by Jim Stackpool | Jul 13, 2026 | Activity v Productivity, Benchmarks, Business Performance, Capacity-To-Serve, Competitive pressures, Complexity, Consequences, Goals, growth, Growth Stress, Hiring advisers, Hiring Team Members, Measures of Success, Productivity, stages of growth, Talent
Charmeon runs a $1.8m advice firm. She has just hired another junior adviser. Her plan: hit $3m by 2030. She left a big bank in 2018, starting with no clients. She is excited about her firm’s future. She has a great team, good clients, aligned centres of influence,...
by Jim Stackpool | Mar 9, 2026 | Best Interests, best practice, Brand Development, Business Performance, Business Planning, Capacity-To-Serve, Consultative Approach, dependency, Goals, Greater Good, growth, Growth Stress, Hiring advisers, Hiring Team Members, Leadership, Mindsets, Ongoing Relationships, Planning, Priorities, Professionalism, recruiting, Talent, Wealth Management, worth
Five years ago, Mark, a Canberra-based adviser, transformed his proposition and pricing. He doubled his average client fees from $6,500 to $13,500. He didn’t do this by engaging more of a high-net-worth market. His niche is mums and dads running their own small...
by Jim Stackpool | Aug 10, 2022 | Advice is not a Product, Brand Development, Business Performance, Business Planning, Career Management, Certainty Advice, Commoditisation, de-brief meeting, dependency, Engagements, future of advice, Future of Financial Advice, Leadership, Leverage, Methodical, Mindsets, perfectionism, Productivity, Quality Advice, Rugged Individualist, Separation of advice from product, Serve the Greater Good, stages of growth, Talent
The old fisherman with the summertime job running the rusty merry-go-round on Terrigal Beach taught me how to rig my fishing lines. He reckoned there was only one fishing knot I’d ever need – the locked half-blood knot. While my mates say I’m wasting money...
by Jim Stackpool | Jun 16, 2020 | Covid-19, Planning, Talent, Uncategorized, Uncertainty, value, Value of Advice, Value Proposition
My son is addicted to art. Big time. Turn your back on him and he’s sketching something, leaving trails of charcoal fingerprints in unlikely places, getting lost in his own space. Even since he was five, his art has been his bliss (and frustration). Is his work...
by Jim Stackpool | Feb 9, 2020 | Business Performance, Certainty Advice, Future of Financial Advice, Leadership, Mindsets, Professionalism, Success Stories, Successful On Purpose, Talent, Value of Advice, Value Proposition
“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...
by Jim Stackpool | Apr 14, 2014 | Leadership, Mindsets, Planning, Talent
Ready? Are we ever ready for new things? In retrospect, don’t all of our attempts at new things suck initially? Were you ready for your first child? Were you ready for your first ever client? Were you ready for your first ever employee? Were you ready for the...
