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In my travels and face-to-face meetings with advisors, I spend a lot of time listening how they are generating leads. Again, this is the #1, hot-brand issue for most financial professionals, so any insight here is extremely powerful. Via advisor’s website: This is just effective, blocking and tackling. It’s not enough to just have a [...]

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The financial community has been slow to adopt social media. One big fuzzy gray zone has been compliance. But that process is evolving. Last week, a National Examination Risk Alert went out that called into question the Facebook ‘Like’ button. Testimonials:  …The term “testimonial” is not defined in Rule 206(4)-1(a)(1), but SEC staff consistently interprets [...]

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Advisors ask me all the time about their websites. Most of the time, they’re asking for help in terms of optimizing their site’s performance: capturing more leads, driving new prospects, expanding their reach. To be honest, building a website for most advisors (for most people, really) is an utterly overwhelming process. Why building a website [...]

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Asking for referrals isn’t easy. Alll the data show that as professionals, we are sitting on gold mines of referral value (!), just ready for us to unlock it to build a super practice. Clients should be lining up, checks in hand, begging — pleading! — for us to manage their portfolios. Yeah, right. The [...]

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LinkedIn is such a powerful tool for researching prospects and networking with professionals, I’m always surprised when I meet advisors who aren’t using it. Oh, and it’s free. Hard to beat that. Wayne Breitbarth, the author of The Power Formula for LinkedIn Success, joins me to discuss the power of LinkedIn and how financial and [...]

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If you’re been running successful seminars to help prospect for your business, you know how hard it is to get everything right. From getting your list, to creating engaging invitations, to finding a facility, to RSVP’ing your guests.   It’s a lot of details and processes. That works in our favor — getting a good [...]

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Social media gets a bad rap for being ‘social’.  Many advisors with whom I speak see it as a noisy distraction — its social-ness getting in the way of doing real biz-ness. …stands on a soapbox: And that’s a HUGE mistake.  It’s precisely the social-ness of social media that’s able to identify your ideal prospects, [...]

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Convert prospects by delivering awesome presentations

by Zack Miller on November 22, 2011

This post is sent free to growth-minded subscribers to my weekly marketing and sales email, Advisor Insider. Subscribe (free) here. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Brokers aren’t used to creating their own presentations.  Compliance rules, you know.  Series 7s take stock presentations and add their names to personalize ‘em. I’ll let you in on a secret though: most of [...]

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Building your expertise — your differentiated expertise — is key to creating a pipeline of warm prospects. By establishing your authority on a subject, you’ll soon find the users of your website begin to trust you. And we all know that TRUST is what closes prospects. TRUST is… what moves people through your sales pipeline. [...]

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