Always Remember Your Clients’ Reasons to Invest

Failing to understand a client’s goals and objectives ranks highly when it comes to why financial advisors get fired. So it pays to remember that your client’s reasons to invest are the same as they’ve always been: they want to generate more cash in the future, whether it’s to send the kids to college, or to retire on a yacht in the Caribbean.

Your clients want to educate their children and build a retirement fund. That’s generally it.

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31 Motivational Quotes to Drive Financial Success

A Financial Advisor’s job is not just limited to giving the right advice. It also involves challenges like: motivating investors to act and managing client behavior throughout the investment cycle to keep them from distractions caused by the market fluctuations.

Sometimes your attempts to satisfy clients or convince prospects to trust your financial plans may seem ineffective, making it difficult to keep the conversation alive and positive. Have you thought that in such cases all you might need is an ice-breaker?

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Why Your Clients and Prospects Need You

Don Connelly audio post - golf

Let’s talk some more about Mr. and Mrs. Client and why they need to invest now and with you. The whole discussion of commissions and fees is not about the question ‘what your commission is’; it’s ‘why should I pay a commission? Do I need to pay a commission or a fee when I can do this on my own? Why should I have a financial advisor?’

So when somebody says “What are your commissions? What are your fees?” I’d say “Let’s discuss the real question here, which is: do you need an advisor?”

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35 Quotes for Financial Advisors on a Tough Day

35 Quotes for Financial Advisors on a Tough Day

On your journey to become a successful Financial Advisor, you will face a lot of challenges. Today’s post will empower you and your sales team to sail through a bad week, and constantly encourage pursuing your goals.

I have compiled a list of my top 35 favorite quotes about investing wisdom, inspiration, motivation and sales to help you make wise decisions, manage stress, stay positive and enthusiastic at all times. Enjoy!

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Empathize, Don’t Sympathize

Am I oversimplifying things? - AskDON episode

There is never a convenient time to invest. The market is too high, the market is too low, we need a new kitchen first and a million other reasons are readily available. The toughest investment decision every prospective investor faces is the decision to do it. This is where you must play bad cop.

A big part of your job is getting people to do what they don’t always want to do.

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Play The Cards The Market Deals You

Investing Wisdom - Stock Market Trends

There are things we know and there are things we don’t know. A first thing we know is that every single time the stock market has gone down, it has come back.

A second thing we know is that every single time the market has gone down and come back, it has gone on to set new highs.

And, a third thing we know is that a perplexingly large number of investors lose money in the stock market, despite knowing the first two things.

What we don’t know is what the market will do tomorrow.

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Client Goals Are Not Reduced by Falling Markets

Client Goals and Falling Markets - Investing Wisdom

The biggest challenge every investor (and, actually, every Advisor) faces is staying fully invested in the face of bad news. It’s only normal to want to escape danger. Unfortunately, fleeing danger means timing the market. The stock market is too fragmented to successfully time over an extended period. In too many ways, tactical asset allocation is churning without the commissions.

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