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Client Surveys: Are you making the grade?Client Surveys: Are you making the grade?
Allowing your clients to grade your performance is an essential step in delivering the "Ultimate Client Experience". A simple client survey can show you where you shine as well as point out areas in need of improvement. This coaching session gives you a simple formula for conducting a client survey. . . . keep reading

How to Reconnect with Lost ClientsHow to Reconnect with Lost Clients
Even the most successful financial advisors lose top clients from time-to-time. Therefore, your former client list could be a good source of future relationships. This coaching session takes you through a straightforward process for recapturing these past relationships and includes a "Lost Client Letter" to get you started. . . . keep reading

Five Tips for Uncovering More Business from Your Current ClientsFive Tips for Uncovering More Business from Your Current Clients
This blog post gives you a brief overview of how to uncover more business from your existing clients. I quickly cover communications, profiling, building advocacy, reciprocating and delivering spectacular service. . . . keep reading

A Success Formula that Helped Triple my BusinessA Success Formula that Helped Triple my Business
When I was more actively running my practice as a financial advisor, I had a simple success formula - 12 by 12, 2 by 5, plan each day. I used this formula to triple my business over a three year period of time. In my coaching work, I help my clients develop similar success formulas. This coaching session, a supplement to my ongoing Activity Challenge, offers a few specific ides that may help you create your own success formula. . . . keep reading

A Low-Key Marketing Approach that Produces Surprising ResultsA Low-Key Marketing Approach that Produces Surprising Results
Your connections are people you know personally, socially, civically, or professionally. You probably believe that some of these folks would be good clients for your practice, but you're not sure. For some unexplained reason, you may even be reluctant to approach them about doing business. This quick coaching session tells you how. . . . keep reading


Featured Web Classes
Web Class:  Three Quick Sales Tips to Give your Business a Mid-year BoostWeb Class: Three Quick Sales Tips to Give your Business a Mid-year Boost
This Web Class contains a 10 minute recording with three sales tips that could give your business a boost. Each of these campaigns contains a short action plan. Members of EncoreAdvisr.com also gain access to downloadable campaign tools which include customizable letters. These ideas are perfect for the summer, so you could start right away. . . . keep reading

Web Class:  How to Define Your Ideal Client RelationshipWeb Class: How to Define Your Ideal Client Relationship
Over the last five years, many advisors have used my "Ideal Client Worksheet" to analyze their practices and develop new strategies for growing their business. Defining an ideal relationship can be the foundation for stronger client relationships, significant asset accumulation and an increase in high quality referrals. This coaching session contains a new 20 minute web class that walks you through this process. . . . keep reading

Client Surveys: Are you making the grade?
Rob Brown
Client Surveys: Are you making the grade? Allowing your clients to grade your performance is an essential step in delivering the "Ultimate Client Experience". A simple client survey can show you where you shine as well as point out areas in need of improvement. This coaching session gives you a simple formula for conducting a client survey. . . . keep reading

How to Reconnect with Lost Clients
Rob Brown
How to Reconnect with Lost Clients Even the most successful financial advisors lose top clients from time-to-time. Therefore, your former client list could be a good source of future relationships. This coaching session takes you through a straightforward process for recapturing these past relationships and includes a "Lost Client Letter" to get you started. . . . keep reading

Five Tips for Uncovering More Business from Your Current Clients
Rob Brown
Five Tips for Uncovering More Business from Your Current Clients This blog post gives you a brief overview of how to uncover more business from your existing clients. I quickly cover communications, profiling, building advocacy, reciprocating and delivering spectacular service. . . . keep reading

A Success Formula that Helped Triple my Business
Rob Brown
A Success Formula that Helped Triple my Business When I was more actively running my practice as a financial advisor, I had a simple success formula - 12 by 12, 2 by 5, plan each day. I used this formula to triple my business over a three year period of time. In my coaching work, I help my clients develop similar success formulas. This coaching session, a supplement to my ongoing Activity Challenge, offers a few specific ides that may help you create your own success formula. . . . keep reading

A Low-Key Marketing Approach that Produces Surprising Results
Rob Brown
A Low-Key Marketing Approach that Produces Surprising Results Your connections are people you know personally, socially, civically, or professionally. You probably believe that some of these folks would be good clients for your practice, but you're not sure. For some unexplained reason, you may even be reluctant to approach them about doing business. This quick coaching session tells you how. . . . keep reading

4 "Back to School" Lessons to Give Your Business a Boost this Fall
Rob Brown
4 "Back to School" Lessons to Give Your Business a Boost this Fall The "back to school" season isn't just for kids and teachers. As a financial advisor, you should to make sure your practice is on track to finish the year strongly. Plus, you need to get your clients' attention focused on those financial planning issues they've put on the back burner. This is particularly true after the turbulent summer we witnessed in the financial markets. This coaching session contains 4 "back to school" lessons to give your business a boost this fall. . . . keep reading

How to Protect Your Income while Transitioning to a Fee-based Business
Rob Brown
How to Protect Your Income while Transitioning to a Fee-based Business This coaching session walks through a series of questions from a successful financial advisor on transitioning her practice to a fee-based, wealth management model. The answers to these questions focus on having a discipline for working through current and future relationships as well as keeping an eye on the bottom-line. Making changes to the way you do business does not mean you need to sacrifice near-term profits. In fact, when done properly it will increase your new business opportunities. . . . keep reading

The Activity Challenge -- Part 2 of 3: Set Goals for Your Client-facing Activities
Rob Brown
The Activity Challenge -- Part 2 of 3: Set Goals for Your Client-facing Activities Two weeks ago I introduced part one of our "Activity Challenge". Now it's time for part two - setting goals for your client-facing activities. This ongoing coaching session is designed to help you focus on the activities that will have the greatest impact on your practice. . . . keep reading

Five Ideas for Improving Your Client Newsletter
Rob Brown
Five Ideas for Improving Your Client Newsletter Member question: "I recently ran an informal poll of my clients, asking if they read and enjoyed my monthly newsletter. The results were dismal. They don't read my newsletter and rarely look at the other stuff I send them. I'm spending a lot of money for my newsletter service. How do I get them to read it?" This coaching session answers this question by offering five simple ideas to improve your client touches. . . . keep reading

How to Use an Efficiency File to Improve Your Quarterly Reviews
Rob Brown
How to Use an Efficiency File to Improve Your Quarterly Reviews Many financial advisors take client meetings for granted. They allow the routine nature of these appointments to get in the way of timely preparation. Yet, well-orchestrated quarterly reviews remind your clients of your top notch service and strengthen your team and practice management approach. This coaching session reviews six simple steps to ensure successful reviews by truly 'teaming' with your assistant. The toolkit attached to this coaching session contains a sample agenda, client letters, a key findings sheet and an efficiency file checklist. . . . keep reading

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