“What’s Trending 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. New Planner Recruiting shares salary data from their latest new financial planner compensation survey [Podcast]: “The average expected salary for a Paraplanner, and by Paraplanner we mean someone with 0-2 years of experience, a new entrant into the profession, probably completed the CFP coursework or is in progress to do that. We saw low $60’s. $63,241 is the number we came out with. For an Associate Planner, this is someone in that 2 to 5 years of experience, probably passed the…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (December 10-11, 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. Taylor Schulte on the one marketing mistake to avoid in 2023, how to think about repurposing marketing content, the importance of user expectations with social media platforms, and more [Podcast]: “As we head into the year end and finalize our marketing plans for 2023 and beyond, I just wanted to spend a little time talking today about one big marketing mistake for all of us to avoid. I receive and respond to hundreds of emails and direct messages from advisors every,…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (September 24-25, 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. Treyton DeVore shares the content repurposing routine that led to AllStreet Wealth’s extraordinary growth, the efficiencies he’s experienced from iterating niches, and more [Podcast]: “You still have to be conscious of quality, but you can’t let perfection stop you from putting out content either. You’re going to get better over time. You just have to balance between ‘Am I getting better and is this working?’ and ‘Do I actually need to pivot and do something else?’ … That stuff is super,…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (June 18-19, 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. How Rianka Dorsainvil differentiates her firm, her definition of advisor alpha, and how authenticity actually creates a competitive advantage [Video]: Rianka Dorsainvil On How Advisors Can Stand Out From The Crowd [Matt Ackerman, Integrated Partners] Adam Cmejla on gaining conviction from becoming highly specialized [Podcast]: “The amount of additional information that we as a firm know about optometry isn’t an excessive amount of information, but it’s the right amount of information that makes all the difference in the world for our…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (December 11-12, 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. Bob Veres summarizes the recently-authored book A Matter Of Time on a dynamic, hourly revenue model. The book dispels many objections and myths and Veres suggests the model as a path to developing financial planning into a profession [Article]: “The next set of objections that the book characterizes as myths are at the core of why most advisors gravitated to AUM rather than an hourly model in the first place. The first (I’m paraphrasing here) is that with hourly, the professional…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (September 25-26, 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. Xena Financial Planning founder and financial advisor Danika Waddell shares the blueprint behind her extraordinary growth including [Podcast with Transcript]: What she attributes to gaining 60 clients in her first 12 months When she chose to hire a business coach How she has built her support team And more… “So actually creating some of the workflows and things like that, it’s just not my natural ability, so I hired somebody really early on that, you know, is a business coach, but…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (July 24-25, 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. WealthVoice founder Emily Binder on [Video or Podcast]: leveraging emerging technology to develop deeper client relationships and prospective client engagement while becoming more efficient the distinctions between branding versus sales and features versus benefits the importance of social media marketing and how to get started How To Better Connect With Clients Through Emerging Technology [Dasarte Yarnway, The Human Advisor] A framework for resetting client expectations (using delegating email as an example) [Podcast]: “And so as with email and everything else, we…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (March 27-28, 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. Define Financial’s Taylor Schulte explains how to improve your website’s user experience (UX) before Google’s new SEO ranking signal rolls out in May, why UX is important even to those who rely on non-digital/traditional marketing tactics, and three ways to improve your website’s UX with minimal effort [Podcast: 47-minutes]: “Simply put, if Google determines your web page users are having a bad experience online, then your organic search traffic is likely going to suffer. … UX is still wildly important –…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (November 21-22, 2020)
“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 Advisor of Tomorrow” podcast guest TJ van Gerven shares lessons learned after launching a firm from scratch, including prioritizing building systems and processes, maintaining confidence during slow times, and being strategic with social media: [Video and Podcast]: “Focusing on processes and systems early on – even when you have that free time – because, like you said, you need to build it for 3-4 years down the road. It’s just hard. It’s easy to say what you should do in…
