“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. ICYMI: Ritholtz Wealth Management advisor Blair duQuesnay shares her story about persevering through industry obstacles, aligning with a firm to optimize her strengths and financial planning philosophy, and evolving from her effective “chip on the shoulder” mentality to an even better approach: [Podcast with transcript]: “Being a top student in school always – the biggest shocker to me coming out of school was that your straight A’s don’t mean you’re going to be successful. That was like a real reality moment…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (October 24-25, 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. Improve your prospect conversion rate by clearly defining your prospect process, making it “haggle-free,” and showing you’re not a salesperson: “We had a pretty low conversion rate. So we had to make a change early on in what we were doing with people that were contacting us. So one of the first things that we did was we implemented a fee structure for our initial consultation. It was amazing when we did that two things happened: (1) we only got people…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (August 22-23, 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. Advisor Taylor Schulte’s origin story, perspectives on industry trends, and thoughts on advisor marketing (both digital and traditional): “In the past, when I was making these decisions to start my own business, I noticed I had kind of this entrepreneurial desire inside of me. I just was getting really tired of being told no by my employers and having to climb my way to yes. As you might know and as some people might find out, I’m kind of a creative…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (August 1-2, 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. XY Planning Network advisor Leslie Ransom changed careers as a 40-something, gained an internship, and now works as a paraplanner to help build the RIA she started from scratch: “I said alright I’m going to go be an intern at, I don’t know how old I was, 40-something. Plus, I needed the experience to order to be a CFP because you have to have a certain number of years of experience.” Jumping Careers In Her 40s And Building Confidence In The…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (January 31, 2020)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of podcasts, articles, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. *** With the start of a new year (and decade!), it’s a good time to rebrand the “Financial Planning Articles” series. With many of my links featuring podcast episodes and videos, “Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” better describes the content that I share in this series. This edition appropriately kicks off with two podcast episodes geared towards transitioning into the industry. From FPA Activate, the first is an interview between Hannah Moore and XY Planning Network’s Financial Planning and Process…
