“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 discusses the processes behind his firm’s success and more [Podcast or Video]: How he ditched the typical printed financial plan deliverable and what he uses instead The steps he takes to set up “surge meetings” How he transitioned non-niche clients in a way that felt natural to him The ideal target market size that makes for a good niche Finding Your Financial Planning Niche With Taylor Schulte [Ross Marino, Shaping Change] Jerry Kauffman gives an overview of the “Entrepreneurial…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (July 31 – August 1, 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. Robert Cialdini’s new “unity” principle of persuasion and primers on “social proof” and “scarcity” for effective marketing [Podcast or Article]: “There was a study of 6,7000 e-commerce websites where they did A/B testing of various kinds of factors that were on the site and looked to see which were the most powerful in turning prospects into converts. They looked at 29 different factors. Some of them were economic like is there free delivery. Some of them were technological: is there a…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (June 26-27, 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. Angie Herbers shares the pivotal moments in her life and career, the “diamond team” concept, and more [Podcast: 81-minutes]: “I wanted to start a consulting business to help financial advisors, but the odds were very small. First, the market was very small. The average size advisory firm at that time $400,000 in revenue. They likely didn’t have a whole lot of money – this is what the story I was telling myself – they likely didn’t have a lot of money…