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Jan 30, 2012
Financial Advisors – Protect Your Clients from Identity Theft
Financial advisors gain the trust of their clients by providing secure places to store client information. read more...
Jan 04, 2012
How to Earn Trust – Tell Your Potential Clients the Whole Truth Up Front
When talking with a potential client, a financial advisor needs to clearly reveal his or her profile of an ideal client, even the amount of financial assets required in order to qualify as one. read more...
Dec 28, 2011
The Top Ten Questions Clients Ask Financial Advisors and How to Answer Them
Learn simple answers for three of the top ten pivotal questions that potential clients have. read more...
Dec 21, 2011
Should You Call Yourself a Wealth Manager or a Trusted Financial Advisor?
When someone asks you, “What do you do?” reply with a description that sets you apart. read more...
Dec 14, 2011
The Question Financial Advisors Should Ask at the First Meeting with New Clients
There’s one important question you must ask your clients so that you, as their trusted advisor, can help them achieve their goals. read more...
Dec 12, 2011
How Trusted Advisors “Get It” So Their Clients Feel Understood
Walking in your clients’ shoes and defining how you solve their problems will make you trusted as a financial advisor. read more...
Dec 07, 2011
Five Characteristics that Make a Financial Advisor a Trusted Advisor
The quality of service that a financial organization provides is the measuring rod for establishing the difference. Here are five characteristics that make a financial advisor a Trusted Advisor. read more...
Nov 21, 2011
How to Really Convince Clients That They Need a Lifetime Financial Plan
Trustworthy financial advisors know how important it is for their clients to have a realistic and comprehensive written financial plan. But how can you speak with confidence if you don’t have one yourself? read more...
Mar 23, 2010
Complete the “Mental Shift”
How successful financial advisors can make the mind shift and capture what their Ideal Clients want. read more...
Mar 01, 2010
Does Compensation Skew Advice?
Is your business prepared if the U.S. Government were to begin actively regulating from that perspective? read more...
Feb 12, 2010
Advisor: What service should I offer my Non-Ideal Clients?
I realize Non-Ideal Clients are a distraction to the growth of my business, but what should I offer them as service until I no longer need survival clients? read more...
Jan 05, 2010
How Clients View Trusted Advisors versus Expert’s Recommendations - Part 2
You hear the term Trusted Advisor utilized a lot by financial advisors, but have you given thought to what the title means and what distinguishes a Trusted Advisor from a Financial Advisor, a Financial Planner, a “Wealth Manager,” or a Subject Matter Expert? I’m going to define Trusted Advisor from the clients’ perspective and will assign attributes to the term which I believe are implied or should be attached to the title. read more...
Jan 03, 2010
How Clients View Trusted Advisors versus Expert’s Recommendations - Part 1
You hear the term Trusted Advisor utilized a lot by financial advisors, but have you given thought to what the title means and what distinguishes a Trusted Advisor from a Financial Advisor, a Financial Planner, a “Wealth Manager,” or a Subject Matter Expert? I’m going to define Trusted Advisor from the clients’ perspective and will assign attributes to the term which I believe are implied or should be attached to the title. read more...
Oct 19, 2009
Advisor: How do you "politely disengage?"
Mark, how do you ACTUALLY disengage with a nice family with smaller assets? read more...
Aug 21, 2009
Survey responses continue to be valuable
PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENT TO THIS POST... and I'm thrilled with all the input, opinions, "cries for help" and candid insights coming from the survey we sent out to 863 financial advisors. read more...
Jul 19, 2009
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