Barron's Hall of Fame Advisor Jonathan Kuttin shares his motivation for launching the Quantum Growth for Financial Advisors Podcast. Each episode will provide interviews and insights designed to help financial advisors create quantum growth in their own practice. Upcoming guests include Bill Cates, a.k.a "The Referral Coach" and leadership expert Ray Kelly, along with other
Over the past few weeks I have talked a great deal about changing your mindset and shifting from serving as practitioner to practice leader. In order to do that, you need to build a team around you of capable professionals and start to carve out specialized functions in your business. As I like to
Many advisors get a number of things wrong when it comes to pursuing alliances with CPAs and other Centers of Influence. The main thing they get wrong is how they treat a CPA building initiative within their own practice. A piece meal approach is not effective at securing profitable CPA relationships, neither is a
In my last post, I talked about the shift I had to make in order to grow my practice. In order to make that shift from practitioner to practice leader, I not only had to find and plug in quality leaders, I had to create an ongoing pipeline of leaders by making leadership and
Most advisors we work with are eager to grow. But many find themselves unable to do so. One of the most common reasons is because they haven’t truly made that transition from practitioner to practice leader. This is a lesson I learned myself early on in my practice. The moment when it finally clicked
This post is part two of a two-part series. Businesses experience challenges constantly. From labor shortages to shifting customer demands, businesses are always having to evolve and shift in order to stay profitable and grow. The pandemic has brought a new level of challenge to business, one that is not only intense, but that
This post is part one of a two-part series. The covid-19 pandemic has stretched farther and deeper than any of us had anticipated. It has created many challenges and left us mired in a sea of negative media and misinformation. Amid the chaos, a few steady, positive voices have held close to messages of
When you first start your practice, all of your energy and attention goes into building a client base as quickly as possible. This entails the usual advisor marketing activities such as networking, client events, referrals, and direct outreach to prospects. This is what I like to call “eat now” marketing. In this approach, your