Use Gamification with Your Clients and Team for More Growth

Use Gamification with Your Clients and Team for More Growth

Gamification is a powerful tool that can enhance performance and growth in finance, law, and accounting. By applying game mechanics to non-game contexts, it drives engagement and motivation. This article highlights the benefits of gamification and offers five strategies for financial and legal professionals to implement. These strategies include referral contests, financial education quizzes, thought leadership contests, and more. Gamification can increase engagement, improve knowledge retention, foster collaboration, provide real-time feedback, and support continuous learning and development. By embracing gamification, professionals can create an exciting and dynamic workplace culture while empowering their teams to succeed.

Liquid Death: A Case Study on Branding Water

Liquid Death: A Case Study on Branding Water

A branding case study on turning a mundane product or service into a rebellious, heavy metal-inspired brand that resonates with consumers. Dive into this fascinating case study and uncover the power of daring to be different, embracing authenticity, and disrupting traditional marketing norms, and learn lessons on applying it to your financial, legal or accounting practice.

Best questions to ask your team during your sales/pipeline review meetings

Best questions to ask your team during your sales/pipeline review meetings

Managing a sales team, or developing a new one, can be frustrating, especially if you don’t know how to best coach your team around sales to develop their pipeline. In this article, we’ve outlined 10 questions to help shape your meetings for better outcome. Learn why we are the best sales training firm for advisory firms and wealth management RIAs

Salary and Compensation Rates at Family Offices and RIA's

Salary and Compensation Rates at Family Offices and RIA's

Salary and compensation levels for various roles and titles within the family office space. While these are numbers driven from the single family office space, they can be used as reference levels for the wealth management industry as a whole. Learn about comp structures at advisory firms.

Wealth Management Firms: Different Compensation Structures for Your "Sales" Team

Wealth Management Firms: Different Compensation Structures for Your "Sales" Team

How to pay your staff for business development as an RIA? What are the different compensation models for RIA’s for bringing in new business? What are the various comp structures for wealth management firms? Learn about salary, bonus on leads, bonus on activity, etc. This article explains it all!

5 Client Segmentation Structures to Revolutionize Your Advisory Practice

Feeling overwhelmed about the lack of categorization and organization in your client base? Given two finite resources, time and labor, as an RIA, wirehouse advisor or tax advisor, it’s important to put clear lines between the types of clients you serve and want to acquire, the service quality you provide to each, and your fee plans.

Why now is the most crucial time for advisors to send out a Net Promoter Score (NPS) Survey

Why now is the most crucial time for advisors to send out a Net Promoter Score (NPS) Survey

What is the average Net Promoter Score for the financial industry, and why do you need to take an NPS survey from your clients? In this article, we go into the NPS calculation, and share with you a sample NPS Survey you can take to possibly send to your end clients.

Unique and Different Fee Structures Financial Advisors Can Embrace for Their Practice

Unique and Different Fee Structures Financial Advisors Can Embrace for Their Practice

Tired of the old-fashioned fee-based model for charging your clients, where you charge a percentage on the assets that you manage? Are you losing opportunities because some prospects just want to pick your brain without giving you all their assets to manage? It may be time to revisit your fee structure and come up with unique pricing models for your RIA and wealth management practice. In this article we discuss 10 unique pricing and fee structures for RIAs.

Social Media for Investment Advisors and Wealth Managers

Social Media for Investment Advisors and Wealth Managers

In this article we discuss social media strategies for financial advisors in 2023, and ways to help them grow their brand and community using Linkedin, Instagram and other platforms.

Financial Advisor Marketing and Branding Solutions

Financial Advisor Marketing and Branding Solutions

In this video we discuss storyselling strategies for financial advisors, best ways to get more referrals, marketing strategies and branding ideas for wealth management firms and a lot more.

Investors are Feeling a Case of the Ostrich Effect...why that's bad for business

Investors are Feeling a Case of the Ostrich Effect...why that's bad for business

The Ostrich Effect is a social science theory that helps us understand what information people are interested in receiving, and what content they will avoid. Learn how using this theory can help you find new clients.

Bedside Manners: One of the biggest skills you can gain in your career

Bedside Manners: One of the biggest skills you can gain in your career

Have you ever heard of the term “bedside manners” when it comes to doctors? We all know that we don’t want our doctor to just know how to do his job right; we want him to communicate with us and help us feel better emotionally. This is what we call “Soft Skills,” and we can all benefit from it to stand out in our profession.

The most critical Soft Skills for more people to trust you

The most critical Soft Skills for more people to trust you

There are some people in this world you have never met but somehow deem as trustworthy. For each of us, that person is different. But what are the skills these people have to make so many people trust them, even though we have never met them? In this article we disclose some of those top skills, which you can develop as well!

Which personality test is best for my team and company goals?

Which personality test is best for my team and company goals?

You’ve heard about Big Five, DiSC, HEXACO, Myers-Briggs, StrengthFinder, Eysenck and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality. In this article we will share with you our favorite personality test for leadership and sales, which is none of these, and how it can help you make critical decisions around your business.

Financial Advisor Prospecting and Marketing in a Bear Market

Financial Advisor Prospecting and Marketing in a Bear Market

Tools and strategies for financial advisors to grow their practice during a bear market, or a period of heavy uncertainty, such as a leadership change or M&A. At the core of this will be your mindset, emotional state and your level of optimism and energy.

Serena Williams' Dad's 85 Page Business Plan to his daughters' success

Serena Williams' Dad's 85 Page Business Plan to his daughters' success

This story is about visualizing the most impossible dream, and mapping out a business plan to make it come true. It is a fascinating story about consistency and following a blueprint, which has helped two families from across the world groom world champions.

Consultative Sales Training for anyone not selling widgets or products

Consultative Sales Training for anyone not selling widgets or products

Consultative sales training strategies for financial advisors who want to prospect to more of ultra high net worth or wealthy target and niche market.

How to Overcome Analysis Paralysis in 5 Simple Steps

How to Overcome Analysis Paralysis in 5 Simple Steps

Friends, don’t let friends be paralyzed by overanalysis. Help decisions be made faster by taking our New Venture Decision Calculator. How can you and your colleagues make decisions faster, without being paralyzed by all the possibilities of what can go wrong?

Some RIAs are stretched thin on service bandwidth, so here's a solution

Some RIAs are stretched thin on service bandwidth, so here's a solution

There’s always going to be a major juxtaposition between wanting to build a massive wealth management business, but also wanting to provide a high-touch experience for your clients. After all, we don’t sell widgets; we are in the people business. Learn how “Producticizing” some parts of your practice can help you build more scale into your practice, all while ensuring you don’t lower your service offering.