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Advisor Social Media Use Grows, as Do the Different Ways It's Used

Added on November 2016 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: There’s no question that financial advisors are increasingly using social media platforms to communicate with current clients and to prospect for more, but exactly how they engage and how often depends in large part on their individual firms.

Many FAs Aren't Ready for the New DOL Rule

Added on November 2016 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: The Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule for retirement-account advisors, which takes effect in April next year, requires FAs to understand their books of business as never before.

LinkedIn + Facebook = Introductions²

Added on November 2016 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: Introductions are the most powerful form of word-of-mouth marketing. Our research on elite financial professionals and affluent investors continues to reinforce this fact. When one person intentionally introduces a service provider to someone they know, the credibility transfer speeds up the entire sales process.

Thank Technology for Work-Life Integration, Not Balance

Added on October 2016 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: Much of my time is spent helping firms maximize operations, processes and technology at all organizational levels. The desire to maintain balance begins on a personal level and must work its way to the professional level. To put this in better perspective, here are some ways technology has transformed work-life balance into work-life integration.

Adopting Tech is Key to Growing Advice Practice — But It Doesn't Always Work

Added on October 2016 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: Advisors who use technology platforms such as client portals and client relationship management systems manage almost 40% more in assets than their tech-averse competitors, according to a Fidelity Clearing and Custody adviser survey cited by InvestmentNews. They also have 55% more clients, according to the survey.

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