by Jim Stackpool | May 25, 2022 | Future of Financial Advice, Ideal Advice Client, Mindsets, Pricing Advice, Profitability, Quality Advice, Royal Commission, valuable advice, Valuations, value, Value of Advice, Value Proposition
During a pricing workshop last month at the Affinia conference on Hamilton Island (is that place the world capital for golf carts?), an adviser shared a fee problem. An aged care expert in his team could not reconcile charging an advice fee equivalent to the price of...
by Jim Stackpool | May 17, 2022 | Advice Clients, Financial Complexity, Financial Paths, future of advice, Future of Financial Advice, Greater Good, Leadership, Mindsets, Releasing Clients, Serve the Greater Good, Uncertainty, Value Proposition
I love planes. I firstly obtained a gliders license in an old Blanik soaring above Narromine in 1980. I qualified for my private fixed-wing pilot license in 1984 at Camden airport when paddocks and chicken sheds still surrounded it, and later a commercial helicopter...
by Jim Stackpool | May 4, 2022 | Advice Clients, Advice is not a Product, Business Performance, Business Planning, Client Care, Consultative Approach, Delivering Value, future of advice, Future of Financial Advice, Ideal Advice Client, Leadership, Mindsets, Quality Advice
I love Netflix. I understand why their shows have earned more Oscar nominations in recent times than all other studios combined. Considering how they have grown from just another DVD rental service to become the world’s largest creator and streamer of quality...
by Jim Stackpool | Apr 20, 2022 | Advice Clients, Future of Financial Advice, Leadership, Measures of Success, Mindsets, Priorities, stages of growth
I doubt there is such a thing as ‘the ideal advice client’. The continual changes in regulations, alliances, networks, competitions, suppliers and markets make a clear definition difficult. Internally too, a firm’s experience, expertise, systems, teams and existing...
by Jim Stackpool | Apr 12, 2022 | ASIC, Certainty Advice, Client Offerings, Corporations Act, fakeadvice, Financial Services and Credit Panel, Future of Financial Advice, Leadership, Public Good, valuable advice
Back in the late 1800s, sea passage had its perils. Unfortunately, some of the worse were man-made and systemic to the business of delivering cargo worldwide. The over-insured and over-loaded ‘Coffin Ships’ provided a rewarding alternative for villainous...
by Jim Stackpool | Apr 6, 2022 | Advice Clients, Advice Pods, Advice Pools, Business Performance, Business Planning, Career Management, future of advice, Future of Financial Advice, Hiring advisers, Hiring Team Members, Impact, Leadership, Leverage, Measures of Success, Ongoing Relationships, Planning, Productivity, Professionalism, Quality Advice, Successful On Purpose
Advice firms start like most things in life – tiny. Like parents and their newborns, tiny firms owe their early years to their founders. They grow client by client, either delivering value or not. The value deliverers attract more clients, service existing...
