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How to Justify Your Value So Price Doesn't Matter
As the advisor industry continues to churn with speculation regarding the scope and extent of new forthcoming DOL guidance around the transparency of client fees, all...
How Much is that Advisor in the Window?
Perhaps more than any other industry, the financial advisory business is keenly attuned to benchmarks. You carefully watch major indices, craft investment portfolios to...
Durability, Profitability and Sustainability: What's the Difference?
These are perhaps the three most important benchmarks by which wealth management practice success is truly measured. Yet, many advisors struggle with drawing clear...
The 9 Elements in Every Successful Financial Advisor Business Plan
In our last blog, we focused on the turning of the calendar as an ideal opportunity to revisit your business plan, with an eye towards capturing more meaningful business...
Setting the Stage for a Strong 2016
While the final quarter of the year tends to be a hectic time, it’s a critically important time for your business. If you want to have a strong first quarter of 2016,...
Executing with Strategy
We’ve all heard that genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Clearly, Thomas Edison knew that achieving genius goes well beyond just...Financial Advisors: Questions to Enhance Your Succession Planning
It takes very disciplined thinking to fully consider your succession planning strategy. Often, succession planning is confused with continuity planning. While continuity...
Part I: Start Planning While You’re Still Growing
Succession planning is the buzzword of the year. People are discussing it in every office and reading about it in every publication, but so few of us are actually doing...
Top TED Talks for Financial Advisors & Leaders
After our last post on public speaking, we decided to seek out some of our favorite TED Talks. We were curious to see how the elements we advised were applied (or not)...
Your Financial Advisor Summer Checklist
Summer provides an excellent opportunity for financial advisors to work ON their businesses in addition to working IN their businesses. While many of your private...
Key CEO Behavior #26: Meaningful Individual Goals
Financial advisors work in financial services, but this doesn’t mean they are motivated entirely by finances… or at least it shouldn’t. Your work should have meaning to...
Part 2: 5 MORE Business Plan Elements Financial Advisors Must Consider
Last week we provided you with 5 items to cover, or at least consider, in your business plan for your financial advisory practice. These elements provide more of a...
Part I: Business Plan Elements Every Financial Advisor Must Cover
Sometimes a task that feels like back-tracking can actually give you the momentum to move forward. Our discussions surrounding succession planning have led many of you...
5 Keys to Reaching Team Goals And Having The Best Year Ever
Accomplishing Your Biggest Goals, which includes some really important points about the benefits of things like past failures, setting goals that seem unachievable, and...
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