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7 New Lessons Learned Building A Fee-Only RIA From Scratch: Years 3–5

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Nonetheless, after a year or 2 in business, some firm owners will find that their plate is becoming full and their available time is shrinking as they balance servicing current clients with marketing for new ones and also possibly managing staff.

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#FA Success Ep 363: Finding The Best Networking Approach For Prospects (And New Career Opportunities), With Christa Madison

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Christa is the Managing Director of Financial Planning and Business Development at Sebold Capital, a fee-only RIA based in Chicago, Illinois, which manages $300M across more than 100 client households. Welcome back to the 363rd episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast!

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#FA Success Ep 305: Accelerating Growth Of (Fee-Only) Clients By Making It Clear You Have Nothing To Sell, With Mindy Crary

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Mindy is the owner of Creative Money, an independent RIA based in Seattle, Washington, that offers a unique 12-month financial planning engagement – or as Mindy puts it on her homepage, “financial planning that doesn’t suck” – which has allowed her firm to work with nearly 400 client households just this year.

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#FA Success Ep 356: Scaling To (Nearly) $2M Of Revenue As A Flat-Fee, Advice-Only Firm, With Sarah-Catherine Gutierrez

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Sarah-Catherine is the founder of Aptus Financial, a fee-only financial planning firm based in Little Rock, Arkansas, that is approaching $2M in revenue and works with over 480 client households. Welcome to the 356th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Sarah-Catherine Gutierrez.

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Why Advertising “Conflict-Free” Advice Could Violate The SEC’s Marketing Rule

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However, in a landscape where the number of fee-only, fiduciary advisory firms has grown – making "commission-free" less of a differentiator for any one firm – it's worth questioning whether it makes sense for firms to describe themselves in terms of their relative lack of conflicts of interest at all.

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#FA Success 291: Managing Fast Growth And Slow Growth Of A Planning-Centric Advice Firm, With Amy Irvine

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In this episode, we talk in-depth about how after working for years in the financial industry, Amy realized there was a missed opportunity in working with career-driven Gen X women like her and decided to focus on serving that type of clientele she knew so well, how the initial fear of launching a firm on her own initially led Amy to partner with another (..)

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#FA Success Ep 351: Facilitating Successful Advisor Mergers & Acquisitions By Avoiding The Conflicts Of A Success Fee, With Jessica Polito

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In this episode, we talk in-depth about how Jessica leveraged her investment banking experience in wealth management mergers and acquisitions to build her own business where she could provide more independent M&A advice, why and how Jessica developed her flat-fee advice model for mergers and acquisitions to, similar to the evolution of fee-only (..)