presentation ideas

For Client Presentations Going Low-Tech Works

March 14, 2025

As client presentations become more compliance-focused, lengthy, and technical in nature there is an corresponding increase in client dissatisfaction with financial advice. Coincidence? I think not. There has been a trend for years for financial…

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3 Is The Key To Effective Presentations

March 17, 2023

3 is the magic presentation number. Effective presentations are structured in “threes”. It is a well established principle that people absorb information best when it is presented in 3 points…and while listing your best 3…

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A simple approach to getting clients to ACT now

January 18, 2023

We often find ourselves giving good advice only for clients to then dawdle over the implementation of it. Getting clients to act NOW is a challenge. Not acting on the advice presents a range of…

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visuals-sell

Using Visuals To Sell Bad News And Complex Ideas

August 3, 2022

Disclaimers and fine print don’t ever really help in selling tough ideas, but visuals do sell complex or tough-to-swallow concepts quickly and easily. Nowhere is this more true than when you want to manage client…

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insurance-loading

How To Present Adverse Insurance Decisions

March 16, 2022

That sinking feeling you get when an insurer comes back with terms and you have to present an adverse insurance decision…basically telling the client that actually, they are a higher risk of something bad happening….it…

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sales-words

The Words We Use Can Break Or Make The Sale

January 21, 2022

We can break a probable sale or make the sale in an instant. It can turn on a phrase or sometimes even a single word. The words we use matter. When it comes to the…

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adviser-beliefs

Can You Explain Your Financial Advice Philosophy?

November 17, 2021

Any adviser who has studied or has years of experience probably has a financial advice philosophy, even if they’ve never really thought of it as a philosophy. But it is what you believe. Most experienced…

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