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Kiplinger
Business
Cody Foster

You Don't Need a Magic Bean to Grow Your Advisory Firm — Just a New Approach to Your Existing Process

A financial adviser smiles as he shakes the hand of a client in his office.

If I pulled one of your advisers aside tomorrow and asked them to walk me through your sales process step by step, from start to finish, could they do it? Could they tell me what happens in the first appointment, what gets said, what questions get asked and exactly how a prospect moves from curious to committed?

If the answer is "probably not," you don't have a sales process — you have a sales idea. And ideas, as good as they can be, don't scale.

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