Why now is the most crucial time for advisors to send out a Net Promoter Score (NPS) Survey
Best questions to ask your team during your sales/pipeline review meetings
Managing a sales team, or developing a new one, can be frustrating, especially if you don’t know how to best coach your team around sales to develop their pipeline. In this article, we’ve outlined 10 questions to help shape your meetings for better outcome. Learn why we are the best sales training firm for advisory firms and wealth management RIAs
The Most Private of Private Members' Clubs
Salary and Compensation Rates at Family Offices and RIA's
How to Motivate Advisor Teams With Creative Compensation (Comp) Structures: Amy in Barron's Podcast
Amy Parvaneh was recently published in Barron’s, and recorded for Barron’s Advisor Podcast, about compensation and pay packages that are most suitable for advisory teams and firms around business development. In the recording, she discusses the downfalls of the traditional revenue split, and how to best align your team’s roles and responsibilities (including around business development) with their personality.
Wealth Management Firms: Different Compensation Structures for Your "Sales" Team
Should You Rename Your Advisory Practice?
Choosing a name for your practice should not be taken lightly. Name ideas for a wealth management practice are aplenty, but most advisors seem to lean towards the same style and approach, which can be hurting them in the long run. Read this about the art of naming a new or existing advisory practice!
Sports Sponsorships for Financial Businesses: What Are the Key Considerations?
Advisory firms are always seeking ways to expand their brand recognition. One avenue that deserves series consideration is Sports Sponsorships and Marketing. This article discusses how sports sponsorships can help you reach a major new category of eyeballs, but is it always worth it? Let’s find out!
Should you add a Family Office to your wealth management firm?
In this video, I discuss the future of the wealth management arena given the advent of AI, as well as discuss how wealth management firms can take advantage of adding Family Office services to their practice. What are family office services beyond investing, tax and legal? What other services should you add to your wealth management firm to truly stand apart from the competition?
How to embrace Succession’s "Quiet Luxury" for your Branding and Marketing
Pros and Cons of an Outsourced Chief Marketing Expert for Financial and Legal Firms
In this article we provide answers to your questions such as: Should you have someone in-house, or should you outsource the role of a marketing for your firm? Do you need a marketing strategist, a CMO, a brand strategist, or something in between? What exactly do you need, and should this person be in-house or external? What to look for in a CMO?
Should You Hire an External CEO as Your Succession Plan?
5 Client Segmentation Structures to Revolutionize Your Advisory Practice
Feeling overwhelmed about the lack of categorization and organization in your client base? Given two finite resources, time and labor, as an RIA, wirehouse advisor or tax advisor, it’s important to put clear lines between the types of clients you serve and want to acquire, the service quality you provide to each, and your fee plans.
Unique and Different Fee Structures Financial Advisors Can Embrace for Their Practice
Tired of the old-fashioned fee-based model for charging your clients, where you charge a percentage on the assets that you manage? Are you losing opportunities because some prospects just want to pick your brain without giving you all their assets to manage? It may be time to revisit your fee structure and come up with unique pricing models for your RIA and wealth management practice. In this article we discuss 10 unique pricing and fee structures for RIAs.
As seen in Kitces: Why The Best Sales Training Approach Depends On Your Unique Sales Personality Style
Read our latest white paper published on the Michael Kitces website. Sales training programs should be designed around an advisor’s specific personality type. Learn about the three Consultative Sales Personalities our firm has identified, and specific strategies each of those personality types can employ to turn your unique challenges into business development advantages.
Social Media for Investment Advisors and Wealth Managers
Financial Advisor Marketing and Branding Solutions
Investors are Feeling a Case of the Ostrich Effect...why that's bad for business
10 U.S Based Billionaires You’ve Never Heard of!
There are over 1,035 billionaires in North America alone, accounting for 31% of the Global Billionaire Population. Who are they, and how can you get in front of more of them? This article talks about the billionaire community, as well as lists 10 billionaires most of us have not heard about. Getting a billionaire as a client can be a career-maker, so become a student of this niche sooner than later!