“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. Buckingham Wealth Partner’s Chief Planning Officer Jeff Levine shares [Podcast with Transcript]: New income tax planning opportunities in 2023 The 2 primary principles of tax planning A review of the inherited IRA rules How to reduce RMDs And more… “The other thing I would say is that a low-income year is a terrible thing to waste. Sometimes I hear people say, ‘I had almost no tax bill this year.’ And I look, and I say, ‘I’m so sorry.’ If you’ve done…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (November 26-27, 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. Mitlin Financial founder Larry Sprung shares his career journey to his current RIA, what boosted his marketing results and shortened his sales cycle, and what he’s working on next to improve his marketing [Podcast]: “People want to do business with people they like, trust, know, and they want to be around. Their values align. This was something I always talked about and she said, ‘Why aren’t you doing that on social media? Why aren’t you putting the authentic you out there?’…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (October 22-23, 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. Sensible Money founder and CEO Dana Anspach shares her origin story and covers a range of retirement planning topics including [Podcast]: Her all-weather portfolio approach and why she relies on individual bonds instead of bond funds Factors to consider when making the mortgage pay-off decision Her process and philosophy behind long-term care planning When she recommends using annuities And more… “It started with a focus on what we all call sequence risk—how do you build and design portfolios that can help…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (September 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. Thomas Kopelman and Treyton Devore reflect on their exceptional first year in business and cover a wide range of underlying principles and tactics including [Podcast]: The importance of planning and prioritizing every touchpoint in your client experience Auditing activities to recognize which give you energy Outsourcing early And more… “Now an assistant is going to be starting in October because, sure I could make $30,000 more a year if I didn’t hire those roles, but also I couldn’t scale at one…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (August 27-28, 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 23-24, 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. Why Samuel Deane narrowed his niche, the importance of conducting “user interviews,” his 5-step inbound content marketing framework, and more [Podcast]: “I didn’t spend a ton of time in the industry, so I didn’t go through like any extensive sales training or anything like that. So, I am not someone who likes rejection. Yes, I’m an entrepreneur, and yes I take risks and those sorts of things, but I would much rather ‘put my brain on the Internet’ and let people…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (April 9-10, 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 his top marketing strategy for advisors and provides a framework for setting proper expectations for each stage of your marketing funnel [Podcast]: “It would take 12+ months and potentially thousands of dollars, depending on her skill set and expertise and willingness to learn, to rank for hyper-specific keywords that her ideal client is typing into Google. That’s likely not the answer that Jess is looking for. It might also take 2-3 years for her to launch a podcast…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (February 12-13, 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. Ric Edelman and Steve Sanduski on how to future-proof your practice in light of exponential technologies, increasing longevity, blockchain, and more [Podcast or Video]: “The medical scientists, technologists, physicists, and researchers are all showing us that we are not only living longer than ever, the life expectancy now is about age 88, but life expectancy is growing. We’re adding about a month a year to our life expectancy. By 2035, we’ll be adding a year a year, which means every year…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (January 22-23, 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 1-2, 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. ICYMI: Michael Kitces and Carl Richards discuss “impostor syndrome” including [Podcast or Video]: Why impostor syndrome matters and a common definition Recognizing incremental expertise is all that is required How impostor syndrome correlates to opportunities How to deal with impostor syndrome “Michael: The part that has stuck for me was someone who had said, ‘Just remember, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.’ You don’t have to know more than anyone in the world. Because the leading…
