“There’s so much opportunity for financial advisers in today’s market”. Samantha Albiez is Senior Adviser with Bravium, a self-licensed boutique advisory firm in downtown Braddon, Canberra. The firm specialises in SME owners, young families, busy professionals and...
What are the secrets to consistent and successful delivery of your most important client meetings? Firstly, rapport-building is over-rated. Whilst I agree that rapport provides a vital oil between all successful relationships, I reckon too many advisers use rapport...
In Part 1 of this series about the first five minutes of client meetings, I discussed the importance of “setting the context of the meeting” to effectively take control of important client engagement and progress meetings. The focus of Part 2 and second crucial...
Do your clients deserve the best you can offer? Remember your first clients? Remember how hard you worked to really excel and hopefully earn their trust and future work? Back then you knew shoddy or late work would not provide the opportunities to get off the...
You know that milk ad where the guy walks into his corner store asks the lady for milk? She blandly spiels out the multiple varieties of different milk. Having asked a simple question, the guy gets confused now not knowing which one is right for him. He just wants...
What is a ‘rich’ conversation? From my observations of firms that do them well, rich conversations differ from the majority of conversations in a number of ways. And they can be hard in the beginning. All of a sudden asking new (and existing) clients questions like...
