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Financial Planning August 1, 2007 John J. Bowen	The Best in the Business Financial advisors can learn much from studying the business practices of their most successful peers.
Financial Planning October 1, 2009 John J. Bowen Jr.	Success on Purpose The right practice framework is essential to reaching success in the financial advisory industry, and the most important aspects of this framework fit into seven categories.
Financial Planning April 1, 2008 John J Bowen	Referrals for the Asking The majority of advisors are ignoring one of the most effective, efficient and obvious sources for new referrals: their existing clients.
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Financial Planning October 1, 2012 John J. Bowen, Jr.	Elite Advisors' Best Practices: What Makes for a Successful Planner How do the best financial planners become successful? Developing a vision and a plan for your business takes focus, collaboration and consistency. And it s how the best performers enhance their success.
Financial Planning January 5, 2008 John J. Bowen Jr.	Better Than Average Making a New Year's resolution to improve your practice? A new survey lets you benchmark your performance against the broader advisory community.
Financial Planning July 1, 2010 John J. Bowen, Jr.	Duplicate Efforts Duplicate your top clients -- using their insight to attract more ideal clients like them -- and you'll see a substantial jump in your revenue without much additional variable cost.
Financial Planning September 1, 2008 John J Bowen Jr	Time to Say Goodbye Today's most successful advisors recognize a simple but powerful fact of business: It's better to work with a small number of great clients than to serve a huge base of clients who are only mediocre.
Financial Planning June 1, 2010 Gabriel Garcia	Divide and Conquer As the needs of clients expand and profitability contracts, advisors can use segmentation to improve their service strategy.
Financial Planning June 1, 2010 John J. Bowen, Jr.	The Perfect Profile Looking for the ideal client? Write a detailed description of the top clients you have now, by answering eight simple questions.
Investment Advisor January 2006 Dan Wheeler	Tools of the Trade: Five Building Blocks Financial advisors often ignore their own business practices and procedures for delivering a great client experience. As a result, they wind up disappointed with their level of success. To take care of business, follow these steps.
Financial Planning October 1, 2010 Bogan & Doss	The Marketing Plan You'll Need The struggle many advisors face is that active marketing can seem as daunting and complex as a piano concerto by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Investment Advisor December 2005 Bob Clark	Why Bigger is Better This compensation and staffing study offers a preview of how financial advisory firms will be different five or 10 years from now.
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Financial Planning October 1, 2006 John J. Bowen	Outsource It! As a financial advisor, if you want to focus on wealth management, consider outsourcing everything else to a turnkey asset management provider.
Financial Planning May 1, 2011 John J. Bowen, Jr.	Going Private Private client events can have a sizable impact on the success of your practice-helping you build credibility with existing clients and attract new business. Yet many advisors overlook these events or conduct them poorly.
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Registered Rep. February 14, 2012 Anne Field	The Art of Writing A Check When Jon Yankee and his two partners started their Reston, VA-based firm six years ago, they wanted to do it right. Among other things, that meant putting in place a clearly-thought-out compensation plan for both advisors and staff.
Financial Planning November 1, 2006 John J. Bowen	Women of Wealth Financial advisors can use their knowledge of affluent women to create a unique value proposition, and put themselves in a tremendous position to serve a group that's been too long ignored -- and capture more business than ever before.
Financial Advisor July 2009 Bill Bachrach	The Ideal Client Community It's one that generates enough money to make your business work and has clients you enjoy.
Financial Planning February 1, 2013 John J. Bowen, Jr.	5 Ways to Act Like an Entrepreneur Whether you run your own firm or your practice is part of a larger organization, an entrepreneurial strategy will help you create long-term success.
Financial Planning April 1, 2007 Kathy Gevlin	How Are You Doing? If you were to take a step back right now and ask yourself how well your financial advisory practice was meeting your objectives, what would your answer be? What are the successful ones doing right? Consider the following questions.
Financial Planning September 1, 2011 Bogan & Doss	Instinct or Intention? You need to hire, train and manage team members, both advisors and staff, to drive a firm's success and profitability.
