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4 IDEAS TO REDUCE YOUR COMPLIANCE BURDEN

Want to reduce your compliance burden? You can reduce manual work and avoid inefficiency to be able to make your business grow. Discover more about it now! Check out my...

THE DANGER IN SKIPPING STRAIGHT TO IMPLEMENTATION

I've had one of those weeks where the same damned thing kept happening. First time, I was in a session working on a service/ pricing model build with a team of brokers....

7 SECRETS OF ACQUISITION SUCCESS

I'm just a few short weeks from our next two day Excelerator and we've almost closed off our Leveraged intake so I can put the final touches to the session. It's about...

THE NEW ADVICE MARKETING CONUNDRUM

It's the Advice Marketing conundrum. You want leads. They need advice. Why doesn’t it all just come together? Of all the problems most advisers, accountants and...

THE END OF THE “ANNUAL” REVIEW

I’ve got a big question, and it needs answering. See, this is one of those articles where I’m trying work my way through one of those, “Why the hell do we...

The Problem With Advice Givers Who Don't Take Advice

If part of the value of your advice lies in having an objective third party look at things without the emotion, and you don’t follow that advice yourself, why should...

CLIENT INSIGHT INTERVIEWS

Charles Revson, one of the founders of Revlon, knew the difference between marketing and sales, and nailed it in one sentence. “In the factory we make cosmetics, in...

WHY INCREASING FEE ISN’T AS RISKY AS YOU THINK

Do you want to know the fastest strategy to scale your advice firm? Increase your fees. It’s so blindingly obvious to me, and kind of ironic that with so many firms...

NETWORK RECEPTION

Is it just me or does the average advice professional have a total love/hate relationship with referral partnerships? One Vanguard study I read whilst prepping our two-day...

THE ZERO DARK THIRTY GUIDE TO WORKFLOW

If you’re an adviser, broker, senior accountant or other “front stage”, client facing member of a team responsible for delivering face to face value and...

THE 85:15 STORY OF ADVICE CLIENTS

Imagine you’re a business offering a service that 85% of the market don’t seem to want. That’s not great. It’s also not terrible. 15% market share...

THIS CONVERSATION HAD ME MAD AS HELL

So I’m not a “get mad” kinda person, and certainly not in a professional sense. This question though had me simmering in my own juices all the way over...
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