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How Financial Advisors Can Lever the Fiduciary Standard
You may have seen this provocative article in this past weekend’s NY Times, “A Fancy Financial Adviser Title Does Not Ensure High Standards”.
How Financial Advisors Use Client Surveys to Transform Their Business
Marketers have long known that Client Surveys are a good thing. They are an effective tool that positively influences customers and clients.
MSSB Financial Advisors Embrace Digital Marketing: Where are You?
Following a pilot program that gave 600 financial advisors access to Twitter and LinkedIn, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney has taken the training wheels off and gave...
5 Steps for Financial Advisors to Identify their Ideal Client Type
Many top-performing financial advisors demonstrate the ability to identify and refine what we, at ClientWise, call the ideal client type. This is a targeted demographic...
43 Must Read Books for Successful Financial Advisors
Read any good books lately?
Financial Advisors: Are You Stuck on the Tracks?
“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there”…Will Rogers Procrastination is not a new problem. In the mid-1800’s, French author Victor...
Financial Advisors! 5 Clues That Your Networking is Not-Working
Networking is one of those activities that a lot of people do…poorly. Hardly surprising! There’s something vaguely intimidating about entering a room full of strange...
Financial Advisors: Ask a Question. Change a Life.
Powerful questioning – the ability to ask questions that reveal information necessary to provide maximum benefit for the client in the coaching relationship – is one of...3 Tips for How Financial Advisors Can Serve Up a Fresh, New Website
For financial advisors, a website is the gateway to your practice for potential clients. An interesting, informative website serves to welcome potential clients and help...
Financial Advisors: Do you really want to “pitch” your clients?
I subscribe to SmartBrief, a service that I find very valuable. The company is on a mission to “save you time and keep you smart.” (Great value proposition, btw.) Each...