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Taking Your Clients' Advice To Improve Your Advisory Firm's Services

From WealthManagement.com
Added on November 2016 in Other Ideas
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Summary: Financial advisors who start their own firms, like so many other entrepreneurs, are driven by a vision of how clients should be served, and then build a business to deliver those services. If the vision is a good reflection of what people really do want, and is well executed, the business is rewarded with success and growth.

Make Hiring a Priority or Get Left Behind

From Cruz Consulting Group
Added on November 2016 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: The success of your business is largely in the hands of the people who work for you, and the relationship you and your team have with your clients is in essence your business’ secret sauce. It follows then that one of the most important decisions you can make — a decision that has lasting impact on the long-term success of your business — is who you choose to hire.

Succession Planning and the New Fiduciary Rule

From Barron's
Added on November 2016 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: As we draw closer to the effective date of the Labor Department’s fiduciary rule in April, I’m astonished at how the nitty-gritty aspects of complying with the rule—such as how to define a client’s best interest, and which actions are considered conflicts of interest—are distracting from the bigger picture.

6 Sales Prospects You Don't Want To Waste Your Time With

From IRIS
Added on November 2016 in Other Ideas
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Summary: Did you ever have a call with a prospect where you just came away with this really bad feeling ? And in spite of that ominous feeling, you just continued to chase the deal anyway ? Did it go anywhere ? And if it did, did that prospect turn out to be a great client ?

Managing Client Reactions to the Election Results

From WealthManagement.com
Added on November 2016 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: Transitions always trigger grief, because they require leaving behind something known and moving into the unknown. A presidential election is no exception. The results are particularly volatile this year because half of the people in this country voted for Hillary Clinton and half voted for Donald Trump. Consequently, no matter the final outcome, half of the citizenry is destined to grieve.  

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