/ by Don Connelly / Best Practices / 0 comments
To grow your business, you need to focus on what’s important and this generally means prospecting and meeting with clients. There will be a host of routine tasks that don’t require your continual, personal, input. Hopefully, you work with an assistant.
Identify your non-revenue generating activities – as well as activities that lie outside your core competencies – and delegate them. In this post we’ll look at 4 tasks you can and should be outsourcing – leaving you free to take on key areas of your business.
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4 Tasks You Can Delegate to Grow Your Business
/ by Don Connelly / Best Practices / 0 comments
To grow your business, you need to focus on what’s important and this generally means prospecting and meeting with clients. There will be a host of routine tasks that don’t require your continual, personal, input. Hopefully, you work with an assistant.
Identify your non-revenue generating activities – as well as activities that lie outside your core competencies – and delegate them. In this post we’ll look at 4 tasks you can and should be outsourcing – leaving you free to take on key areas of your business.
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Are You Good at Dealing with Difficult Clients?
/ by Don Connelly / Managing the Relationship / 2 comments
Difficult clients are not unique. Every Advisor has encountered or will encounter obstreperous personalities. There are many reasons why clients become difficult. Let’s make this easy and say we are dealing with a personality clash. A decision has to be made: keep him or fire him. Let’s explore both choices.
Firing a client is difficult if you don’t like confrontation or hurting someone’s feelings.
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Building Your Business with These 12 Tips for Financial Advisors
/ by Don Connelly / Best Practices, Don Guest Authoring at... / 0 comments
This is one of Don Connelly’s guest posts over at FA Magazine, giving you 12 tips how to build a better and more enjoyable business.
1) Get really good at what you do. Do the ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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Having Problems Is a Plus
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If you know you’ve got problems gathering assets and growing your business, you are lucky. A problem can be turned into an advantage and that’s a good thing.
The very fact that you recognize a problem means that you are concerned enough to recognize it, that you want to better yourself. Too many Advisors drift along waiting for magical occurrence to turn their business around. You are trying to make things happen.
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