Great financial advice isn’t about the money – it’s about something much more meaningful. Great advice is about taking clients to places they haven’t been. Great advice is about helping clients manage their un-manageable things. Unfortunately though, when it comes to...
Accuracy is critically important when documenting and showing clients the progress they’re making towards removing complexity and increasing certainty in their financial lives. Professional advice can save clients a lot of money in a short period of time through tax...
What’s your role? What do you do? How do you best describe your role when positioning what you do with clients, potential new prospects, or alliance partners? I’m especially interested to understand what you say in those first vital minutes of a meeting when you are...
There’s something about a burning smell that’s hard to ignore. Instinctively, that smell distracts us until we can locate the cause or origin. Which is why it’s SO important to address anything that might be ‘burning’ in the financial lives of our clients as soon as...
What do you reckon? Are those first five minutes of the advice conversation between adviser and client crucial? Or is that the time for good old-fashioned rapport building? In the past ‘advisers’ (or ‘product distributors’ or ‘salespeople’) focused those first five...