6 ways to increase the price when selling your financial advice business

Geschenk aus verschiedenen GeldscheinenWhile there is no doubt that the price of financial planning businesses have come back from some heady heights in recent years, there are still some attractive sale opportunities for firms with the right profile. However with fewer buyers out there, those that are looking to buy are extremely selective and are only interested in really strong businesses. So what [...]

How can you secure your ongoing revenue stream?

StreamMany of the advisers that I talk to regularly speak of the dual challenges of earning enough revenue today from new business to pay the bills (while hopefully having a bit left over), and also moving their business model towards building up a growing, recurring revenue stream. While there is a plethora of articles written that look at the new [...]

Good data = more sales for financial advisers

Target your customersFinancial brokers and advisers today are becoming very aware of the role good customer data plays in generating sales. It provides excellent insights into their customers, enables robust decision making and provides the necessary foundation for successful marketing activities. Good data of course is central to your service and ongoing advice to clients. You need to have access to the [...]

Email Marketing by Financial Advisers

Email MarketingI’ve been really impressed over the last few months by the excellent use of email as a marketing tool by some financial advisers. While some “digital experts” suggest that email has been replaced by social media, I’m not an advocate of that point of view. I firmly believe that email should play a leading role in the marketing mix employed [...]

Why is MY client talking to him?

retentionHow many financial advisers have bumped into an existing protection client to be told that the client recently put in place his pension / investment with another adviser or a bank? Why would your client go elsewhere? Could it be because your client doesn’t know the breadth of your product proposition or maybe would just not think about you at [...]