“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. Stacking Benjamins Joe Saul-Sehy covers a wide range of interesting topics including [Podcast]: The unique way he positioned the Stacking Benjamins podcast The counterintuitive reason why clients fire their advisors The logic behind Joe’s client visualization exercise And more… “It was trial and error. When I was a financial planner, we would set up goals and then we would meet again next time and people weren’t even paying attention to those goals. It’s the same thing with New Year resolutions, right?……
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (May 14-15, 2022)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. Why to share your “Why” in your marketing [Article]: “People don’t share your vision if they merely know what you do or how you do it. They share your vision, and will follow you, if they know why you do what you do. ‘Why’ is your belief. ‘How’ is the action you undertake to realize your belief as you do your job. ‘What’ is the result of your actions; the financial plans you create, the solutions you provide, and the advice…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (February 26-27, 2022)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. Chequers Financial Management founding partner Megan Gorman and Buckingham’s Steven Atkinson cover a lot of interesting ground including [Podcast]: How she found her niche by leaning into her curiosity (and ignoring what she was “supposed” to be like) How Megan handles the “rejection” from prospective clients who ultimately go with another advisor Leaning into her clients’ definition of wealth to provide them with a sense of security And more… “I think early on in my career I had to come to…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (July 17-18, 2021)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. If you’re an overachiever looking for a way to boost your productivity or, alternatively, on the edge of burnout, 2X New York Times bestselling author Greg McKeown covers how to make your work feel “Effortless” [Podcast]: “What gradual pace can I sustain? So, once you’ve begun, you need to have not only lower bounds, for example, ‘every day I’m going to open my Google Doc that has my book manuscript in it.’ That’s the lower bound. But you also have to…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (April 10-11 2021)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. The trade-off between gathering more information from prospective clients versus a higher probability of gathering some information [Video: 2-minutes]: One Small Website Tweak For Massively Higher Conversions [Samantha Russell, Twenty Over Ten] The decision whether to hire for compliance or DIY, the most common compliance mistakes to avoid, and issues involved with content marketing [Video: 9-minutes]: How To Manage Compliance For Your Financial Firm [Dasarte Yarnway, Altruist] Related: A Running List Of Practical Pointers Under The New Marketing Rule, by Max…
