November 13, 2014 / by Don Connelly / Best Practices, Don Guest Authoring at... / 4 comments
This is a guest post by Don Connelly published on the website of FA Magazine earlier this week.
Elite Advisors are not born elite. They ply their craft for years, making mistakes and learning from them.
Once such mistake is to assume that numbers matter. Newer Advisors talk about the numbers because that’s the focus of our training. We have to learn our products and processes and we have to pass the tests. When we get in the field, we naturally lead with what we know.
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4 Things Elite Advisors Do that Average Advisors Don’t Do
November 13, 2014 / by Don Connelly / Best Practices, Don Guest Authoring at... / 4 comments
This is a guest post by Don Connelly published on the website of FA Magazine earlier this week.
Elite Advisors are not born elite. They ply their craft for years, making mistakes and learning from them.
Once such mistake is to assume that numbers matter. Newer Advisors talk about the numbers because that’s the focus of our training. We have to learn our products and processes and we have to pass the tests. When we get in the field, we naturally lead with what we know.
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People Are Deciding about You, Not the Numbers
February 3, 2014 / by Don Connelly / Marketing Yourself / 2 comments
When you are trying to convince someone to do business with you, you must earn that person’s trust. When you use charts, graphs and numbers to make your point, you are asking the person to trust the numbers. Asking someone to trust the numbers is really saying there is no need to trust you.
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