by Jim Stackpool | Dec 8, 2022 | Advice Conversations, advisers v distributors, Best Interests, Business Performance, Business Planning, Client Offerings, difficult conversations, Future of Financial Advice, Leadership, Measures of Success, Ongoing Relationships, perfectionism, Pricing Advice, Separation of advice from product, Successful On Purpose, What Price Value, worth
Listened to any of Pushkin’s podcasts? They pump out some great ones. A favourite is “The Happiness Lab”, which lives up to a promise showing how our brains are not always our best guides for our well-being or progress. Another one – “Against the Rules” – is just as...
by Jim Stackpool | Nov 24, 2022 | Advice is not a Product, best practice, Business Planning, Client Offerings, future of advice, Future of Financial Advice, Leadership, Mindsets, Pricing Advice, valuable advice, Value of Advice, Value Proposition, What Price Value
We’ve been looking at rural properties. One near Little Hartley looks special. Why? It sounds ridiculous, but it’s the driveway. It has a long, winding, tree-lined driveway lined with well-established liquid ambers. As you near the home, the trees open...
by Jim Stackpool | Jul 21, 2021 | Pricing Advice, Quote-To-Quote, Transformations, Transformative Advice, Uncategorized
Pre-covid, a client of mine was approached by one of their clients seeking assistance with a repatriation of business operations of a family member in Barcelona back to Australia. They sought to merge some of their fashion and textiles operations in Spain back to...
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 30, 2020 | Advice Clients, Certainty Advice, Client Offerings, Future of Financial Advice, Hayne Royal Commission, language, Pricing Advice, Royal Commission, Value Proposition
People don’t want more choices – they want to be more confident in the choices they make. Read NYU’s Professor Galloway’s musings? Easy read, makes sense, consistently clarifies some things for me. I’m presenting a model of advice in this blog. It’s for clients and...
