“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 (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 (June 19-20, 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. Michael Kitces guests on the InvestmentNews podcast and covers: what factors contribute to a bonafide niche today (versus differentiators that are becoming ubiquitous) the actual driver of a shift away from the AUM model (and why it’s not a broken model) thoughts on cryptocurrencies [Podcast: 71-minutes]: “For any individual advisor, the question becomes: How are you going to be better than the competition to win more than your share? How are you going to be different than your competition to win…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (June 12-13, 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. Morningstar behavioral researcher Samantha Lamas shares studies showing: there may be a difference in what your clients say their goals are and their actual goals how to help clients better identify their actual goals how to communicate the value of behavioral coaching [Podcast: 86-minutes] “They discovered that there is indeed a gap that exists between the goals clients think they want and the goals they actually want. The goals that are truly relevant and important to them. For example, you may have a meeting with…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (June 5-6 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. Brian Portnoy explains “funded contentment,” the happiness equation, and how he defines the modern advisor [Video: 14-minutes]: How To Use A Purpose-Based Financial Planning Approach / Grow Episode 46 [Dasarte Yarnway, Altruist] Lessons from growing to $100 AUM in 4 years [Twitter thread]: Lessons From The Past 4 Years [Kyle Moore, Quarry Hill] How to “humanize” the sales process by personalizing “cold” emails with minimal time investment [Podcast: 53-minutes]: “You’re talking about the great sales mystery of over qualifying versus under…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (May 22-23 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. How to determine what “enough” looks like for you and your career [Podcast: 35-minutes]: “The idea of ‘enough’ is something that most financial advisors are talking about with their clients on a pretty regular basis. ‘How much should we be saving for retirement? And how much should be saving for our kid’s education?’ How much is enough both from a savings standpoint and also from an accumulation standpoint because what we’re trying to do as advisors is to deliver some level…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (May 8-9 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. How Thomas Kopelman picked up 5 new clients in about 6 months through his Instagram efforts and how he structures his fee model to make serving millennials profitable [Video: 22-minutes]: How To Utilize Instagram To Grow Your Business [Samantha Russell, Twenty Over Ten] The anatomy of an effective marketing funnel and the importance of “micro-commitments” [Podcast: 53-minutes]: “There is some large financial event that happens once every two years. So the goal [at the] top-of-funnel is not to move the money.…
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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…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (January 16-17, 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. Financial advisor marketing consultant Sara Grillo shares the one word that gets qualified prospects to say ‘yes’ [Article]: “When you want to persuade someone to do something, you have to show them the positive opposite of what they are doing. Instead of arguing or throwing confusing claptrap at them, help the person visualize a more positive scenario that is the result of behaving differently from how they are currently.” The One Word That Closes Prospects (Sara Grillo, Advisor Perspectives) ICYMI: Michael Kitces and Carl…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (December 12-13, 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. Cranbrook Wealth’s Casey Bear and Logan Ross on how to find your fit in the industry, being selective with offers, and the approach the two took to develop Ross into a lead advisor of 50 ultra-affluent clients by age 29 [Podcast]: “At first, I was extremely nervous. I think any 24-year-old would be. I just kept spiraling the snowball effect of working with one big family, then another, and another. Having Casey right there in front of me. He’d bring me…