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#FASuccess Ep 417: Establishing Your Authority As An Expert By Following A Short Book Formula For Authorship, With Paul G. McManus

Nerd's Eye View

Paul is the CEO of More Clients More Fun, a marketing company that helps financial advisors conceptualize and publish their own book in a consolidated 6-week process. My guest on today's podcast is Paul G McManus.

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#FASuccess Ep 409: Adding 1,400 New Clients In A Year As An Extension Of Doing (Profitable) Student Loan Consulting At Scale, With Travis Hornsby

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Travis is the founder of Student Loan Planner, an RIA and student loan consulting company based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina that serves nearly 1,400 households with ongoing financial planning (as well as consulting with over 15,000 clients on student loan debt).

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A Recordkeeping Checklist For Financial Planning Services: Proactive Documentation Of Service Delivery To Reduce Regulatory Scrutiny

Nerd's Eye View

Maintaining adequate books and records is a cornerstone of compliance for all investment advisers. For financial planning services, a similar approach to documentation can be applied to support regulatory compliance from the start of client engagement through all the steps that follow.

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How Financial Advicers Can Write, Publish, And Distribute Their Own Book To Create A More Effective Impression On Prospective Clients

Nerd's Eye View

One of the main goals of financial advisors who market themselves is to build a foundation of trust with their prospective clients so that they feel comfortable in discussing often-sensitive financial topics and ultimately acting on the advisor's recommendations. Establishing that the author understands the reader's problems (e.g.,

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Summer Reading List Of “Best Books” For Financial Advisors – 2024 Edition

Nerd's Eye View

client retention rates remaining robust, and at least a bit of client referral growth trickling in. For those who love to read, though (and especially for those who have limited time and will only get to read just 1 or 2 books over the summer), the perennial question is always, "So… what's a good book worth reading this summer?"

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The 5 Dysfunctions Of Client/Advisor Relationships: How Advisors Can (Re-)Build Trust And Spur Clients Into Action

Nerd's Eye View

In the modern era of financial advice, the advicer/client relationship is tightly centered on trust. In his book "The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team", Patrick Lencioni discusses similar issues that commonly occur among teams in the workplace.

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AllianceBernstein Offers Banks Funding in Return for Clients

Wealth Management

AllianceBernstein is offering funding to lenders — enabling the banks to keep their most prestigious clients sweet — in return for a cut of the fees and access to their client contact books.

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