My thanks to renowned publicist Wally Cato for his unsolicited, unpaid, over-the-top article about me in this week’s Insurance Pro Shop newsletter. Read the Article>> The other day, I was listening to a very successful advisor and entrepreneur talk about how client “attractors” are so much more successful and less stressed out than client “chasers”. My book,…
“I think too much business is the worst thing for my practice,” Brandon complained. Brandon is a financial planner who was working with four or five newer clients. He was worried that he was too busy to be out looking for his next clients, and in a few weeks, he’d have no one waiting in
Happy Valentine’s Day! Have you ever been aggravated trying to prove to some “nitwit” prospect that his objection to your offer makes no sense—so aggravated, in fact, that you ended up in an argument with him and, of course, ended all possibilities of ever making him a client? Why was it so important for you
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“I can’t get any work done,” one of my clients recently complained. “I’m interrupted so many times each day that nothing seems to get finished. I really need your help to manage my time!” “We can’t really manage time,” I told her. “But we can manage our activities.” Then, I gave her three suggestions for
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How many times have you heard some time-management “Guru” say the words above? If you’re like most people, when you hear them, you nod, as if to say, “Yeah, that’s a really great idea!” But you really want to scratch your head and add, “But how do I do that?” People often confuse hard work with struggling.
In early December, my younger daughter, an actress, had a brilliant idea for a New Year’s marketing campaign. “What if I could send casting directors and producers a little moving image of myself somehow—like, they could open a box and there, my reel would appear, before their eyes? Like Princess Leia in her holographic message,
