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Registered Rep. August 4, 2010 Anne Field	Listen To Your Clients You need to make sure you have your finger on your clients' pulse and an up-to-the-minute understanding of what they like -- and dislike -- about what you do. It's particularly important in the current climate of disillusionment, when clients are switching advisors right and left.
Registered Rep. May 19, 2010 Anne Field	The Art Of The Referral Everyone wants to win new business through referrals from clients and other associates. And why not? It's considerably more efficient than, say, running seminars or dialing for dollars and it produces infinitely "warmer" prospects.
Financial Planning May 1, 2011 John J. Bowen, Jr.	Going Private Private client events can have a sizable impact on the success of your practice-helping you build credibility with existing clients and attract new business. Yet many advisors overlook these events or conduct them poorly.
Registered Rep. September 25, 2014 Anne Field	Listening In Getting honest feedback helps you fine-tune your practice, fix mistakes and keep clients engaged.
Registered Rep. July 5, 2012 Anne Field	Central Casting for Prospects Clients tend to fall into classic types. Here's how to identify and woo a few common ones.
Investment Advisor June 2008 Dan Allison	Just Ask Them Consider using focus groups to sharpen your marketing efforts -- you might also gain some clients in the process.
Financial Planning July 1, 2011 John J. Bowen, Jr.	Consultation, Not Just Advice Financial advisors offer advice, of course, but they'd be much better off if they thought of themselves as consultants.
Investment Advisor September 2008 Mark Tibergien	The Bounty for Captain and Crew Does ownership of an advisory firm pay enough when rewards for employees are so high?
Investment Advisor October 2007 Julie Littlechild	Got a Minute? A big study finds that the best financial advisors are efficient in two different ways.
Investment Advisor June 2010 Angela Herbers	The Fast Track: American Standard Comp tables based on surveys of advisory firms won't help you find the right salary range for your firm if those firms are over- or underpaying.
Financial Planning April 1, 2008 John J Bowen	Referrals for the Asking The majority of advisors are ignoring one of the most effective, efficient and obvious sources for new referrals: their existing clients.
Investment Advisor March 2010 Angela Herbers	How to Poach Talent from Larger Firms The institutionalization of larger advisory firms gives smaller firms a tremendous recruiting advantage -- and opportunity.
Investment Advisor June 2006 Tibergien & Littlechild	Consider the Clients If you are one of the many who is thinking about buying, or merging, your book of business or a substantive advisory firm, no doubt you have thought about risk. Hint: it's the firm's clients who determine its true value. So talk to them.
Financial Planning September 1, 2008 John J Bowen Jr	Time to Say Goodbye Today's most successful advisors recognize a simple but powerful fact of business: It's better to work with a small number of great clients than to serve a huge base of clients who are only mediocre.
Financial Planning October 1, 2011 Yankee et al.	Big Help, Small Cost Whether you are a sole practitioner or a large firm with multiple advisors, a solid internship program can add significant value to the quality of work your business produces.
Financial Planning November 1, 2010 Julie Littlechild	Secrets of Referrals To crack the referral code, my firm, Advisor Impact, went to the one true source of insight on the topic: your clients.
Financial Planning June 1, 2008 Julie Littlechild	Is Loyalty Enough? When it comes to client relationships, though, client loyalty should not be the primary objective.
Registered Rep. October 12, 2011 Boswell & Nichols	You Seem Pretty New at This... There are a few areas that new advisors can control to help deemphasize their youth and inexperience.
Investment Advisor September 2010 Ray Sclafani	The High-Performance Coach: Ten Ways to Engage Clients Now, Part 1 How top advisors are re-engaging with clients at a tenuous time.
Investment Advisor September 2008 Adolf & Kodialam	Brick by Brick How to implement an active marketing program to compliment the traditional word-of-mouth method of finding new clients.
Investment Advisor August 2007 Robert F. Keane	Speaking Out Don't be shy about marketing yourself. You have a story to tell. The reality is that most financial advisors think marketing is a dirty word, but properly promoting yourself can bring you more of the types of clients that you want.
Registered Rep. April 23, 2015 Anne Field	How Long Should You Take to Land a Prospect? Most advisors have a process for bringing in potential new accounts -- a certain number of meetings, a series of topics to cover -- but many find the trickiest part of the chain is the final close.
Registered Rep. May 12, 2011 Matt Oechsli	7 Key Attributes of Top Assistants The increasing importance that the advisor-assistant relationship plays in the loyalty of today's affluent client prompted the Oechsli Institute to conduct a study on advisors and assistants. Here are the findings.
Registered Rep. December 25, 2012 Lauren Barack	Playing The Digital Dating Game A client's onboarding experience can affect how wiling they are to make referrals, and the faster a rep can sign one client, the quicker they can find more. New digital onboarding tools can help.
Investment Advisor November 2009 Angela Herbers	Marketing Is Everyone's Job Following are ideas for advisors to incorporate into their strategic marketing initiatives.
