You Get To Decide

Apr 16, 2020

Omnipresence

 

Who do you want to be present for?

It doesn’t matter if every utterance that comes from your blog makes sense. You can’t be all things to everyone and you aren’t going to make sense to all of your clients all of the time. What matters is this; you must be present. 
 
You are an influencer who must remain in the cross-hairs of your audience… you gotta be an icon on the smart device to stay relevant in this robo world. That means you don’t always have to be right or on-point for every client and or prospect 24/7… that is an impossible ask. What you need to be is present, not available, simply present to influence the decisions of your ideal audience 24/7. 
 
Make ’em think,  make ’em laugh,  make ’em feel why they are attracted to you and your unique solutions. Because if you don’t, someone else is going to do exactly that. Your connection begins with your shared purpose. Your behavior (which includes your omnipresence) must demonstrate your alignment of shared purpose with your clients (your ideal audience).
 
 

For whom do you want to be present? 

 
Your purpose dictates for whom you want to be present… or, who you want to be present for. Your behavior (which you can promise) backs the whole thing up. 
 
Don’t worry about being right or wrong… just be present for your audience to make them feel exactly why they trust you. Be authentic… be yourself… and stay relevant for the right audience for the right reasons. 
 
Your being right or wrong will be detected through the process of feedback… which is an ongoing discipline as well… I will publish information about that in more detail in the near future. You can get the picture by looking at this picture…

The Time Is Now

This is the greatest era in which to become and stay a financial advisor… you get to pick exactly the type of clients you want to work with and you get to fire the bad ones. There has never been a greater opportunity for you to take complete control over your business… this is how to do that… two minutes at a time.
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Disconnected

Apr 3, 2020

What Is High Net Worth?

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The HNW Disconnect

The average advisor is not able to interact with the conference big wigs that we see plastered all over social media. When we see posts from Carl Richards or Michael Kitces we know that the high end of wisdom is in the room. Yet, most financial professionals don’t have the time or the resources to rub elbows with these high end gurus. 

What can connect you with the great minds of financial services is social and digital media. Yet, the promise of good fortune seems to be more distant when we realize that the lives they live are well beyond our grasp. 

So what can you do as an average advisor to take advantage of the high end wisdom they espouse? 

Your model of value must be specific to your circumstances… you can’t achieve the greatness of the HNW advisors by simply copy and pasting what has been done by others… no matter how successful they might have been. 

Your model of success is dependent on the introspection that the “successful” HNW advisors have already gone through. 

It’s great to read and hear about the success of other advisors who are immersed in HNW business models, but your reality lies within your ability to emulate how they got there and not just a cookie cutter model of what they have done. 

Your success, like the success of HNW advisors, is dependent on introspection of your very unique circumstances. 

Your future is dependent on your ability to be honest with yourself about your value…  
Discover your value… Define it… Design your value for digital consumption.

 

Make your value tangible so you can survive and thrive in a robo world. 

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The best way for advisors to create a niche

Dec 3, 2019

Your Niche Is Out There

Why form a niche?

Why must you discover your niche? Not because it works… not because others have had success… because you can’t compete in the financial services industry on price. If you try, you will be replaced either by the industry, your firm or your clients. When the measure of your value is price alone, you become replaceable. You must become responsible for the ownership of the perception of your value. In doing so, you must find ideal like-minded clients to serve… because you can’t be all things to all people. Attempting to be a jack of all trades is the quickest way to be forced to exit this industry. Trust me when I say this, You don’t want to miss out on the next 10 years.

Clients that come to you for discounts will leave for discounts.

So you need a niche to remain relevant and become irreplaceable. Not because it may have worked for someone else.

1. You can’t compete on price.

2. You can’t be all things to all people.

3. Price becomes an issue in the absence of value.

4. Prescription without thorough diagnosis is malpractice.

5. Quality over quantity.

You must increase the quality of your clientele but you can’t afford to have your reputation tarnished by making promises you can’t keep. Your authentic value must be made available 24/7 for the world to see and here. This is not the corporate slogan or the company catchphrase… this begins with your client-centered purpose. You must own the words that define your authenticity and it all begins with your shared purpose. Ideal relationships are formed with a shared purpose… this is where you begin to carve out your niche.

To survive in the digital age advisors I must not compete on price… to thrive I must be able to increase the quality of my relationships by design. My process must become simplified yet productive. 

Your Process Must Empower You…

  • Connecting the dots of the critical components (simplification).
  • Building the foundation of your advisor alpha to create tangible value (exude value 24/7).
  • Expand tangible value to remain relevant and become irreplaceable (completing the process but never finishing).
  • Productive repetition by design (small steps).

You must get ideal clients…

you must remain relevant…

and you must become irreplaceable to keep ideal clients…

while you simultaneously expand the breadth and depth of your services 24/7.

Your niche can be formed by your purpose… in fact, it’s the only way to truly connect to your ideal audience in the new digital era of financial services.

 

Quality relationships begin with shared purpose.

 

I will pay you to solve my problems if you can prove to me that our end-game is mutual success.

~ Ideal Client

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