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Nothing Happens without an Appointment

January 3, 2022 / by Don Connelly / Prospecting / 0 comments

Would you like to have $50,000,000 in assets under management? How about a $100,000,000? How about $500,000,000? It’s simple. It’s not easy, but it is simple. Go get an appointment. It all starts with getting an appointment. Nothing happens without an appointment in this business. Go on the appointment, get your nose bloody, come back and get another appointment. Then get another one. Then get another one. Building a career is a series of many steps. Success is not part time. Get in the habit of getting appointments.

Watch this video or read the transcript to learn how to get in the habit of getting appointments.

Seven Things to Do to Set Yourself Up for Success as a Financial Advisor

June 1, 2020 / by Don Connelly / Best Practices / 0 comments

All Financial Advisors need a track to run on. That is, a set of activities that you know are productive, and that will continue to guide you on your path to success, even … and this is key… even if you don’t feel like working!

Here is a set of seven principles that will help keep you focused and moving along your path to the very top of our profession.

There Are Three Main Ways to Gather New Clients

December 17, 2018 / by Don Connelly / Prospecting / 0 comments

There are three main ways to gather new clients and grow your business. To excel, you should put your effort into mastering all three of them.

1. Acquiring new clients from existing clients
Referrals are by far and away the best way to gather new clients. And the only way you can earn referrals is by becoming referable – which will only happen once your clients feel you’re delivering them a 5-star service.

Clients won’t refer you until you become part of their inner circle, when you become someone they like and trust on both a personal and professional level.

It’s All about Your MVA

May 26, 2014 / by David Hubbard / Best Practices / 0 comments

Most Valuable Activities for Financial Advisor - Business Growth

Why isn’t my business growing like I want it to? Why has my business plateaued? Why am I working so many hours but not growing my firm? These are several of the questions that I get from some of the financial advisors that I have coached. These advisors have become frustrated that their businesses aren’t succeeding as they want. Although they have been in the business for more than 5 years and have achieved some success, they still want to grow.

When I hear these questions, or comments, I begin to do some probing.

I become very curious as to how these advisors spend their time. I am specifically looking to determine what these advisors do on a daily basis.

Having Problems Is a Plus

February 17, 2014 / by Don Connelly / Best Practices / 0 comments

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.

Your Goal Today Is to Get an Appointment

December 9, 2013 / by Don Connelly / Prospecting / 0 comments

What’s so magical about having goals? It’s not so much that we don’t achieve them. It’s that we too often conveniently forget we even have them. With or without goals, we still go in and chip away day after day. Not having goals is not going to cause us to skip a day. I work hard with or without goals. What’s the big deal?

What Is #1 Reason Advisors and Wholesalers Fail

December 2, 2013 / by Don Connelly / Marketing Yourself / 0 comments

Why Advisors Fail - What's the #1 Reason

Lance Armstrong once observed that a boo is a lot louder than a cheer. He’s right. And a no is a lot louder than a yes.

Advisors (and wholesalers) who fail often do so because they don’t see enough people.

Imagine the financial planning gods coming down and granting you immunity for a year. You don’t need to rely on your skills. Every time you call for an appointment, the person says yes. Every time you ask the person to become your client, the person says yes. Every time you ask for an introduction to your clients’ friends, they give you five names and go with you on the appointments.

A Message for All Financial Advisors Struggling to Make It

October 7, 2013 / by Don Connelly / Prospecting / 4 comments

A Message for All Financial Advisors - Nothing Happens Without an Appointment

We can debate this subject all day long, but it always comes down to one reason. The reason Advisors fail is that they don’t see enough people. Blame it on self-sabotage, blame it on a lack of initiative or blame it any of a hundred other reasons, but Advisors make their living knee-to-knee. If we’re not sitting in front of folks, we are unemployed.