The Efficient Advisor: Tactical Business Advice for Financial Planners

You need a team to scale. But, where do you find good employees? The kind that want to grow, are anxious to take on more work and are an ideal fit for your business? Today I have guest Claire Myers Vitale, a head hunter who specializes in helping financial advisors build out their firms from executive assistant to fully licensed directors of operations. Claire works exclusive in the financial planning world and is the perfect person to talk to about what it takes to find a good hire in 2023. In today’s episode we dive into:What are ideal candidates looking for in a job and benefits these days?How to write a job description that actually draws in the right people?Why a head hunter is waaaayyyy better than hoping people come to you!How upward mobility in a small business is really important for attracting talent.Some shocking facts about what your current employees might be considering this year.And, when to start the hiring process. Whether you are going to attempt this on your own, or consider using a recruiter, today’s episode is chalk full of actionable advice to consider when making your next hire. Oh, and this you might find interesting… Claire’s team offers a 90-day employee guarantee for listeners of the Efficient Advisor. HOW COOL IS THAT!? --------------------------LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE:Learn more about Claire's offerings HEREConnect with Claire on LinkedIn HereCheck out the compensation study Claire mentioned hereOrg Chart Exercise mentioned --> Episode #70: Clarity on Building Out Your Ideal Team - An Exercise to Identify Your Next Right Hire & Streamline Your Existing TeamSuccessful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.Check out more FREE resources and our FREE video library at http://www.theefficientadvisor.comLooking for all the resources from this episode? Check out this episode’s webpage for show notes, transcripts, downloads and more!Learn more about the Group Coaching & Mastermind HERE!Check out The First 100 Days Course: The Advisor's Blueprint for a Remarkable Client Experience HERE!Learn more about Asset-Map financial planning software HERE! Learn more about our sponsor Beemo Automation HERE!   Check out the Efficient Advisor YouTube Channel HERE!Connect with Libby on LinkedIn HERE!Successful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.

Each week I  recap the implementable ideas from this week's full-length podcast.  Consider me the accountability partner you didn't ask for, but always needed! Here are the Action Items to Tuesday's podcast: The Ultimate Value Add for 2023: Low Difficulty, High Impact -----------------LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE:Check out The Legacy Letter Challenge HereConnect with Blake Brewer on LinkedIn HereGrab Libby's Process for Executing The Legacy Letter Challenge HereSuccessful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.Check out more FREE resources and our FREE video library at http://www.theefficientadvisor.comLooking for all the resources from this episode? Check out this episode’s webpage for show notes, transcripts, downloads and more!Learn more about the Group Coaching & Mastermind HERE!Check out The First 100 Days Course: The Advisor's Blueprint for a Remarkable Client Experience HERE!Learn more about Asset-Map financial planning software HERE! Learn more about our sponsor Beemo Automation HERE!   Check out the Efficient Advisor YouTube Channel HERE!Connect with Libby on LinkedIn HERE!Successful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.

Adding value to clients is a core value over here at the Efficient Advisor. Today’s episode is going to be a game changer for you when it comes to a simple-to-execute value add that is huge on impact. If you know me, you know when it comes to adding value we’re looking for two things… 1) How much impact does it actually have on your clients? and 2) What is the difficulty to execute said value add? When I come across something that is lower on difficulty and HIGH on impact… I am here for it and I cannot wait to share it with this community. Today’s guest, Blake Brewer, is something really special. He’s on a mission to help parents create a lasting legacy beyond finances for their children and he partners with financial advisors to help them become indispensable in their clients’ lives. Legacy Letter - which is this awesome idea - was just featured on the Today Show. It’s that cool. And, at the end of the episode I’m going to share with you how I would create a process around this value add and how I would incorporate this into my business themes for 2023. Blake joins us today to share how his father inspired him to help parents create legacies for their children. He discusses the power of words and writing letters and explains how he helps financial advisors make an impact. Get the tissues out… this story is moving. Talk about impact…. -----------------LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE: Check out The Legacy Letter Challenge HereConnect with Blake Brewer on LinkedIn HereGrab Libby's Process for Executing The Legacy Letter Challenge HereSuccessful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.Check out more FREE resources and our FREE video library at http://www.theefficientadvisor.comLooking for all the resources from this episode? Check out this episode’s webpage for show notes, transcripts, downloads and more!Learn more about the Group Coaching & Mastermind HERE!Check out The First 100 Days Course: The Advisor's Blueprint for a Remarkable Client Experience HERE!Learn more about Asset-Map financial planning software HERE! Learn more about our sponsor Beemo Automation HERE!   Check out the Efficient Advisor YouTube Channel HERE!Connect with Libby on LinkedIn HERE!Successful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.

