Every broker has heard a story like this one. Recently, Tom Mingone, a financial planner in New City, N.Y., got a call from a new prospect. The man, a successful entrepreneur in his late 40s, had sold his sanitation business for $1 million and...
The truth about sales assistants: They are far more than "the help." Sales assistants have taken on more responsibilities than ever, including maintaining warm relations with clients. Our annual survey of sales assistants takes the measure of an...
No doubt you see lists of the best of this or that on the covers of nearly every magazine. What distinguishes our cover package, The Best: America's Top Brokers, is the breadth of the survey and the rigor used to figure out the rankings. R.J...
A third of our broker compensation survey respondents say their earnings fell by 10 percent to 40 percent in 2001. Still, the respondents remained optimistic for 2002. Crazy optimists or pragmatic realists?
Outstanding brokers make more than money, but it's how they do it that counts. The best brokers really care about their clients.