Financial Services, Speaker and Coach

Be Specific

In the course of serving their prospects and clients, financial advisors recommend many products and services.  You might consider several different solutions for a particular need.  Too many advisors offer a client several options in the name of helping them make an informed decision.  At times these advisors provide a spreadsheet of products along with […]

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Strong Questions For The New Year

One week into the new year how are you doing with those resolutions?  In case you want to grow your business this year I suggest you resolve to call your best clients, and say something like this: “A big part of my responsibility to my clients is to keep them on tract with their financial […]

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Effective Sales Communication

As a professional speaker I travel frequently. Recently I stopped on an interstate to get a cup of coffee.  Check out this sign at a motel in central Illinois.  Obviously the sign intends to say that the cost for lodging is $37.99 per person, but when you separate the digital media from the rest of […]

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Star Pupil Or Problem Child; Managing Your Investment Department In Tough Economic Times

The last half of 2008 provided the banking industry with a host of unprecedented problems.  Many banks offer investments and financial planning services to their customers through internal broker-dealers or third party providers.  Regardless of you distribution model, your investment department faces challenges as well.  Shrinking account values, inappropriate investments, and delayed or damaged retirement […]

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Choosing a Financial Advisor

Your choice of a financial advisor ranks high upon the list of critical life decisions.  Selection of educational institutions, career, where to live, and family create lifelong consequences.  Choosing a financial advisor often determines what happens to the financial results of those consequences, all the way from financial independence to financial ruin.  Developing a relationship […]

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Stocking Up For The Winter

Monday marks the beginning of the end – of the last week of the year.  Financial advisors often complain that nobody wants to do business during the Holiday Season.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  A host of opportunities exist with our clients, including: Year-end Portfolio Reviews Gift Purchases of Investments and Insurance Products […]

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