Female Advisors Stop Spending Months to Develop New Prospects
The relationship process from prospect to the client can be long and tedious. It requires lots of time, contact, and patience UNLESS you start with your personal story. There is no doubt your authentic story can be your most powerful…
How Women Advisors Make An Impact in the Financial Industry
As a woman you bring amazing strengths and talents to an industry mired in egos and less-than-ethical behavior. You have succeeded by adapting to the more traditional business model even when the process and methods felt totally unnatural to you…
Two Marketing Points Financial Advisors Must Understand to Avoid Failure
There are two things I believe from the bottom of my heart, mind and soul: 1. Women are one of the most lucrative markets for any Financial Advisor who learns how to connect, communicate and educate women. 2. A consistent…
There Is A More Effective Way To Succeed As Women Advisors
As a woman you bring amazing strengths and talents to an industry mired in egos and less-than-ethical behavior. You have succeeded by adapting to the more traditional business model even when the process and methods felt totally unnatural to you…
As a woman is it time to say goodbye to your “Warrior”?
I had split personalities, three in total, one I just met, another who helped me succeed in business and a third that was holding me back. My “Warrior” had to go. She had served me well for over twenty-five years;…
Get Bossy With Your Clients!
Will you get bossy with your clients?
Like Sheryl Sandberg in her recent Wall Street journal article I too was called bossy. Always organizing everything, making sure everything ran smoothly weather in my family, with my friends or in my case on the volleyball court. While in sports this desire to take charge became an asset eventually translating to a full scholarship to UNC. Socially I was made to feel like I was “Controlling” or “Bossy”. I know many female advisors have had similar experiences.
In the corporate world being bossy can become a detriment, offending some male egos and challenging the position of female coworkers.
But as a financial advisor BOSSY is a
Which Advisor Are You Most Like?
Scattered: Michelle was scattered. She was a networking queen and had made tons of contacts, yet she was struggling to convert contacts to prospects and prospects to clients. She was working way too hard and not getting the results she wanted.
Undervalued: Peg was accepting clients with low assets, she knew she shouldn’t be working with any client with less than $500,000 but she couldn’t say no or turn people away. This was really creating a drag on her business growth and exhausting her.
Lost Her Identity: Tiffany was working with her father who had built a very successful practice, but following in his tracks was feeling very uncomfortable and not natural. She knew she could be doing better but couldn’t uncover who
Converting Contacts to Become Clients: What Most Financial Advisors Are Missing
Dear Adri, I have made a ton of contacts and know a lot of people in my community, but I can’t seem to convert these contacts into clients. If I could convert just 25% of everyone I know my business…
Are You Letting the Financial Industry CHANGE YOU?
I’d love to say I’m a miracle worker, but in reality it wasn’t me that did it, my client Tiffany turned her business growth around for herself. After our first coaching call she scheduled 7 appointments; after our next coaching call she secured one of her biggest annuity contracts EVER. OK, maybe there was a little bit of wise coaching involved 😉
What Tiffany did