business value

What Value A Practice?

September 9, 2025

Given some of the trends in financial services there must be serious questions about how to accurately value a practice of a financial adviser. The short answer to what is an accurate value of any…

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Advisers Could Get Better ROI On Their Business

July 29, 2025

It is a little ironic that many professionals in the business of advising people how to get better ROI do not do what they should to get a better return on one of their own…

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Using The Pareto Principle To Actually Improve Service And Profit

July 8, 2025

Everyone has heard of the Pareto Principle by now, but are you actually using it to improve profit…or improve service….or should we saying it actually “improves service which improves profit”? It is the latter. Undoubtedly.…

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Adviser Succession: What do buyers of financial practices look for?

May 6, 2025

The irony of adviser succession discussions is how few of the advisers considering the topic seem to consider how to get a better return on what is often their biggest investment – their practice. Sellers…

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Process Creates Profit!

April 25, 2025

That word “process” is just deadly for so many advisers today that too many won’t have bothered reading this far…but process creates profit. “Process” has become associated simply with compliance in delivering financial advice, but…

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Innovation in delivering Financial Advice: Does it have to be this way?

April 18, 2025

“Innovation” and “delivering financial advice” do not usually go together for the majority in the industry. The way advice is delivered by tens of thousands of professionals tends to gravitate to the same methodology. There…

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Why Your Advisory Practice Needs 2 Marketing Targets

January 24, 2025

When considering advisory practice marketing the primary focus from most advisers is “How much should I spend to get a new client onboard?” It is a single marketing focus; just one marketing target. You need…

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You Need A “Tight 5” For Ongoing New Business Success

November 12, 2024

You want new business and new clients, right? When it comes to building an audience of influencers, advocates, raving fans and interested spectators who will all send business your way, it all begins with having…

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