Financial Services Marketing Done Properly

There is No Shortage of New Business Financial services professionals tell us that finding new business is their #1 challenge. But it's crazy. Each day,...

How to Keep Your Firm from Losing You Clients

They Don't Do It on Purpose You may work for a large securities firm or large insurance company.  It's also likely that these firms do...

Avoid the 5 Biggest Mistakes When Acquiring Doctor Clients

Vicki Rackner MD August 2013 Would you like to acquire more physician clients? There are two kinds of financial advisors in the medical market: the high-performers...

Selling Financial Products–Why You Lose Most Sales

If honest with yourself, you’ll admit that you have lost more investment or insurance sales over your career than you have closed.  While at...

Qualifed Insurance Leads

Not finding enough qualified insurance leads.  Perhaps the reason is here. Some insurance agents use lead generation techniques that create unqualified insurance leads (i.e. poor...

Insurance Agents Ought to be Registered Investment Advisers

The securities professional is no more informed than you at handling investments. You may believe that the financial planner knows so much more about...

How to Set an Insurance Appointment

How to Set an Insurance Appointment Before you can make an insurance sale you first need to make another sale called the insurance appointment. Realize...

Need for a Financial Advisor

  Do I need a financial advisor? A decade ago, while researching how seniors made their selection of a financial advisor, I warned that times were...

PPC is good For Agents and Advisors

Adword Basics Google's arrangement for advertising your enterprise on its site and its affiliate sites is called Adwords. It's a PPC or "pay-per-click" method of...

New Financial Advisor – Don't Network for Clients

As a new financial advisor, you are desperate to get clients and should be. The failure rate of new advisors / insurance agents...