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    Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (November 12-13, 2022)

    November 13, 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. Ben Carlson with the most important skill for success in the industry [Article]: “The most important skill in finance has nothing to do with math. Creating the best discounted cash flow models in the world won’t help you raise assets from prospective clients. No one really cares about your Microsoft Excel skills if you can’t explain what they’re good for.” The Most Important Skill in Finance [Ben Carlson, A Wealth Of Common Sense] Haystack Financial Planning founder Matthew Ricks’ origin story…

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    Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (October 1-2, 2022)

    October 2, 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. Herbers and Company founder Angie Herbers shares the two biggest communication skills to set yourself apart from others, what firms are looking for in new hires, and more [Podcast]: “First, a lot of hiring firms will take them seriously even though they don’t have a lot of experience. From Herbers and Company’s perspective, there are lots of opportunities out there for new advisors who have no experience. To gain that experience, though, you’ve got to get boots on the ground. You’ve…

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    Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (September 3-5, 2022)

    September 5, 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. Michael Kitces, Carl Richards, and Bill Bachrach on communicating your fees to prospective clients: describing your value, framing your fees, and more [Article]: Kitces: “‘Show me a prospect meeting where the prospect talked 80% of the time and it’s a very high likelihood that they’re going to end [up] doing business’ with you ‘because, at the end of the day, if they feel like they got their stuff out there and they feel heard,’ that tends to work in the advisor’s…

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    Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (August 27-28, 2022)

    August 28, 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 shares website accessibility tips that also improve your SEO, advice on partially leaning on outsourced marketing providers, and more [Podcast]: “These things we reviewed also create a good foundation for learning how to optimize your content for SEO. They force us to focus on the user, to create a better experience, and be thoughtful about what we include in our content and how we present it to the reader.” Web Accessibility, SEO, And Email Marketing [Taylor Schulte, Experiments In…

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    Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (July 2-4, 2022)

    July 4, 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. Dr. Daniel Crosby and Rusty Vanneman cover a range of topics around market volatility including advisor self-care, communication processes, and behavioral considerations [Podcast]: The importance of putting on “your own oxygen mask first” A 5-part self-care framework for advisors Communicating your financial planning process’s benefits versus features And more… [Vanneman] “If you have a normal sequence of how you’re communicating with investors, and you’re sending out something special…let’s say you have your clients pretty well-trained. [They’re] thinking long-term and they try…

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    Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (April 30-May 1, 2022)

    May 1, 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. Brownlee Wealth Management’s Jared Machen shares his nontraditional career path, how he decided to partner with another advisor (versus start his own firm), and the drivers behind his firm’s growth from $14M to $67M of AUM in 2.5 years including [Podcast]: The importance of memorializing your client experience before adding to your tech stack When to begin thinking about developing operational infrastructure Brownlee Wealth’s content ecosystem and call-to-action philosophy And more… “It’s never too early to start. Business development gets all…

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    Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (January 22-23, 2022)

    January 23, 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. Onramp’s Caitlin Cook on the power of Twitter and the #FinTwit community [Video]: Why recording meetings to watch your own “game tape” is so important, how to boost buy-in from prospective and current clients, and more [Podcast]: “The opportunity today, that is totally underleveraged, and it’s due to technology, is the ability to observe yourself via game tape. So many professions make copious use of game tape from surgeons, to sports, to music, to otherwise. Why not us? That’s how you…

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    Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (January 8-9, 2022)

    January 9, 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. If you’re considering launching an RIA or any entrepreneurial project, Altruist’s Jason Wenk discusses “betting on yourself” with Dasarte Yarnway including [Podcast]: Re-thinking a definition of failure The importance of surrounding yourself with similarly-minded individuals Leveraging the advantages of entrepreneurship vs. established financial firms Altruist’s “cultural playbook” and three core values And more… “The most innovative people in the world have an abundance mindset. So, they’re not making decisions based on fear and so it’s not that scary to bet on…

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    Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (July 24-25, 2021)

    July 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 (July 17-18, 2021)

    July 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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