Each week I  recap the implementable ideas from this week's full-length podcast.  Consider me the accountability partner you didn't ask for, but always needed! Here are the Action Items to Tuesday's podcast: Follow Up Emails Made Easy - My Hack to Sending Them ConsistentlyLINKS FROM THIS EPISODE:-------------------------------------LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE:Successful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.Check out more FREE resources and our FREE video library at http://www.theefficientadvisor.comLooking for all the resources from this episode? Check out this episode’s webpage for show notes, transcripts, downloads and more!Learn more about the Group Coaching & Mastermind HERE!Check out The First 100 Days Course: The Advisor's Blueprint for a Remarkable Client Experience HERE!Learn more about Asset-Map financial planning software HERE! Learn more about our sponsor Beemo Automation HERE!   Check out the Efficient Advisor YouTube Channel HERE!Connect with Libby on LinkedIn HERE!Successful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.

At least once a week in my one-on-one coaching sessions I get asked about building a better follow up email process. It’s funny because at face value it seems so simple, but yet it’s one of those things that’s so hard to execute consistently. Until now! In today’s episode I’m sharing my follow up email hack that is so simple you’ll be palm to forehead by the end of the episode. And, it’s so easy, you’ll be able to implement it by the end of the week. Money back guarantee. A good note-taking system does SO 👏🏻 MUCH 👏🏻 MORE 👏🏻 than just capture what you did in the meeting.A great note taking system should:1️⃣ Double as a robust compliance document2️⃣ Assign tasks to your team without you having to have an additional action or conversation3️⃣ Capture what you discussed, what you did do, what your clients declined to do and why, assign homework to you or your clients, and capture what you said you’d do next time…4️⃣ It should be converted into a follow up email communication with your clients (again… without you taking another action)My goal when I help advisors create their meeting note process is for them to be DONE with that file until it’s time to prep for the next meeting.It feels so good to walk away from a meeting and know everything you dreamt up will be executed and nothing will fall through the cracks.--------------------------------LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE: Successful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.Check out more FREE resources and our FREE video library at http://www.theefficientadvisor.comLooking for all the resources from this episode? Check out this episode’s webpage for show notes, transcripts, downloads and more!Learn more about the Group Coaching & Mastermind HERE!Check out The First 100 Days Course: The Advisor's Blueprint for a Remarkable Client Experience HERE!Learn more about Asset-Map financial planning software HERE! Learn more about our sponsor Beemo Automation HERE!   Check out the Efficient Advisor YouTube Channel HERE!Connect with Libby on LinkedIn HERE!Successful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.

Each week I  recap the implementable ideas from this week's full-length podcast.  Consider me the accountability partner you didn't ask for, but always needed! Here are the Action Items to Tuesday's podcast: This “Extra” Touch is Easy & Effective - The First 100 Days and Beyond------------------------------------------------LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE:Check out the Episode on Video #017: The #1 Most Effective Marketing Strategy Advisors are Missing Out On... And How to Get Started in VIDEODifferent Video Services Mentioned in this Episode:VidyardLoomBom BomCheck out my special contributors on LinkedIn:Eric NegronKit LancasterRob ReadRuss Thornton____________________________________Grab the 37-Point Tax Checklist Here!Email  your receipt to efficientadvisor@gmail.com to get your BONUS.Check out my Episode with Steven #040: Tax Returns--What to ACTUALLY Do with Them to Add ValueSuccessful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.Check out more FREE resources and our FREE video library at http://www.theefficientadvisor.comLooking for all the resources from this episode? Check out this episode’s webpage for show notes, transcripts, downloads and more!Learn more about the Group Coaching & Mastermind HERE!Check out The First 100 Days Course: The Advisor's Blueprint for a Remarkable Client Experience HERE!Learn more about Asset-Map financial planning software HERE! Learn more about our sponsor Beemo Automation HERE!   Check out the Efficient Advisor YouTube Channel HERE!Connect with Libby on LinkedIn HERE!Successful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.

The first 100 days of the client relationship are critical. The data shows that these first couple months of your client relationship and how you perform, interact, and connect is disproportionately important to the longevity of the client-advisor relationship. Meaning… if you crush it in the first 100 days you will keep your clients longer. And, the goal is to turn prospects into clients and clients into referral generating machines. In your onboarding there are 3 layers, and we’ve talked about this, there is the 1) paperwork functional layer, the 2) setting expectations of how you’re going to work together layer, and the 3) human-to-human connection layer. When I’m helping an advisor or a team build out their onboarding process, we’re always talking about ways to go above and beyond. How do we make this a little more of a unique experience. Essentially, how to take your onboarding from good, to great, to exceptional. In today’s episode, we’re going to talk about some low-hanging fruit type extras. The ones that are easy to implement and effective. And if I were still in practice, I’d be doing this… no question. And the coolest part about this simple add-on, is it can serve you clients and your business in so many ways. _____________________________________LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE:Check out the Episode on Video #017: The #1 Most Effective Marketing Strategy Advisors are Missing Out On... And How to Get Started in VIDEODifferent Video Services Mentioned in this Episode:VidyardLoomBom BomCheck out my special contributors on LinkedIn:Eric NegronKit LancasterRob ReadRuss Thornton____________________________________Grab the 37-Point Tax Checklist Here!Email  your receipt to efficientadvisor@gmail.com to get your BONUS.Check out my Episode with Steven #040: Tax Returns--What to ACTUALLY Do with Them to Add Value Successful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.Check out mLearn more about the Group Coaching & Mastermind HERE!Check out The First 100 Days Course: The Advisor's Blueprint for a Remarkable Client Experience HERE!Learn more about Asset-Map financial planning software HERE! Learn more about our sponsor Beemo Automation HERE!   Check out the Efficient Advisor YouTube Channel HERE!Connect with Libby on LinkedIn HERE!Successful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.