Financial Planning March 1, 2008 John J Bowen	Getting an Edge For many financial advisors, the choice to offer wealth management services isn't easy. They wonder if wealth management is really worth it. The answer is yes.
Financial Planning June 1, 2007 Kathy Gevlin	Advisor Pulse The happiest financial advisors really do put their clients first, asserts the first study of advisor satisfaction.
Investment Advisor April 2010 Ray Sclafani	Demystifying Referrals To build a client acquisition system, break the process down into nuggets.
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Financial Planning February 1, 2008 John J. Bowen Jr.	The Wow Factor Never underestimate the role that client service plays in your advisory business.
On Wall Street October 1, 2008 Ray Sclafani	So Many Client Segments, So Little Time A strategic approach to client segmentation improves customer satisfaction and your bottom line.
Investment Advisor September 2008 Mark Tibergien	The Bounty for Captain and Crew Does ownership of an advisory firm pay enough when rewards for employees are so high?
Financial Planning December 1, 2009 John J. Bowen Jr.	Ten for 2010 Here are five steps that advisors can take right away, followed by five more that will help them position their practices for long-term success.
Financial Planning June 1, 2011 John J. Bowen, Jr.	Systems for Success The need to truly "wow" your clients with exceptional service and customized attention has never been greater than now. That means it's hugely important to manage your business as effectively as possible.
Financial Advisor November 2011 Joni Youngwirth	Outside The Box The pros and cons of choosing an external successor.
Financial Planning March 1, 2011 Stephanie Bogan	Growth: Realizing Your Potential To build your advisory practice into what you dream it will be, you need to see it clearly and then think like a businessperson, streamline operations and market yourself.
Financial Planning May 1, 2011 Bogan & Doss	Harnessing Human Capital As much as we believe in the relevance of compensation research, our own experience has led us to the conclusion that compensation is but one component of successful human capital programs at financial advisory firms.
Investment Advisor January 2007 Kathleen M. McBride	When Selling Your Practice . . . Advisors are smart about many financial matters, but when it comes to selling their own firm, many are surprised about how much more there is to know.
Investment Advisor October 2005 Mark Tibergien	Formulas for Success: How Bleak is Your Future? Whether the latest Hurley/JPMorgan treatise on the financial advisory profession is right is hard to know, but their assumptions are compelling enough for advisors to take stock of their own situations.
Financial Planning October 1, 2008 John J Bowen Jr	Wealth Transfer It's important for financial advisors to understand the profound effects that inherited money has on inheritors when developing a strategy to work with them.
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Registered Rep. February 27, 2003 Will Leitch	Wealthy Clients Growing Disenchanted with Advisors A just-released report from the Spectrem Group, a Chicago-based consulting firm specializing in the affluent market, says only 59 percent of high net-worth clients are pleased with their advisors' performance. That's down from a 79 percent satisfaction rate just two years ago.
Financial Advisor February 2006 Grove & Prince	Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? The top 1,200 U.S. financial advisors, who regularly earn more than $1 million on an annual basis, rely on characteristics and techniques that can be adopted and refined by a great number of advisors.
Investment Advisor March 2008 Angela Herbers	Words of Wisdom Keeping older professionals in the industry should be a priority. And if we don't do something to rectify this situation sooner rather than later, we face the prospect of watching the experience of a whole generation literally walk out the door.
Financial Planning April 1, 2011 John J. Bowen, Jr.	Listen Up! Want to build great long-term relationships with clients, professional partners and centers of influence in your market niche? Here's a secret: Do a lot less talking and lot more listening.
Financial Advisor July 2006 Littlechild & Pomering	Unlocking Client Value The first question financial advisors should ask is not "how" to survey clients but "why" you should do it in the first place. In addition to allowing you to stay on top of changing client needs, interests and expectations, the reasons abound.
Financial Planning December 1, 2007 John J. Bowen	Closing the Gap Financial advisors often know what they should do to be more successful but never actually do it. They need to close that gap.