What best practices can financial professionals use to market their practice and accelerate their business growth? We review multi-channel solutions that are gaining visibility today for wealth professionals, RIAs and more.
Myrtle Beach: "Your research on the affluent cites personal service as one of the top criteria impacting client loyalty," said Holly, who then posed an excellent question, "but isn't this rather basic? You would think every advisor strives to...
Jack spent the last 45 minutes of his day watching someone from his home office around citing firm research that showed that 90 percent of the firm's clients would be happy to provide referrals if their advisors would only ask.
Las Vegas: "Is it possible to make a lot of money, run in affluent circles, and still be somewhat intimidated about approaching people for business?" asked Larry as we began our first break at one of our Rainmaker Weekends...
Client loyalty has become a key issue within the financial services industry. Finally it appears to have replaced the tired old "client satisfaction" standard for measuring client relationships
If you’re like most registered reps these days, you’ve got some portion of your clients in a fee-based compensation arrangement. And, no doubt, you’ve been selling yourself as a full-service, top-to-bottom “financial...
Last November, Michael Domingo and his partner, John Hetzel, launched their own advisory firm in Dallas with their eyes on an unusual prize: 20-somethings without a lot of assets. Domingo, 36, and Hetzel, 30, had both spent about five years with...
Phoenix: "I think it's time that we focus on growing the practice" stated Mark. "We do a great job for our clients, we have good policies and procedures, and last year we focused on upgrading and transitioning our clients to where we were truly...
As the first quarter of 2007 draws to a close, it's a good time to revisit your business plan: those goals you established at the end of last year, the commitment you made to turn 2007 into Your Year of Greatness (as I urged you to do in my...
Rich kids are a little bit smarter about money than you might think, a recent survey from PNC Wealth Management suggests. But they still have a long way to go in developing healthy earning, saving and investing habits, the survey showed. Often...