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Summary: When it comes to considering, or reconsidering, a revenue model for your firm, the first question you should ask yourself is “What do I do for my clients?” Now, as you read this, you may find yourself thinking, “I know what I do for clients – and they know that I add value. Otherwise they wouldn’t continue to be clients.”
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Summary: Quad Cities Investment Group was ready to rev up marketing but wasn't sure how best to begin. The RIA firm, based in Davenport, Iowa, was created in 2009 when partners Scott Stoltenberg and Laura Swift left the wirehouse firm where they had worked together for nearly 10 years. The first few years they focused on ensuring everything was in place for their clients, and in 2013 they brought on another partner, Christine McElvania. In their first seven years, with minimal marketing efforts, their assets under management rose from $85 million to $150 million
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Summary: This is the time of year when we make promises to ourselves. Eat right. Exercise more. Get organized. Many of us fail to achieve our goals, but I am going to take a risk by publishing my technology resolutions for 2016 to hold myself accountable for truly accomplishing them.
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Summary: The way people communicate and do business is changing, and many advisors have looked to social media as a great opportunity to meet people and share influence. They’ve also seen it as a swamp full of traps and possibly a compliance nightmare. Many still wonder how best to use it.
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Summary: People do business with people they know, like and trust. Take a step back and think about that for a second… your clients and prospects should KNOW you (we covered that in part one). Hopefully they LIKE you, but above all do they TRUST you? Trust doesn’t happen automatically and trust is fragile.
