How financial advisors can get more referrals from attorneys
Are you a financial advisor looking to get more referrals from attorneys and/or CPA’s? Or are you a CPA/attorney and looking for more referrals from financial advisors? Whichever camp you fall into, this interview can help!
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.
47% of your clients are waiting til you ask them for a referral
This interesting research paper from 2014 captures major insight into the behaviors and circumstances that would trigger wealthy clients to refer friends and colleagues to their wealth manager.
How to Build a 2024 Financial Advisor Marketing Plan?
Are you finding that your marketing and sales efforts are falling short of expectations, leaving you frustrated or surrounded by excuses? It's time to break free from the mundane routine and discover a more intentional approach to your growth efforts. This article outlines how, by first understanding the difference between a marketing strategy and a marketing plan.
2024 Prospecting Strategy for Financial Advisors: Build Your Trust Visibility
YOU and your clients believe you are trustworthy. But how can you prove that to those who don’t know you? Is there a benchmark for measuring your trust level against, so you can measure your stats and improve them if need be? We believe so, and we want to show you the building blocks around measuring “trust.”
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
Wealth Management Firms: Different Compensation Structures for Your "Sales" Team
What is considered Ultra High Net Worth? Let’s start with CentiMillionaires!
The phrase “ultra high net worth” has gotten diluted. What is considered ultra high net worth? This article discusses one category of UHNW and that’s the CentiMillionaire Club, people with over $100MM in investable assets. People you want to have as clients! Learn everything you need to know about them!
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.
As seen in Kitces: Why The Best Sales Training Approach Depends On Your Unique Sales Personality Style
Read our latest white paper published on the Michael Kitces website. Sales training programs should be designed around an advisor’s specific personality type. Learn about the three Consultative Sales Personalities our firm has identified, and specific strategies each of those personality types can employ to turn your unique challenges into business development advantages.
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
Why Competence Isn’t Enough to Set Yourself Apart in the Finance Industry
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!