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How to create engaging conversations

November 28, 2025

Creating engaging conversations with people you don’t know well, or who feel they don’t know you well enough, is difficult. It can be even more difficult when they are guarded…thinking maybe that you are just…

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When Your Sales Numbers Suck…

October 7, 2025

Sometimes the best thing an adviser can do is admit to themselves that their sales numbers suck. It’s the age-old “you can’t improve something until you admit that there is something wrong with it“. The…

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Sales Technique Is The Key To Opening Minds

April 5, 2024

“Sales Technique”…the very phrase sends shudders down the spines of professionals today it seems. Despite the focus on our increased technical knowledge and the emphasis upon good process, financial advisers do actually have to “sell”…

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Improve your sales results with a quick “Kerbside Review”

June 7, 2023

One of the most effective ways to improve sales results is to spend 2 minutes on a reflective process after each client meeting – whether it was a good or bad one. It is the…

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Deal or No Deal? Advice is that simple at the beginning. Really.

May 26, 2023

One of the greatest challenges for professionals working with complex ideas and products is to keep initial advice as simple as possible, without being patronising to the client or skipping the detail that compliance demands.…

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How to get Clients to agree to the right cover level

March 23, 2022

It can be challenging getting clients to agree to what we know is the right cover level for their insurance needs. Whatever numbers we come up with analytically and logically are greeted with disbelief more…

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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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7 Warning Signs That The Prospect Is Wrong For You

February 2, 2022

No matter how hard you try to get it right, sometimes the prospect is wrong for you. You are wasting your time and would be best to just cut your losses and move on quickly.…

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