by Jim Stackpool | Jun 1, 2021 | Client Offerings, Fee For Service, Ongoing Relationships, Pricing Advice, Uncategorized, Value Proposition
Access Price is similar to the fees I pay each year to my golf club. Regardless if I play once a year or multiple times a year, I need to pay this fee to gain access to the club, course and facilities. The access fee does not provide for lessons, special competition...
by Jim Stackpool | Jan 20, 2021 | Advice Clients, Business Performance, Business Planning, Client Offerings, Consultative Approach, Fee For Service, Pricing Advice, value, Value of Advice
Imagine a hole-buyer and a hole-digger met at the local hotel to discuss a much-sought-after hole. After a few drinks, the job is agreed with the digger starting as soon as possible. Next day the digger is on-site unloading the digging gear out the back of the digging...
by Jim Stackpool | Jan 21, 2020 | Advice Clients, Best Interests, Client Care, Client Offerings, Fee For Service, Future of Financial Advice, Pricing Advice, Value of Advice, Value Proposition
When’s the last time you paid a fair & reasonable price for something? This morning’s coffee? When you last filled your car? Your last holiday? Your special person’s Christmas present? Your donation to a bushfire cause? We make fair & reasonable decisions all...
by Jim Stackpool | Oct 17, 2019 | Best Interests, Certainty Advice, Consultative Approach, Fee For Service, Future of Financial Advice, Hayne Royal Commission, Leadership, Professionalism, Value of Advice, Value Proposition
When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection. Daniel...
by Jim Stackpool | Mar 27, 2019 | Best Interests, Fee For Service, Value Proposition, Wealth Management
Remember how we used to buy memories? We’d buy some film for our camera. While we don’t buy film anymore, we still value memories. In fact, we value and share memories more than ever – about 300 million photos uploaded every day. That growth wasn’t anticipated,...
by Jim Stackpool | Mar 3, 2019 | Conflict of Interest, Fee For Service, Hayne Royal Commission, No-Advice Products, Pricing Advice, Professionalism, Value Proposition
The Chinese-based Huawei Group seems to be conflicted. Despite being recognised as a world-leader in forth-coming 5G telecom technology, western countries are reticent to trust them to advise, build, and maintain their future data highways. Similarly, Robert Muller’s...
