Six ways to get more referrals from your financial advisory clients
Building a strong relationship with your clients beyond managing their money and speaking about their finances can be one of the most critical components to growing your practice.
Small gestures of appreciation can have a significant impact. By sending anniversary emails, hosting client-specific events, encouraging social media connections, producing monthly video updates, organizing webinars and educational events, and sharing regular newsletters, you can maintain a more robust connection with your clients without much hassle. These efforts show you care and help your clients trust you more, keeping them loyal to you over the long-term.
How to improve the quality of your client referrals received
This blog post explores the importance of improving referral quality for financial advisors. While receiving referrals is typically viewed positively, advisors often encounter referrals that don't align with their target client profile or fail to convert into actual clients. The post highlights three key factors contributing to this issue. Firstly, the lack of clarity on the advisor's niche market, emphasizing the need for a specific and well-defined ideal client. Secondly, referrals driven by niceness rather than suitability, necessitating client education on making appropriate referrals. Lastly, the importance of strong sales coaching and consultative skills to effectively convert referrals into clients. Addressing these factors can optimize referral processes, attract ideal clients, and foster business growth.
Conquering the Cocktail Party: Six Steps for Effortless Mingling
Networking is crucial for career development and business growth. Mastering networking skills leads to valuable connections and opportunities. Strategies include making connections during introductions, confidently approaching groups, excelling at small talk, avoiding controversial topics, and knowing when to move on.
Use Gamification with Your Clients and Team for More Growth
Gamification is a powerful tool that can enhance performance and growth in finance, law, and accounting. By applying game mechanics to non-game contexts, it drives engagement and motivation. This article highlights the benefits of gamification and offers five strategies for financial and legal professionals to implement. These strategies include referral contests, financial education quizzes, thought leadership contests, and more. Gamification can increase engagement, improve knowledge retention, foster collaboration, provide real-time feedback, and support continuous learning and development. By embracing gamification, professionals can create an exciting and dynamic workplace culture while empowering their teams to succeed.
Best questions to ask your team during your sales/pipeline review meetings
Salary and Compensation Rates at Family Offices and RIA's
Wealth Management Firms: Different Compensation Structures for Your "Sales" Team
Should You Hire an External CEO as Your Succession Plan?
5 Client Segmentation Structures to Revolutionize Your Advisory Practice
Feeling overwhelmed about the lack of categorization and organization in your client base? Given two finite resources, time and labor, as an RIA, wirehouse advisor or tax advisor, it’s important to put clear lines between the types of clients you serve and want to acquire, the service quality you provide to each, and your fee plans.
Why now is the most crucial time for advisors to send out a Net Promoter Score (NPS) Survey
Unique and Different Fee Structures Financial Advisors Can Embrace for Their Practice
Tired of the old-fashioned fee-based model for charging your clients, where you charge a percentage on the assets that you manage? Are you losing opportunities because some prospects just want to pick your brain without giving you all their assets to manage? It may be time to revisit your fee structure and come up with unique pricing models for your RIA and wealth management practice. In this article we discuss 10 unique pricing and fee structures for RIAs.
Social Media for Investment Advisors and Wealth Managers
Financial Advisor Marketing and Branding Solutions
Investors are Feeling a Case of the Ostrich Effect...why that's bad for business
Bedside Manners: One of the biggest skills you can gain in your career
Have you ever heard of the term “bedside manners” when it comes to doctors? We all know that we don’t want our doctor to just know how to do his job right; we want him to communicate with us and help us feel better emotionally. This is what we call “Soft Skills,” and we can all benefit from it to stand out in our profession.
The most critical Soft Skills for more people to trust you
There are some people in this world you have never met but somehow deem as trustworthy. For each of us, that person is different. But what are the skills these people have to make so many people trust them, even though we have never met them? In this article we disclose some of those top skills, which you can develop as well!
Which personality test is best for my team and company goals?
You’ve heard about Big Five, DiSC, HEXACO, Myers-Briggs, StrengthFinder, Eysenck and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality. In this article we will share with you our favorite personality test for leadership and sales, which is none of these, and how it can help you make critical decisions around your business.
