Have you ever been to a meeting that took more time than necessary? How can you make your meetings more productive, while enhancing your client experience? How can you demonstrate value in your progress update meetings? In working with Business Health and their client survey tool, Ray Henderson of Business Health in Australia suggests that clients surveyed in several countries around the world by their financial advisor sometimes do not see value in the review process www.businesshealth.com.au Why is there a disconnect between what the advisor delivers and what the client sees as a valuable use of their time?

It starts with an agenda In my workshops with financial advisors, it all starts by having a solid agenda for your existing ideal ...

Why would financial advisors offer more? More value, more services, more advice? This will take time, effort and will cost more. After all, they are happy with me and appreciate what we do. Why would you want to do more?

Who is your competition? In today's competitive environment, can you confidently make that argument with your top 25 clients? Do you do annual feedback and total transparency with your ideal clients? Unless you do feedback on an annual basis, is your business at risk? I know that 85% of advisors don’t do feedback (Business Health Pty Ltd. Key Value Drivers USA 2016 www.businesshealth.com.au ) so if your one of the 15% who do it annually, congratulations. If you also do total transparency, in other words, show the ...

Every wealthy client usually has a financial advisor. But do these wealthy ( potentially ideal prospects) get comprehensive advice and planning, or just money management. We all know that some of the wealthy are lacking planning and advice, the problem is, they don't know it. Until now. in my workshops with financial advisors, it seems every advisor has a tremendous opportunity to acquire more wealthy clients from their competition. That is because when I ask most advisors these five questions, rarely is anyone doing all five things with their ideal clients.

The five questions to ask a wealthy prospect are:

Organized and planned -Would it be valuable to have your financial life completely organized and planned out in the following six area...

The real risk is not reaching your goals, especially if there is no clear plan to get there. Performance won’t matter, asset allocation won’t matter, and the best products won’t matter if clients don’t reach their goals. Do you do goals-based planning with your ideal clients? A big challenge for people is to clearly define their future on paper. A crucial role of a financial advisor is to help their ideal clients get a deeper sense of clarity around their future. So how do you do that? In my workshops with financial advisors, I ask two questions in relation to their own personal goals. First look at the list below and tell me how many goals you personally have? The answer is usually 5 or more, and about a third o...

Do your ideal clients know all the services that you offer? Imagine walking into a restaurant, and after getting seated, the host rips the menu in half and says” enjoy your meal”. Do you want the whole menu or just half of it? Your ideal clients, which are your best clients want the whole menu. They delegate everything to you and are “all in” when it comes to comprehensive planning and advice. The clients who only want to use part of your services are NEVER going to be your ideal clients, so stop hoping they become one someday. Imagine having two doctors you trust that compete with one another, one doctor for the top half of my body and one doctor for the bottom half. Sounds crazy to most, yet so many advisors acc...

Do you get valuable information that you need when meeting with an ideal prospect?

Financial advisors spend time getting a meeting with a potential ideal prospect, only to find the prospect is very reluctant to share information with them until they prove themselves. It puts the advisor on the hot seat to answer questions that the prospect has. Questions such as, “What can I expect when I work with you? What does it cost? How are you different from my current advisor?”

While these questions are important to a prospect and answered when speaking about your value promise, they don’t help an advisor determine if this is an ideal prospect.

The opposite approachThe client thinks that the advisor has to impress or prove themselv...

How do I acquire more ideal clients starting today?
What is the best process to find them?
What is a simple way to implement immediately to grow my business?

Monday morning when you go to your calendar and you don’t see a lot of potential new ideal clients, what do you do? I would start by setting up appointments with some of your ideal clients, either for a progress update meeting or for a coffee. The goal here is to help people in other areas of their lives and become the quarterback and meet new centers of influence.

How many centers of influence do you work with for favorable introductions or give you referrals? Do they know how to do favorable introductions and have a process? This may be an opportunity! Would you like more? In y...

When was the last time a client or prospect walked into your office and asked for an estate plan? The reason why people don’t ask for one is that they need a deeper clarity around their specific goals for their estate. Instead, ask this question. “Did you know about our beneficiary audit service? “The typical answer is no, what is that about. “Would it be valuable to do a beneficiary audit, to summarize on one page all your beneficiaries and the benefits they will receive, and make sure all beneficiaries are correct and coordinated with your will? If we could summarize this information on one page, would that be valuable to you?

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In the wealth management world, I truly believe that most wealthy high net worth clients are living in a one-dimensional world with their financial advisor and wealth manager. What I mean by a one-dimensional world versus two dimensional is that advisors have clients convinced it is all about the performance of their portfolio. They do a great job managing their portfolio and the market keeps going up for years, so that is what the clients believe is the value and that is what advisors believe is the value. They don’t know what a two-dimensional world is, which is performance and comprehensive advice.

Why do I believe most clients and advisors live in a one-dimensional world?

Being in the financial industry for 29 plus years, coachin...

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