers visible through the envelopes, the administration department said in its Friday release.

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Nonfarm payrolls contract in February, hit by

healthcare strike; unemployment rate ticks up to 4.4%

Mar. 06, 2026 8:32 AM ETBy: Liz Kiesche, SA News Editor

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U.S. nonfarm payrolls dropped by 92K in February, compared with the +60K consensus and a sharp reversal from the 126K jobs added in January (revised from +130K), according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday.

Health care jobs, which have been a major driver of jobs growth in recent months, declined by 28K, reflecting strike activity.

• But that wasn't the sole cause of the weakness. Employment in information (-11K) and the federal government (-10K) continued their downward trend. Employment in social assistance increased by 9K, driven by individual and family services (+12K).

• The unemployment rate edged up to 4.4% from 4.3% in January and was in line with the 4.4% consensus.

• "The nonfarm payroll report was shockingly weaker than expected, with multiple sectors of the economy showing job contractions," said Michael Kramer of Mott Capital Management, Investing Group Leader for Reading The Markets.

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This Week's Payroll News Trending

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Tier 1 Must-Read Article(s) Of The Week (Clickable Links)

• 7 Reasons Businesses Switch From QuickBooks to Sage Intacct - CBIZ
• Don't let small business clients keep kicking the payroll can down the road
• isolved Named 2026 Lighthouse Tech Award Finalist for Best Talent Intelligence Solution
• McKee fires Department of Administration director after another payroll system debacle
• Modulr and HiBob partner on payroll automation - The Paypers

• Paycom Releases Automated Career and Succession Planning Tool - Yahoo Finance
• McKee fires Department of Administration director after another payroll system debacle
• Steak 'n Shake Drives Employee Loyalty with Bitcoin Compensation Program | Bitget News
• Yuma School HR Rep Admits $86K Payroll Scam - Hoodline 

Tier 2 Must-Read Article(s) Of The Week (Clickable Links)

• 5 HIPAA Security Rule Changes in 2026 and How to Prepare - CBIZ
• 5 Sales Tax Miscalculations Companies Commonly Make On Digital Products, SaaS ...
• Asure Hosting Fireside Chat on Its Latest Perspective on Artificial Intelligence
• Digits Announces Expanded Connectivity Across 18 Payroll Providers
• DynaFile Announces Paylocity Integration to Automate Secure Employee Document Management
• Greater Phoenix Small Businesses Gain Access to Controller-Level Bookkeeping Service in ...
• Insperity Celebrates 40 Years of Excellence - itemonline.com
• Tuition Reimbursement Market Is Dazzling Worldwide |Major Giants TriNet Group, Mercer
• Villa Group Now Offering Bookkeeping Services for Law Firms and Small Businesses in San ...

ADP Article(s) Of The Week (Clickable Links)

• ADP data show the US four-week average employment change at 15.5K, up from 12.8K

Paychex Article(s) Of The Week (Clickable Links)

• Paychex (PAYX) Unveils AI-Driven Workforce Management Tools for Paycor and Flex Platforms
• Paychex Wins Two 2026 Lighthouse Tech Awards
• Will Paychex's (PAYX) New AI HR Tools Quietly Redefine Its Long-Term Tech Edge?

IRS Updates (Clickable Links)

• IRS Flags Phishing, Impersonation in 2026 Dirty Dozen; Experts Explain Why Payroll Is a ...

Payroll News Trending (Clickable Links)

• Company Sends Their Employee's Paycheck Almost A Week Late Every Time, So ... - TwistedSifter
• CT homecare workers receive $1M settlement after complaints about missing, and delayed pa...
• Employers cut 92K jobs, including 1.4K in accounting
• Measure to block Wyoming public employee payroll deductions for union fees heads to ... - WyoFile
• Minnesota State's new software system costs $50 million more than initially approved
• Morgan Stanley Cuts Payroll, Including In Wealth Division – Report
• My new employer already missed payroll twice and now I'm panicking because my family is ...
• Payroll Mistakes Add Up: Pizza Company Pays $409K to 32 Workers
• Wage Theft Settlement: Luxury Car Wash Pays $1.2M - HR Morning

Internal Payroll/Accounting Embezzlement News (Clickable Links)

• Former Yuma school district employee pleads guilty to stealing $86,000 - KJZZ

 Internal Payroll/Worker’s Comp Fraud News (Clickable Links)

• Southern California Tow Company Owners Arrested in $5.9 Million Workers' Compensation ...

Cyberattacks, Payroll Scams, And Cyberattack News (Clickable Links)

• Survey: Americans Are Increasingly Entangled in Financial Scams—and AI is Contributing to ...
• Yuma School HR Rep Admits $86K Payroll Scam - Hoodline
• Detroit man accused of running multi-state ID fraud ring linked to $200K+ in losses

Payroll Service, Accountant, And Bookkeeper Fraud News (Clickable Links)

• A Tax Preparer Went to Prison for a $4.3M Scam. She's Now Charged in a New $5.5M ...

International Payroll & Payroll Fraud News Trending (Clickable Links)

• Deel's guide to scaling workforces in Australia and Singapore | Human Resources Director 

Newsworthy Articles

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Educational Articles To Read And Share (Clickable Links)

• Key facts: Bitcoin targets $71800; may exceed $100000; Strike gains licenses
• New Yorkers can now pay mortgage with Bitcoin - Yahoo Finance
• Only 13% of emails sent worldwide were actually written by humans - TechRadar
• Retail sales unexpectedly declined in January | News | waaytv.com 

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