On Wall Street April 1, 2013 Lorie Konish	Five Questions with Matt Matrisian The director of practice management at Genworth Financial offers advisors tips on avoiding common blind spots.
Investment Advisor October 2010 Angela Herbers	Show Yourself the Money Advisors need to learn to pay themselves first
Investment Advisor March 2008 Angela Herbers	Words of Wisdom Keeping older professionals in the industry should be a priority. And if we don't do something to rectify this situation sooner rather than later, we face the prospect of watching the experience of a whole generation literally walk out the door.
On Wall Street July 1, 2009 Doug Dannemiller	Advisors Face Competition from Do-it-Yourselfers Advisors face growing competition from web-based retirement planning services catering to the do-it-yourself instincts of the baby boomers.
Investment Advisor August 2008 James J. Green	Standouts How financial advisors can use branding, marketing, PR, and new media to differentiate themselves.
Financial Planning December 1, 2008 Scott Schutte	Setting Yourself Apart The wave of retiring baby boomers in the coming years will pave the way for advisors who wish to move away from traditional investment management and focus on specialized financial planning and wealth management services.
Financial Advisor November 2008 John Knowlton	A Bigger Challenge A reasonable case can be made that the greatest challenge facing the financial advisory profession will be to attract, develop and retain qualified staff.
Investment Advisor April 2009 Mike Patton	Values Advisor The sixth in a series of first-person articles in which the author chronicles his own road to independence from employee advisor to fully independent RIA.
Financial Advisor July 2011 David Lawrence	The Mobile Advisor Is working without an office a viable business model?
Financial Planning December 1, 2010 Stephanie Bogan	Talking Back There is a strong argument that the very process of asking for feedback can help to build strong client relationships.
On Wall Street November 1, 2011 Elizabeth Wine	The Unfaithful Client Cheating on a financial advisor is a known, but frowned-upon client practice. But new research says that it has been gaining traction among high-net-worth households since the market turmoil began in 2008, with many clients bolstering their stable of advisors.
Financial Advisor November 2011 David Lawrence	The Mobile Advisor Revisited Advisors detail steps they are taking to make their practices more efficient.
Investment Advisor August 2006 Susan L. Hirshman	The Wealth Advisor: Lessons From the Best With a targeted client plan consisting of an integrated approach for client segmentation, actively pursuing referrals, and furthering meaningful client contact, financial advisors will be on their way to meeting their clients' financial needs.
Registered Rep. January 28, 2013 Anne Field	Grooming the Reluctant Apprentice A New Jersey advisor thought he had the perfect match for a junior partner, until she got cold feet about moving into the client spotlight. Our panel of experts helps them reconcile opposing goals.
Registered Rep. March 8, 2012 Boswell & Nichols	The 3-Step Process for Closing New Prospects Many advisors put a great deal of thought into how they'll find affluent prospects, but less on how they'll convert these prospects in to clients.
Registered Rep. December 4, 2012 Megan Leonhardt	(No) Experience Necessary When it comes to being a financial advisor, the more experience -- the more years you have on you -- the better, right? Not quite. A new study shows that firms should be cautious when bringing aboard advisors heavy on experience.
Registered Rep. April 1, 2012 Kristen French	Due Diligence: "Fee-Based" is a Four Letter Word for Financial Advisor Clients Do you use the term "fee-based" with clients and prospects? If so, well, don't.
Financial Planning December 1, 2009 John J. Bowen Jr.	Ten for 2010 Here are five steps that advisors can take right away, followed by five more that will help them position their practices for long-term success.
Financial Planning January 1, 2010 Donna Mitchell	Articulate Your Value A majority of financial advisory clients have been very satisfied with the performance of their providers since the onset of the financial crisis and market meltdown, but almost 10% of clients are neutral or dissatisfied.
Investment Advisor July 2007 Angela Herbers	Investing in Your Own Future Advisors who train their young professionals effectively can double the size of their practice in three years.
Registered Rep. May 1, 2005 Anne Field	Refer Madness When it comes to finding new business, referrals, of course, are the gold standard. What could be a more effective marketing tactic than having existing accounts or business associates urge their own network of friends, family and clients to seek you out?
Registered Rep. December 9, 2010 Diana Britton	Clients Aren't Pulling Trigger On Referrals, Survey Says While most clients say they are ready and willing to provide a referral for their financial advisors, many of them are not actually following through on it.
Investment Advisor September 2008 Bob Clark	Who's Your Daddy? Philip Palaveev's new gig as president of Fusion Advisor Network foreshadows the future of independent advice.
Financial Advisor September 2006 Pomering & Littlechild	Unlocking Client Value While many financial advisors have refined the strategic planning process in their businesses, there is one piece of the puzzle that is missing -- a strategic feedback loop.
Financial Planning March 1, 2011 Stephanie Bogan	Growth: Realizing Your Potential To build your advisory practice into what you dream it will be, you need to see it clearly and then think like a businessperson, streamline operations and market yourself.