Each week I am going to recap the implementable ideas from this week's full-length podcast.  Consider me the accountability partner you didn't ask for, but always needed! Here are the Action Items to Tuesday's podcast: How this Advisor Turned his Marketing Strategy into an Endless Line of Ideal Prospects with Ben Brandt------------------------------------------------LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE:Listen to Ben's podcasts Retirement Starts Today and Retirement Tax Podcast.Check out Ben's advisory business, Capital City Wealth Management, here!Connect with Ben on LinkedIn here.Grab the 37-Point Tax Checklist Here!Email  your receipt to efficientadvisor@gmail.com to get your BONUS.Check out my Episode with Steven #040: Tax Returns--What to ACTUALLY Do with Them to Add Value Check out Steven's tax content here!Successful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.Check out more FREE resources and our FREE video library at http://www.theefficientadvisor.comLooking for all the resources from this episode? Check out this episode’s webpage for show notes, transcripts, downloads and more!Learn more about the Group Coaching & Mastermind HERE!Check out The First 100 Days Course: The Advisor's Blueprint for a Remarkable Client Experience HERE!Learn more about Asset-Map financial planning software HERE! Learn more about our sponsor Beemo Automation HERE!   Check out the Efficient Advisor YouTube Channel HERE!Connect with Libby on LinkedIn HERE!Successful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.

One of my favorite things to talk about is how to get to a place where ideal clients are finding their way to you. I remember, early on in my business, doing all the things: cold calls, events at my church, taking any scraps of clients I could get from my mentor... That eventually evolved into workshops and more sophisticated marketing, then that evolved into our referral events, and then that evolved into eventually just getting inbound referrals. It took a long time for me. It was a process that I had to test, I had to tweak, I had to refine… over years and years and years. And, let’s be honest, the environment now is so different than when I started my business back in 2004. So, if I had to start my business over in today’s environment, knowing what I know now, what would I do differently?Well, to help me answer that question, today I have Ben Brandt, financial advisor and podcast host extraordinaire, to help me answer that question. Ben’s experience of turning his marketing strategy into an endless line of qualified prospects is a good one. And, I think any and every advisor can benefit from his story. LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE:Listen to Ben's podcasts Retirement Starts Today and Retirement Tax Podcast.Check out Ben's advisory business, Capital City Wealth Management, here! Connect with Ben on LinkedIn here. Grab the 37-Point Tax Checklist Here!Email  your receipt to efficientadvisor@gmail.com to get your BONUS.Check out my Episode with Steven #040: Tax Returns--What to ACTUALLY Do with Them to Add Value Check out Steven's tax content here!Successful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.Check out more FREE resources and our FREE video library at http://www.theefficientadvisor.comLooking for all the resources from this episode? Check out this episode’s webpage for show notes, transcripts, downloads and more!Learn more about the Group Coaching & Mastermind HERE!Check out The First 100 Days Course: The Advisor's Blueprint for a Remarkable Client Experience HERE!Learn more about Asset-Map financial planning software HERE! Learn more about our sponsor Beemo Automation HERE!   Check out the Efficient Advisor YouTube Channel HERE!Connect with Libby on LinkedIn HERE!Successful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.

Each week I am going to recap the implementable ideas from this week's full-length podcast.  Consider me the accountability partner you didn't ask for, but always needed! Here are the Action Items to Tuesday's podcast: Specific Strategies for Creating Freedom Through Systems and Processes -Matt Delzingaro Interviews Me!------------------------------------------------LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE: Connect with Matt Delzingaro here on LinkedIn.Connect with Libby here on LinkedIn.Grab the 37-Point Tax Checklist Here!Email  your receipt to efficientadvisor@gmail.com to get your BONUS.Check out my Episode with Steven #040: Tax Returns--What to ACTUALLY Do with Them to Add Value Check out Steven's tax content here!Successful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.Check out more FREE resources and our FREE video library at http://www.theefficientadvisor.comLooking for all the resources from this episode? Check out this episode’s webpage for show notes, transcripts, downloads and more!Learn more about the Group Coaching & Mastermind HERE!Check out The First 100 Days Course: The Advisor's Blueprint for a Remarkable Client Experience HERE!Learn more about Asset-Map financial planning software HERE! Learn more about our sponsor Beemo Automation HERE!   Check out the Efficient Advisor YouTube Channel HERE!Connect with Libby on LinkedIn HERE!Successful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.